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Miniclip sucked. It was all about Addicting Games and XGenStudios.

But the inferior Miniclip game selection (for normies) made me appreciate the other flash sites more. Miniclip was reliable though. It was a nice era. I feel bittersweet about this.

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Kongregate was my main site. Every game had a chatbox so there was a lot of community building. And it was really built around creators as well, allowing any user to submit a game. As a result there was a ton of exclusive content there

It's probably second only to Newgrounds in terms of driving a creator-centric vision of flash gaming/art

Armor Games caught on to a little bit later

It's bringing back lots of memories looking through the XGenStudios catalog [1]. I remember playing Motherload when I was in middle school, around the time it was released (2005). It was a neat game, but was really difficult, with games lasting multiple days, a couple hours per day.

I replayed it a couple years ago and was done in about 3 hours. I see they have Super Motherload, released in 2013. I may have to check it out.

[1] http://www.xgenstudios.com/games/

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