It stopped working in Firefox a while back. Chrome had native support, so I used Chrome exclusively for Flash games.

Chrome dropped support for Flash yesterday. Doesn’t mean there will be no further maintenance updates or bug fixes. It means Chrome will never run Flash in the future under any circumstances, due to “security issues”.

Seems to me, a fellow ought to be allowed to take his own chances with “security issues”. There’s a big healthy baby getting thrown out with the bath water here.

Adobe Flash was the medium for millions of hours of human endeavor, effort which produced irreplaceable art. We’re talking about thousands of videogames, some of which were truly ground-breaking.

The N-Game, a physics platformer, was an artistic medium of its own. Hundreds of contributors turned in levels, many of which must have taken days to perfect, and could take days to make a successful escape.

Nitrome.com turned in hundreds of games. They maintained an unimaginable standard of quality in their product. Super high quality original art and music in every offering. Above all, Nitrome offered a bewildering array of original game concepts. Physics, geometry, logic, rhythm…Nitrome’s games were mind-bending and always something new.

There were hilarious ultra-violent cartoon games like Alien Hominid and Dad’n’Me. And then there were the easy time-wasters, like GoOgLeY’s Raiden X or Bum Lee’s De-animator.

All pretty much gone now. There’s a preservation project which uses an emulator called ruffle to play archived Flash content. Maybe their archive includes Nitrome games, which would be good. But it can’t simply archive the N-Game; there was a database of custom levels.

Google could have provided some kind of off-ramp, here. It wasn’t worth their time, I guess. They used to be the search engine of choice; now they’re making the internet disappear, chunk by chunk and person by person.