pogo.com

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.

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.

History of Pogo.com

Pogo.com began life on September 2, 1999 with a handful of games, after existing previously as part of the Total Entertainment Network (TEN). 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, however the terms of the deal Excite struck ended up being very poor for them by the time the year 2001 rolled around (Pogo would have ended up owning about 1/3 of Excite based on the terms of the deal). Excite then terminated that deal, leaving Pogo.com in the lurch.

In March 2001, Electronic Arts 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.

Club Pogo Games

• Aces Up! *[1]
• Battle Phlinx *[2]
• Blooop *[3]
• Canasta *[4]
• Casino Island Blackjack *[5]
• Dice Derby *[6]
• Dice City Roller* [7]
• Fortune Bingo *[8]
• Greenback Bayou *[9]
• Harvest Mania *[10]
• Jigsaw Detective *[11]
• Jungle Gin *[12]
• Lottso! *[13]
• Mahjong Garden *[14]
• Penguin Blocks *[15]
• Perfect Pair Solitaire *[16]
• Phlinx *[17]
• Pinochle *[18]
• Pop Fu *[19]
• PoppaZoppa *[20]
• QWERTY *[21]
• Quick Quack *[22]
• ShuffleBump *[23]
• Squelchies *[24]
• Stellar Sweeper *[25]
• Texas Hold'em Poker *[26]
• Tri Peaks Solitaire *[27]
• Wonderland Memories *[28]
• WordJong *[29]
• Word Whomp Whackdown *[30]
• World Class Solitaire *[31]

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

Retired Games

• Buckaroo Blackjack^[2]
• Word Riot
• Triviatron
• Jackpot Bingo

Notes

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

• Pogo.com's competitors for casual and social gamers include Yahoo! Games, Viacom's Neopets, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates and TrayGames, among others.

External links

• Pogo Homepage
• Pogo info all the time