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 was closed down on March 31, 2014 and
the balance was closed on February 9, 2016.
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".
It was then announced by Yahoo! that its Games
section would be dissolved completely on May
13, 2016.
However, the Yahoo!
Games service is still available on Yahoo!
Japan, along with Yahoo!
Auctions and GeoCities.
== 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.
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.
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)
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".
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 ==
MSN Games
PlayOK
