Although Flash Player left us at the end of 2020, a developer decides to save his Flash games by wearing them… on Game Boy!
Antony Lavelle, a game developer who cut his teeth on Flash, very attached to this tool and his work, decides to give his works an unexpected second breath by wearing them on Nintendo's antique portable console.
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Flashback
Often criticized since its release in 1996, Flash
Player was nonetheless the breeding ground for many devilishly addictive
little games during the 2000s. Sites like Absoluflash, Armor Games and
many others have greatly occupied schoolchildren, college students and
other students. whether we were, during or after school.
A time
now over, Adobe having definitively disconnected this good old plug-in
at the end of last December, causing with it the disappearance of an
incalculable number of indie games. But some developers of these
memorable games have not said their last word and want to give them a
second life.
This is particularly the case of Antony Lavelle, a
developer who does not hide his love for Flash Player because of its
simplicity and his some 70 creations on this tool. He therefore became
interested in a platform that could accommodate his most recognized
games and set his sights on… the Game Boy portable console.
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Indestructo Games
For his first port, Antony Lavelle decided to
make Indestructo Tank, one of his most famous games, compatible with the
Game Boy. The principle of this game, released in 2007, was to control
an indestructible tank and bounce off enemies to collect fuel.
If
the Game Boy is technically limited, Antony Lavelle has managed to make
this port as faithful as the original, less the diversity of colors. It
is therefore possible to download the game's ROM to install it on a
blank Game Boy cartridge or, ironically, on a Flash cartridge.
But
for those who do not have a Game Boy or the means to install the ROM,
it is also possible to play this port via browser emulation on the
itch.io page, cited as a source below. .
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Many other developers
have also followed a similar path in order to preserve these iconic
Flash games through emulation with projects such as the Flash Game
Archive site or Flashpoint. Nostalgia when you hold us…
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