Edgy af, but it can be considered the first successful browser game made in Flash
Decent little video game to play once and not again. I bet it was really ground-breaking for the time though.
mmmmm check this out as a reference point for newgrounds history not for its writing lmao
edgy but i mean it's newgrounds
tom based god
I used to play games on Newgrounds all the time back in the early 00s and mascots like Pico, Alien Hominid, StrawberryClock, etc. were mainstays of the website.
Pico is a bit of an oddity now. As a concept, he represents everything over-the-top edgy about the 90s, which I get. I would just say that it hasn't aged particularly well and is more cringeworthy than anything, now.
The game, for what it is, actually has some fun moments. I think Fulp was doing some interesting things for an indie Flash developer in 1999 with this release and the subsequent growth of Newgrounds.
Overall, unfortunately, I'd say that edgelord plotting outweighs any fun game mechanics.
4/10
Pico is a bit of an oddity now. As a concept, he represents everything over-the-top edgy about the 90s, which I get. I would just say that it hasn't aged particularly well and is more cringeworthy than anything, now.
The game, for what it is, actually has some fun moments. I think Fulp was doing some interesting things for an indie Flash developer in 1999 with this release and the subsequent growth of Newgrounds.
Overall, unfortunately, I'd say that edgelord plotting outweighs any fun game mechanics.
4/10
What is happening what the hell
I played this on a school laptop in 2017
It's short, and it's not a groundbreaking game but it's fun and very important to the legacy of Newgrounds. Without Pico, things wouldn't be the same.
DICK
The Cassandra boss fight is surprisingly fun for a Flash 3 product.
Also: The "Love Conquers All" April Fools is so fucking insane to think that it actually exists.
Also: The "Love Conquers All" April Fools is so fucking insane to think that it actually exists.
Ba bo be bo pe bai
absolute kino
My soul feels dirtier after playing this
I think that this game was a terror after what happened in Columbine...
pico has presidential aids
Fnf ruined this game
>imagine
On the 20th of April, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold massacred 12 students and one teacher in Columbine High School in Colorado, before turning their guns against themselves. The aftermath sparked a moral panic against not only United States gun culture, but also media deemed as violent, such as video games like Doom and movies like Natural Born Killers.
One of the lesser-known targets of moral panic was the website Newgrounds, then best known for the Club a Seal and Assassin games. Tom Fulp, after recieving several angry emails blaming Newgrounds and other websites for distributing offensive content, was inspired to make a game about a kid fighting against school shooters.
The game is a simple point-and-click adventure game with shooting sections. It is very reflective of the Columbine massacre, as the villains of the game are goths, a subculture falsely blamed (alongside Marilyn Manson, which the killers actually hated) for the massacre.
It was certainly a technologically impressive Flash game for 1999 (a full-fledged point-and-click adventure written before ActionScript) and made Newgrounds a force to be reckoned with on the Internet, but it has not aged well at all. The artstyle is pretty bad, the gameplay is simplistic and it tries too hard to be edgy at times. Overall, it's best seen as a historical curiosity in the history of Newgrounds, and I think I've played remakes of this game that have aged better.
One of the lesser-known targets of moral panic was the website Newgrounds, then best known for the Club a Seal and Assassin games. Tom Fulp, after recieving several angry emails blaming Newgrounds and other websites for distributing offensive content, was inspired to make a game about a kid fighting against school shooters.
The game is a simple point-and-click adventure game with shooting sections. It is very reflective of the Columbine massacre, as the villains of the game are goths, a subculture falsely blamed (alongside Marilyn Manson, which the killers actually hated) for the massacre.
It was certainly a technologically impressive Flash game for 1999 (a full-fledged point-and-click adventure written before ActionScript) and made Newgrounds a force to be reckoned with on the Internet, but it has not aged well at all. The artstyle is pretty bad, the gameplay is simplistic and it tries too hard to be edgy at times. Overall, it's best seen as a historical curiosity in the history of Newgrounds, and I think I've played remakes of this game that have aged better.
gross
🎵 doo doo do do doo doo dooooo 🎵
I loved the part where the school burned down
This is actually not that bad for a flash game on Newgrounds. Fun gameplay, quirky art style, interesting characters, and a fair difficulty curve. I can totally understand why Pico can be considered the secondary mascot of Newgrounds, with Tankman being the main mascot.
Be careful with this game, sonny! It’s a antique! The cornerstone of Newgrounds and gold standard for the website.
It’s a pretty fun game if you’re into raunchy humor. Think of an early point and click South Park type of game and you got this.
It’s a pretty fun game if you’re into raunchy humor. Think of an early point and click South Park type of game and you got this.
Self reminder that the "wild west" era of the internet also sucked major ass.
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Damn man, Cassandra is PACKIN'
fun ass game