SHARK.IO PLAY ON POKI

Classic Flash shark games

The city shark games people remember from around 2010 are short Flash attack scenes by Wiesi. Adobe ended Flash Player in 2020. The copies that still run do it through Ruffle, not through a plugin.

Prehistoric Shark card image from Newgrounds
Image credit: Wiesi / Newgrounds.
Miami Shark gameplay still from a recorded session
Image credit: Wiesi / Newgrounds.

The city series

Wiesi released Miami Shark in 2009, Sydney Shark in 2010 and New York Shark in 2012. They share the same idea: a shark swims through a city flood and eats what fits in its mouth. Because the developer, the camera and the goal match, I do not give each city its own article. The only durable differences I can source are the city name and the year. Prehistoric Shark (2013, also Wiesi) moves the same chase into a dinosaur setting and does have its own page, because people search that title on its own.

LA Shark shows up in search suggestions, and I could not find a Wiesi page, a year or a portal listing that names it. It is not in the catalog. Shark Lifting 2 (2015, Wiesi) is a different gag game about a shark lifting weights, also Flash, also Ruffle.

How to play one now

Newgrounds still hosts Prehistoric Shark and notes the Ruffle emulator. Other portals archive the city games the same way. Ruffle emulates Flash content in a modern browser; its project documents compatibility progress rather than promising identical performance on every device. These are free browser archives. There is no current paid remaster from Wiesi in the sources I used.

Watch a round

Miami Shark gameplay

FAQ

What was the shark game from around 2010?

Usually Miami Shark (2009) or Sydney Shark (2010), both by Wiesi, both Flash.

Do I need Flash Player?

No. Flash Player is gone. Use a portal that runs the file in Ruffle.

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