dub3 card · www.hampsterdance.com
Hamster Dance (2003)
Rows of dancing hamsters and a sped-up country sample.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
Ongoing: At a Creators location, +2 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
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.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 2003
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 2003: Run by Abatis International, which bought the rights in 2001. By now the four hamsters had names: Hampton, Dixie, Hado and Fuzzy.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Hamster Dance, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2003, 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.
