That flash game archive that vanished overnight in 2018 still bugs me

I had a bookmark for a site called FlashMuseum that had every classic game from 2000-2005 archived with original loading screens. One day the domain went dead and the owner never reposted anywhere, lost about 150 games I used to play after school. Anyone else have a specific dead link they still check for every few months hoping it comes back?

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holly_craig2d ago

Did you ever try the Wayback Machine for FlashMuseum? I managed to grab a few of my old favorites from a site called FreeFlashArchive before it went down too, but most of the actual game files are just dead links now since Flash itself is phased out. Some of those indie devs back then didn't leave any contact info or backups anywhere, it's like they vanished into thin air once Flash got killed.

hayden_rodriguez23h ago

Tried the Wayback Machine on it back in 2019 and got maybe 20 working game files out of 150. Most of them just showed the old loading screen then froze on a white box because the Flash plugin was already borked on my browser. I still have a folder on my desktop called "nostalgia bait" with those broken .swf files and I click on them every few months hoping they'll magically load again.