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Argon Zark! (1995)
An inventor beams himself into the web with a homemade protocol, sidekick in tow.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 7
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 7 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1995
Charley Parker's science-fiction comic about Argon Zark, whose Personal Transport Protocol sends him, his assistant Cybert and a delivery girl into the web itself.
First posted in June 1995 and drawn with a graphics tablet and software, it is one of the earliest webcomics. A print 'Dead Tree Souvenir Edition' came out in 1997, and the strip was last updated in September 2019.
In 1995: First appeared in June, drawn straight onto the computer with a graphics tablet.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run Argon Zark!, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1995. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want Argon Zark! in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
