Newgrounds is an American website headquartered in Glenside, Pennsylvania, United States and created in 1995 that primarily hosts Adobe Flash animated films and games, but also features a music oriented page. The site was created and is owned by Tom Fulp, who still oversees numerous aspects and regularly produces in-house and out-house content. Newgrounds is distinguished from most other Flash websites by its automated submission and rating system.[dubious – discuss] The home page of Newgrounds displays recent submissions chosen by administrators as a special showcase of their favorites.
On April 19, 2001 the first front page icon for a user-submitted Flash game was posted under the heading "Tom and Wade Recommend". The game that was posted was Taipan 3000 by Josh "Psycho Goldfish" Tuttle, a remake of a popular Apple II game called Taipan!.