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Flashpoint, the flash game archival project, hits version five with a new Linux-supported client

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  1. [5]
    Silbern
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    So glad people are archiving and backing up these old flash games. Some games I used to play when I was a kid, like the Redline Rumble series, the Real Space series (except for 2), or Quantum...

    So glad people are archiving and backing up these old flash games. Some games I used to play when I was a kid, like the Redline Rumble series, the Real Space series (except for 2), or Quantum Wars, are either no longer available, or the plugin needed to play them is no longer available / no longer works :(

    EDIT: Okay, holy shit, I checked out the games. They have both versions of realspace, that's pretty cool! They've also got almost any game I can think of so far. The Field Commander series, many of the Cartoon Network games, the Popcap demos, the Fancy Pants adventure series, at least some of the Stickman Henry games, the Momentum series, PP Megaville, Cake Mania, Radical Aces, Motherload, Little Wheel, damn near anything I can think of, ranging from famous to obscure, is in here. There are some games I can think of that aren't in here, including the afformonted Redline Rumble games (RIP), but this is easily hands down the most impressive collection of Flash games I have ever seen. Thank you so much OP for submitting this today, this fuffills a decade old desire of mine :)

    8 votes
    1. [3]
      BlueMaxima
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      Just for you.
      • Exemplary
      11 votes
      1. [2]
        Silbern
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        Dude, that's awesome, thank you so much! Unfortunately, it doesn't show up in my library for some reason, even the exact same terms just come up empty. Is there an updating mechanism I need to do...

        Dude, that's awesome, thank you so much! Unfortunately, it doesn't show up in my library for some reason, even the exact same terms just come up empty. Is there an updating mechanism I need to do to refresh the contents of the library? But I really appreciate even just seeing that it's preserved, knowing that it won't be lost to history :D

        1. BlueMaxima
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          You'll have to update to the next version when we put it out, there's no intermediary updates.

          You'll have to update to the next version when we put it out, there's no intermediary updates.

          2 votes
    2. 666
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      In case you are interested a new Fancy Pants Adventures was released on Steam some time ago, you can find it here.

      In case you are interested a new Fancy Pants Adventures was released on Steam some time ago, you can find it here.

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  2. talklittle
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    Interesting reading how it works in the readme. Basically for the actual running of the game it delegates to the Flash player or browser. The main value-add of the Flashpoint software seems to be...

    Interesting reading how it works in the readme. Basically for the actual running of the game it delegates to the Flash player or browser. The main value-add of the Flashpoint software seems to be the proxy it installs to defeat the "sitelocks" i.e. DRM used in many of the games. Not to mention the downloadable repository of all the game data.

    5 votes
  3. IncreaseTheDosage
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    These games and sites like z0r.de and ytmnd.com are why I really miss Flash. A part of Internet culture died with it.

    These games and sites like z0r.de and ytmnd.com are why I really miss Flash. A part of Internet culture died with it.

    4 votes
  4. 666
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    I'm happy to see my favorite flash game made it to the list, too bad its multiplayer component won't survive. In case anyone wants to see the full list of games or search for their favorite games,...

    I'm happy to see my favorite flash game made it to the list, too bad its multiplayer component won't survive.

    In case anyone wants to see the full list of games or search for their favorite games, here it is.

    1 vote