announced that "changes in supporting technologies and increased security requirements for our own Yahoo!

web pages, made it impossible to keep the games running safely and securely".

Many of the games that required a download contained TryMedia Adware.

Video Games, which provides news, previews, and reviews of currently available or upcoming First Party games–and Yahoo!

's acquisition of ClassicGames.com (created by Internet entrepreneur Joel Comm and programmer Eron Jokipii) in 1997.

[citation needed] Playable online (PO), Downloadable (D), Mobile (M), Skill (S) Up until March 2014, Yahoo!

Games included a popular Internet chess server.

Ten years earlier, in 2004, James Eade had recommended Yahoo!

[clarification needed][citation needed] Playable online (PO), Downloadable (D), Mobile (M), Skill (S) Playable online (PO), Downloadable (D), Mobile (M), Skill (S)

[9] The updated platform features a selection of classic games, like Jigsaw, Mahjong, Solitaire, Word etc.