Many of the games included in Neopets: Mega Mini-Games Collection – The Neopian Arcade Odyssey are deeply unoriginal. They're clunky. Awkward to play. Also, I absolutely love them. Playing through this curated collection of revived Adobe Flash '00s classics in small bursts has made for some extremely pleasant evenings, the space between the janky gameplay opening up to swallow me into a delightful, warm nostalgia hole.
Like many, I was obsessed with Neopets as a child. Creating my account around 2004, I was a few years late to the party but joined when it was in full swing – there for the Neopian hey-day. Raising little pictures of colorful friendly creatures (I will always have a place in my heart for my Korbat), I'd be there daily for the free slice of omelet, to get my jelly, and, of course, to claim some exchange scores to collect Neopoints from the arcade of Flash games.
