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The 90s Vault
In the late '90s I was part of the New Media "Lab" at Ackerman McQueen, building Shockwave and Flash games when a game in a browser was a small miracle. The plugins died; the work didn't. These are the original binaries, recovered from the Wayback Machine — running again through WebAssembly emulation, alongside the few other things worth keeping. The black-and-white site lives at /90s-web-ackerman-mcqueen.
The games
Played in place through dirplayer (Shockwave/Director) and Ruffle (Flash). Emulation of 25-year-old plugins is imperfect — every card also serves the untouched original file.
Virtual Boomerang
Ride the coaster with real mouse physics — pull down-left, push up-right; speed is power, stroke is lift, release angle is curve.
Darien Lake '97
The park's 1997 Shockwave attraction, from the site root — one of the earliest pieces in the archive.
Virtual Bowling
The online bowling game that ran a $500 monthly prize with live hi-score posting — the 2003 boards still showed real perfect 300s.
Attitude Arena
"The hottest arcade game on the net," per the 1998 Brunswick homepage. This is the full Shockwave game, recovered whole from adveract.com — behind its original preloader. The 1998 Flash v1 teaser survives too.
Zone Pilot found
Presumed lost — only the 5 KB loader was thought to survive. The whole game was archived at brunswickids.com: pilot a bowling ball, dodge the Cola Spill, e-Club splash intact. Plays start to finish.
Alien Maze
The sixflags.com arcade's maze game, complete in one file — high-score email gate, easy-to-hard slider, neon walls and all. Enter as "anonymous" and go.
Brunswick Consumer Site
The full Flash shell of brunswickbowling.com's consumer side.
Six Flags, as it shipped
The park homepages and the arcade menu, recovered from the sites themselves and re-rendered through Ruffle. Click any one to run it live; missing text or panels means the shell streamed assets that were never archived.
Brunswick Speed Zone
The NASCAR film cut for Brunswick's Speed Zone launch, 1998 — full quality, as delivered.
Fragments & downloads
Pieces that survive but can't run in a browser: streaming-Shockwave ride stubs whose external casts were never archived, QuickTime VR tours, and the era's screensavers and installers — served as-is.
- Darien Lake ride stubs — Boomerang, Mind Eraser, Nightmare, Grizzly Run, Crocodile Isle, Hook's Lagoon, Popeye's Seaport, Lodge on the Lake
- Brunswick preloaders — Attitude , Bowling '98 , Bowling '03
- QuickTime VR — Streamwood bowling center , Frameworx tour
- Brunswickids screensaver — download
- WillTales — installer , Windows screensaver , Mac screensaver
- DataTimes EyeQ upgrade — download