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dub3's pixel tribute to Operabase in 1996: a Boom-era database
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page

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Operabase (1996)

Best viewed in Netscape 4.

Cost
3 RAM
Power
6
Rarity
Common
Family
Institutions
Era
Boom (1995 to 1998)

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.

Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.

The site, in 1996

An online database of opera performances, opera houses, companies, performers and their agents.

Mike Gibb, an English software engineer and opera lover, started it in 1996 as a hobby. It became his full-time job three years later. He sold it in 2018, and Arts Consolidated relaunched it in 2021.

Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.

The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want Operabase in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.