LimeWire’s retro music downloading game revives the look of its platform from the early 2000s and offers players the chance to win crypto.
A new game aimed at reviving the nostalgia of pirating music with the added bonus of crypto rewards has been launched by former peer-to-peer file-sharing platform turned nonfungible token marketplace LimeWire.
On April 13, the historic music-downloading platform, wildly popular in the early 2000s, was revived and turned to Web3 in the form of a retro music-downloading game themed on the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.
Players need to enter their email addresses to play the browser-based game that prompts them to search for old early 2000s music and movies to download.
The simulation will provide a list of songs or movies from that era for players to choose to “download” within a time limit. Each simulated download that doesn’t contain a simulated “virus” will yield points to the player.
The scores are entered onto a leaderboard with the top players eligible to receive a distribution of LimeWire’s upcoming ERC-20 token, LMWR.
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LimeWire was re-launched in mid-2022 as an NFT marketplace with the aim of becoming a leading creator content marketplace and membership platform.
The original file-sharing platform was shut down in 2010 after a federal copyright infringement court case and the LimeWire NFT marketplace has no connection to the original platform or its team.
