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As many of you will have heard, official support of Flash will end this year, and many Flash games will either disappear or pose a severe threat to your device. Recently I've heard about endeavours to preserve Flash games and to provide people opportunities to play them safely. This is what I could find out:

• BlueMaxima's Flashpoint. They have developed a software with which to play Flash games offline and supposedly securely, with access to a database with tens of thousands of games. I do find it suspicious that they ask Avast and AVG users to add an exception for their program, but recently I've read a favourable article about the project in the (German) Chip magazine. Also, they have their own Youtube channel. My own antivirus software says it's okay. You might want to check here whether they have already archived your favourite games, and if not, you can follow these steps to issue a request.
• The Internet Archive. A renowned source for pretty much everything. They also have a selection of Flash games, to be played online, but, again, without the risks of Flash. Downside is, I doubt they would react quickly enough to archiving requests.
• Ruffle. An emulator and like-named archiving (?) project. Please see this SMBX Forum thread for further details; I only came across it a few minutes ago and need to go offline soon.

See you next year

Personally, if I wanna play flash games, I just dig out a Windows XP virtual machine with an outdated browser and flash and that allows me to play it. Also, since it's a virtual machine, if you install malware by accident, no harm will be done to your computer.

Another option is to use an old computer and play your flash games on there. I don't think we need to do that much about it.

Flash games should ideally be updated to HTML5. It might not be perfect, but atleast the games won't disappear completely.

The only games i'm concerned about are Super Mario Flash and SM63; the former is largely outdated at this point (why use that when you can use SMBX), and currently there is an ongoing effort to create a remastered version of SM63 under the name of SM127 (which is also a downloadable application).

This has reminded me a lot of my past and that there were some games that I have never completed that are infact flash-games and some flash-games I love too much.

Man, I'll miss having that annoying pop-up that you usually get when a game is running on flash "Do you want to enable flash player?"

Well, I usually download Flash games and use them locally on a Flash projector. On Firefox at least, you can press Ctrl+S to download the entire webpage (including both HTML and assets) and use the search bar in your file manager to locate the SWF files. It's a pain, but it works.