When the adver-gaming community Blazzam! became corporate they wanted their website to be an arcade experience, complete with animations, sounds and bright colors. 

The main selling point behind this idea was that when you clicked on the "games" page you would be able to play any of the games and feel like you were doing so inside the arcade. Nifty.

I have recreated the joystick and button animations to some extent in this GIF but the original Flash file had text displayed over the elements and each area had a different vintage arcade sound that matched the movement. It was definitely a fun site to visit.

At the time the best approach for a project like this was Adobe Flash, but I always had problems accepting the fact that 1) the content was not editable and 2) the lack of text made it invisible to search engines. Like most, I tried HTML workarounds until I settled for a widow within an image of an arcade which had a flash animation on the top part and an animated flash menu on the bottom. All rested on a black-and-pink psychedelic background.

Here you can appreciate an animated GIF version of the top part of the arcade. We settled on the blue instead of the black screen as a sort of joke about the blue screen of death. 

This is what the site would look like now. While I would go back and tweak the colors, I still think it was a pretty nifty idea.

If the site were responsive, it would look really neat on your smartphone! You would be able play their games the way the guys at Blazzam! originally intended!