Story from Tech. Say goodbye to all your spare time and dig up your old CD of Fergie's debut solo album because Club Penguin is back. So what if you don't have a Switch? So what if you're not playing Animal Crossing New Horizons? None of that matters anymore because the online game that raised elder zoomers, baby millennials, and millennial-Gen Z cuspies is back online after three years of inactivity.
The massively popular multiplayer online game was relaunched earlier this week, and it already has 6 million "Registered Penguins," according to its official Twitter account. Club Penguin was first made public in and rose to peak popularity in when Disney acquired it and it became Disney's Club Penguin with millions of users.
In , the website celebrated its million users by launching an app , but interest faded by and the online game was shuttered. But we never forgot about Club Penguin, we remembered it in memes. In fact, one of the first big TikTok accounts was a Club Penguin meme account that yearned for simpler days. And an unofficial continuation of the game, Club Penguin Rewritten , had been available during the official game's hiatus.
Club Penguin Online is a private gaming server inspired by the original Disney game. Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. Social Networking. Social Networks. Club Penguin is a virtual online community owned by Disney aimed at preteens and early teens between the ages of 6 and See more pictures of popular web sites.
Cite This! Club Penguin limited a server to players. To facilitate player interaction, Club Penguin hosted regular parties and events which were focused on a specific topic e. The game was predominantly accessed and played via a web browser. Apps for mobile phones and tablets, available on both Android and iOS, were released later onwards.
Prior to launching Club Penguin, all three founders gained extensive experience in the gaming industry. Lance Priebe, in particular, had his fair share of failures he went through.
In July , he began work on a project called Snow Blasters , an online snowball war game involving penguins. The idea to include penguins came to Priebe after he saw a cartoon image of a penguin slipping on a banana in the local newspaper.
Furthermore, penguins were generally easy to animate, thus allowing for a speedier development process. Unfortunately, Snow Blasters never went anywhere.
Instead, he began work on another game named Experimental Penguins. Experimental Penguins, again, never really took off. The game was scrambled a year after its release but, yet again, served as the inspiration for another game. Shortly after RocketSnail released Penguin Chat , which essentially served as an extension of the Experimental Penguins game.
In the coming years, they released upgraded versions of the game called Penguin Chat 2 and Penguin Chat 3, respectively. The games themselves were fairly successful and amassed over one million players in total. However, all of these games shared one key drawback: they were not considered safe for children to be played.
Given that all three of the founders had children of their own, solving the problem of safety was near and dear to their hearts. In particular, many web properties at that time, including highly frequented ones like Friendster , suffered from sketchy-looking banner ads since this was the only way for many of them to generate any meaningful revenue.
Merrifield, who had been hired in early , and Priebe ultimately approached their boss Krysko with the idea of creating a spinoff company to develop this safer version. Weeks later, they incorporated New Horizon Interactive. The development work for what would eventually become Club Penguin began somewhere in The game was essentially an extension of Penguin Chat 3, which was released in April , and internally branded as Penguin Chat 4. On August 22, , they released the first beta version of the game to test their server capacity.
Since Penguin Chat already had a dedicated following, they were able to attract around 15, players to that testing event. Two months later, on 24 th October , they finally released Club Penguin. The game took off like a literal wildfire. By November , a little over a year after launching, Club Penguin was already attracting more than 2 million players every month.
In the meantime, they had rejected lucrative advertising offers from the likes of Google to keep the site free from banner ads. Furthermore, the game had also been shared on Miniclip. By May , rumors began swirling about multiple companies being interested in acquiring the bootstrapped company behind the game.
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