Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It
Perhaps worse than the death of Flash was the death of Shockwave.  I feel like so many Shockwave games I played back in the day are completely gone with no reference to them on the modern internet.  Today, you can install some version of Flash on most operating systems, but I don't think there's any modern standalone Shockwave player and I could only get the plugin to work in Safari on macOS.  Chrome and Firefox don't even run those types of plugins anymore.There's one particular Shockwave game that I was recently able to recover from the depths of the Wayback Machine, which was a game from Disney for the Inspector Gadget movie; terrible film, but their website had this nifty little game that wasn't necessarily difficult but was addicting in that I wanted to see just how far I could go with it.  For years I thought it was gone for good, and was glad to finally see it again after I lost it 15+ years ago.Here it is in all its 1999 glory:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031017000018/http://www.disney...I always liked it in part because I don't think I've seen a similar game.  It's kind of like if you took the random shapes part of Tetris and added a "jigsaw puzzle" element.