dub3 card · www.neopets.com
Neopets (1999)
Virtual pets, stock markets, and early HTML lessons.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: Add a copy of this card to your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
The copy is a fresh card, ready to play.
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 1999
A free virtual pet game in which you fed, dressed and trained a pet and explored a fantasy world, dreamed up by Adam Powell, a Nottingham student.
Pets could not die from neglect, yet people kept coming back: in 2004 Nielsen put users at about three hours a month, more than at any other site in its category. Viacom paid $160 million for it in 2005.
In 1999: Opened on 15 November, and by Christmas it was logging 600,000 page views a day.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
Put it on your site
Run Neopets, 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 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Neopets in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
