A modder, programmer, and all-around Nintendo enthusiast who goes by the name Skelux has been working on restoring all of Nintendo’s old promotional Flash games, as spotted by Motherboard.

A functional way of putting animations and videos into webpages, Adobe’s Flash plugin provided a way to deliver rich web content that was widely adopted in the early 2000s era of the internet. Flash gave us some of the web’s finest moments, like Badger Badger Badger and Homestar Runner. It was also used by companies like Disney and Nintendo to create interactive content for promoting upcoming releases, usually in the form of small interactive website modules and mini-games.

As these creations only lived online, many of them eventually disappeared…

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