dub3 card · www.penny-arcade.com
Penny Arcade (1998)
The gaming webcomic that built PAX and Child's Play.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
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.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1998
A webcomic about video games, written by Jerry Holkins and drawn by Mike Krahulik, with a new strip every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Holkins and Krahulik were among the first webcomic makers to earn a living from it. They also started the Child's Play children's charity and the PAX gaming convention. By 2010 it was listed as having 3.5 million readers.
In 1998: The comic debuted on loonygames.com on 18 November. Holkins wrote it and Krahulik drew it.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run Penny Arcade, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Penny Arcade in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
