Preservation effort for Flash games (flashpoint)

[FBnil]

Adobe is killing Flash at the end of 2020, but Flash games are an important part of internet history. Thankfully, a community project called Flashpoint is stepping up to save them. Here’s how you can keep playing all your favorites for the foreseeable future.

The article:

How to Play Old Flash Games in 2020, and Beyond

Adobe is killing Flash at the end of 2020, but Flash games are an important part of internet history. Thankfully, a community project called Flashpoint is stepping up to save them. Here’s how you can keep playing all your favorites for the foreseeable future.

www.howtogeek.com

The website:

Flashpoint Archive

A community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

bluemaxima.org

 

[PowerGod]

There was this discussion time ago

Flashpoint; flash game preservation project.

I haven't seen this mentioned here yet so... I believe this is from our very own @BlueMaxima and it's a pretty darn cool way to play Flash games, over 10,000 so far. I've been using the Infinity version on Linux which allows you to only download games when you want to play them, if you want the...

pyra-handheld.com

 

[levi]

FWIW, it occurred to me that if flash games are in danger of being lost, then shockwave player games are even more likely to go, but it seems that at least some of those are playable in dosbox.