Playforia Explained

Playforia
Type:	Online games
Registration:	Optional
Language:	English, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish and Russian
Owner:	Playforia Inc.
Author:	Asmo Halinen, Pasi Laaksonen(programming), Janne Matilainen (AD)^[1] ^[2]
Current Status:	Offline

Playforia was an online game community created by Finnish game studio Playforia Inc. in 2002.^[1] It was one of the most popular online game services in Finland where it is known as aapeli.com.^[3] ^[4] The service was available in various languages and offered a variety of Flash and Java-based browser games. As of the end of 2018, Playforia announced to close its web presence on January 7, 2019.

Their final words were:

"As of January 7, Playforia is moving onto greener pastures. Thank you for the amazing experience and all the beautiful memories. May we meet again!

Kind regards,

Sparky and the Playforia Team"

Notes and References

Web site: Internet Archive Wayback Machine . Ihmiset . 16 December 2001 . Internet Archive Wayback Machine . 16 December 2007 . fi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20011216220727/http://apaja.com/ihmiset.php . December 16, 2001 .
Web site: Halinen, Asmo . Kirkkaan päivän vaikutukset -blogi . Uusien haasteiden pariin . 7 October 2008 . fi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110902120846/http://asmunder.net/blog/?p=112 . 2011-09-02 .
Web site: TNS Metrix . Suomen WWW-sivustojen viikkoluvut . 28 August 2007 . TNS Gallup . 28 August 2007 . fi .
Web site: Alexa.com . Aapeli.com – Traffic details from Alexa . https://web.archive.org/web/20230506085511/https://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/Aapeli.com . dead . May 6, 2023 . 31 March 2008 . Alexa.com . 31 March 2008 .