Once upon a time in the darker days of the web when tables were the high-tech new hotness of HTML, I used to run a website that consisted mainly of a collection of drinking games. I actually started with it on www.circus.com, a now-defunct website that represented a geek house in Santa Cruz, California. This was a 486 machine on a 28.8kbps SLIP line, which for you non-geeks out there means it was very slow. In spite of that, I managed to build the largest drinking games site on the web.
I am now in the process of bringing those games here to the hyperlogos. While other sites have cropped up that are now larger than my old site was, that's no reason not to bring that content back here.
My old site, being a pioneer of sorts in terms of web history, received a lot of attention, and won an award or two. To wit:
The Critical Mass award, which appears to have become defunct in about 2003, used to give awards for websites with a lot of content and which didn't get in your way before they'd hand it to you. As such, drink's drinking games was an ideal candidate. It was very simple and had nice search functionality (for its day) in spite of being just a couple of CGI scripts. One of them displayed the index; the other displayed games. I won the Critical Mass award in 1996, if memory serves.
Xnet was a UK men's magazine with an internet focus that cropped up in 1997. Each issue came with a CD, which included mirrors of various websites and some video clips of some "Page 3 Girls" being photographed for the magazine. My website was mirrored in Volume 1, Issue 4. The following is a quote from the magazine:
This next site actually categorises them all. http://www.circus.com/~drink/drinking/drinkdex.html is the place to find card games, public humiliation games, "fucked-up" games, etc. There are loads of them here, including the much-loved Kill the Newbie. For this reason alone the designer of this site should be involved in the space programme or something.
Back when it existed, the college life section on miningco.com (swallowed up by about.com, which provides basically the same functionality) also gave me very high marks.
Peace out
I took the drinking games site down for two reasons. One, it didn't fit the theme of the site. Two, I didn't want to wind up being held liable for someone's misadventures. I can't afford to defend against even a completely misguided lawsuit.