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Before flash came to dominate browser games, there where Applets. The tooling wasn't there in the same way it was for flash, so it wasn't the same explosion of
by EamonnMR 6y ago
Before flash came to dominate browser games, there where Applets. The tooling wasn't there in the same way it was for flash, so it wasn't the same explosion of creativity. But there was some fun stuff out there, arcade clones, etc. I did a writeup of how to go and relive some of that fun: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2020/03/playing-a-90s-web-game-in-the-20s/ http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2020/03/playing-a-90s-web-game-in-t...
- aimor 6y agoThanks for this writeup. I remember fondly a handful of applet games. Most vivid was Urbanoids, another one of Karl Hornell's applets: http://www.javaonthebrain.com/java/warp15/ http://www.javaonthebrain.com/java/warp15/ There was a fun collection at the Applet Arcade: https://web.archive.org/web/20020604024000/http://theshadowlands.net/arcade.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20020604024000/http://theshadowl...