Welcome to Shuffle and Cut games - The best place for online flash games!

Flash games were a sensation during the first years of the 21st century, when hundreds of user got into internet to look for their favorite ganes. Believe it or not, there is a huge connection between arcade and flash games. Arcade games are those funny games that appeared beginning the 80's. Lots of young, and not so young, people ran into gaming places to play what later would be legendary games, such as Pacman, Duck Hunter, Mario Bros, Tetris and more. These games were affordable to everyone, and they were inmediately considered as one of the best ways to spend free time. Nowadays, those same gaming concepts are applied to the flash gamnes that populate the world wide web.

Flash games, as well as arcade games, are usually very simple, with iconic characters, defined levels with a difficulty level that increases during the game and they are very easy to play, so there are usually no extraordinary skills needed. You can easily invest 3 or 4 hours playing a flash game, althoug statistics say that the average timeplay for an online flash game is 20 minutes. Flash games usually don't have a deep storyline, they all usually just have a short introduction and then the player goes directly to the game itself. Some may include gaming indications so the user knows how to play the game before starting.

Everybody has noticed that the video game industry has greatly evolved. In the 60's people started playing with coin operated machines such as pinball, but it's in the 80's when the industry completely changes, after the discovery of personal computers and the development of electronics. This technological developments encouraged game developers to creat better games each year, and thus now we have games that our parents could have never imagined.

Flash games also have some influence of console games such as Nintendo and Atari. Nowadays, any simple flash game can easily ressemble popular Nintendo titles such as Mario Bros, Duck Hunt or Contra, but in much shorter versions. No one could have imagined in those times that now you may be able to play those games without having a real console at home. Now, there is no past game that you can not play online.

When we consider flash games, we need to remember that they are really more complex now than before, they are more modern although they are easier to develop. They are named "Flash Games" because they are developed under the Flash platform, which is a prgram that was first developed my the Macromedia Corporation, which was then bought by Adobe. There are 3 basic components that, together, form the Flash platform: the authoring or creation tool, the file format and the player.

It's not very hard to develop a game under flash. You will just need to know how to use the development platform and to learn Action Script, which is the programming language used to create these games. There are tons of online manuals and tutorials that can help any regular mortal to create his own flash games. However, in order to create some really complicated flash games, you will need much more than a simple manual.

Now, regarding this website, you are welcome to try the games published in the different sections. Each games comes with a small ressemblance which will provide you with some background information about the online flash game you are about to play. Don't stay in the shadow of ignorance... read the ressemblance! After you read it, you are welcome to stay hours and hours playing that game you used to love during your childhood. Then, you can go back to your normal life.

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