★ RIP ADOBE FLASH PLAYER ★ 1996–2020 ★ you raised a generation ★ madness combat ★ age of war ★ learn to fly ★ boxhead ★ line rider ★ FLASHPOINT ARCHIVE saved them all ★ pour one out ★
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flash memories

1996 — 2020 // rip to a real one
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adobe flash player — 1996 to january 12, 2020
flash shaped an entire generation of internet culture. games made in bedrooms. animations made for fun. none of it corporate. most of it insane. all of it beautiful.
the flashpoint archive has preserved 100,000+ flash games and animations. they live on.
end of life: december 31, 2020

the classics

// games that raised us
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Madness Combat
2002–2011 · newgrounds
stick figure violence as an art form. incredible sequels. still going somehow.
✓ preserved
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Line Rider
2006
draw a slope. a little guy rides it. simple premise. infinite depth. youtube had thousands of videos.
✓ preserved
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Learn to Fly
2009
a penguin tries to fly. you upgrade him. you feel proud. you feel things for a penguin.
✓ preserved
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Age of War
2007
start in the stone age. evolve while fighting. this game lives in my bones.
✓ preserved
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Boxhead: Zombies
2007
top down zombie shooter. the barricade building. the devil power-up. i knew every map.
✓ preserved
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Grow Games (Eyezmaze)
2002–2010
click things in the right order to make a world grow. made by one japanese developer. gorgeous.
partially lost
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Fancy Pants Adventure
2006
the smoothest flash platformer ever made. the hair physics. the speed. perfection.
✓ preserved
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Bloons Tower Defense
2007
pop balloons with monkeys. this series is still going somehow. flash to steam pipeline.
✓ survived
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Newgrounds Rumble
2008
smash bros but with newgrounds characters. pico. tankman. lock. an actual good flash fighter.
✓ preserved
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Escape the Room
2004–2010
a whole genre born on flash. click everything. combine items. use a weird key on a weird lock. peak.
many lost
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Fishy
2002
eat fish smaller than you. avoid fish bigger than you. one of the first flash games i ever played.
✓ preserved
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Desktop Tower Defense
2007
the maze-building tower defense. the genre before it was a genre. so many school hours.
✓ preserved

personal flashbacks

// actual things i remember
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school computer lab, 2008
we had 30 minutes of "free time" on the school computers on fridays. every single person immediately went to addictinggames.com. the teacher pretended not to notice. this was an unspoken agreement that shaped my entire personality.
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dial-up + flash = a different relationship with time
waiting 4 minutes for a flash game to buffer was completely normal. you'd stare at the loading bar. you felt invested before the game even started. this created a different kind of patience. i miss it a little.
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december 31, 2020
i remember finding out flash was ending and going back to play games i hadn't thought about in 10 years. it felt like saying goodbye. it kind of was. the flashpoint people saved most of it but the moment of sitting in your childhood room playing flash was gone. that version of the internet was gone.