Playforia

Playforia

Logo of Aapeli.com
Type of site	Online games
Available in	English, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Estonian, French, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish and Russian
Owner	Playforia Inc.
Created by	Asmo Halinen, Pasi Laaksonen(programming), Janne Matilainen (AD) [1] [2]
URL	www.playforia.net
Registration	Optional
Launched	October 10, 2002;22 years ago (2002-10-10) [1]
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 was 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"

References

1. Internet Archive Wayback Machine (16 December 2001). "Ihmiset" (in Finnish). Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on December 16, 2001. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
2. Halinen, Asmo (7 October 2008). "Uusien haasteiden pariin". Kirkkaan päivän vaikutukset -blogi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 2011-09-02.
3. TNS Metrix (28 August 2007). "Suomen WWW-sivustojen viikkoluvut" (in Finnish). TNS Gallup. Retrieved 28 August 2007.
4. Alexa.com (31 March 2008). "Aapeli.com – Traffic details from Alexa". Alexa.com. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2008.