From time to time we all need to distract ourselves from the boredom and banality of the workaday life, so we turn to Internet to provide us with quick, clever video games. We won’t be playing any of those here. This is where all the bad games go to be tortured for their sins.

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Awful Flash Game Roundup: Non-Game X-Treem!

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Early in my college education I, like most students, was required to take a basic writing composition class. At first I scoffed at the idea that anyone who managed to make it into an accredited university would need any extra training to write standard five-paragraph essays and do proper citation. After all, we'd all presumably been doing those things since middle school, and college applications themselves require some basic essay-writing. Oh, but I was wrong. When our rather disengaged grad student instructor paired us off to edit and critique each other's work, it became shockingly apparent that half of the students in the class had absolutely no clue how to string sentences together meaningfully. I had the good fortune to work with a non-traditional (re: middle-aged) student who composed an essay comprised of little more than an imaginary argument between two abstract concepts, a corporation and its customers. As in a literal argument. On that day I didn't learn how to better compose an essay, but I did learn that the core of stupidity is simple misconception. Take the following Flash games. They're awful because the people who made them just don't seem to understand what a "game" is.

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Awful Flash Game Roundup: Juggalo Games

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The Internet is often touted for its focus on the future, but that's only half of the story. For every neat-o, sci-fi advance the Net makes possible, like video chat and instant-access encyclopedias, there is at least one element of the past rescued by technology to live long past its fated end. While there may be some cultural value to preserving the pre-Jeopardy career of Alex Trebek, I just can't say the same for the Internet-supported longevity of The Insane Clown Posse and the Juggalo trend they started. ICP and all they represent rightly should have ceased to exist by the end of the 90's yet that nonsensical fashion keeps on shambling through the halls of American society. Just a quick jaunt through your preferred search engine will turn up a disturbing variety of Juggalo-related results, including today's hub of awfulness, Juggalo Games.

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Awful Flash Game Roundup: Attack of the Suck

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What is the inverse of being entertained? It's not being bored. No, that's the opposite. I'm talking about the actual inverse, the state of feeling like past moments of entertainment have actually be removed from one's memories. That's what the following three flash games will do to you. They will actually make your life worse than it would have been if you had just sat in one place and stopped breathing for a minute or so. This is the Awful Flash Game Roundup. I'm sorry.

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Awful Flash Game Roundup: Third Time's Not A Charm

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It's time once again to delve into some of the worst flash games ever uploaded to this questionably useful technology the French call L'Internet. How is it that such offensive bits of so-called "entertainment" found their way into this series of metaphorical tubes? Well, as I've often pointed out, there is no filter in this medium. I've been talking to some congressmen about that, but they're too busy with their silly drug war and Supreme Court justices to really address this issue. Perhaps some of them will see the following collection of abhorrent games and pause long enough from their orgies of nitrous oxide and bourbon-covered Slip n' Slides, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, to pursue due recourse.

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