Newgrounds - Kamen Rider Flash Belt

You saw a pixel-art depiction of a Rider belt (from the classic Typhoon belt of Ichigo to the card-scanning V-Buckle of Ryuki ) strapped to a generic hero sprite. The screen featured buttons, levers, or motion zones that you had to click or mouse-over in a specific sequence.

The Digital Henshin: How the "Kamen Rider Flash Belt" Became Newgrounds’ Most Unlikely Cult Classic kamen rider flash belt newgrounds

The Flash Belt never went viral in the mainstream sense. It peaked at #3 on Newgrounds’ “Weekly Top 5” in August 2006, nestled between a Super Mario Bros. parody involving diarrhea and a Dragon Ball Z stick figure fight. But for the tight-knit tokusatsu forum on Newgrounds, it was a rite of passage. You saw a pixel-art depiction of a Rider