Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games
Type of site
 Games
Owner Yahoo!
Created by Yahoo!
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional
Launched March 31, 1998 (1998-03-31)[1][2]
Current status Defunct (May 13, 2016 (2016-05-13))

Yahoo! Games was a section of the Yahoo! website, launched on March 31, 1998, in which Yahoo! users could play games either with other users or by themselves. The majority of Yahoo! Games were closed down on March 31, 2014 and the balance were closed on February 9, 2016.[3] Yahoo! announced that "changes in supporting technologies and increased security requirements for our own Yahoo! web pages, made it impossible to keep the games running safely and securely".[4] It was then announced by Yahoo! that its Games section would be dissolved completely on May 13, 2016.[5]

Features

The games on the web site were typically Java applets or quick Flash games, although some titles required a local download. Many of the games that required a download contained TryMedia Adware.[6] Yahoo! Games also included Yahoo! Video Games, which provides news, previews, and reviews of currently available or upcoming First Party games–and Yahoo! Games on Demand–which provided free demos and full-size downloads of full PC games for a charge.

The site featured an "All Star" system for users, in which a user could pay to get an All Star username. All Star users were able to get extra privileges on Yahoo! Games sites such as disabling pop-up ads. All Star users did not have playable games without downloading.

Yahoo! Games was built on Yahoo!'s acquisition of ClassicGames.com (created by Internet entrepreneur Joel Comm and programmer Eron Jokipii) in 1997.[7] The last used Yahoo! Video Games section of the site was formerly known as Games Domain, from back when Yahoo! acquired the web site in 2003. As of May 14, 2016, Yahoo! Games held over 1,400 games, most of which were developed externally.

Games

Board games

Playable online (PO), Downloadable (D), Mobile (M), Skill (S)

  • Backgammon PO
  • Bingo PO
  • Catan D
  • Checkers PO
  • Chess PO
  • Chessmaster Challenge D
  • Chester S
  • Chinese Checkers PO
  • Dominos PO, M
  • Dots PO
  • Emperor's Moh Jong D
  • Go PO
  • JigWords D, PO
  • Jigsaw: Great Art D
  • Jigsaw: Landscapes D
  • Jigsaw: Medley D
  • Jigsaw: Pet D
  • Car Games
  • Literati PO
  • Luxor Mahjong D
  • Mah Jong PO
  • Mah Jong Adventures D
  • Mah Jong Garden D
  • Mah Jong Jade Expedition D
  • Mah Jong Medly D, PO
  • Mah Jong Towers Eternity D, PO
  • Mah-Jomino D
  • Mahjong Escape D, PO
  • Mahjong Match D
  • Mahjong Treasure S
  • Mahjong Fortuna S
  • Midas Mahjong S
  • Monopoly 3 D
  • Naval Command PO
  • Poker Pop D, PO
  • Reversi PO
  • Saints and Sinners Bingo D, PO
  • Sudoko: Latin Squares D
  • Super Mah Jong D
  • Word Slinger D

Up until March 2014, Yahoo! Games included a popular Internet chess server. Ten years earlier, in 2004, James Eade had recommended Yahoo! Chess as the best of Internet chess, writing that "action is to be found there at all times".[8] Yahoo! Chess differed from more contemporary Internet chess servers in its complete lack of oversight regarding user conduct or chess engine use.

Card games

Playable online (PO), Downloadable (D), Mobile (M), Skill (S)

Other games

Playable online (PO), Downloadable (D), Mobile (M), Skill (S)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline". Wayback Machine. 2008-07-13. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
  2. ↑ "Yahoo Games Has Passed Away at Just 17 WIRED". Wired. 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  3. ↑ Yahoo! Games shuts down
  4. ↑ YGames News (2014-03-11). "State of the Yahoo! Multiplayer Parlor Games". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  5. ↑ Yahoo! Games end-of-life FAQ - Yahoo! Inc.. Retrieved on 2016-04-10 from https://gamesnet.yahoo.net/content/eolfaq.
  6. ↑ According to McAfee SiteAdvisor.
  7. ↑ Carlson, Nicholas (May 22, 2009). "Yahoo!'s Entire, Sorry Acquisition History". Business Insider.
  8. ↑ Eade, James (2004). The Chess Player's Bible: Illustrated Strategies for Staying Ahead of the Game.

Bibliography

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