Club Pogo Fun Facts and Information about your favorite gaming site, Pogo!

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" bgcolor="#3C5A12" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" link="#3C5A12" vlink="#F89E32" alink="#3C5A12"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="783" id="table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#F89F36" style="padding: 0">  <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="97%" id="table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#F3F1EB">  <tr> <td width="50%" height="0"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" id="table10" cellspacing="0" width="371" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td background="images/greensmboxtop.gif" colspan="3" width="371" height="28" align="center"> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/historypogo.gif" width="169" height="23"></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="images/greensmboxleft.gif" width="14"> </td> <td width="328"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Have you ever wondered how Pogo.com and Club Pogo came into existence? We researched their history for Pogo Zombies who want to know!  </font> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>For detailed information about a specific event, click the link that appears at the end of the paragraph.</i></font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="images/pogologosmall.gif" width="69" height="22" hspace="3" align="left"><b>September 1999</b> – Pogo was formed when Total Entertainment Network (TEN.net) was renamed to Pogo. (Wall Street Journal, October 1999:  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.costik.com/pogo.html">http://www.costik.com/pogo.html</a>)</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>September 1999</b> – Pogo.com offered family-oriented games such as popular card games and board games like spades and backgammon</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>November, 1999 </b>– Electronic Arts (EA) and AOL create an alliance for EA to provide exclusive games to AOL subscribers to provide EA’s games (EA's press release: <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr64.doc"> http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr64.doc</a>)</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>February, 2001</b> – EA Acquired Pogo.com (EA's press release: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr15.doc"> http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr15.doc</a>)</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><img border="0" src="images/cplogosmall.gif" width="73" height="34" align="right"><b>July, 2003</b> –  Club Pogo Launched with the very first Club Pogo weekly challenge beginning July 11. <a href="http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr385.doc"> http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr385.doc</a> </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><img border="0" src="images/pinkribbonmini.gif" width="29" height="50" align="left">November, 2004</b> – Electronic Arts raises over $38,000 through Pogo.com's Club Pogo Breast Cancer Awareness Events including Race to Join and Tokens for the Ribbon (EA's press release: <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr549.pdf"> http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr549.pdf</a>)</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>November, 2005</b> – Club Pogo hits 1 million subscribers!! (EA's press release: <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_blank" href="http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr703.htm"> http://www.info.ea.com/news/pr/pr703.htm</a>)</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>July 23, 2006</b> - Club Pogo Celebrates it's <b>third</b> birthday! All Club Pogo members receive a special edition celebration badge commemorating this milestone.</font></td> <td background="images/greensmboxright.gif" width="17"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="images/greensmboxbottom.gif" colspan="3" height="28"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td width="50%" height="0" align="center"> <table border="0" width="371" id="table11" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="3" background="images/orangesmboxtop.gif" height="27"> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/didyouknow.gif" width="113" height="18"></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="images/orangesmboxleft.gif" align="center"> </td> <td width="328"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <img border="0" src="images/mahjonggardensmall.gif" width="81" height="242" align="left" alt="Club Pogo's Mahjong Garden is one of the more popular games among Club Pogo Members" hspace="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <b>The top 10 most popular games are: </b> Poppit, Mahjong Garden, Word Whomp, Lottso, Texas Hold’em Poker, Pogo Bowl, World Class Solitaire, Tri-Peaks Solitaire, First Class Solitaire, and Spades.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Every Tuesday at about 2 AM PST (5 AM EST), Pogo.com is unavailable for maintenance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Every Wednesday at about 7 AM PST (10 AM EST) the new Weekly Challenges are available for Club Pogo Members to begin working on.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">There are over 636 badges offered (not including Special Edition, Premium Badges, and Mobile badges) that Club Pogo Members can earn. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> There are 398 Game Rank Badges that Club Pogo Members can earn. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> There were 103 different Weekly Challenges offered in 2004 and again 2005. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> In 2003 there were only 32 weekly challenges offered for Club Pogo Members (because Club Pogo was started in July, 2003).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><img border="0" src="images/popfusmall.jpg" align="right" alt="Club Pogo Facts and information - Pop Fu was one of the first Club Pogo Games offered!" width="50" height="50" hspace="1"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Pop Fu was one of the first </span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Club Pogo Games offered!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">There are 7 different Solitaire Games with 5 Club Pogo Exclusives! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> There are 8 different Card Games with 3 Club Pogo Exclusives! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font face="Times New Roman"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;">● </span></font> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> There are 9 different Word Games with 3 Club Pogo Exclusives!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px"> <font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial"> If you have any fun facts, post them on our forums in the "<a href="http://develop/pogozombie/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=7">Fun Facts</a>" section and we will include them here!</span></font></td> <td background="images/orangesmboxright.gif"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" background="images/orangesmboxbottom.gif" height="28"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" height="0"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" id="table12" cellspacing="0" width="371"> <tr> <td background="images/orangesmboxtop.gif" colspan="3" width="371" height="27" align="center"> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/funfacts.gif" width="78" height="18"></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="images/orangesmboxleft.gif" width="18"> </td> <td width="332"> <ul style="margin-left: 15"> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial"> Pogo.com has 2.6 million visitors a day</font></li> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">Club Pogo members spend on average 18 hours a week on Club Pogo</font></li> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px"> <font size="2" face="Arial">Approximately 75% of Club Pogo’s players are female with an average age of 35+</font></li> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">83% of Club Pogo players prefer card games <br>  </font></li> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">60% of Club Pogo Players enjoy casino games</font></li> </ul></td> <td background="images/orangesmboxright.gif" width="19"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td background="images/orangesmboxbottom.gif" colspan="3" height="28"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td width="50%" height="0" align="center"> <table border="0" width="371" id="table13" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="4" background="images/greensmboxtop.gif" height="27"> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/clubpogogreensm.gif" width="152" height="23"></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="images/greensmboxleft.gif" rowspan="3" width="17"> </td> <td width="328" colspan="2"> <p align="left" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Club Pogo members have access to over 100 games & 29 "members only" games. Other great benefits include:<br>  </font></p></td> <td background="images/greensmboxright.gif" rowspan="3" width="18"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="185"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="2">● </font> <font face="Arial" size="2"> No ad interruptions.<br> </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">●  </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Game ranks and badges.<br> </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">●  </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Weekly badges<br> </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">●  </font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Club Pogo Minis and more!</font></td> <td width="143"> <p align="center"> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.jdoqocy.com/placeholder-191630?TARGET=_blank&MOUSEOVER=Y"></script> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="328" colspan="2"> <font face="Arial" size="2">A Club Pogo membership provides many hours of fun! Click the image above to begin your free 2-week trial period! </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" background="images/greensmboxbottom.gif" height="28"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2"> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </body>