How to play Flash games after Adobe ‘killed’ them forever in 2020 – Times of India

Wondering where this leaves some of the popular Flash games that you have grown up playing? Worry not, here are ways that you can use to still continue to play these games

Online method: Internet Archives website

Internet Archives website is new home for Flash content as the website has started collecting Flash games, apps and animations. Those interested can use/play them through emulation.

To play Flash games, users simply need to visit the ‘https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash’, click on the game they want to play and just get going.

Offline method: BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint

Another useful option is BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint software. It is a web-games preservation project started in January 2018. Its database has now grown to over 70,000 games and around 8,000 animations from 20 different platforms including Flash.
Flashpoint comes in two versions — Flashpoint Ultimate 9.0 and Flashpoint Infinity 9.0. The Ultimate version weighs 478GB as download that grows to 532GB when extracted, while the Infinity version is way lighter at 500MB download size and expands to 2GB after installation.
Users can download the software from: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads. Once installed on their system, they can play all Flash games from the Flashpoint database offline.

Adobe officially killed Flash player on December 31, 2020. All major browsers too removed Flash support either at the same time or in early 2021. With Flash support ending, other websites that offer Flash-based content like games and animations have no choice but to remove them too.Wondering where this leaves some of the popular Flash games that you have grown up playing? Worry not, here are ways that you can use to still continue to play these gamesInternet Archives website is new home for Flash content as the website has started collecting Flash games, apps and animations. Those interested can use/play them through emulation.To play Flash games, users simply need to visit the ‘https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash’, click on the game they want to play and just get going.Another useful option is BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint software. It is a web-games preservation project started in January 2018. Its database has now grown to over 70,000 games and around 8,000 animations from 20 different platforms including Flash.Flashpoint comes in two versions — Flashpoint Ultimate 9.0 and Flashpoint Infinity 9.0. The Ultimate version weighs 478GB as download that grows to 532GB when extracted, while the Infinity version is way lighter at 500MB download size and expands to 2GB after installation.Users can download the software from: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads. Once installed on their system, they can play all Flash games from the Flashpoint database offline.