What happened to the Pokemon flash games?

AshleyGamer1995 · November 19

The Pokemon flash games were those nice minigames as little extras once included in the early versions of the official PKMN website, ones like Pokemon Pulse (with the Kalos Starters), Eevee's Tile Trial, Raichu's Bolt Deflector, Psyduck's Shuffle Surprise, Chatot's Chime-Time Challenge, etc.

They were good games, and I enjoyed them. They even let you earn Trainer tokens and set personal all-time best scores for your Trainer Club account. But for some reason, all those flash games got removed so they can no longer be played on the official site itself, nor get tokens or set for high scores anymore. I think this last occurred back in 2016-2018, one of those years. But I wonder, why were they removed anyway? =/

DoubleCure · November 19

Adobe officially killed Flash player on December 31, 2020. All major browsers too removed Flash support either at the same time or in early 2021. With Flash support ending, other websites that offer Flash-based content like games and animations had no choice but to remove them too.

There are ways you can still continue to play some of those kind of games (many websites workaround it) but it's a old technology/concept… since virtually everyone in developed world has a smart phone the mobile apps/games are the "new" thing.