10 WORST Moments in Video Game History That SUCKED

The loss of all those 1000s of flash games... A whole time period of internet history just wiped. Truly worth mourning.

As a child, I could not afford to buy video games, in the best case I was allowed to buy one video game in a year or something like that. Flash games saved my childhood. There were absolute gems and I loved it, now it's all gone.

I would personally add an honorable mention to this list: Jack Thompson He's kinda like an extension of #3 in that he basically led a one-man crusade against the video game industry (particularly the GTA franchise) just to build up clout until even the US justice system got so tired of his BS that they disbarred him.

What I like about gameranx channel is that its not only talking about videogames, it also serves as history lesson, archives, and daily reminders of things we shouldn't forget.

Oh, man, the disabling of Flash...hit more than just gaming, though. There was even some other software that got hit, too. There were some programs that used Flash for things like library access. Imagine loading up a program you use regularly and finding out some core feature you really need to be able to use is just...gone.

I used to play a lot of games on Kongregate. When I found out Flash games were no longer going to be playable I was confused why and even how they weren't going to be available. I was truly bummed and confused.

I remember the 2011 PSN one was brutal. Had no idea it would go so long, but I remember it fondly because Playstation gave everyone Infamous for free as an apology and I fell in love with that game.

My son is 14 & oldest daughter is 12. I have ran a full playthrough of RE4 Remake with both seeing the majority of the opening chapter at least. So when I explained to them that the original game was pioneering they both were suprised to learn that i had not only had the game on gamecube but also on ps2, with both systems in the house. So i grabbed my ps2 and popped in re4, and boyyyyyyy did they ever look at me like, how in the hell did you ever play this game. My response, this game was and still is legendary & essentially responsible for a bunch of what we have now. They had little clues as to what i meant, so once they realized the things I kept pointing out they started to put 2 & 2 together and i saw it AND heard it from their own mouths as they came to the conclusion that this was an 18 year old game, that for the most part was the game i was just playing on the ps5. I will thank video game companies greatly for remaking some of these games. Because it can keep the great games and tales of the old days when games were doing never done things and then being the turning points for genres, gameplay styles, art & game production. Now i just have to get an OG copy of Unreal Tournament to explain to them that THIS is what made Fortnite...

Worst moment in video game history is when power cuts out and you didnt save game's progress

Either this is an alternate timelines or we got two uploads in the same day. This is insane WE LOVE YOU FALCON and Gameranx.

The thing that really irritated me about the flash abandonment is that Adobe wasn't the one that developed the flash engine. That was Macromedia that did, which Adobe bought the rights from. Only for them to turn around and abandon it, much like what Yahoo did with Geocities. Now the only Geocities sites still in existence are pretty much solely Japanese.

Flash closing down did make me shed a tear. My entire middle and high school I played a tonne of indie games through Flash and even got into animation a little using Flash to do it. There's nothing like it

Damn two uploads on a Saturday afternoon? Y’all killing it

That moment when business people realized they could exploit predatory practices to take money from kids. And the moment when they managed to normalize micro-transactions to the point I know people that will spend 100 bucks on a live-service game per week and say "it's just how it works now" like they don't have a choice.

Flash player actually had a lot of security vulnerabilities that were pretty easy to exploit but yeah I miss all my 5mb flash games

That "Tokens that cannot be funged" line made my wife laugh so hard our neighbour's dog went ballistic. 👍🏼 😂

Flash player going away, nintendo delisting, plenty other examples out there too, yet some people still don't understand why some of us are so concerned about the whole digital only games thing.

Number 5 has a cool story comes out for that with "The Completionist," a youtuber that play games to completion with every awards in consoles, actually bought EVERY SINGLE online DS and Wii games that he and his team could get hold of, and has worked with a charity that focus on keeping a records of old games as emulators and its all just a cool story, yall should cover it in a weird gaming stories one video^^

I would argue that the 1983 video game crash was a good thing. Tons of crappy and broken games like you said but if the crush didn't happen I can't imagine where we would be now. I almost feel like we're in the situation like that now with how many games are coming out that aren't good and need to be patched so many times before there playable.

Xbox one's flop at that conference was legendary for sure. But even more so was Sony's dunk...the next week? Cemented the big L for that entire console gen