Flash Gaming and Resource Page

Ways of getting Flash games to work

• Flashpoint Infinity
  Best for finding and playing old games.
  • Flashpoint is a massive collection of archived games and animations across Flash, PopCap, Java, Unity, and several other plugin-based platforms.
  • This is definitely the easiest option if you don't want to jump through any hoops. Just grab Infinity, extract it into a new folder, and run the Start Flashpoint shortcut. Then you can browse around or search for the game you'd like to play. All the the projectors and stuff you need to get going are built right in.
• A Flash-enabled browser
  Best for Flash websites and embedded content.
  • Use this for sites that require Flash, like Sploder and Neopets' classic gamesroom.
  • You can find a portable copy of Basilisk preloaded with the Flash plugin on archive.org.
    • The Flash plugin included has had the Adobe timebomb patched out so it will not refuse to run.
    • You do not need to install the browser, or Flash, for it to work.
    • (Basilisk is forked off of Firefox and maintained by the same people behind Pale Moon. This copy is not affiliated with them and was uploaded by maichiu for the convenience of others.)
  • Chrome/Vivaldi/Edge users!
    See my note on Ruffle below.
• A Flash projector
  Best for offline content.
  • Works for SWFs, available for many different versions of Flash.
  • Use this if you have a specific SWF you would like to play natively.
  • You can still find projectors in the debug downloads from Adobe's website.
  • Flashpoint includes these.
• Contemporary emulation
  Best for webmasters and users of modern browsers.
  • These will not run as smoothly as native Flash.
  • Ruffle: WebAssembly based, built in the Rust language.
    • You can use your own SWF on the demo page.
    • Try it on the Sonic Blox Newgrounds page.
    • New: Ruffle has an extension for Chrome-based browsers, and if you need to get Flash content working on one of those specifically, or on a Chromebook, I recommend that.
    • Neopets score submissions and Sploder games do not currently work with this method.
• Newgrounds Player/Habboon Desktop App
  • These sites have devised their own solutions, and with either a form of emulation like Ruffle or a built-in projector.

Flash games I have enjoyed

This is not at all an exhaustive list; in fact, it's a little out of date.

Sonic Blox

This is one of those games I played a lot through the Arcade mod for Simple Machines Forum, a PHP script that pretty much got me into web stuff as a kid. (I used to make many web forums no one but mayhaps a couple schoolfriends joined.)

It is a Sonic-themed Tetris clone. There is no holding, but a 2x2 ▟ _| shaped tetromino is added, Dr. Robotnik floats around on occasion to break one of your blocks (which sometimes hurts, sometimes helps) and combos trigger Sonic, Tails or Knuckles to drop down and break blocks, while allowing you to control direction to an extent and each having their own kinda gimmick (Knuckles falls through them, Sonic jumps between blocks, Tails, idk, floats). It adds some nice flavor to it.

Dune Buggy and Snow Line

I'm dropping both here in the same recommendation because they're basically my childhood Miniclip games aside from the well-known Papa's -eria series of games (which are themselves quite excellent). Both of these titles were developed by IriySoft.

William and Sly

This was one of Caby's recommendations a while back. It's a pretty game with fluid animation and pleasant music.

Block Miner

This is a bit of a funny case. Block Miner was a 2D Minecraft "clone" of sorts, also sort of like Everybody Edits in the sense you can create a world, mine blocks and build things with other people. I thought I was the only one who remembered it, but just recently a private server for the game called Miner Moles came about as people got tired of waiting for the new owner who bought the domain and original assets to bring the game back someway. It uses the original client swf with patches and quality of life improvements played in a Flash projector. Miner Moles is now offline.