The Rise And Fall Of GirlsGoGames
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Today let's take a deep dive into GirlsGoGames, the home for dressup, pet care, horse riding, makeup, and arcade games for girls in the 2000's and 2010's. From the history of the site, to the nostalgic games of our youth, to the various dramas and problems with the site, let's take a closer look beneath it's sparkly pink exterior and revisit the classic site.
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Petz Catz 2 OST
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❤︎❤︎ CHAPTERS ❤︎❤︎
0:00 Introduction
3:34 The Rise Of Girl Games On The Web
8:56 The Games
18:21 The Downfall Of GirlsGoGames
20:15 Saying Farewell
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My favorite game on girlsgogames was the “School flirting game” that was completely in Japanese and allowed me to shoot lasers at the boys’ heads 👍
bruh, I LOVED that game so much. Made me realize I'm a bit of a possessive/jealous person in relationships
those games are playable on gamenora!
The music in that game was also so good
And you had to battle other girls for the boys. And if you "zapped them enough" you basically had a trail of ghost-lovers trailing up behind you, with different types of boys.
Holy shit...one type was even in a relationship. If you had enough power, you could rip a bound man from his gf.
I REMEMBERA CZcamsR PLAYING TAHT
"was I a good website?"
"not really. but you were there when you were needed"
And ‘Castle Run’ was very much often needed
You were there when Joinen needed content
@@AlexPastGrey "oh god. its baby 'azel again"
I really hope people remember the game "Love Me" which fully in Japanese and was set in a Japanese middle school. You had to shoot other boys with lazer eyes so that they would love you and you had a time limit to get a top score.
I remember that game.
aHHH that was the first game i thought of when i saw the title😭
I was a freaking _beast_ at that game.
That was my favorite game, i remember like other girls would try to get boys and youd have to have stronger eye lasers or something, idk it was so much fun skkkdkeke
I was obsessed with that game
The 'From Geeky to Popular' game showed at 9:43 actually had a really nice message, she spends most of the story trying to impress this guy who doesn't like her because she's a geek, and it works - but then she realises he's an asshole and very shallow and that she's worth more than that.
I was sooo impressed by that story lol
I remember playing that game over and over
When I played it as a kid I did not understand the story since I dont live in a english speaking country
I loved that game and still do
@@wickedviolet9783 SAME LOL I kinda understood it cuz of the pictures but years later I played it again when I knew English and understood it lol
Yeah fr tho
It’s so interesting to hear that they got rid of the kissing section, because I remember the site was literally overrun by them in the 2010s
I was obsessed with one that you had to kiss the secretary without the boss knowing... ow.. my childhood
@@abrilvonbunny6205 omg the thrill was amazing
I remember playing one where you had to dress up a couple and have them make out in the mall without anyone noticing
I remember playing one of the kissing game and my parents caught me playing the game
@@abrilvonbunny6205 the office kissing game was the only one I remember playing out of the kissing ones and it truly burns my hurt that it wasn't explicitly mentioned
I feel like what’s the saddest about this is that it’s such a unique experience growing up in the olden days of shitty flash games. It’s something that will probably never be recreated ever again (not really a bad thing though cause we’re all fucked). It’s just a rare experience that you will never understand unless you spent hours on your nasty old computer that could only run shitty flash games cause if you did anything more it would explode
papas pizzeria theme plays
The ending made me burst out laughing
What's especially sad is that I was one of the few kids who actually played these flash games at my age, I still have the save files from my Steven Universe and Warrior cats paper doll OCs, so old that I made a pink diamond character because canonically she didn't exist yet. Nobody my age remembers games like Animal jam and the water park games because they were too busy playing Roblox and Minecraft. I kinda wish I was born earlier because I can't relate to many people's childhoods, which makes me feel lonely when thinking about how fun these games used to be.
@@demetrian7856 omg Animal Jam
@@demetrian7856 animal jam still has a pretty active community esp now that they moved to their pocket edition
I believe that the "kissing" games were about secretely kissing someone without other people noticing... There were "love" meters that would go up the longer you kiss. They were very weird and uncomfortably seхual...
I completely forgot about playing these, but then got a huge whiplash after you mentioned the kissing games 💀
I would get so stressed out with those types of games so I wouldn't play them. Anything with a time limit I just couldn't do. I remember trying a few times though lol.
was it like those peeping tom games where you had to look at other peoples tests without people seeing?
sameee, memory unlocked
I'll never forget the day I came back to this website as a 10 year old only to realize that they had completely changed everything. Worse than a breakup I swear
TRUUUUEE
Growing up with games like these makes me think that this is why we are so fond of making picrews.
I think you're right
LEGIT
Omg…… you’re so right
right!!
YESSSS DRESS UP GAMES ARE MY FAV
It's genuinely heartbreaking that so much of our childhoods are on their way to become lost media
And when people want to resurrect them to “modernize” them they barely resemble the originals.
That's true about every previous decade until now, really.
Most games of value have been backed up. And you can either run flash (I highly recommend you not) or wait for the Ruffle project to finish for you to play them
@@naraku971 Like the VIP Pets. All that remained was the personalities.
@@ShadeATV I'm talking like media in general, like sometimes all that remains of things is a name or a personality, and for some reason people working in certain industries like to change something about a character that makes them iconic and then they'll go on and say something like "it's modern," or "diversity", and then attack people who don't like it, it's like people are allowed to not like something...
Sara's cooking class is what got me into baking and cooking, now here I am years later going into culinary school!
awe! thats amazing!! 😺
Aww congrats!!
bro congrats!! how’s it doing now?
go vegan
HELP I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THESE SOBBING its going good!^^ im really happy with it!
the monster high dress up games were so iconic. it was basically the same outfits but recoloured depending what character you had with some varied hairstyles. so amazing.
And the songssssssss
@@madokamagika6333 I HAVE SO MANY SONGS FROM THOSE GAMES ALONE
The random pop songs they played actually helped me discover a few artists that wouldn't get radio play where I'm from and I probably wouldve never discovered if it weren't for those games (Melanie Martinez is the first one that comes to mind)
i sweaaar i would play these for hours and hours it was my favorite and the sooooongs
i remember playing those su games with my sister ALL the time, and omg the devil/angel duo too! We used to be obsessed with those...hiding games? Where you had to poison your boss or eat chips or kiss or whatever behind someone's back. And the bizzare genre of....boy collection games....I began playing papa's cheeseria before flash death announcement and it was so sad to see my hard work be for nothing....girlsgogames you will be missed
I was obsessed with those boy collecting games 😭 but time management food games are still top tier
The Sue game where you had to like dress her up nicely for a date under a time limit, the potion one.. Or the before and after games. The boy collecting games, what where they called again? Something with love, I think
The boy collection games where all the girls had laser beam eyes?
I think the hiding games you're talking abt are the slacking game series, there were so many some websites would put them in their own category
I USED TO LOVE THE SLACKER GAMES 😭
I loved playing those untranslated korean games, the language barrier added another level of difficulty
literally!! sue avata star was my favorite
Especially the dress up ones with a dating briefing that was unreadable to me in Korean, and then ending up in non proper outfits for the date
Ahh yes did you ever play the game where your boyfriend will rate your fashion and take you on a date depending on what you wore
Remember the tomato farm and the ramen restaurant one? The character was a girl with red hair and two buns. Ahh the memories 😭
LMAO
GirlsGoGames, DollDivine, Howrse, Moshi Monsters, NeoPets, Barbie and Transformice especially were always my jam as a kid. They were always super fun. I always liked one of the pet shelter games on GGG. Ngl, totally miss them games.
omggg DollDivine was my shit
DollDivine was the GOAT, just throw in MyScene and you’ve basically described my childhood 😭
DollDivine games were my life. I needed them SO much
dolldivine and agame are my childhood, i remember one game about a dog where there was like 7 endings
DUDE i grew up on howrse. wish my old account was still around
I think is important to mention that before the privacy laws, you used to be able to have an account on the website. There was a whole community of people trying to get on the ranking list or accomplishing and kind of goals in the games. It was so fun to find people that were playing by your side and helping you to get further in the games. Is so nostalgic to remember. Love the video
Yeah! It was really fun. I remember you could "befriend" people. Although for me that meant finding people with a nice-looking avatar, sending a friendship request and never talking to them again. Although that was me in every single social game.
I still remember my username and password! I spent way too much time playing on that site 😂
I loved the game "School flirting game" where you play a Japanese high school girl running around the hallways and try to charm as many boys as possible by shooting pink love lasers out of your eyes lmao. It was soo much fun! :D
Yes I remember that one
haha yes! I'd have an army of drooling boys following me
@@grillpaneddymsp7716 YES OMG ANS YOU HAD TO FIGHT THE GIRLS FOR THE BOYS THEY HAD
@@ezithegreat YES MSP DOESNT EVEN WORK ANYMORE AND MSP2 IS SO BAD UGH I MISS IT ILY MSP PLAYER
I remember there was like a rival too like what
I remember playing those "slacking" games a lot. Especially the one where the girl is an office worker and she does everything else but her job, like painting her nails and ironing her clothes. It was actually a lot of fun because I didn't want to get caught by the boss who comes by like every 20 seconds. There was a whole series on "slacking" games bruh like this girl would slack on everything like her first date and the zoo HAHA
Love your pfp lol
I remember being bad at these games as a kid LMAO
but hey, I mean, I was good at baby hazel
She never cried when I played that game woo
@@zeearts9484 same!!
I play the kissing version. For some reason, a couple cannot kiss on their own wedding day or even kiss on their date??
I remember the devil and angel games. Mostly the one where one styled hair and the other tried messing it up. Please tell me y’all remember
Doll Divine and Azalea have been uploading all their old games so that they run without flash! They have the Rinmaru games, too! Those websites were such a major part of my childhood, so I'm so glad to see them preserved
Is that true?
Shopaholic was my favorite game at one point! I actually was trying to search for that game about a year or two ago but I had no luck with the massive amount of similar games. I actually found the name when I was looking through a "Friend Yearbook" I had gotten at a scholastic book fair that I had filled out with my handful of friends. I put it as my favorite game! Innocent times.
OH MY GOD I LOVED SHOPAHOLIC.
I TJINKT THERE WAS A HOLLYWOOD VERSION I OLAYED A THE TKME OMG T WAS SO FUN
shopaholic!!! also my favorite game back then
Shopaholic was the best. I remember that I played it everyday because it gave you money? Or something to expand your closet. I was a little chubby girl who suffered bullying at school, so I created a whole story in my mind while I was playing this game. In the story I was like those cute avatar girls and hang out with my friends. It's sad but it brings me very beautiful memorias.
Omg shopaholic games are the best. I could only dream about these games being available again. Hollywood was my personal favorite.
girlsgogames literally carried my entire english education, us bilinguals are forever grateful
What's bilinguals
@@Heezbungus people who are fluent in two languages :)
@@esteruwu1671 YESSSS
FOR REAL
True!
the kissing games... weren’t they like ‘red light, green light’ but instead of running, you had to kiss someone? and then if you filled up the bar, you won, but if you got caught, you lost. was that just a fever dream??
nope those really existed, i remember them too. they werent only kissing too, there were some about some devil doing evil stuff to an angel and such iirc
@@rosalynshard5695 NSBDAMDBASNDB OMG
YES THEY WERE EXACTLY LIKE THAT
@@rosalynshard5695 I think the devil and angel were sisters
Yea, I always felt so wrong playing them and didn't want anyone knowing I was playing it. Still don't know why
Me and my childhood bestie were OBSESSED with my dolphin show! (my dolphin show 2 was the best one) I remember being really jealous because she saved up enough for the mermaid skin and I wasn’t patient enough to save up that much 😅
thiiisss
omg me TOO!
The art style of the Devilish series was AMAZING. Definitely my favorites of the bunch.
Our teachers aren't supposed to know what we're doing online! Don't tell them!!
u just gave me an idea when its friday and the computer studies lesson im gonna go on girls go games and see what games are available 😎😎😎
I left high school last academic year and even coolmathsgames was blocked on the computers because there's always that one person who gets caught :(((
Omg love to see u here kat!!!
Being an Iranian girl, this site was the only place I could “express” myself through fashion. I loved goth music and really wanted to be able to dress just like American kids in the goth scene, which I couldn’t for obvious reasons. Girls go games will always have a dear place in my inner 12-year-old’s heart.
Sunni girls have been goth for 1500 years...
I never thought of it like that. I'm glad that, even if just for a moment, you got to express yourself through this site :)
@@shreknocratus4682 Shrek said they were joking, i think it went over my head lol
just because you wear black clothing doesn't mean you're "goth" lmao
@@gfyourself lol, I'm just joking.
Aww I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you're doing better now
I remember playing GGG do much I had an account and made so many friends on there. Once the "Elsa" and princess games started coming out, I stopped playing cause they really took over the website.
Shopaholic, School Flirting Game, Dress Up Rush, and so many others that i can't remember the names of, but i knew i loved. Early 2000's GGG will be missed😔
I would play girls go games for HOURS every day when I was 6-9 years old!! It holds so much nostalgia for me and I’m honestly sad that none of the games work anymore because even tho they’re toxic as fuck I still miss them sometimes lol! I felt so rebellious if I ever played the kissing games and I must’ve played the Disney High School Love Story game a thousand timesssss, she was the moment lmfao
this is so important. you are a historian for the weird and missing parts of the internet that would otherwise only exist in our memories, keep doing what you're doing.
Queen Zenobia?
I REMEMBERED GIRLSGOGAMES LITERALLY YESTERDAY AND PLAYED IT FOR NOSTALGIA THIS HAS TO BE FATE.
Wait how did you play on it yesterday? I thought we can't play on it any more coz Flash is gone
@@nekochan3231 It's still available!! Try it
@@cezzie cool. Thx for the info!
i occassionally go on the site but now its full of ads and it seems they took down a lot of the older games. :(
How do you play it? Everytime I try to play anything it says I cant cuz of flash :/
does anyone remember sue? we played tons of sue games w my sister, we didnt know any korean so we just guessed. at the end results she always was upset and blasted us, and we were so PISSED. we did our best to yassify her, and yeah maybe she had to wear a tracksuit to a fancy date, we did not understand the assignment but she looked BUSSIN and the NERVE she had to cry. at the end we learned that no matter how hard you try sue will never love you and you will always fail. good memories
i loved the one where u had to find objects and u were timed
@@Daria-tc1br I just saw someone make a video about the Sue franchise but I can’t remember who it was!!!
@@brevepausa.podcast Li Speaks!
Li speaks made a video about her!
It's true 😀
i used to play the games on that site RELIGIOUSLY, i was obsessed. as i got older though, i lost interest in the weird totally not elsa from frozen dress up games and got more interested in the decorating games. i was addicted to them, especially these pixel-like cute games that let you decorate freely. id literally spend hours on that site just to play those games, i adored them.
id love to replay them again, but unfortunately they relayed on flash of course. some of my favorites in the series was a beach party one and a christmas room thing.
i started playing GGG back in 2010, so i actually remember when the site wasn't filled with those knockoff disney princesses. i miss it tbh
Remember friv?
@@charliebates7096 omg, i was obsessed with friv too! You just reminded me of something I didnt even know I remembered :’)
Same, although a few years later. I was so shocked when I went on the site to remember the good old days a few years ago and it was all shitty, ugly, knockoff disney princess games. It was so hard to find the games I were looking for when I didn't remember the names because you had to scroll through so much trash before you found what you were looking for
Right? Lol I used to play cooking academy on it all the time
Baby hazel was my childhood
I'm HIGH KEY offended by the lack of manicure games representation. No they're not the same as makeup games. No I will not elaborate.
I agree!! Manicure games were the shit, I kinda miss them 😭
I used to play games where you make nail art all the time! It's still on my old iPad from 2013
that one hyperrealistic manicure game with purple background + the stylin stuff one were the kings
I remember there being a Semi Realistic Hannah Montana that I liked
@@Ravengirl0814 OMG I REMEMBER ONE LIKE THAT TOO, i played it rlly often and it was one of my favourites but at some point it disappeared and i never found it again, that made me really sad as a kid
There are so many games I used to play in the early 2010s, and GirlsGoGames held many of them. I deeply miss the simplicity of life when I was that young. Wish there was a way to go back and experience it for the first time again
The Avie's games have my whole heart, you could dress up and do the makeup of Avie, and to unlock all the things you had to play puzzle games of memory, pairs and match 3, you could unlock text bubbles and stuff to Avie to hold so you can take a pretty picture with her friends
Best games series ever, hands down
WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT !!! would love to go go back to when I was a kid playing all these legendary games
@@slxt4k3tamine WTFFF same i literaly came on this vid to find this game cuz i couldnt remember the name
I know I'm late but they're supposed to make a new avie game!
I used to love the game where you were a girl (it had multiple versions, the school version, the beach version and festival version but it was always the same girl) and had laser eyes that you shot at boys to make them fall in love with you, it was my favourite game on the site and I remember playing all of these games for ages 😄😄😄
YEESSSS THE FLIRTING GAMES OR WHATEVER WERE MY FAVES TOO😭
oh my god that one was so much fun! i've had the little soundtrack for that game stuck to my head for literal years!!! i'm so happy someone remembers that one!!
I played that game religiously 😩🙏 Still remember furiously trying to run against the clock to get as many boys as I can and battling against the rivals, always winning and blasting them off. The music has also been stuck in my mind for years. Such good times
I loved that game but what a weird premise to be pushing to children
Getting cursed by the ghost girl because you took away her ghost bf in the festival version was hilarious
The Sue games had me in a chokehold. The instructions being entirely in Korean didn't stop me from playing them. In fact, I'm gonna go look for that pink haired girl right now :)
YESSSS the Sue games were my childhood!
Sue games, Goodgame fashion, Sarah cooking, dolphin fashion show and and makeup/hairstyle were my favorite.
Ohh I also really liked one were you did rode in a inflated thing in pool and do acrobatics
Edit: They just said the name of the game, it's called uphill rush park
Omg the Sue games! I'd play those during ICT lessons at school instead of actually working lmao
omg i was thinking about Sue games while watching this video. I hate that i still cant beat that stupid Sue beauty machine gameee
sue games were difficult but did that stop me? no.
i vividly remember the kissing games. i would be like playing a dressup game and see it in the reccomended- out of curiosity i clicked it for the first time, and BRO. it was literally a single click game, where you would have to hold a click until it warned you someone was about to look- whether it was ONE OF THE CHARACTERS PARTNERS, or in the case of a game about kissing at their job, their boss. it was such a weird genre that had so many different games, and genuinely baffled me.
Snail Bob, Penguin Diner, papa taco/pizza/burgers, Escape the room games, dog wash games, hot dog bush, and more. Playing the games in GirlsGoGame was a huge part of my childhood. My mom and me would sometimes spend time together playing a few of the games so I have a lot of happy memories tied to the website. I spent hours upon hours on this game website, but sometime around my my earlier pre teen age I slowly grew apart from going on the website, but when I watched a video about someone going on the website in 2018 or I was completely appalled by what the website became. Though I will always remember the site for what it once was before all this gross Elsa foot doctor s###.
GGG defined a whole GENERATION, I still play makeover games till this day 😭💅🏾
Same, I think i have a picrew addiction
I still play dress up games. 😌✨
@@Omnihilo_ SAMEEEE. Dolldivine, Azaleasdolls, and Rinmarugames still have a grip on me frrr😫✋🏽💕
@@crunchii891 THANK YOUU IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOME GAME WEBSITES
im spanish so playing the girlsgogames in english made me love the language since i was a kid, and now im planning to be an english teacher
That’s actually really sweet, I wish you luck :)
that’s such a lovely story. best of luck!!
best of wishes to you :) thats such a lovely story
Anime backstory (affectionate)
awwww
DUDE!!!!! papa's games were my entire childhood. i can't express how much i loved it and when i heard adobe flash was no longer supported, i was so upset bc i couldn't play most of the ggg and agk games anymore. i *could* buy it in playstore but still, playing it on my laptop just adds to the experience yk
Omg as soon as I saw the shopholic Hawaii image I instantly remembered it being one of the games!! I loved anything that felt like virtual world games and it had so much more detail compared to others on the site. This whole video felt like a fever dream it's cool to explore nostalgia in this way. Especially reading the comments and getting more memories of games I really liked to play but I had forgotten about like Professor Purse or putting my crush's name into the love calculator lol.
Finally, been waiting years for someone to tie these games to Elsagate.
I'd never heard of this site, but Elsagate was the first fucking thing that sprang to mind when I saw some of these thumbnails.
Factory farmed content, design dictated by a soulless shock value algorithm, clumsily screwed together by mindless sweat factory drones who have only the vaguest understanding of actual human beings.
It’s really upsetting to see today’s little girls or just kids in general to grow up playing with these dumb, gross, no effort, pregnant/dentist/surgery elsa games :/ girlsgogames was never the same ever since it got infected by elsagate
somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!
good thing i never clicked on those 😭😭 i was too busy playing those flirting games LMAO and kissing when someone isn't looking games or whatever they're called
@@beu7990 office lover kiss 😭😭😭 that game was so fun
God as an 8-year-old who hadn’t yet discovered The Sims and didn’t feel like grinding in Webkinz for enough money to buy the cool furniture, the room design games on GGG were everything to me.
Right? I'm pretty sure it's what got me into interior design :]
Omh yes i played that almost everyday lmao and the fact that you couldnt save rooms 😫🤚🏻
Yes.
When I was a kid my mom really loved a couple of the webkinz arcade games and was really good at them, so she would go on mine and my brothers accounts and grind up a bunch of money for us
I half remember a barbie or Bratz sleepover themed one that fucking slapped
Pony Adventure, Animals In The City, Professor Purse and Bomb It were my jams
Also, anyone remember a game (I think it was korean) where you would help a little girl go through her day? She had black hair and there was a boy that looked very similar to her. They even had a ballet game together
I LOVED THAT KOREAN GAME it was sooo relaxing, I wasn't even that little when playing it but it was like idk, perfection for me
Man I remember those days I spent endlessly browsing through the anime section and playing the pretty cure dress up games. Not only that but those Sue, Baby Hazel, Devilish and animal customization games were the pinnacle of my childhood. Unfortunately most of them have been yeeted to the oblivion because they were flash games. I miss those days and would do anything to play them again.😔
I use to love these korean dress up games where you had a TON of clothing options for your doll and you only had to drag them to her, i remember making up stories in my head while playing and it was such a fun thing to do that way
YOU REMEMBER SUE TOO??! OMG
@@cupidalucard yessss i loved sue games as well, specially the knitting one lol
@@alex-hh1ve My favorite was the timed clean up game and the hair stylist ones ♥️
ROIWORLD'S DRESS UP GAMES WERE SO GOOD.
SUEEE i love her so much
"Why did a flash game site targeted at tween girls start petering off in the 2010's?"
The 3DS, which was the next (and last) in the DS line, which was the most popular line of video game consoles among young girls, came out and so did Animal Crossing New Leaf, which was (at the time) the newest installment in a franchise that was also massively popular among young girls. It was also when we would get the pokemon games with the fairy-typing, themes of fashion, and introduction of a nintendogs-like gameplay mechanic. I think what happened was that the mainstream video gaming market just ended up striking a chord with young girls at that moment in time.
(not talking about tween girls specifically but) the DS and 3DS were extremely popular in their own right but flash game sites had the advantage of having wide catalogs of free games. I would argue it was mobile games that dug the graves of free game sites as more and more families were getting iPads, for instance
That's a really interesting point! For me I got the crazy new and futuristic iPod touch, lmao. My game choices turned to temple run and random dress up or otome-esque games I could find for free.
there were also games like style savvy and the insider fashion games that replicated the makeover theme! Even as a "tomboy-ish" (read unaware queer) kid who played more traditional games GGG and style savvy had me hooked for sure
@@Narwhal39 I agree on this. I would use the family IPAD or my mom's phone at the time to play mobile app versions of those makeover games. Even now if you scroll through the app/play store in the kids section there's a lot!
Mobile games also began to take precedence, and we have many of the same format of games being promoted today on that platform even TODAY, which is absurd to me but what can you do... free games will be free games.
I remember playing the games from the Devlilish series religiously as a kid. The concept was very original to me at the time as I hadn’t seen anything like the series before or since, really. I loved the designs of the two characters and the series is why I’m so good with QTEs and anything requiring reaction time today.
I tried playing the shopaholic games again a few months ago I believe and they were just as confusing as I remember lol. ALSO does anyone remember that one fashion show game? The one where there were judges and you had to dress I think it was 3 girls, all surrounding a theme? I think that one died with flash last time I checked but I LOVED that one
Oh my gosh I kinda remember it! I don’t remember the name though
That kind of reminds me of a dress up game I used to play on Friv called Fashion Stars
Sarah's Cooking Class games are so fucking iconic wth, I remember playing HOURS of the series even if it was repetitive
Me too
Omg same I loved Sara!!!!
Idk why but I always thought it was so satisfying to watch the ingredients mix in those games
JOTARO!!!!!
Same, I must have spent hours on Sara’s cooking class..
bruh that one room decoration game from girls go game literally IGNITED my passion for interior decoration and made me spend 700+ dollars in my adult years on the Sims4, now I'm pursuing an interior design career, this shit is insane
Edit: just looked up Gwen since she was my childhood fashion idol, I still love this girl
Lol I like the sims but would never spend more than 100 on it. I downloaded the game and all extra content for free
THE MEMORY YOU OPENED FOR ME😭
@@micnik3573 I feel they are talking about spending money inside the game lol
Oh my god I know right! I absolutely loved that one I played it everyday
SAME I spent hours on those interior decorating games 🤚😭😭
This video hits SO HARD, its also amazing to see how internet conected childhoods around the world, Im brazilian and played absolutelly ALL of those, life seemed simple
I remember playing these games and my mom kept noticing that most of the charcaters didn't look like me, so she went out of her way to find more diverse sites. She's the sole reason why I got onto Doll Divine, Azalea Dolls, and Rinmaru Games. Despite everything, I still hold Girl Go Games close to my heart. ❤
For your mom to go find sites that makes you feel included is ✨Queen behavior✨
I remember Rinmaru 😫
Omg YESSSS dollsdivine
My sister and I loved that one sm 😩😩
I love Doll Divine :) ur mom sounds like a good parent!
thats so wholesome T-T
me playing "swimmer's armpit": yeah I'm a gamer
Omg hi, didn't expect to see an artist I love here 😳
you gave me so much war flashbacks with the 7 dates game oml, used to be obsessed with that
I love how you inspire a feeling of nostalgia in me, and at some moments in life, it's a good feeling remembering the fun of just being inocent and have fun with the most random things. Adult life is tough, I wish I could be a kid again and just play those games, with no anxiety.
I would give anything to go back to being a child but skip the teen years all together
I was so sad about Flash dying that I spent New Year’s 2021 playing all my favourite flash games from my childhood. No regrets.
I heard about it after it happened and I didn't get the chance to play one of my favourite crappy dress up games one last time 😔
@@zeearts9484 Newgrounds still works. Theres also a massive flash archive though I have no idea how you access/use it.
I wanted to revisit one of my sites but it wouldn’t work cuz of flash :(
I didn't do that and now Nyan Cat Fly is gone forever :(
I remember when i was a kid, i use to play pico school and newgrounds rumble
I remember finding Girlsgogames on accident, and just falling in love. The devilish hairstylist, school flirting game, the pet shelter simulator, I could go on for hours about all the games I used to play on there. I would spend every afternoon after school on the website. It makes me oddly nostalgic thinking of it.
The school flirting game I was obsessed with
YES THE DEVILISH HAIRSTYLIST 😭🥺
I loved all their devilish games.
The devilish characters were my gay awakening 😨
@@minarai313 AHA S A M E
girlsgogames used to have a user playlist feature that i loved a lot as a kid !! obviously it was chock full of songs like lip gloss by lil mama and bring me to life by evanescence but it was fun to scroll through users playlists and listen while i played anime doll dress ups and a highschool love collector game LOL
My older cousin played games on Y8, so I played some of the games mentioned in this video there. I was obsessed with My New Room 2.
I remember when I was 5 and I was playing a generic dress up game. The background music was just a piano playing, but the song was so emotional that I started thinking "why is this song so sad? Am I dressing her up because she's moving and gonna leave her family and friends behind?" and then I started crying.
My dad laughed at me.
I remember playing some game with a puppy, it was like a rottweiler puppy and you had to take care of him but he got older and his care routine was different as he aged and finally a very emotional song played and it was a black screen with "PETS ARE MORE THAN ANIMALS THEY'RE FOREVER FRIENDS" and that just made me cry, i was traumatized for a week 😭
🤣
@@LiterallyScarecrow oooh, I think I remember that one? I think if you didn't care for the puppy correctly, they'll die and I was some dumb kid, so caring for them was hard at first, I remember my puppy died in the FIRST LEVEL and I started feeling so bad that I stopped playing. One or two years later I came back and finished the game, the ending killed me too, I think it ended with the girl losing the dog bc of old age? or near that at least
@@LiterallyScarecrow DAMN THAT'S HORRIFYING
@@LiterallyScarecrow OH MY GOD I WAS OBSESSED WITH THAT GAME
The one where you had to kiss during work while your boss wasn't looking and another game where you'd "collect" boys by shooting lasers from your eyes were my favourites
I think the first game's name was "kissing during work," and the laser-eye game was one of the "flirting on" games.
Omg I remember the laser one 😂
OMG YES the Flirting games! I remember the beach version and the school one. Damn near broke my keyboard trying to win the staring battles by spamming the spacebar xD
THE FUCKIN FLIRTING GAME, bro is that still around? lowkey wanna see if I could do any better now... EDIT: O i finished the video. rip flash player
Ah yes the eye laser games, I loved those
My dad actually worked on this website but quit around 2014. There was a lot of mess going on inside the company, (Still is the last i asked him) mainly with hiring and outsourcing. Very sad that GGG ended like that. I actually made a suggestion for one of the games (shopaholic) to implement a shopping list. They did, and some developers gifted me a sunglasses and a cap with the text "shopaholic' on it. The glasses broke pretty soon but i think i still have the cap somewhere lol. Truly wild times.
that's so cool! does your dad know anything about a chatroom that they had? It was very sketchy and cant find any info on it now :(
I LOVED the shopaholic and quiz type games lol
im so sorry i dont remember a chatroom. do you mean the comments people left under games?@@smile2126pink
i remember the tokimeki school flirting game, the one in the beach and the one with the kabuki mask as well, you just had to stare at boys and make them fall in love with you; the more boys drooling and following you, the more points in the end - definitely shaped me into what i am today, i'll forever be grateful for it
Oh my god, the three games where you decorated the main girls’ rooms were my entire childhood..
YESSSS I LOVED THAT, I would always have the bed that hangs from chains on wall lmao. That, Uphill Rush and there was a Spyro game on there that I loved to death.
That just regained some memories I forgot that existed.
YES SAME
What was the name
IM SO FUCKING HAPPY SOMEONE MENTIONED THIS, it was my absolute favourite room makeover game on the site
This site was so nostalgic
Pretty much yeah
I love your pfp!
I remember playing frizzle frazzle 2 on there when I was younger
@@Wut_191 thx!
Ikr!
Can we all just take a moment to appriciate Izzy’s makeup?? Like as someone who’s not good at it I can’t imagine how hard it is too look so good for every video!! Love your channel ❤️
Pony wood was my game! I used to sit at my grandmother's computer and play it for hours on end. Day in and day out. Ironically the first game I ever played that required me to que in and play with another random person. Something that I'm entirely to anxious to do now. 😅 Really wish I could play it again. It has a special place in my heart.
I was *addicted* to the weird “princess pregnancy” games, to the point that my mom had to block the site on our family computer… those were the days.
My Daughter used to play some pretty weird dress up games on that site and one had a pregnant lady I thought it was strange but never stopped her from any media she wanted to interact with I thought if I kept her away or showed aversion she would want to do it more so I just always pretended things like that where no big deal. She was obsessed with chuckie because I said it was anoying and didn’t like it she was oppositional like that when she was little she still is sometimes at 15
I remember I accidentally clicked a rlly inappropriate miraculous ladybug game, and my mom had just arrived home from job- when she went to check what I was playing she saw it and I got grounded lmao-
@@lee-pb4ec it was probably one of the graphic and oversexualized ones thats on the site
BAHAHAH I had a similar experience,,,also I love the engarde pfp
Omg I honestly didnt think those had an audience but I guess they did since they kept making them LOL
This is like a “women in history” documentary but for G A M E R S
Its experiences of websites like these that were so very 2000s that really helps me feel seen in the sea of talking about the nostalgic childhoods of 90s teens.
Girlsgogames was my childhood. I remember playing so many games and I didn’t understand what they said because they were written in another language but I still loved them
"But I can't go back to those days and... it sucks."
*sniffle*
I'm almost 30 and this, whoof, hit me.
i’m under 14, and it probably sounds stupid since i can still make childhood memories, but it hit me too. i remember when i was way younger, before school and responsibilities, i would play girlsgogames on the family laptop. i didn’t have a care in the world. it was bliss
i miss my childhood so much im deeply unsatisfied with my life and who i become
@@haniicross I am 15 and I still feel nostalgic so it's not really stupid. Like even stuff from a month ago can feel nostalgic if there has been a big change.
I'm 20, soon to be 21 and i feel this way already. lmao. it started hitting once i turned 19
I'm 18 and it hit me
I remember the comment section under everyone's profiles, I would always claim I was 16 even as a 10 year old because I thought 16 was like,, the cool age to be 😭 So weird to look back on now that I'm almost 20 lmao
Same same, ages and all 😂 honestly though these sites were such wholesome places to be even if you were a preteen
The comment section was my first time being exposed to chain mail, it was a comment about a girl who died horribly and will visit me at 3am and kill me in the same way, i went to my mom with my pink dell inspiron laptop and asked her if it was real, she assured me it wasn't but i genuinely didn't sleep that day
When I began growing up and began experiencing a lot of nostalgia from ggg I was really interested in going back and checking out some of my favorite games but at the time flash has been disabled and that broke my heart. I wish I could go back to when I was like 6-7 so I can play all my favorite “house decorating” and “dressing up” games again
i just discovered your channel today and literally couldn’t stop watching your videos. the way you take material that many would consider frivolous and treat it with such integrity and clearly dedicate time and energy to research just makes me really happy and it feeds my inner child to now consume the media that i consumed when i was a kid in a different lens. you made my day today and made me excited about something in a way i havent felt in a long time.
I’m trans and I used to spend hours and hours on here trying to “practice being a girl” lmao. I understood I didn’t fit that mold naturally so I fastened GirlsGoGames into my own peptobismol adjacent conversion therapy. So wild to see how many people also played it since it felt so niche to me at the time.
Transfem?
@@forgor4410 transmasc. Everyone saw me as a girl but I just… didn’t fit that so I tried to study and get better at it lol
@@gray2578 transfem here, my gaming experience was more "completing Megaman Zero 2 on a laptop keyboard with an emulator" when I was around the age this site would have been targeting, so I just kinda never got into browser games like these. I never tried to use Megaman to "practice being male" though, they're just good games.
Transmasc here! I "practiced being a girl" on GirlsGoGames too.. You sure unlocked a memory in me 😅
@@gray2578 It sometimes feels so weird reading how trans people try to fit in both ways. I'm cis, but with a lot of "non-stereotypical" hobbies and preferences, so I just went around declaring that I am a girl and I like cars most (favourite toy was little red Ferrari Testarossa my cousin gave me). Also might have sliced apart a few dolls at one point since otherwise people didn't GET that I didn't like dolls, period.
Let's just all be what we feel we are and not put people in boxes for their hobbies. Take care!
A bit sad Izzy didn't talk about the social aspect of GGG, like aside from the games, users would have a profile and be able to talk to each other. It's how I met some very close friends of mine, that I'm still friends with today (About 10 years and going!), aside from playing games we'd talk on one of my friend's profiles, she'd use one of the art games to draw and post artwork to the gallery on her profile, and it was a bit sad at times because people we'd talk to regularly would log off and we'd never hear from them again
It's how I found out Nelson Mandela died. Very random that's the only comment section I remember
omg i used to post my artwork and spend hours making a shitty drawing of a cupcake
The comment section and award tiers were one of my favorite things about the website
@@ginasta7575 that is so fucking funny for some reason
I was very into being Truthful On the Internet and remember being SO sad I couldn't make an account because I was under 13. It didn't occur to me that I could just like.... lie.
This website was definitely a big part of my childhood! I remember taking silly daily quizzes after school and playing cooking and dress up games. I still remember those really weird games too. The loss of Flash Player is a little sad and I miss a lot of games.
I just went back to the site and found that My Dolphin Show still works which I was happy to see! It was one of my favourite games on the site.
12:55 the top left is a really good game :)
Even the thumbnail brings back so many memories. I used to adore Girls Go Games. I'd play the Kindergarten game, the Avie games, and all the fun makeover games for hours! I remember there was an animal shelter game at one point with all sorts of cute dogs and hamsters and cats, and I spent so long playing it because I couldn't stand the sad looks on the animals faces when they weren't fed enough. GGG went downhill so fast, and it's sad that it did because for a while it was a genuinely cool site.
I remember playing that animal shelter game so much! I used to name them all individually and always hated how that one lady held the cat when she adopted it. SUPORT ITS LEGSSS ITS FALLING OUT YOUR ARMS YOU SILLY HAG -12 year old me's brain (silly hag added for dramatic affect)
@Fax what’s with the sound link?
Oh my gosh the Avie games were my childhood I loved getting new things from the mini games. Do they still work after flash shut down?
THE KINDERGARTEN GAMW WAS MY FAVORITE OMG😭
OMG THE ANIMAL SHELTER GAME WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITES
I remember playing Papa's Pizzeria, this one beach dress up game, this one creepy bartender game and shopaholic 24/7... I can't believe it's impossible to go back.
The papa games are my favorite....just wish they were free on AppStore
"Bartender: The Right Mix"? I was obsessed with that game- accidentally blew the bartender up several times-
My fav games were slacking games. I raged childishly when I got caught lol. Good times 😩
the girl stealing boys with her eyes game-
I think the bartender game was called "The Perfect Mix" lmao but yeah 10 yr old me was so proud when i got the right mix
my favourite games on ggg were the interior design ones with the three icon girls,, and there was a series of goddess dress up dolls. they were so good
Dude I’m like hyper focused on your account rn I love your deep dives, the effort you put in is clear and appreciated
I will say, Coolmath games has been working hard at implementing Flash emulators into their website to make some of these Flash games playable again! They don’t have a ton so far and it’s still clunky, but it’s still cool to see them trying
thats so awesome
I hope they get the papa's games working because the ones I tried to download on the app store didn't even work and those cost money
@@the13throse losing the papas games dealt a huge blow! Got me through several college finals
There's also the Flashpoint project, which is a publicly edited and funded free-to-download-and-play archive of flash games. I used to have it on my old computer and it worked great, but they haven't gotten it to work on chromebooks yet, which is what I have now. Hopefully they'll get it working on that OS too someday
Everytime I've heard "Girlsgogames" waves of nostalgia just fills my heart.
Boysgogames also was a thing
WHAT
I feel like there being a Boysgogames has the same vibe as the Rowdy ruff boys from the powerpuffgirls
boysbobames
@@lawlietmesses8131 I don’t know why that made me laugh
I NEED TO LOOK THAT UP
I used to play My dolphin show, and oh My goodness..
You just brought joy back to My Soul. For so long I thought the dolphin game was just a dumb fantasy / dream I had because as a kid, dolphins were My favorite animals. And turns out it wasn't just an un-usual super vivid dream I had as a little girl, I am so happy.
thank you sm for making this video! i feel the same way about seeing games i used to play being completely gone. i used to love girl go games, star sue net and friv and definitely cherish the memories they brought me. this year i’m a senior and it really just hit me that i’m a whole different person. anyway, love your content!
seeing "devilish valentine" on here just unlocked some intense memories of playing that game and hoping no one would walk into the room
Anybody else obsessed with that game where you’d mess up the girls haircut and avoid getting caught
You were like a demon scene girl and the other girl was an angel and I think that’s where my interest in dark goth scene emo fashion started
DEVILISH HAIRDRESSER YES THATS IT
YEAAA BRUH
12:45 holy shit! I have been looking for the 'cyber gothic girl dress up' game for YEARS!!!! I spent hours playing it and even drew(very poorly) the outfits out constantly god I feel so nostalgic😅 amazing video btw really bringing back memories
oohh man :( i miss flash SO much, my entire childhood felt centred around it as I was also a frequent girlsgogames player, knowing its all gone makes me so sad, but knowing i was there for it also makes me feel reassured
Now that we are all here, does anyone remember that one game where you played as a cute anime girl that had laser eyes that would make boys fall in love with them? And the “bosses” were just other girls with laser eyes and you had to click like your life depended on it to defeat them?
I LOVED THAT GAME BRO HAHAH THE WORST PART WAS THAT I HAD TO GUESS HOW TO GET OUT OF THE MENU BECAUSE IT WAS ALL IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE
YES!! I was just thinking about this game! Why did it go so hard and why was it so much fun??
It's called Love Me! I just looked it up! You can play it on mobile!
@@WinningSidekick i'm not seeing it on ios..? who's the developer
@@ratboygirl i think they mean you can play it on the mobile version of the website, not that it’s an app
I adore Papas Pizzeria saga, I've "completed" every single one at least one time, and now I've actually paid to play some of them on the play store, it's my adiction, geniunly
Papa's series is actually a masterpiece. I'm so glad it was part of my childhood
I USED TO PLAY THOSES GAMES LMAO 😫😫
BRO THE PAPA’S SERIES WAS THE ONLY THING I PLAYED OML 😭
I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THESE GAMES 😭✋🏾
I’m so grateful for Papa and his godforsaken Pizzeria
17:54 this was my favorite
I still remember when the site had original games and accounts with achievements, you could comment on stuff and see other's opinions on it. it was pretty fun to see a bunch of kids saying they were making stories on the decorating games or describing their OCs on the dress up things
YES THAT WAS LITERALLY THE BEST ERA
omg yess! I miss the different avatars we could make on the group and comment on each other's profiles
i remember when u could change the colour of the website background 😭
Do you guys remember when you could make and post drawings on it? It was a little like ms paint with how simple the drawing feature was but i used to try to draw anime girls with my mouse so hard and other kids on the site would leave such nice comments on the drawings!
OMG yess!!! That was when the website was at its best - i miss it
I remember that kissing games were something forbidden for me by myself. I was too shy to click on that kind of game and I was afraid of my mum coming into the room and seeing what I'm doing (kissing virtual low graphic boys omg)
My lil sisters and I really enjoyed dressing games and used to do a lot of tabs in one browser, made girls for ourselves, and played with them as with dolls.
I miss that time😭
The games where you tap and the persons shirt was off- those were horrifying
Lol, you would see me in one tab for hours because I would dress the one character different and using it as doll. The more characters to dress up at once, the better
Same girl and that love calculator lol
I remember playing one of those kissing games, it's basically this girl going on a thematic place, and by clicking on the screen (or smt like this) she makes guys fall in love with her then making a queue behind her. Does anyone remember this game's name? (PS: I remember that in the beach version the lifeguard was the hardest to make him to fall in love)
@@luigiavara I remember that game too!