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Battle.net (1997)
Log on from inside the game, chat in a channel, and find someone to play.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Megacorps
What it does
On reveal: +3 Power to a random card in your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 1997
Blizzard's free online service for its games, where players chatted in channels, found multiplayer games and, from StarCraft on, climbed ladder rankings.
It launched with Diablo in January 1997 and boomed with StarCraft in 1998, above all in South Korea, where players online often far outnumbered those in the US. Its free online play pushed other publishers to do the same.
In 1997: Opened in January with Diablo, offering little more than chat and game listings; players connected directly to each other.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Megacorps: The giants. You've used most of them today.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Battle.net, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Battle.net in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
