The Trials' Series Success

There hasn't been a Java game that has proved so popular that it got made much better and made for consoles. Most of the time, if not all the time, the games were made in Flash and later made for consoles or handhelds. In Java's case, there are been a game, and that game is the Trial series.

 Trials is a 2002 2D side scrolling motorsports game, where the player would take control of a sport's bike and complete an course involving ramps and jumps. The character can get knocked off the sport's bike and is forced to restart the course. When in 2002, I've had a group of old friend who would play this game on the computers in the class, as they did a computer course, as they didn't have much to do. It was great fun trying out the courses and etc. Now-a-days, the game is a pain to access because it requires Java as the entire world is relying on Abode Flash to run browser based games and a much more pain trying to get rid of the block that Java themselves have placed onto the game.

The success of the game later made the game to follow with sequels and a release on Flash and also a spin-offs on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC with Trials Fusions, so it's worth checking out to see how far the game has got in terms of visuals and gameplay and makes it much of a great success of a game that started on the internet and made it's way onto other platforms.

Alien Hominid Still Makes My Day

Game Link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/59593

I don't know what a Hominid is... it's clearly just a made up word. This flash game was impressive during the time of it's release and it is does today. Coming from a place that been taken over by something as popular like Youtube, newgrounds was a place where Flash animators could express themselves and vent in a form of cartoons and I do believe some artists who made their career as a flash artist, use this website too and they get featured time to time on the frontpage.

Alien Hominid caught the interest of console developers and a console edition of the game was made for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox.

The game popularity was huge that a European team also made a Gameboy Advance version, where people from North America have to import to experience that version of the game.

The team who made the console version of the team named The Behoemoh still made games and given Alien Hominid an HD update of the game, so it's nice to keep this game around, to look back how well they put their game together.