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MSN Gaming Zone (1996)
Hearts, spades and checkers online, then the lobby for Age of Empires.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
No ability.
No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 6 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 1996
Microsoft's online games site, first called the Internet Gaming Zone, with card and board games and matchmaking lobbies for PC games.
Microsoft bought a small game site, The Village, from Electric Gravity in 1996 and relaunched it as the Internet Gaming Zone. By 1998 it had 600,000 users, and it hosted online play for Age of Empires, MechWarrior and Asheron's Call.
In 1996: Relaunched as the Internet Gaming Zone, starting with Hearts, Spades, Checkers, Backgammon and Bridge.
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 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run MSN Gaming Zone, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want MSN Gaming Zone in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
