Nightmare City

[cipher]

Anyone else a fan of these back in the day? Or perhaps NCH's 4chan-themed homages to them? Do they hold up? Who's to say, but the pacing and camera work is still quite excellent I think. Probably some of the more globally recognized flash animations from Japan alongside the There She Is!! series (which by the way got a new entry last year), and maybe some of the IOSYS touhou music videos. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but anyways, deeply nostalgic to me and all that, but apparently the original creator made a whole new one as 20th anniversary celebration. Is this common knowledge or did I just miss it entirely? It's worth the watch if you respected the originals, if anyone would care perhaps it would be someone here.

and the old ones if you care

[nuac_]

These were the best flash animations I ever saw in 2004; they were peak and made for a flash competition(s) and created by flash group "Clairvoyance". They also made RPGs in the style of final fantasy and a pinball game.
The band 403 along with Mintjam were one of the few artists that did really well on a japanese indie music site  called Muzie.net which folded around or after 2007-2011.

There mightve been more information about 403, and Clairvoyance but they're probably lost to time.
They were never big on newgrounds because someone decided to submit them under their own username the way XiaoXiao 3 was robbed of daily first by a woman named "Beth", who grabbed the .swf from her downloads and added it to the site anyway.

There were a few more flash movies and groups that come to mind that fit this niche of being universally acclaimed but not widely known.

[cipher]

Yeah 403 has since had a few albums or singles and whatnot, but I bet they too would have been lost to time if it weren't for the original animations. I think the song in the new one is from a full album that came out in the last few years.

And yeah I kind of just always associated the original two as nico nico douga or 2chan things, which I guess extended to it being a 4chan thing. Too bad they never made the proper jump to Newgrounds though (submitted by the actual animator(s)), it's a shame

[rtil]

that's pretty wholesome to see the creator is still around and acknowledges his old work with a remake like that.

i do have some vague memory of watching this on /f/, and i probably had a copy of the .swf saved on my computer back in the day, but i haven't seen it in so long that i felt i was watching a lot of it for the first time again.

as far as answering "does it hold up" goes, it might "look old" in the sense that the tools this was made with are largely deprecated and unused today, but on a technical level it's still better than 99% of garbage that people made then and make now.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

Always loved the original. The shot of the two guys going through the skyscraper is one of my favorite shots of anything ever.

Glad the original creator is still around.