With Flash being discontinued by the end of the year, over 38,000 Flash games have been archived so that they are available for offline play and historical purposes.
In a coordinated announcement by Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple, Adobe stated that by the end of 2020, Flash would no longer be distributed and all major browsers will remove support for it.
While the retirement of Flash is a good thing for security and the evolution of the web, many people have fond memories of playing Flash games in their free time.
Instead of seeing all of these games disappear along with Flash, BlueMaxima has archived over 38,000 (38,526 to be exact) Flash games and created software called Flashpoint to play them offline.
Flashpoint wants to keep Flash games alive
BlueMaxima has archived over 38,000 games and created a Flash game launched called Flashpoint that can play these games even Flash is no longer offered or supported by browsers.
Flashpoint is offered in two versions, an Ultimate version that is 288 GB extracted and contains every archived game or an Infinity version that contains just a 256 MB launcher that will download games as you play them.
Once installed, users can scroll through all the available games and double-click on the game to launch it in launched, the game will open in a bundled Adobe Flash Player client as seen below.
It should be noted that many of these games are copyrighted and have not given express permission to BlueMaxima to archive and offer them for offline play.
BlueMaxima, though, feels that the question of whether this software is legal or not is not as important as preserving them for historical reasons.
"The only real answer is nobody knows and really, nobody should care. Games that more or less have a ticking clock until they die need to be saved now, as fast as possible," BlueMaxima's extended FAQ explains.
For those companies who do not wish their games to be included in Flashpoint, they can contact BlueMaxima to request their game be removed from their archives and software.
H/T Kotaku
Comments
GT500 - 4 years ago
"...by the end of 2020, Flash would no longer be distributed and all major browsers will remove support for it."
That just made my day.
TheRealNivas - 3 years ago
I'd started to miss flash games. Good old times. Thank you so much. I owe you a lot. I didnt expect you would provide 38.5k games for FREE. God bless you all.