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Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by jonplackett on Monday March 03, 2025 @04:21AM (#43239938)
I’m taking about a bit earlier - ie before mobile phones.

Obviously flash was not designed for small screens or small batteries.

But it could have been adapted! If Adobe had been in any way competent or caring the flash runtime could have been converted to html5

But Adobe suck

Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by nottorp on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:06AM (#43243107)
> before mobile phones.

It was the same even before mobile phones. Laptops had batteries too. CPU fans sounded even worse than today when pegged at 100%.