# How did they do this? Flashed based game in Excel spreadsheet **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745 "2006-09-30T16:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/1 "2006-09-30T16:01:35Z")
A coworker of mine has a excel spreadsheet that has a flashed based game in it. She has a tetris like one and a few others. Anyone know how this was made? ---
**Author:** ![daffyduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@daffyduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffyduck)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/2 "2006-09-30T21:00:32Z")
Making games in Flash is standard stuff for Flash aficionados. Tons of tutorials available to show you how to do it. Google for “Flash games tutorial” and go nuts. > **[Macromedia Flash Games Tutorials - Tutorialized](https://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/flash/games/1-10/)** > > Flash is a versatile and popular multimedia platform. With the development of HTML5 and other web-based technologies, Flash... As for embedding them in Excel… “Insert” -\> “Object” -\> “Flash Document” or something similar depending which version of Excel you have. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/3 "2006-09-30T21:02:38Z")
I received this too. I suppose the question is, why did they use Excel to transport them? ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/4 "2006-10-01T00:29:12Z")
I believe the idea is so that you can pretend to be working while playing a game. It’s not abnormal to use Excel at work ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/5 "2006-10-01T02:03:39Z")
Hmm I don’t seen to have the option to insert flash as an object in my verison of Excel ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/6 "2006-10-02T16:33:00Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I received this too. I suppose the question is, why did they use Excel to transport them? [/QUOTE] It’s almost universal for system administrators to set their email gateways to block executable files and scripts (stuff like .pif .exe .js) and pay little or no attention to document files like .doc and .xls ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-do-this-flashed-based-game-in-excel-spreadsheet/374745/7 "2006-10-02T16:54:01Z")
That’s nothing, one version of Excel had a little[flight sim](http://vsbabu.org/software/fsxls.html) easter egg embedded in it by the developers. A previous version apparently had a little doom-type joke.