dub3 card · www.neopets.com
Neopets (2004)
Virtual pets, stock markets, and early HTML lessons.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Games card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 2 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 2004
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 2004: Brought in a premium version, with advertisements on the basic site that premium members did not see.
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 2004 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, 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.
