{"id":740,"date":"2021-05-05T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmr.dev\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2022-08-08T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:25:08","slug":"windows-is-getting-rid-of-flash-player-for-good-but-flashs-gaming-legacy-lives-on-through-flashpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/windows-is-getting-rid-of-flash-player-for-good-but-flashs-gaming-legacy-lives-on-through-flashpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashpoint – Play old nostalgic flash games without Flash Player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This project has been in the works for a while now but it’s only just now kinda reached a good point that I would feel comfortable recommending it to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Adobe ended support for Flash in 2020<\/a>, not a lot of people have missed it. However, a lot of Gen Z\/Millennials grew up with Flash games as part of their childhood or have a fair bit of nostalgia around certain animations or videos. Newgrounds<\/a>, StickPage<\/a>, Armor Games<\/a>, Kongregate<\/a>, and probably many more Flash portals have been rendered virtually useless, and hardly anyone plays browser games regularly anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ever get that itch of nostalgia or feel like watching some of the old classics that once made the internet great, check out BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint<\/a>! It’s a great project that aims to restore and archive great Flash content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You do not need Flash Player to use it.<\/strong> That’s the whole point. You download the lightweight .exe from here<\/a>, and simply look through a nice game list with a simple “PLAY” launch option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flashpoint Infinity is the one you want!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Double click this file once downloaded and run!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once you launch it, you’ll be greeted with this nice user interface:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a very respectable project and I highly commend them on their technological work and exhaustive manual labor of collecting all of these files\/external resources and even custom-hacking some of the games to make them run as originally intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I highly recommend you check it out if you have time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, also, they archived Concussion. \ud83d\ude0b<\/p>\n

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This project has been in the works for a while now but it’s only just now kinda reached a good point that I would feel comfortable recommending it to others. Since Adobe ended support for Flash in 2020, not a lot of people have missed it. However, a lot of Gen Z\/Millennials grew up with … Continue reading Flashpoint – Play old nostalgic flash games without Flash Player<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[874,875,872,873,877,871,876],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-actionscript","tag-adobe","tag-as2","tag-as3","tag-concussion","tag-flash","tag-flashpoint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}