The old GamesChart: a Flash games portal, 2009 to 2015

If a link brought you here from an old forum post, a bookmark or a games directory, you were probably looking for a game page from the first GamesChart. From 2009 to 2015 gameschart.com was a Flash games portal with its own chart of the most played games, under the slogan "Raise Your Game". The site you are on now is a different project on the same address: it tracks the numbers behind games, such as disclosed drop rates, player counts and what games cost.

What the old site was

Archived copies of the site show a browser games portal: game pages you could play in the page, categories, a chart of popular titles and pages for developers. It ran until about 2015. After that the domain sat empty, then lapsed, and it was registered again in 2026.

We don't have the old site's game files, its credits or its play counts, so we can't rebuild those pages. What we can do is say what happened to them.

The games people still link to

These are the old game pages that other websites still link to most. Each of those addresses now brings you here.

• Spaceship Portal (/games/Spaceship-Portal)
• Critter Crunch (/games/Critter-Crunch). The name matches the puzzle game by the Canadian studio Capybara Games, in which you feed small critters to bigger ones to clear the board. It first came out on mobile phones in 2007, then on iPhone in 2008, PlayStation 3 in 2009 and PC and Mac in 2012. We can't confirm which version the old portal carried.
• Haunted House (/games/Haunted-House)
• Avalanche Color (/games/Avalanche-Color)
• Dora Balloon Express (/games/dora-baloon-express, spelled that way in the old address)

For Spaceship Portal, Haunted House and Avalanche Color we don't know who made them. Browser games of that era were often licensed to hundreds of portals at once, under slightly different names, so the same game may survive elsewhere under another title.

Why the games stopped working

Almost every browser game of that period ran on Adobe Flash Player, a plug-in that browsers gradually stopped supporting. Adobe ended support for Flash Player on 31 December 2020 and blocked Flash content from running in it from 12 January 2021. From then on, a Flash game embedded in a web page would no longer play in an up-to-date browser, on any site. So even if the old GamesChart pages still existed, the games on them wouldn't run.

Where Flash games live now

The biggest rescue effort is Flashpoint Archive, started in late 2017 by Ben Latimore (known online as BlueMaxima). It collects browser games and animations and packages them to run offline on Windows, Mac and Linux. Its latest version, 14.0.3 ("Kingfisher", 21 November 2025), holds over 200,000 entries built for more than 120 browser plug-ins. If you are looking for a specific old Flash game, searching Flashpoint by title is the best first step.

Some games also survive because their makers later rebuilt them for phones, consoles or PC, as Capybara Games did with Critter Crunch.

What GamesChart does now

The new GamesChart covers games played by teenagers and adults (rated 12 or over) and publishes the figures behind them: the weekly chart of the most played games on Steam, the odds publishers disclose for random items, and what the games really cost. Some of the games from the Flash era's own time are still going strong, such as Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour and Age of Empires II.

How we checked

The history of the site comes from archived copies of gameschart.com. The Flash Player dates are from Adobe's own end-of-life page. The Flashpoint and Critter Crunch details come from their Wikipedia entries, re-read on 11 November 2026.