A moment of silence for all the epic Flash games that we used to play and couldn't remember the name of.

The only reason Fireboy and Watergirl isn’t on here is because he had no friends to play it with

most of these are still playable on FlashMuseum!!

Nitrome was probably the best flash game devs of the time. Each game had unique mechanics (unless direct sequels), smooth gameplay, excellent artwork, great audio, and overall charm

My god that age of war soundtrack still bops till this day. Edit: Yo calm the fuck down my inbox is getting spammed cuz all of you like can you don't???

*Flashgames* That's a name I have not heard in a long time

This is so much calmer than his current stuff. Like the editing has the same energy, but he sounds so tired

Although it's not on there, I also liked - Storm the house - Mud and Blood 2 - Last Stand Trilogy - Rebuild 1 and 2 - SAS: Zombie Assault - Warfare Games - Endless War Games - Autumn War 1 and 2 - Boxhead - BeGone: Guerra - Warlords: Call to Arms - Civilisation Wars - Pillage the Village

There's actually an alternate ending to "learn to fly 2" where you can fly over the iceberg if you go high enough and you hit a random dodo birds house. You also discover he's the one who's been trolling the penguin online

My man seriously didn't even add Raze 1, 2, 3 or Strike Heroes This is how wars start you know

the fact they started with AGE OF WAR's music brings tears of joy.

The strike force heroes series, SAS series, Raze series, TDP series, Decision series, sift heads series and endless war series were all games i used to play on armor / kongregate when i was younger lol, There were also those games that later got added to steam or got their own launchers like uberstrike (if im remembering the name right RIP that game), interstellar marines when it had a website player (RIP again), the fake counter strike games and the begone series that almost never worked even with everything installed. Not all of these are flash but they are from the flash era and i miss all of them.

You could not understand the amount of nostalgia I got hearing Age Of War's music at the start of the video. I used to play that game so much as a kid. Good times

“Age of war is arguably one the greatest flash games of all time.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

it's really good how mart has improved. he's gotten a little 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓇 with his usage of his voice.

loved the first time i saw this, and discovered a genuinely great channel.

That sad feeling when no fancy pants adventure.

The fact Swords and Sandals isn’t on this list hurts my soul.

you missed a few games. swords and sandals(gladiator), crush the castle, fireboy and watergirl, the Artix games(adventure quest, dragon quest, mech quest) the bigpoint games(Dark Orbit, sea fight) the maidmarian games(sherwood forest, tank ball)

Not sure if it’ll be in the video, but the first Fancy Pants game will always be in my heart

“The first A tier game is Age Of War” A man of culture, indeed

Fireboy and Watergirl didnt deserve this disrespect Frog Man.

Sonny and the Last Stand were literally some of the best games you could spend a day or two on.

Jagex’s Arcanists was fantastic. I don’t think it was technically a flash game, but it did play in your browser.

The fact that even the D tier games were still absolutely solid is wild

Honourable Mentions: Sift Heads Franchise Plasma Burst 1 & 2 Bomber at War Crush the Castle Escape the Prison, Robbing the Bank, Stealing the diamond, Infiltrating the airship, fleeing the complex. Add to the list lads.

Motherload was absolutely iconic in our elementary school. Every time we got to use computers, the entire class would try to beat it

If you didn't know, the creator of Motherload, Skye Boyes (founder of Xgen studio which i know for Stick RPG) died in 2015, the 12th of october

The nitrome composer was so overqualified for his job the skywire music is so good it’s been stuck in my head for 15 years

*casualy stroling in a deep mine* "ah fuck, it's mecha satan..."

Two words -- Exit Path There was a secret society who turned that game into an eSport before it was cool with modded lobbies/custom maps and all sorts of cool stuff, some guys would invent all kinds of crazy moves based around exploiting the game physics and turn it into its own meta within the group It was so damn cool back in the day to be part of (~15 years ago), they would invite you from the public multiplayer lobbies to join their group if you were good enough Simpler times They still exist in limited form, have reverse engineered the game to run their own servers

Man all those intro songs bring back to much nostalgia, I remember playing most of these. Motherload S+ tier my man.

R.I.P Flash 1996 - 2020 You were a hero.

My god, this man has never experienced fancy pants adventures or territory wars

My favorites not mentioned: Indestructotank (all of them) Cyclomaniacs Epic War 3-5 (the others are mid, Saga is so bad it’s funny but also kinda fun) City Siege (all of them) Intrusion Crush the Castle Hopefully this brought back some memories!

Flash Wars and Flashtrek Broken Mirror were so awesome that I wish their respective IP holders would have paid the devs to make them official licensed games. Also those 2d strategy games were cool I also remember an awesome base defense game that was top-down and looked like Starship Troopers but as one guy who had to build up the base as the waves progress.

Flash being discontinued is one of the greatest crimes of our generation.

Can we get an F for the Flash Games that kept us entertained while we learnt nothing in class...You will be remembered

I remember playing so many of these. I found so many of em while searching through flash point. Decision, tequila zombies, zombotron etc.

My favourite was Defend Your Castle, where you start out by just throwing attackers in the air and them falling and splatting to the ground

Don’t forget the ‘fifth’ ‘Duck Life’ game, the one with the post-apocalypse Duck society searching volcanoes

"The only game I know of that allows you to brutally torture George Bush" Im bet there are literally hundreds of those on newgrounds

Pretty upset about interactive buddy being D tier honestly. I know there's not much to it and the whole point is just to get sadistic pleasure from bringing harm to the buddy but I just have this vivid memory from when I was like 8 or 9 playing this with a friend at a sleepover and laughing absolutely hysterically for hours on end. Like think laughing so hard it actually made a lasting impression on me strong enough to vividly remember it almost 20 years later. Interactive Buddy will always have a special place in my apparently sadistic little heart.❤ RIP Flash.

there was another game exactly like cart hero, but have no idea what its called. similar premise, just more massive upgrades and higher flight lol. But man, this was a revision of nostalgia for many, i love it!

The sad thin is, most of these games (even the D tier ones) are way better than most mobile games today ; - ;

Never forget Crazy Monkey Games and Stickpage

my tactic in age of war 2 is to let them come very close to my tower, then spam ranged units. if they are close enough, all the ranged units spawn on each other and thus all of them are in range to shoot at the enemies and you can have like 10 ranged guys shooting at one enemy at once.

This was awesome 😂 I would have also added swords and saddles along with bubble tanks

The strategy for duck life is just max out every single stat you have before even doing the first race, and then beat all the other ducks by 17 hours.

The fact that Swords and Sandals is nowhere to be seen is actually criminal.

after discovering martin on his trip through Finland, and then seeing this episode - I gotta say: perfect energy, no notes, regress immediately.

This video is unlocking so many memories

"Everyone you know is dead, but atleast you got the bread" -Sun Tzu, the art of war

Anything and almost everything made by NITROME is absolute A tier honestly

One game I loved was chaos faction, my cousin and I spent hours beating the game over and over again.

There were 2 games I loved playing on the school computer. Paladog, a game that plays like age empires, but you are a dog on a horse, and when you walk closer to your units, they get empowermed, and you could equip I think 3 passive and one active power. It was super satisfying, when your empowered bunny archers shot an arrow through all enemies, or when the empowermed kangaroo boxers fired a bunch of hits. Unfortunately I can't find a way to play it, all downloadable flash ports were disguised ads. Sadly, I don't remember the name of the other one, but I remember the game vividly. You had to construct a mecha, and defeat enemies in a turn based fight. You saw the battle sideways, and you had 2 actions, but one of that was likely moving, because all weapons had different minimum or maximum range, so you needed to position well. All moves could only be used once in a round, and some weapons could only be used twice in a fight. You got all your weapons randomly, so in each game, you had a different mecha. Later in the game, you had a teleport move, which helped with the positioning, especially if you had melee weapons, but it used a lot of energy, which regenerated based on the body of the mecha you were using, and because I got ones that had bad energy regen, I preferred to use a track shoe, which didn't have a kick attack, but could nearly match the lenght of teleport. Also, you had to be aware of heavy weapons, because you could overheat and miss a round. If you didn't need a body part, you could melt it to enhance other parts. I loved these 2 games. If someone knows how to play Paladog, or what the name of the second game is, I would greatly appreciate it.

The music of "Age of War" it's called "Glorious Morning"

"Like any classic CIA interrogation, there isn't an end goal" lmfaoo

The first note that hit me made my fucking soul elevate

I never thought I would watch a tier list for flash games. Unfortunately though I never played majority of the games on this tier list.

These games were my childhood. Most kids were playing AAA games of the past, while I was playing Flash games.

When I started hearing those violines my childhood _flashed_ before my eyes.

Honestly the entire Stick War franchise deserves S tier, like those games are goated and it's probably the 2nd best flash game franchise of all time, right after Henry Stickmin

I haven't felt so old watching a YT video than knowing who "Tom from Myspace" was

Please tell me I’m not the only one who played: -burrito bison -swords and sandals -gun mayhem -Electric man -Raze -Territory war -Super smash flash

“Flash will no longer be supported in Chrome after December 2020.” Chrome.

To this day I still have Flash installed on my computer and whenever I get prompted to delete it, I just click refuse/cancel. Also, for an "Ultimate Tier List" it sure overlooks a ton of other great Flash games.

There are a lot of other really good Nitrome games, my personal favorite being Nitrome Must Die where you fight characters and enemies from all the Nitrome games in their corporate headquarters. All of the mechanics of the games are all brought together and incorporated well, plus it has a killer main theme song

Honourable Mention: Electric Man 2 is definitely a classic and S tier worthy.

"and remember, to give me all your pocket money, for nothing in return" uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

Bruh, I'm 20 now, and this just threw me back 10 years when our Primary school got laptops for the first time and when the teacher wasn't looking, we'd just play ALL the flash games.

Age of War music is just unrivaled. You can play that banger everywhere and you know youre hitting the nostalgia drivers from anyone in range

once again the frog man tells me things that I cannot disagree with stop being objectively correct snide sounding frog man

Fancy Pants should’ve been on this list. Worthy of S tier

Coming back to this years later and realised he missed the Thing Thing games, the Madness series, and ‘Save the Sheriff’

Y’all ever remember a game where you play as a dolphin doing ridiculous jumps out to space and back? Or Momentum Missile Mayhem?

Swords and sandals was the best. True classic.

if raft wars isn’t S tier i’m gonna riot edit: YES

I hope today's gamers can find equally entertaining low budget games. Playing hundreds of them really boosted my strategy mind in a way you don't get with merely several high budget games that cost $60. Developers need money though

I'm just gonna say one thing: fancy pants series.

Let's be real, there are way too many flash games we played. The only true tragedy is the ones we forget but replay forever.

I don't remember a lot of my childhood, but I do remember that on Sundays, my dad would make fries for us, and let us play on his computer, I remember playing bubble trouble very vaguely but I never knew the name of this game. I wish my dad was still here, so that I could show him this game now that I know the name of it. Man trip down memory lane are so painful.

Just the fact that you talked about Tanks made my fucking year.

Imagine not having Sony, Raze, Strike Force Heroes, or any Stickpage game on your flash tier list.

Rest in peace, flash. So many hours of playing games while ignoring whatever my teacher told me to do.

Civilisation wars was an all time favourite Swords and Sandals, another banger

I remember playing pretty much every single one of these at the library with my brother. Pretty pog

"A chunk of our history." I'm almost 22, and you still made me feel old.

Imagine not playing plasma burst 2, earn to die, strike force heroes 2, king of street fighter, and like 30 other games that i've forgotten names of and now my brain hurts too much nostalgia and regret

I had a huge rush of nostalgia when I heard the music in the beginning

hidden gem flash i played the most: chaos faction, it was a fighting game with a campaign, progression unlocks, level creator, different gamemodes

alternative title: frog man rates childrens games based on how hard they are to him

Very upset that SSS tier did not include Fancy Pants Adventure. Was quite literally a masterpiece.

The games we have all played... Still trapped in our memories... They are those that are so perfect... The games we always had fun with...

It's really cool to see Motherload on this list - I may even have the original graph paper drawing of Mr Natas' second phase in a box somewhere. What a trip!

"Papa's games. All of them, cause they're pretty much the same game" 9 year old me who constantly played the papa louie 2d platformer: "I would like to report a hate crime"

Y'all sleepin on The Adventures of Fancy Pants

Man I remember strike force heroes, it was such a good game so I was happy to hear it was made into a full game

I love how coolmathgames tricked every teacher into thinking that it had math games