Breaking the Bank 1.0

Warning: You need to have a program capable of running an SWF file to play this game. You can click here to find one such program right here on our website.

The first Flash games were incredibly experimental, creating a surprising amount of unique ideas despite their incredibly limited budget and dev team. Some of those Flash games had ideas strong enough to stand tall on their own. One of them was the Henry Stickmin series. Let's take a look at Breaking the Bank, which is the first entry in this now fan-favorite series.

To play Breaking the Bank, just run it with whatever SWF player you have.

The game itself is very simple. You simply pick one of six options to try to break into the bank. Once you do, an animation will play, portraying exactly what happens to your character during his attempt. However, you'll find that five of the six will result in failures. That's where the fun of the game is, however. Seeing the animations for each failure is generally where most of the game's entertainment comes from. These animations show many facets of the main character's personality that you simply won't get to see if you just rush for success.

There is a canon ending, of course, and it actually leads directly into the next installment of the series. If that sounds entertaining at all, then you should give Breaking the Bank a try for sure. It feels like a relic of its time occasionally, but it's entertaining the whole way through.