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I've got some nostalgia for Yahoo Games. Here's an anecdote I've posted elsewhere:

I was on a phone interview to be a software engineer for a web game company in ~2013. The interview went very well. At the end I asked what I'd be working on, and they said blackjack.

I said, "Didn't Yahoo solve that problem in the 90s?"

I didn't get a call back.

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I particularly enjoyed this tetris-style game called Yahoo! Towers, which had powerups and a great multiplayer. I would bug my friends to learn to play it so we could all play it together. It was great.

Edit: Just found a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdLR-9bky4

I played another game like this when I was younger, it was multi player tetris with powerups, but not this.

It was so enjoyable to play, was hoping your link would be it but alas I don't think so. I remember it being a game client as well.

Edit: found it, Tetrinet!

When I was working my first job as a tech at a weather forecasting firm, I started playing around with Perl for the first time. I gradually automated most of the tasks in my job, after which I got to play Yahoo Games for 2 hours a day. There's not really much else to do at 5 AM, but at least I got to enjoy the virtue of my laziness.

Goodbye Yahoo Games, I'll always remember you.

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