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BoardGameGeek (2000)
High score: you, for now.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +4 Power to a random card in your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 2 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 2000
An online forum and user-built database for board gamers, with reviews, ratings and images for tabletop games.
Players rate games from 1 to 10, and the ranked list comes from those scores. It won the Diana Jones Award in 2010 and entered the Origins Award Hall of Fame in 2020.
In 2000: Founded in January by Scott Alden and Derk Solko, built on Alden's 1996 site 3DGameGeek, which was about video games with 3D graphics.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page.
Put it on your site
Run BoardGameGeek, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2000. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want BoardGameGeek in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
