

In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash.Īlthough Shockwave was designed for making a wide variety of online movies and animations, its actual use has become concentrated in the area of game development. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Adobe Shockwave 8.00.205 Download Now Released: Size: 3.89 MB Downloads: 39,884 Rating: Tested: Free from spyware, adware and viruses Select Version of Adobe Shockwave to Download for FREE! Software VersionĪdobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Adobe Flash, called Macromedia Flash at that time.
