Lacey Games is one of the most disturbing franchises we've ever covered.

This is normally where I put in a joke or a light-hearted comment, but today is not the day for that.

What initially appears as a bright and colourful set of flash games for young girls quickly reveals a dark story of trauma along with the very sad and very real issues that can cause it.

This theory is not for the faint of heart, but if you are willing to keep going, there's a fascinating story waiting for you. You have been warned. I'm going to Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that really misses good old-fashioned flash games.

Nothing can scratch that nostalgic itch quite like going back through new grounds and

finding that game you used to play almost 20 years ago.

But clearly I'm not the only one feeling nostalgic for this era of gaming

because recently a new YouTube series has popped up from the YouTube a ghost tundra about

an old Flash series that no one has heard of, Lacey Games. The reason no one has heard of it?

Well, because it never really existed. Yeah, this is a PetScop situation where we follow the let's

plays of a user as they document an old series of Flash games from their childhood.

Except these aren't real games.

Despite what you may have seen YouTube is playing online, the only true versions that exist

are on Ghost Tundra's channel as part of this series.

Why are we talking about a YouTube series here on game theory

rather than film theory?

Maybe if Lee wasn't so busy stealing my stuff,

then I wouldn't have to steal this from him. Oh, what's that?

I couldn't hear you over all these great video game movies.

This series is also about games, whether they're real or not, so it does feel like it fits here on game theory.

Though, as you can probably guess, not all is as it seems.

Initially, it's just a series of simulator games that would belong on any Flash website,

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