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dub3's pixel tribute to Miniclip in 2003: a Web 2.0-era games portal
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page

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Miniclip (2003)

Heli Attack 2 and a thousand lunchtime games.

Cost
4 RAM
Power
8
Rarity
Rare
Family
Games
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
Collection
Cult Classics

What it does

On reveal: -1 to +3 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 2003

A website of free browser games, started in 2001, which grew into a Swiss mobile game publisher.

Robert Small and Tihan Presbie launched it on a budget of £40,000. It was valued at over £275 million in 2008, and Tencent took a majority stake in 2015. The browser portal closed in July 2022 to focus on mobile hits such as 8 Ball Pool.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.

Put it on your site

Run Miniclip, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Miniclip is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2003, then plays a short scene. Want Miniclip in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.

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