20 Years of Miniclip: The Continual Rise of a Gaming Giant
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2022
- Today, we're taking a look back at Miniclip's early start as a flash games portal on the web, to their tremendous growth into a mobile gaming titan.
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Man, I remember old flash games. Made for most of my childhood during school. And despite flash being gone now, there is actually still a massive archive collecting all these games to this day. (Thanks BlueMaxima! Highly recommend.) ❤
Damn i cannot believe this site/company still exist
Me and my friends all loved this site in elementary school 😅
At the school I went to so many of us kids were using miniclip and addictinggames rather than working so they blocked those websites lol
I think newgrounds is a bit different as it has more of a personality that doesn't scale. In contrast Miniclip can go on anything.
I agree. NewGrounds is still fairly active among those who use it as a social media alternative, particularly artists. It's great in that it has an old-school community-driven algorithm (still using 5-star ratings, favorites, and comments to drive engagement metrics/recommendations) so artists don't feel like they're shouting over eachother to get attention or getting shafted by exploitative hacks manipulating the system. NewGrounds is seldom the primary showcase for artists, but its 25+ year existence solidifies it as a damn dependable fallback should one of our social media channels suddenly go all Tumblr on us.
@@vest816new grounds shows that catering to a niche audience and sticking by them works. As long as they don't start pandering and throwing their users under the bus they will still have a good core userbase
I didn't have any consoles or a computer capable of playing anything other than 10 year old edu-tainment games in the mid 2000s, but I did have a decent internet connection and probably visited Miniclip almost every day. I still go online to Miniclip, Nitrome, and Addictinggames once every other year or so.
I just found this channel today. I'm not sure if there are a bunch of hidden videos that will be discovered in the future but there must be because releasing content at this level out the gate is incredible. I hope there are some lost videos so that I have more to watch lol. Your older content is better than many of the larger channels I follow that cover similar topics. Your most recent stuff far exceeds what I am currently seeing on the platform. You have a lot of talent and I can't wait for you to hit 1 million subscribers before the end of next year if not sooner.
Man the end of flash really ruined the internet
Damn Miniclip was the bread and butter of ICT lessons back in school, how time flies :') #DwarfToss
Trials was a great example of a type of flash game that captured my mind EVERYTIME I played miniclip. And when I sawbb by it came to Xbox like 15 years ago… I still play to this day. Trials rising is by far my absolute favorite. And they’ve got the most insane Easter egg in gaming by far. It’s been solved. But we won’t see the reveal… and it consists of fb 5 keys that need to be brought under the Eiffel Tower in 2114 on a certain day. 1 key will open the Easter egg prize thing. But all 5 have to be present for the 1 person to be able to open. And the keys are going to have to be kept and passed down generational! How cool is that!
fantastic nostalgic video
miss the old early 2000s, when the internet felt like the wild west
Love the video! Reminds me of how I played those trials motorcycle flash games on the computers in elementary and how they're still making new versions of that game for modern consoles
I’m new to your channel and this is a unique perspective to share 😂 but I found your channel while i was smoking yesterday and your voice, editing style, etc kept my attention for so many videos. it feels great watching you while i’m high. keep up the good work.
Great video!! Its cool how they found ways to stick around and continue developing games unlike most flash games
Well now they've fucked it by erasing their legacy.
Many good memories using the school computers to play miniclip, notdoppler, and other independent websites like everybody edits, all the CS clones, even Roblox. While some may have stood after the fall of adobe, it saddens me that the free gaming sphere of today is boiled down to the same 3 bored concepts, with endless ads and in game purchases. Gone are the days where people are making games just for the fun of it, everything now has to be profitable, and riddled with updates, and DLC. I guess that’s the natural progression in any industry in this late stage capitalist economy.
You should do a whole video on Newgrounds, it didnt scale but some iconic creators from it did. Like Eddsworld
Damn, I miss this :(
Maybe it's true that Flash games aren't dead. But I don't really want to play Flash games without either a keyboard or a mouse. XD
Man I couldn't agree more. I'm not a mobile games guy in the slightest.
just watched ur video on axe and you've improved a lot! this vid is great too tho
My only memory of Miniclip really as a kid was using it to play Club Penguin
Commando 2 and all those Nitrome games on Miniclip were the greatest internet experiences ever.
Penguinz was such a fun game. Definitely got me into action shooters
I miss og miniclip we had growing up
Raft Wars takes me back
They should’ve kept the “game portal” design. Imagine a Miniclip app with everything you were playing on the pc, in your pocket.
We need to bring back browser games .i hate having to install games on my PC or phone i have low storage and often the installation glitches out .
we have the technology to make good browser games. that will work on both PC and mobile .but game devs don't want to do that .because it's not trendy anymore compared to mobile games.
Cool video, can you make a video about miniclips 3D games like paintball splash, police pursuit, haunted house and the other games, I cannot find anything about them and I miss them so much
I will definitely look into it! Thanks for watching man
Motherload. The mining game...that was my life
Does anyone know what the game at 2:37 is? I remember playing it years ago and can't remember the name at all
Extreme Pamplona!
@@slow_start Thank you so much!!!
used miniclip at ele and middle school to bypass runescapes block lmao but it was my go to flash game site as a kid,.Dust, the pixel substance sandbox emulator game, was one of the best, especially when the creator added players and you could fight with them against another person. Another series that was S tier as a kid was on Armor Games with Bubble Tanks along with Kongregate that had SAS Zombie Assult 3 (4 sucks ass compared to 3 btw) and newgrounds was for nsfw games/art that i shouldnt have been looking at so young :P
I never got into mobile games on smartphones and so i never knew that miniclip grew so large and went into that space.
Is the place kids go in the middle of IT class hoping they don't get caught it's what happened in my school
I wasn't really a newgrounds kid as much as I was a miniclip kid. I only got into newgrounds when I was 13ish with OneyNG on CZcams
Very nice 👍
ahhh boy shout out to Alien Hominid
2:10 What is this game called? I have been trying to find it for years to no avail.
Unsurprisingly they are now owned by tencen
whats the game at 8:43
I’ve played all these games wauw
I didn’t use miniclip but I did use Coolmathsgames and girlsgogames so i guess that’s similar 😅🤷♀️
6:59 what game is this!?
good shit, good shit. subscribe.
SIFT HEADS WAS THE BEST
So cell phones ruined our culture? I really liked this era. Everybody and their Mom was playing fun or cheesy games.
i think it dosent have so much views cuz of being so close or recent give it time it will kick off
This a good’n
But sadly the flash player was gone
To be honest I’m glad flash games have been kept alive in other ways but I wish they hadn’t discontinued adobe flash 😅
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miniclip sucks now... the death of adobe flash was the death of free online gaming
try making a documentray tipe thung too like the club penguin kinda doc on youtube
"Flash games aren't dead, they just moved to your pocket." Yeah, and they aren't made using Flash anymore, kinda the whole reason they were called "Flash games" to begin with.
well, flash was just the tool used at the time, doesnt really have to be made using flash to be a "flash game"
Assault style flash game
@@im4everskilled no it kinda does
I super disagree. I feel like flash games suffered "genericide" where the name became a synonym for any short for game hosted online.
The point is that Flash Games were "small" casual games which were "easy" to develop for when you wanted to play a quick game. Therefore what he says makes sense. They're essentially the same thing, but nowadays are made using other technology than Flash.
Edit: All free games today are Freemium. So Freemium games are the new flash games in a way!?
Unfortunately the Miniclip era died. It has removed ALL the good games and has only 1 android game now. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo
I Miss Cab DRiver
lol 5454
wtf is Miniclip?
Like Coolmathsgames
fr?????????????