dub3 card · www.pogo.com
Pogo.com (1999)
Free card, board and word games in the browser, with tokens to win as you play.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 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 casual-games site of card, board, puzzle and word games played in the browser, in rooms where players could chat.
It grew out of the Total Entertainment Network, a 1990s online gaming service, which switched to Java browser games in 1998 and launched the Pogo brand on 1 September 1999. Electronic Arts bought it in March 2001 for about $40 million.
In 1999: The Pogo.com name launched on 1 September, after a year of co-branded games for portals such as Excite.
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 Pogo.com, 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 Pogo.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
