The web was full of experiences like this-most of which have now been lost to time. Yes, Nintendo created browser games in partnership with Life Savers candy. The above YouTube video shows an officially licensed For example, was owned by Nabisco, the company behind Life Savers, and featured a variety of browser games that used Shockwave. Macromedia introduced features targeted at the video game industry in 2001, and there’s a good chance you played a Shockwave game in your browser in the years after that. The Shockwave Player plugin was released in 1995 to bring those features to the burgeoning web. CD-ROMs featuring point-and-click adventures and educational experiences created with Shockwave were popular in the early 90s and were created by Macromedia Director.
Shockwave’s pedigree goes back further, all the way to VideoWorks for the original Apple Macintosh. But the two products have different histories. Shockwave has become largely irrelevant as Flash gained more and more of its abilities over the years. Shockwave content is played by the “Shockwave Player” plugin, while Flash content is played by the “Flash Player” plugin. Each is a multimedia software platform with a web browser plugin. Adobe plans to discontinue Flash by the end of 2020.īoth Shockwave and Flash were developed by Macromedia, a company Adobe acquired back in 2005. Luckily, the web has moved on from Shockwave, so Shockwave is something you’ll only see when browsing web pages from more than a decade ago.įlash is still around for a while yet. If you find an old website hosting Shockwave content, it isn’t playable with any officially supported software.
#Old shockwave player for mac for mac
The Shockwave Player for Mac was discontinued back in 2017. You can no longer download the Shockwave Player for Windows from Adobe, although enterprise customers with support contracts can use it for a few more years.
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