{"slug": "flashpoint", "name": "Flashpoint", "category": "selfhosted", "category_name": "Self-hosted and home server", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 4.106, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2026-02-15", "latest": "2026-10-14", "why": "check out the Flashpoint Archive: https://flashpointarchive.org/ . It has practically every Flash game/animation that existed.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "check out the Flashpoint Archive: https://flashpointarchive.org/ . It has practically every Flash game/animation that existed.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "flashpointarchive.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://flashpointarchive.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Flashpoint", "Flashpoint Archive"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801445168, "item_id": 50090323, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090323", "by": "popcar2", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "check out the Flashpoint Archive: https://flashpointarchive.org/ . It has practically every Flash game/animation that existed.", "excerpt": "As the Binding of Isaac recompilation shows, the potential for Flash game remasters is pretty massive! But if you're looking to play abandoned Flash games in general, check out the Flashpoint Archive: https://flashpointarchive.org/ . It has practically every Flash game/animation that existed.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing abandoned Flash games", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"}, {"id": 769093616, "item_id": 48068351, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068351", "by": "Moomoomoo309", "date": "2026-05-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive.", "excerpt": "If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive. https://flashpointarchive.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "playing Flash games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cartoon Network Flash Games"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["playing abandoned flash games", "playing flash games"], "compared": [{"slug": "ruffle", "name": "Ruffle", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 752403440, "item_id": 47025215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025215", "by": "linolevan", "date": "2026-02-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a truly awesome community effort. Highly recommend joining the discord", "excerpt": "Contributed to this project many moons ago, it's a truly awesome community effort. Highly recommend joining the discord to see what they've been up to.", "context": "Contributed to the project", "use_case": "preserving web games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flashpoint Archive \u2013 Over 200k web games and animations preserved"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021354", "title": "Flashpoint Archive \u2013 Over 200k web games and animations preserved", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360", "title": "Cartoon Network Flash Games", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088534", "title": "AI is mass decompiling games. 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It has practically every Flash game/animation that existed.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing abandoned Flash games", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"}, {"id": 769164577, "item_id": 48072786, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072786", "by": "nyoronic", "date": "2026-05-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Some games won't work if you try to play them outside of Flashpoint", "excerpt": "There is a web version of Flashpoint called 9o3o on https://ooooooooo.ooo/browse. If you click a game and then open your browser devtools and search for \"data-game-zip\", you will find the link to the game files in that attribute. Download and extract it and go to town. Some games won't work if you try to play them outside of Flashpoint though: https://flashpointarchive.org/datahub/How_Flashpoint_Works", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cartoon Network Flash Games"}, {"id": 769093616, "item_id": 48068351, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068351", "by": "Moomoomoo309", "date": "2026-05-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive.", "excerpt": "If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive. https://flashpointarchive.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "playing Flash games", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cartoon Network Flash Games"}, {"id": 752416576, "item_id": 47026036, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026036", "by": "Jordan-117", "date": "2026-02-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, it's all user-curated:", "excerpt": "Yes, it's all user-curated: https://flashpointarchive.org/datahub/Curation_Tutorial", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flashpoint Archive \u2013 Over 200k web games and animations preserved"}, {"id": 752410320, "item_id": 47025645, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025645", "by": "danielhjacobs", "date": "2026-02-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "As a Ruffle developer who in my day job maintains some Flash-based websites, I'll note from experience that AMF serialization/deserialization in Ruffle has some definite issues, so that may be the issue for your games (the websites I maintain use https://metacpan.org/pod/AMF::Perl). See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues?q=is:issue+state:open+label:amf.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flashpoint Archive \u2013 Over 200k web games and animations preserved"}, {"id": 752373057, "item_id": 47023316, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023316", "by": "tetris11", "date": "2026-02-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I suspect this is why one of my most favourite games of that era, Attak by JohnnyTwoShoes[0], does not make it past the loading screen 0: https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/search/#8421aab1-183f-4845-87ca-16903d79cc9d", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flashpoint Archive \u2013 Over 200k web games and animations preserved"}]}