Faithfully reimplementing an obscure Estonian Flash game for modern browsers: GTA õppesõit

Play it here! (desktop browsers only) Or try the “remastered” one! (desktop and mobile) There used to be an Adobe Flash game where the goal was to pass a driving test, with the instructor being ready to berate you whenever you screwed up. It’s virtually unknown outside of Estonia, but I remember playing it as a child, and it was a lot of fun. Sadly, Flash is no longer relevant, and the original website has gone offline a long time ago. For a while, the only way to experience what the game is, was this YouTube video showing its gameplay. Luckily, backups of the original Flash game exist in the Internet Archive, and I also learned that this website hosts it with a solution that translates the original game, albeit with less than stellar results. White asphalt is probably better for the environment, but it sure makes seeing the road markings a bit more difficult. To preserve a piece of media reliably over a long time period, you need to format shift it. I decided to use a similar idea to…