The Internet Archive Will Preserve Flash Games and Animations

Nov. 20, 2020

The Internet Archive has said that it will be preserving Flash animations and games on the Wayback Machine. The announcement comes just ahead of the planned demise of Flash at the end of this year, after which you will no longer see Flash content on the web.

On the Wayback Machine however, Flash animations and games will continue to live on, as do so many web pages and websites that don’t exist anymore. There are already over a 1,000 games and animations that have been saved by the Internet Archive. These include some of the most popular Flash games like ‘All Your Base Are Belong to Us’. Plus, the Internet Archive will emulate Flash player so you can actually view/ play Flash content.

The fact that Flash has survived this long is a feat in and of itself. And now it will live on in the archives of the Wayback Machine.

You can check out Internet Archive’s collection of Flash games and animationshere.