Flash Flash Revolution

Flash Flash Revolution (a.k.a. FFR) is an Adobe Flash-based simulator (hence the name) that originated in October of 2002. The game took a new spin on the popular game, in which uses players' fingers rather than their feet. Flash Flash Revolution is considered a rhythm game, and a large one at that, considering it's immense library of over 730 public songs, and hundreds of other fun unlockables. On the site it was boasted: "Have you ever played a game like Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, Beatmania, or In The Groove? If so, you'll feel at home here." The main goal of the game is to hit the arrows that appear on the screen in correspondence to the song you are playing, and to hit them as accurately as possible. You can check out note scores for more information on accuracy. The game has been developed for several years and now has several clone variations, FFR R2 and SpinItUp!, also developed by Synthetic Light Studios.

Currently the game is at version .803, although not so much a beta as a non-perfect clone of DDR emulators like StepMania, with many features still in the works (see the in-game settings menu for future features — dimmed out and non-interactable). The site had approximately 1.7 million members and growing before the main site went down.

One of the most unique features of this rhythm game is its multiplayer features, since it was probably one, if not the, first to do so.

The mainstream site's downfall
In late November of 2009 the site was experiencing many issues and crashed at random for hours, and sometimes days, at a time. Finally, the inevitable happened on December 21st 2009, 3PM EST, the main site went down permanently (or at least it is still currently down).

The good news
Although it is unfortunate the site went down, many people (including several old administrators from the site), attempted to keep FFR alive, and they succeeded. FFR can currently be played online here, and also can be obtained as an offline engine here. Also many other users are keeping new content alive by using the Super Secret Flash Flash Revolution Converter (SSFFRC) to make new levels for the FFR offline engine and sharing them with others. There are still many FFR forums around you can catch such as the ASA forums or Tasselfoot's forum where you can post scores and talk about the game regularly.

Although the site went down, more recently the site was activated and left with the single message Patience - check back soon. Hopefully this means the restoration of the main site will come about in the near future, but we won't know unless we stay patent and wait for the results.