Disappointed that Nitrome games were/are going to removed at request of the publisher/webhost

This looks great but how easy is it to search through it all?

Another source of old early internet that might get lost is the old java applet games and science demos.

Does it need to be online to work?

As far as I know, no. What it does (and just going from documentation), it creates a dummy server as part of your file system. Then it runs the games using its emulator, and any requests are redirected to that dummy server, which then streams the files back as if it was coming from the internet.
Now if you download the small one, you have to download the games within the tool individually - so internet required to download. If you get the full package its all there and should not need internet.
My biggest concern is whether its safe, as flash is not in any sense. But if its encapsulated by the app, and not connecting outside then should be ok.

Nice! Thanks for the notification!

Yes, that's it.

Thanks.

I just looked into this and they the game I want but 241gb...I just might do it but I'm gonna need another backup drive after this.

Wait, I'm gonna try the infinity download first for sure but I've already bookmarked this website. What a find, indeed. Thank you for this amazing post.

I downloaded the full version last year after learning about it on Reddit. It's totally legit and works flawlessly. Naturally there are tons of crap games, but there's also a lot of gems to be found. There are also pornographic games included, but they can easily be filtered out. You're also able to save favorite games, and I spent quite a few enjoyable hours exploring and making my own list. It's a real contribution to video game history.

The homepage reports issues with a couple of antivirus programs where you have to include an exception. Also my Avira Antivirus went beserk when I started uncompressing the big ass file.

Are others having these same issues, and did you just disable your antivirus or what? Damn Avira doesn't let the user deactivate it but for some 15 minutes or so, then it activates itself again.

I'd like to try this on Linux instead (no antivirus) but apparently not all of the included games work in Linux.

Doesn't your AV let you add file or folder exceptions?

I know the ones I have always dealt with do, and I would be ditching any that didn't.

Sometimes you need to specify just the folder path or maybe add an asterisk

C:\Games\Flash
or
C:\Games\Flash\*

Something like one of those.

P.S. The asterisk may be needed to include sub-folders.


The way things are going right now, we might be stuck home with plenty of time to play games, so this collection could come in handy for a light distraction at least.

In all possibility, we might see the prices come down of movies, ebooks and other distractions, plus games of course. It would be one of the few good things to come out of this virus, if that did happen.

We need something to stop us all going stir crazy looking at the walls or going for a walk in your garden ... if you have one.

I must of been a sheltered child because when i think of flash I genuinely wonder how it'd amount to over 230gb of data.
Java maybe, but flash wtf?!?

It’s simple maths though, 38000 games, plus x amount of animations, even if they are only a few meg each it soon adds up.

Thanks for sharing.

Are you saying it can run those 38,000 flash games?

I guess, but not sure what exactly I should be adding as the virus scanner jumps on my throat already while uncompressing that big ass archive, and quarantines the file without asking.

Same as at my earlier workplace, Microsoft's antivirus kept deleting and removing certain piece of java thingie that I needed for my work, even though the admins said they had added an exception for it.

Sometimes I hate these virus scanners, but I guess they need to be super-vigilant because malware is that too.

Well, you can certainly add an exception into the MS AV. Certainly with admin powers.

You have to be aware that location is important, and version of the file. If either change, the exception may no longer work.

In the case of a file, I would add its full path as an exception, as well as the path of the folder it sits in.

I am guessing you know how to restore from Quarantine, which you probably best do after the exception is made.