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By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Adobe is killing Flash at the end of , but Flash games are an important part of internet history. Thankfully, a community project called Flashpoint is stepping up to save them. Open source technology is often held to a higher level of scrutiny. Anyone can look at source code and probe for exploits or implement the technology in their own projects. Plugins, like Flash, the long-dead Silverlight, and the infamous Java browser plugin, operate under a closed source development model.

They are were maintained by a single entity that seeded all updates and fixes. In the latter half of the last decade, Flash developed a rocky reputation for its rampant security flaws, many of which were zero-day exploits that put people at serious risk. Apple led the charge by making Flash a thing of the past. The company decided not to include support for Flash on the iPhone which forced a change that was long overdue.

Google forced people using Chrome to run Flash in a sandbox and, later, blocked it entirely, refusing to index pages with Flash content.

In , very few websites still use Flash. What does this mean for the tons of animations and interactive games that made the internet so much fun at the turn of the millennium? Flashpoint provides everything you need to play classic web games.

It has a library of around 38, web games and 2, animations. Experimental Mac and Linux builds might not include support for the full catalog, though. During testing, we noticed the Mac version currently supports just over 30, games.

Ultimate is the exhaustive package. It includes the full archive of Flash content and requires around GB of disk space to install.

Infinity allows you to download games on-demand as you play them and requires only around MB of free space. To get started, download Flashpoint for Windows or grab the experimental Mac or Linux ports. Start the Flashpoint launcher and peruse the catalog. When you find something you want to try, double-click it and wait for Flashpoint to spring into action.

On the Mac version we used, it took a while for the game to launch. The project is comprised of three main components: a web server, redirector, and launcher. This is necessary because Flash SWF files can be picky.

Flashpoint is ultimately a preservation project. Much of the technology on which these games rely has to be emulated and hosted locally. BlueMaxima is just as concerned about preserving content as it is with developing the underlying technology. The Flashpoint project is primarily concerned with preservation.

Since the games have been salvaged from across the web including original source websites, the Internet Archive, and user-contributed files , the legality of all this becomes somewhat of a gray area. The Flashpoint FAQ invites any content creators who want their games pulled from the archive to contact them. So, are you breaking any laws? The company spent the last three years working with other tech firms like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google to make the transition as smooth as possible.

And with less than a year left, most never will. Flashpoint uses open-source tech to allow folks to download and play a large list of games and animations. Which is great. Flash games might seem like silly and weird mini-games today, but a decade ago they probably made up half of the games I played. Monkey GO Happy 4 Flash. Papa's Freezeria Flash. Pac-Xon Deluxe Flash. Just Type This Flash. Farmerama HTML5. Bloxors Flash.

Achilles Flash. Create a Gun V2 Flash. Doctor Slacking Flash. Shopaholic : New York Flash. Electricman 2 HS Flash. City Siege 3: Jungle Siege Flash. Party Hard Flash. School Girl Knee Surgery Flash. Relationship Revenge Flash. Garfield 2 Flash. Dark Cut Flash. Little Girl Makeover Flash. Hobo Prison Brawl Flash. Black Knight Flash. Swords and Sandals 2 Flash. We use cookies for content recommendations, traffic measurement, and personalized ads.