Welcome to Luckyshoe Racetrack! Here’s where horses test their skill in three categories: dressage, jumping, and traditional racing. You can enter your horse in the competition and potentially win a trophy!
All the horses are raring and ready to perform their very best. May the best rider win!
Almost everyone who played Bella Sara remembers the minigames. There was a jumping game, which was a pretty standard endless runner where you jumped over obstacles and collected gems, as well as the lance game... which was by far the most frustrating game on the site. But there were others, like the match-3 Citrustacked, Bubble Wand, and the firework game and more. The minigames are one of the best-remembered aspects of the website, and particularly emblematic of the kind of content that was this era of the internet's lifeblood as well as its downfall. All the magic of these virtual world games was wholly reliant on Flash.
I honestly think a lot about what it would have been like if Flash was never discontinued; what would our internet be like if these creative gameplay ideas had been iterated on and expanded? If tools like Flash hadn’t been taken too soon? Even nowadays with tools like HTML5 (which I would love to eventually learn... Adding more interactive elements to my website has always been the dream!) the internet isn’t nearly as bustling with life, or non-social entertainment, as it used to be.
Very few of the original games have been archived, but there is currently an effort to recreate, archive and get the old games running in browser. Thanks to tools like Ruffle and Flashpoint we can still enjoy the long-lost parts of the internet. This is due to the hard work of online communities, archivists and enthusiasts, and I want to extend a thank you to everyone who's kept the spirit of these older games alive. It is this that helps the internet stay fun when profit-motivated companies fail us.
Below is a small collection of rehosted games I remember playing on these websites.
Bella Sara Digital Archive (Fanmade rehost)
Bella Sara - Cloud Jumper (Flashpoint)
Bella Sara - Treasure's Hunt (Flashpoint)
Horseland - Messenger Girl (Flashpoint,
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Horseland - Appleloosa (Flashpoint)