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Posted in Technology, The Web and tagged AOL, Boxerjam, Julann Griffin, Know it All, Merv Griffin, Napoleon, Only Connect, Out of Order, Slingo, Sony, Strike a Match, The Puzzle Zone, The Station, You Don't Know Jack. Learn more about their latest effort in a review I’ve posted of their first round of games. UPDATE: As noted in the comments, the founders of Boxerjam are back with a new site, Jam and Candy. They’re really, really good, and deserve to live on. Here’s hoping they can revive the classic games in some form, either in mobile form or in a revived form on the web. So, for now, the classic games are off the web for the first time in nearly 20 years, and screenshots are few and far between. Why reminisce? I had rediscovered the site at the end of last year, and played another couple of rounds of Napoleon, a rare treat (the game itself had been hidden from the homepage, but it still existed and worked! Alas, the site itself was taken down by its web host shortly thereafter and, according to its owners, not easily recovered.

It was a simple game with luck and strategy both coming into play, and I spent countless hours playing it.

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A tweaked version of French Poker, it was a quick, multi-round game where you drew five cards, discarded what you didn’t want and drew replacements, trying to make standard hands like a pair, two pair, full house, etc. This is quite similar to how You Don’t Know Jack‘s Facebook game releases episodes today (and did in their Netshow hey-day).īut it may be Napoleon that was nearest to my heart, and the game I spent the most time playing. At their heights, a boatload of people would log on at a set time to play the newly released round of each game for the first time, in the hopes of obtaining a high score in a competition. Both games were played on a timer against other players faster answers yielded higher scores. Out of Order scrambled key words and players were supposed to identify them. The gameshow Only Connect, featured here earlier, has a round which acts something like this.

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In Strike a Match, at top, a series of words or phrases were shown, and you had to find relationships within them, first in pairs, and later in triplets, to make a connecting theme. A couple of additional games, such as Know it All, came later.Įach had its own twist. The classic three were Strike a Match, Out of Order and Napoleon.

The Puzzle Zone games were fun, quick puzzles that fell into the vein of the puzzle books that I enjoy so much, but the real stars were the online game shows, which were a cornerstone of early AOL, as well as Sony’s the Station and other sites. There was Slingo, of course, which has survived well and is around and kicking, but another suite of games that existed was Boxerjam’s games, which included both daily games called “The Puzzle Zone” and an online suite of game shows, which were created by Julann Griffin, wife of “Jeopardy!” creator Merv Griffin. For a new MMORPG that wants to invite players to dive into the world and soak in the story, this one example of how not to deliver your main PVE quest lines.Like many who were early to the Internet, I had for a time an AOL account, and became a big fan of some of the online multiplayer games that existed. If the bore doesn’t get to you, then the scale of information will, as some characters just happen to force heaps of plot and backstory down your throat in the same cutscene that lasts almost five minutes. But in the first couple of hours, the amount of time it took for different characters to divulge the simple information that you are the chosen one in a civil war of the gods can become frustrating, as it takes countless repetitive and cringe-worthy dialogues and mundane fetch quests to progress the main story quest. Players will probably enjoy the writing as the game never takes itself seriously, often using satire and self-deprecation in its delivery. From the moment players step into the world for the first time, they are immediately introduced to the main plot through a standard and linear story quest-line that features in-game cinematics with dialogue that are sometimes voiced in Japanese with English subtitles. Twin Saga freshens up its presentation of quest texts through cinematic dialogues that can be a hit or miss with playersTwin Saga isn’t shy about its rich amounts of lore and heavy emphasis of the game’s story.

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