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Comment by altdataseller | Hacker News Reader

I wish Yahoo would bring back Yahoo Games. I miss the days when I would waste time playing Spades, Hearts and Yahoo pool

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You can play Spades and Hearts (and hundreds of other board games) on BoardGameArena. Plenty of games you can join there. Not quite the same experience, but in some ways it's a lot better.

They don't have action games like pool on there, though.

Yahoo games was the best when I was a kid. Lot of fun games and chats with weirdos

With advent of really clever bots, which I think weren't that good back then, this won't be the same experience as it use be. I have only played pool back then and it was fun.

Now there is just so much of everything we use to enjoy with a sense of curiosity. It's all very similar to growing up. You don't and mostly can't fancy your childhood toys the same way anymore.

You can never go home.

And even if you find a way in, the new owners start screaming and yelling.

It was fantastic. Play against actual humans under their own screen names. Integrated chat. Chess was great. I think the guy that developed them now runs a non profit and also works with louis rossmann on right to repair stuff.

Yahoo pipes

<3 yahoo pool. Wasted a lot of time on that in high school.

I was in a pool league in my 20s, pool101, there were a ton of crackers in the league cracking yahoo rares (names that couldn't be made anymore because of character restrictions), some people sold these for like 10k or more per name, which is crazy because Yahoo could and did get rid of names from time to time, it wasn't like a domain name.

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