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Shockwave.com, or Shockwave, is an online and offline video games distributor and game portal. It is owned by Shockwave LLC, based in Los Angeles, California , United States . [ 3 ] It was launched by Macromedia on August 2, 1999, to promote the company's Shockwave and Flash players, both used on the website.
Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave and MacroMind Shockwave) is a discontinued multimedia platform for building interactive multimedia applications and video games. Developers originate content using Adobe Director and publish it on the Internet.
Shockwave 8.5 Added support for Intel's 3D technologies including rendering. Shockwave 9 Shockwave 10 Last version to support Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, and Mac OS 9. Shockwave 11 Added support for Intel-based Macs. Shockwave 12 Shockwave 12.1 It is supported by 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8.
The website featured interactive music videos, puzzles, games, and animated cartoons. [32] In May 1999, Macromedia launched Shockwave.com to promote the capabilities of Flash and Shockwave. It featured music, comics, and games, supported offline downloads, and even offered a premium version called Shockmachine. [33]
The ROMs of the game and its sequel were formerly offered by the owner Randel Reiss for free download. In 2021, however, the rights to both games were purchased by Piko Interactive, leding the download links for the ROMs to disappear from Technopop's website [121], but they are still available for free download on Zophar's Domain.
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The game itself was moderately successful, and reached the top-ten of the charts in most major casual game charts, but failed to attain the top position in any of them. [1] [2] It only reached the top of the iWin.com's Top 100 Games and Shockwave.com's Top Download Games chart. [7]
Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Lingo, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com. Director published DCR files that were played using the Adobe Shockwave Player , in addition to compiling native executables for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X .