The Internet Archive Will Preserve Flash Games and Animations

The Internet Annal has said that information technology volition be preserving Wink animations and games on the Wayback Machine. The proclamation comes merely ahead of the planned demise of Wink at the terminate of this year, after which you volition no longer meet Flash content on the web.

On the Wayback Auto however, Flash animations and games volition continue to live on, as do so many web pages and websites that don't exist anymore. In that location are already over a 1,000 games and animations that have been saved by the Net Archive. These include some of the most popular Flash games similar 'All Your Base Are Belong to Us'. Plus, the Internet Archive volition emulate Flash player so y'all can actually view/ play Wink content.

That said, the emulator (called Ruffle) is apparently not compatible with Wink content created later on 2013. That may be stock-still in the future, or it may non, but it'south still a good step to preserving a major era of the internet. Apart from The Net Archive, game publisher Kongregate has too appear that it will host Flash games on its website, at to the lowest degree for the forseeable futurity.

For the unaware, Adobe announced the finish of life for Flash dorsum in 2017. Even so, companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft have been phasing Flash out for years. Flash support was removed from iOS back in 2010, and popular browsers similar Chrome, Edge, and Safari all started using HTML5 every bit the default soon subsequently.

The fact that Flash has survived this long is a feat in and of itself. And at present information technology will live on in the athenaeum of the Wayback Machine.

You lot tin can bank check out Net Annal's collection of Flash games and animations here.