These sites are also an important piece of video game history-some indie classics, including Meat Boy and VVVVV, started life as free Flash titles. One group does miss Flash, however: casual gamers.īefore smartphones and app stores, the best place to find quick, free games were sites like Addicting Games and Newgrounds, which offered up all sorts of Flash-based games. Most of us didn't mourn the buggy, overused service, which was a security nightmare and a frequent cause of browser crashes by the time it died. Every major web browser disabled the infamous plug-in back in 2020 (the main thing we all remember about that otherwise uneventful year).
