New program Flashpoint has rescued 36,000 Flash games from internet oblivion. Image via Medium.
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Flashpoint program makes 36,000 Flash games playable again

With Adobe's announcement in 2017 that support for its Flash platform will be phased out in 2020, tens of thousands of online games based on Flash, an extremely popular platform in the 2000s, risked being lost, but a newly released program called Flashpoint, developed by BlueMaxima, has made 36,000 Flash games available to users to download and play for free.

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Mon Feb 03 - PCGamer

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