dub3 card · yellow5.com/pokey
Pokey the Penguin (1998)
Best viewed in Netscape 4.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 9
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +4 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 9 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
An online comic strip, created in 1998, about a penguin called Pokey and a large cast of other characters.
The drawings are crude and minimal, and the stories are strings of non-sequiturs, with a feud with the Italians over arctic-circle candy. It was updated daily once. Now new strips are rare.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
Put it on your site
Run Pokey the Penguin, 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 Pokey the Penguin in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
