dub3 card · www.hampsterdance.com
Hamster Dance (1998)
Rows of dancing hamsters and a sped-up country sample.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Creators card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 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 1998
A page of cartoon hamsters dancing in rows to a looped, sped-up Disney song, made by the Canadian student Deidre LaCarte.
It began as a contest for web traffic, then drew 60,000 views in four days in 1999 once email passed it round. A spin-off single reached number one in Canada, and CNET later named it the top web fad.
In 1998: Almost nobody came: about 800 visits in total between its start in August 1997 and March 1999.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run Hamster Dance, 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 Hamster Dance in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
