So nice to see this here, good to know it's not abandoned. Works fine on Linux too. And still longing to play Johnny Rocketfingers 3 for over a decade. If you look in the game folders, you'll find information on the third game and why it was never released. Grew up playing these amazing games, though they look very simple today. I was just playing them again a few days ago and found out they would be on Steam. And I think it's time for a comeback, but that will only happen if it gets enough funding. Who dislikes this is not suppish.

Tão legal ver isto aqui, bom saber que não está abandonado. Funciona bem no Linux também. E ainda esperando jogar Johnny Rocketfingers 3 por mais de uma década. Veja nos diretórios do jogo, há informações do porquê o terceiro jogo nunca saiu. Cresci jogando estes jogos fantásticos, apesar de parecerem muito simples hoje. Estava até jogando alguns dias atrás e vi que sairia na Steam. Eu acho que já é hora de voltar, mas só vai acontecer tendo financiamento suficiente. Quem não curtir não é "suppish".

Thanks Ryan, very Suppish.

Boys grew up on Henry Stickmin,

MEN grew up on Johnny Rocketfingers!

(Both are great, don't get me wrong, but Rocketfingers walked so Henry can run!)

I just so happen to see on Twitter one of those steam trailer bots post Johnny Rocketfingers on steam for free and had to dive in once again for funsies. some parts of the puzzles of 2 are kinda obtuse but like 70 percent of it was obvious on what to do, and 1 is very intuitive and near impossible to get lost. Both are short, and can be completed with all the animations seen within an hour for both.

As for technical stuff, this is just the original flash games tossed in a folder, and given a flash wrapper. You select between the original and 2 using the launch options, 1 is fine to play fullscreen, but 2 is kinda restricted because you'll see a lot of bits you're originally not supposed to see on full resolutions.

There's other bits you may have not seen in the folder too! go to Manage>Browse Local Files, and there's comics, icons, and concept art of Rocketfingers 3 from the original pitch back in the day.

Will Rocketfingers 3 happen?
I remember joining the failed Kickstarter for it years ago and Ryan was talking about it still happening but at a much slower pace, if it does. It's become the flash equivalent of Half-Life 3 at this rate. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

THIS REVIEW IS IN ENGLISH FOR SPANISH HERE'S THE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/PkUPRPJOJHw

(ESTA RESEÑA ES EN INGLÉS PARA ESPAÑOL AQUÍ ESTÁ EL VIDEO)



That’s when we met Johnny Rocketfingers:
A stick figure with dark shades, cigarette in hand, and the attitude of a Tarantino antihero.
Violent. Sarcastic. Foul-mouthed. Wasted.

And us? Just little kids with Cheeto-dusted fingers and innocent hearts, seeing him as cool.
Like an adult cartoon you played secretly at the cyber café or at home, when no one was watching.
A symbol of rebellion in times of Encarta encyclopedias and CRT monitors.

Johnny was a thug. A burnout. A walking “f*ck you.”
And we cheered him on.
We laughed.
We felt rebellious.
Because everything back then felt bigger, weirder, louder.


Playing it again today is like visiting your old elementary school.
Everything’s still there. But you… you’re not the same.

You don’t laugh at the swearing like you used to.
You’re not impressed by cheap vulgarity anymore.
A character that’s just “edgy” for the sake of it doesn’t cut it.

Because time doesn’t just change games.
It changes us.

Johnny Rocketfingers hasn’t aged well.
Neither have we, if we’re being honest.
Its humor is clumsy, teenage in the worst way.
Loaded with cheap cynicism, casual misogyny, and senseless nonsense.

And yet…
Something remains.
Something hums beneath it all.
A weird tenderness, like seeing an old photo of yourself with awful hair and a smile you no longer know how to make.


Let’s be fair: the animation has its charm.
Rough lines, messy strokes, but full of style.
It has identity.

And the most admirable thing: two people made this.
From scratch.
With love, or at least with guts.
With clumsy, but real, rebellion.

And that, like it or not, has value.

It’s not a hidden gem.
But it’s not trash either.
It’s a better-drawn postcard from another era.


Would I recommend it?
It depends.

If you played it as a kid and loved it…
Don’t go back.
Don’t turn the lights on your memory.
Because chances are, like me, you’ll find it wasn’t that good.
That you’re no longer the same.
And that Johnny, far from being a badass antihero, is just a crusty reflection of what we used to think was “funny” 20 years ago.

But if you’re curious...
If you like exploring the margins of gaming history,
If you want to understand what teenage humor looked like when there were no filters, hashtags, or gender perspective…

Give it a shot.

Play it.
See how it hits you.

Maybe you’ll laugh.
Maybe you’ll cringe.
Maybe it’ll make you think.
But for sure…

the golden age of Newgrounds

⠀

peak nostalgia

7/10 - Just like 20 years ago.

Unapologetically one of the greatest contributions to Newgrounds back in the internet and as a whole.

While people like egoraptor went on to become soulless cucks, Johnny Rocketfingers' creator and LA native, Ryan Khatam, hides his amazing talent behind simplicity.

The initial first act of the first game comes off as amateurish, but as you get to the next scenes, you fully realize that Ryan has fooled us and is an ACTUAL animator. And frankly, his animations in the second game, in terms of style, flow, direction, are on par with the likes of Harry Patridge and honestly, in a similar vain to Krinkles of Madness Combat fame, does something that really defines an entire era of independent artists of the flash format.

The heavy urban street influences at times comes off as racist in its exaggerations (the highly offensive Japanese stereotype running the corner store is truly reflective of the anarchic era the flash era embodied) but the game captures something so unique regardless of missteps.

The infamous Nutshack show tried to capture the graffiti street art style in flash and failed miserably, despite having the advantage of a talented graffiti artist doing the storyboards. Johnny Rocketfingers 2 succeeds in all that Nutshack tried to be. Hardly nuanced, but fully tongue in cheek, its an offensive, vulgar game that is surprisingly colourful and edgy in its monochromatic format.

The fact that JRF has some actual balls is half the reason it did not catch the same hype as Awesome series or the more corporate-funder, youtube friendly stuff of other animators.

JRF is not exactly tasteful, but its a guilty pleasure of my childhood and the second game especially is gorgeously animated, tells a short but surprisingly good story, while being a true point and click adventure with some genuine hilarity throughout.

There are parts that aged terrible and will incite cringe, but its easy to forgive Ryan Khatam for daring to do this thing back in the day in the first place. So deeply unfortunate the third game is permanent development hell, seemingly, BUT - I am glad that Ryan Khatam has actual, steady work unlike a lot of his former peers on Newgrounds.

To the shock of some of you, Ryan Khatam has worked on everything from Metalocalypse to Spongebob.

He's also worked on a production (Baton) by Ryuhei Kitamura. Yes, Ryuhei. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Kitamura. The director of the Metal Gear Solid remake's cutscenes on Gamecube, Twin Snakes, as well as the director of Godzilla: Final Wars, Midnight Meat Train and the live action Lupin the 3rd movie.

Ryan also has worked on Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry's newest incarnations.

All of this makes Ryan infinitely cooler than half of his contemporaries from back in the day.

Thanks for giving us the collection on Steam, Ryan. I will never forgive you for how difficult figuring out how to get past the alligator/crocodile was back in the day however. I lost sleep and school days over that ♥♥♥♥.

Suppish/10

Johnny rocketfinger work is never done.

Another gem from the golden age of flash games. Games like these are why I love the internet.

I'm looking forward to the third game, hopefuly the author still works on it even tho the kickstarter failed.