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Gamesville (1998)
Free bingo with real prizes, under the tagline 'Wasting your time since 1996'.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 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 1998
A Boston games site offering free multiplayer games with cash prizes, paid for by adverts targeted with the details players gave when they signed up.
It pioneered adverts shown between games, and in August 1999 it was the 'stickiest' site on the internet, ahead of eBay. That November Lycos agreed to buy it in stock, when it had about 2.2 million registered users.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run Gamesville, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Gamesville in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
