
Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and. Shockwave Player supported raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, digital audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo. Shockwave Player ran DCR files published by the Director environment. It was first developed by Macromedia, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.

Such content could be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. Content was developed with Macromedia Director and published on the Internet.

Macromedia Shockwave Player (also known as Shockwave for Director and later Adobe Shockwave Player), was a freeware plug-in for viewing multimedia and video games in web pages, content created on the Macromedia Shockwave platform.

Logo for Shockwave content authored with Macromedia Director from 1995 to 1997.
