Your Favourite "Dead" Sites

[Thorn]

I'm not sure if it's actually offline or if I've just lost the link forever, but as a kid I spent forever on this barbie website. It hosted SO MANY games relating to barbies and I would spend hours to traversing the site over and over again to play all the minigames. I can't seem to find them anywhere now...

I actually recently saw a post that mentioned this. The domain where the barbie games used to be hosted is still up and running, but Mattel uses it as a storefront and product information site now and doesn't host barbie related games anymore.

[Memory]

Mattel uses it as a storefront and product information site now and doesn't host barbie related games anymore.

This is so sad. Pressing F to pay respects.

It would have been nice if they kept the games even in a small corner of their new site... I miss those so much, and it felt like it was a site made for me as a kid, rather than for adults which was really appreciated even at the time.

[larvapuppy]

Mine would be eLouai... I spent so many hours on that site playing the room maker game and dressing up the candybar dolls. I tried to play the games on the wayback machine but they don't work for me 

[Tiffany]

The Portkey Forums I use to spend so much time there, because Harry/Hermione was (is) my OTP, and there just isn't a community like that anymore. Like there have been replacement but not like the old forums, and the replacements haven't been forums.

[myleszey]

LetsMakeAGame.com Community Game Development. The epitome of 'user generated content' from a bunch of flash games - platformer, puzzle and music games. The domain was parked in 2018, a good long time after the peak of browser flash games, but several years before flash was deprecated altogether. I miss it, but there are better venues for kids to make things on the internet now... right?

It doesn't really count since it still exists but I still think of Pokemon Planet as one of these since the current product is completely different than the silly browser MMO it used to be.

Edit 10/17/2023: Just remembered Root Beer Reviews dot com!

[AY38910]

the website they had use to have a chat platform

Oh, yeah, I've seen similar stuff. I have a friend who is a fan of MBR, and appaarently on https://mbrserver.com there's an IRC chatroom for the fans and whatwver. With a web client included, for mobile/school PC users. It can be accessed by clicking on "IRC" at the bottom of the page, or directly by going to https://mbrserver.com/chat/

Anyways, mine would likely be Geocities. No need to say anything else.

[Oceansandy02]

I would like to mention sugarforbrains! This website was one of my inspirations before the website shut down.

They had a lot of art, as well as a flash game. I'm not sure if I should even archive it, even though they deleted it to focus on real life, but I loved that website a lot.

[hein]

https://web.archive.org/web/20100818184340/http://www.mushroomkingdom.nl/

The biggest Mario fansite in the Netherlands. This was it before it stopped updating an shut down in 2010. You can see the amount of comments on the final article being huge! I visited the site quite often and had an account on there as well. I'm sad it died but IIRC it was a project by one guy in college. 

[RatWedding]

When I was a kid, I used to go all over the internet in search of flash games. Back then, there was a thriving ecosystem of hundreds of sites, big and small. Creators would be sponsored by a site like armor games, or promote their own site by posting games to other flash sites. Other websites would have their own niche, like stick page only having stuck figure games, and sugar toast having joke games like Mario but you are a goomba, or Tetris 1d (there is only one row and a line piece). 

Luckily a lot of these sites were big enough to stay afloat. Heck I even found out that StickPage is still up.

There are a few I do miss. jmbt02's old site was a place I used to visit because of the Ball Revamped games. His website seems to now be inactive and replaced by a more commerical site for his games, under the elephant mascot.


Another one I miss dearly is egg2.com.
 The website looked like this until it's death and it makes me so nostalgic, I remember being 12 and saying how cool it was that it didn't change since I first found it. I used to go to this site to play a sumo game where it's like that Mario party bumper ball minigames, robotic fishy (who's intro music I later Shazam as a teenager and add to my collection.)  and a few others.

I also miss not doppler. While technically not fully dead, it's impossible to find the old games unless you manually find the archive on your own. They understand only shifted to making steam games, but I used to come back every Thursday and I remember their cool sounding intro to this day. Max games is in a very similar boat, still up as a mobile/steam developer but they don't even have an archive.   

[LokLambert]

My favorite dead site is a dutch site which reviewed local snackbars (specialized in french fries). It contains all of the big trips they organized to visit different snackbars around the country with friend group pictures and all. seems nobody is updating anything anymore but its a fun site to look around on.

https://frietopia.nl/

[virtualpet2001]

When I was very young i learned almost everything i knew about Kirby from Kirby's Rainbow Resort which is still online but very much in a zombiefied state. there was a whole social side with an art gallery i loved looking at but the infrastructure has broken completely. the actual game guides on there still proved useful to me when i played a bunch of the older games earlier this year...
im sure theres infinitely more that are on my mind but i cant recall them now...