The History of Club Penguin

Before Club Penguin, there was something called Penguin Chat, 2005. You used to be able to play it on www.RocketSnail.com, and yes that’s what RSnail stands for, but as of now, they have closed down the site so everyone visits www.ClubPenguin.com instead. Back then, the whole thing was free and there were things on it that the Club Penguin Team never put back onto Club Penguin.It was actually very similar to Club Penguin, except there was only one place you could go to, the Town. There wasn’t a Cove, Snow Forts, Dojo, or your own igloo or anything else, but the Town. In fact, the Town looked very similar to how it looks now, but there was more chairs and tables outside the Coffee Shop, and a few other different details. It also snowed in the Town.There were no Coins or way of earning Coins. And if you tried to walk to the left of the Town, you’d go to an area of nothing but snow, and a few decorations, if you went to the left of that, through a ’secret hill’, you’d end up in another bigger area of snow with a blue sky. In this specific area, you might see a bunch of penguins in SnowCats, driving around. Then if you went left again, there would be a bunch of penguins just walking around with hard hats on that are probably drilling the ground, with construction gear and railings all over the place and a crane in the distance, and then if you went left again, you’d be back at the Town,so it was kinda a circle. You could also do the same thing if you started off going right from the Town. There were also signs for every place in Penguin Chat. In the toolbar, there was only the ChatBox, the Snowball Button, the Actions Button, the Emotes Button, a ‘Tell a Joke’ Button, and the Enter Button. To change color, you would click a Color Change Button on the Chatbar, and select a different color. There was no map. The Night Club was incredibly similar. The major differences were that the Band played on the stage, rather than the DJ  with the speakers, but there were Speakers there. There was no Green Puffle dancing on the speakers, and there were no stairs leading to the upper floor, there wasn’t an upper floor. You could get to the Secret Boiler Room by walking onto the wire of the lower righthand Speaker. The point of the game was just to throw snowballs, dance, and chat. Talking about snowballs, in Penguin Chat, snowballs were a little bit different. No, they looked the exact same, but when you threw them at people, sometimes you would miss horribly. The radar that shows up when you push the Snowball button in Club Penguin was different in Club Penguin.  The Coffee shop had no upper level, and you couldn’t play Bean Counter there. Back then, everyone used to pretend they were Coffee shop waiters. Now, have you ever heard someone ask how you become a ninja? Well, this is where the myth started from, by the way, you can’t become a ninja in Club Penguin, they were going to make them, but they made Secret Agents instead. In Penguin Chat 3, when the color select window popped up, if you click the ‘n’ in ‘Select your new penguin.’ in that window, you would become a ninja, no lie. Being a ninja was pretty cool, you had a ninja suit with a sword on your back and if you tried dancing as a ninja, you wouldn’t dance but you’d become invisible. You could also be a Hard Hat Worker. You had to click on the Hook of the Crane in the sky, the Crane was behind a fence in the back in the snowfields right of the Town to get the Hard hat,you didn’t have a player card back then so you really get a Hard Hat.You just wore one.If you danced you would be drilling the ground,and if you went into the middle of the snow fields you would be driving a Snow Cat.As for the Gift Shop, if you tried walking into it, you’d be transported to a page on www.RocketSnail.com where you could buy merchandise like real life key chains and T-Shirts,using realy money though. Remember, RocketSnail didn’t have any coins.

And that’s just about all there was to Penguin Chat 3, that used to be playable on www.RocketSnail.com.

Now here’s the sad part. One day, the Rocket Snail team announced they were creating something called Club Penguin. Then they closed Penguin chat for a while, so you had nothing to play except Mancala, Hydro Hopper, and a few other games on www.RocketSnail.com.