Pogo.com

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Pogo.com is a website, owned by Electronic Arts, that offers a variety of free casual games, from card and board games to puzzle, word, and sports games. The website is free, but a premium subscription-based service called "Club Pogo" also exists. America Online users are allowed to play some premium Club Pogo games without paying any membership fees.

Players can win jackpot prizes and tokens from playing the games on Pogo.com. Tokens can then be exchanged for tickets in Pogo.com's daily, weekly, or monthly prize drawings. Players can place bets of tokens on some games, such as Texas hold 'em poker and High Stakes poker. Cash and merchandise prizes are currently only available to US and Canadian residents, excluding Quebec.

Pogo also offers "Pogo To Go" Games, which are games that can be bought. You get a free 1-hour trial for each game. Alternatively, you can click here go get free full version Pogo To Go Games.

Club Pogo is Pogo.com's premium subscription-based service. Perks to subscribers include: the ability to compete for badges visible in chat rooms, premium badges (animated flash badges), exclusive members-only rooms, no ad interruptions, emoticons, private chat, Pogo Minis (avatars), fast access, double jackpot spins and over 30 exclusive games.

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[edit] History of Pogo.com

The initial elements of the Pogo.com service had existed as part of the Total Entertainment Network (TEN). The Pogo.com brand was launched on September 2, 1999 with a handful of games, as part of TEN repositioning itself back to its earliest incarnation, which was a casual game service. Pogo grew quickly, eventually outpacing its competition to become the "stickiest games site on the Internet". Although the site was wildly popular by late 2000, the Dot-Com bubble was bursting for most startup companies, and cash was very tight. Pogo.com entered into a deal to be purchased by the (then) famous web portal Excite @ Home, also a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/Vinod Khosla investment. However Excite was having problems of its own and heading for bankruptcy(CNET news article). Excite terminated that deal, leaving Pogo.com in the lurch.

In March 2001, Electronic Arts, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers investment from the 1982, purchased Pogo.com for approximately $50 million, and began wrapping it into their own casual games offering. EA had previously struck a long-term deal with America Online to be the provider of games for the AOL games channel, but were having difficulty with the integration. Using engineers from both EA and Pogo.com, EA was able to meet its obligation to AOL and the service was launched in the fall of 2001.

[edit] Club Pogo Games

[edit] Free Games

  • 3-Point Showdown
  • 6th Street Omaha Poker
  • Alchemy
  • Ali Baba Slots
  • All-Star Football
  • All-Star Football Challenge
  • Animal Ark Mahjong
  • Backgammon
  • Bejeweled 2
  • Big Kahuna Reef
  • Big Shot Roulette
  • Bookworm
  • Bridge
  • Bump
  • Carnival Blackjack [1]
  • Checkers
  • Chess
  • Chuzzle
  • Command & Conquer: Armored Attack
  • Command & Conquer: Attack Copter
  • Cribbage
  • Crossword
  • Cubis
  • Cubis 2
  • Diner Dash
  • Dominoes
  • Double Deuce Poker
  • EA SPORTS Web Soccer
  • Euchre
  • EZ Win Bingo
  • First Class Solitare
  • Freekstyle Crash Pad
  • Hearts
  • Heavy Cannon
  • High Stakes Poker
  • High Stakes Pool
  • Insaniquarium
  • It's Outta Here 2!
  • Jacks or Better Poker
  • Jewel Quest
  • Jokers Wild Poker
  • Keno
  • Lost Temple Poker
  • Mah Jong Quest
  • MCF: Huntsville
  • NASCAR Web Racing
  • Need for Speed Top Speed
  • Overflow
  • Panda Pai Gow Poker
  • Payday FreeCell
  • Pebble Beach 3 Hole Challenge
  • Pebble Beach Golf
  • Perfect Passer
  • PGA TOUR Golf
  • Pogo™ Bowl
  • Poppit!™
  • Quick Shot
  • Rainy Day Spider Solitaire
  • Ricochet Xtreme Online
  • Ride The Tide
  • Rocket Mania
  • Sci-Fi Slots
  • Scrabble Blast
  • Showbiz Slots
  • Showbiz Slots II
  • Slingo
  • Spades
  • Spooky Slots (October Only)
  • SSX SnowDreams
  • Stack 'em
  • Sudoku Quest
  • Swashbucks
  • Sweet Tooth
  • Tank Hunter
  • The Sims Pinball
  • Top Down Baseball Challenge
  • Tradewinds 2
  • Tube Runner
  • Tumble Bees
  • Turbo 21
  • Vaults of Atlantis Slots
  • Vert Skater
  • Word Search
  • Word Whomp™
  • Zuma

[edit] Retired Games

  • Buckaroo Blackjack
  • Hammerhead Pool
  • Highland Golf
  • Jackpot Bingo
  • Primetime Pitch
  • Triviatron
  • Word Riot

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Carnival Blackjack replaced Buckaroo Blackjack on August 28, 2006

[edit] External links

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