I never had much luck with shockwave games, but I was usually able to get them to run eventually. Personally, I just paid someone to get the avs for me, but I was able to get gourmet club bowls working. I used IE (might have been chrome, idk) and opened a tab in the game I was trying to play, then attack of the slorgs on another tab. Start aots and when (if) it loads, start your shockwave game. Then pretty much just keep refreshing your shockwave game until it loads. xD Sounds a bit crazy, but I remember reading it some petpage game guide and it worked for me.
You could also try downloading an older version of shockwave player and running that. You could probably even go as far as downloading a virtual machine for windows XP (might have to install the correct shockwave version) and play it from there.
You can make it work if you keep trying. Just do it
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