Pogo Games Site Review
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EA (Electronic Arts) brings to life Pogo.com, a free game site ala Yahoo! Games. While it doesn't have nearly as many games as some competitors, Pogo has more than enough quality titles to keep you coming back for more.
EA (Electronic Arts) brings to life Pogo.com, a free game site ala Yahoo! Games. While it doesn't have nearly as many games as some competitors, Pogo has more than enough quality titles to keep you coming back for more.
Card and Board Games
Freebie Casino
For all you compulsive gamblers out there, there’s the Freebie Casino, where the only thing you’ll lose is precious hours of your life. They’re sub-categories for Slots and Video Poker, with a handful of games in each, and then games like roulette, blackjack, and poker fill out the rest of the casino. Seventeen games in total.Puzzle
Ah, the ol’ puzzle genre. The meat and potatoes of free online gaming. Here you’ll find old favorites like Alchemy and Collapse, as well as numerous others to suck up all of your free time while stimulating your brain muscles. Nice, varied selection. Thirteen games in total.Word
One of the smaller categories, but these games are addictive enough to compete with the big dogs. A lot of people might be familiar with Bookworm, but games like Tumble Bees and Word Whomp deserve their time in the spotlight too. Give games in total.The Rest
The last three categories I’m going to lump together, as they’re nothing like your typical free games. They’re a lot more “video game†than the rest, and I would assume it’s because that’s what Electronic Arts is good at. You have Arcade, EA Sports, and Extreme sports. Arcade includes games such as The Sims Pinball and Command & Conquer: Armored Attack, where you drive a tank around and blow things up. EA Sports, you guessed it, is full of sports games, where Extreme Sports is full of less conventional sports games. These games are hit and miss, really. Some try too hard and overshoot that simple charm that makes these games what they are. There are a lot of them though. Each category, with the exception of Extreme sports, has a link you can click to access more.
Card and Board Games
This section has all your favorites such as chess, checkers, and dominoes, as well as some Pogo twists on old classics such as Rainy Day Spider Solitaire and Payday Freecell. Pretty standard stuff overall, but if that’s what you’re looking for, it’ll suit you fine. Twelve games in total.
Freebie Casino
For all you compulsive gamblers out there, there’s the Freebie Casino, where the only thing you’ll lose is precious hours of your life. They’re sub-categories for Slots and Video Poker, with a handful of games in each, and then games like roulette, blackjack, and poker fill out the rest of the casino. Seventeen games in total.
Puzzle
Ah, the ol’ puzzle genre. The meat and potatoes of free online gaming. Here you’ll find old favorites like Alchemy and Collapse, as well as numerous others to suck up all of your free time while stimulating your brain muscles. Nice, varied selection. Thirteen games in total.
Word
One of the smaller categories, but these games are addictive enough to compete with the big dogs. A lot of people might be familiar with Bookworm, but games like Tumble Bees and Word Whomp deserve their time in the spotlight too. Give games in total.
The Rest
The last three categories I’m going to lump together, as they’re nothing like your typical free games. They’re a lot more “video game” than the rest, and I would assume it’s because that’s what Electronic Arts is good at. You have Arcade, EA Sports, and Extreme sports. Arcade includes games such as The Sims Pinball and Command & Conquer: Armored Attack, where you drive a tank around and blow things up. EA Sports, you guessed it, is full of sports games, where Extreme Sports is full of less conventional sports games. These games are hit and miss, really. Some try too hard and overshoot that simple charm that makes these games what they are. There are a lot of them though. Each category, with the exception of Extreme sports, has a link you can click to access more.
Tokens
Pogo also has a nice little token system, that allows you to purchase different things with tokens that you win in the games. You can purchase clothes and accessories for your Pogo Mini, which is like a little virtual representation of yourself, as well as use your token to enter contests with real cash prizes. On top of that, whenever you get a jackpot spin in any Pogo game (which is often), you have a chance to win cash.
Wrap-Up
I won’t lie. With any free time I get, I find myself at Pogo. It doesn’t feel as cluttered or overbearing as Yahoo does and I’ve yet to find a game that I seriously dislike. If you’re bored and need something to do, Pogo is definitely the way to go.
Comments
We will let the people see, experiemce, and decide for themselves. I've been playing there from time to time for quite a long time as well, twelve years or more. I was playing there years before they were bought out by EA. It's not been the same since EA aquired the site. I'm not slamming EA here, they have a lot of good games that I own for PC and PS3, it's just that "Pogo" is a tool for generating revenue, that's all it is. 97% of the games there will put you to sleep, and I often get up at night and go to Pogo to play their games, so I can get sleepy and go back to bed. And it's NOT worth $39.95 per year. I paid for a years subscription and now I feel ripped off. But if you enjoy this kind of activity,...bogus jackpots, people calling you vile names, then when you defend yourself YOU get banned, dull mindless games of pure luck that will have you yawning in fifteen minutes, people in cliques, just like in highschool and they act like it to, then Pogo might just be the place for you. Try it folks!
-- Contributed by: RipVanWrinkeledi have to disagree with the "pogo's a scam" comment. pogo doesn't promise u that u will win thousands. u have to hit the jackpot and it's not guaranteed that u will win that amount. u have a chance to hit the jackpot and i have not personally won anything but wallpapers, but i have talked to 2 people who have won money. one of them got 1500.00 on the jackpot spin and the other got 50.00 in the daily drawing. the people aren't rude for the most part, but occassionally u will find someone u don't get along with (as with any gaming site) and pogo allows u to mute that person. if u don't like what they are saying, u mute them and then whatever they type in chat is not visible to u. also, u can turn chat off completely and u have the ability to report people to pogo if they are abusive or offensive or whatever. also, u can still play pogo without paying for it. if u do pay, u don't have to watch the ads and u get the jackpot doubled if u hit it. all i can say to ripvanwrinkled, if u don't like pogo, don't play. i've been a member for almost 3 years and never had a problem.
-- Contributed by: jpacki have to disagree with the "pogo's a scam" comment. pogo doesn't promise u that u will win thousands. u have to hit the jackpot and it's not guaranteed that u will win that amount. u have a chance to hit the jackpot and i have not personally won anything but wallpapers, but i have talked to 2 people who have won money. one of them got 1500.00 on the jackpot spin and the other got 50.00 in the daily drawing. the people aren't rude for the most part, but occassionally u will find someone u don't get along with (as with any gaming site) and pogo allows u to mute that person. if u don't like what they are saying, u mute them and then whatever they type in chat is not visible to u. also, u can turn chat off completely and u have the ability to report people to pogo if they are abusive or offensive or whatever. also, u can still play pogo without paying for it. if u do pay, u don't have to watch the ads and u get the jackpot doubled if u hit it. all i can say to ripvanwrinkled, if u don't like pogo, don't play. i've been a member for almost 3 years and never had a problem.
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