Death of a Game: Habbo Hotel

[@DeafCope]

this game taught me what is; scam, stranger danger, pyramid schemes, cults

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

gangs, sex, gambling, memes, lol

[@Bards.98]

100%. It was the game that teached me how unfair the world is

[@miles3101]

​@@nerdSlayerstudiossthe list of words remind me of that trump speech where he lists types of people lmao. What a cesspool of bad actors it was, and how many important lessons it taught!

[@ataridc]

all important things to learn about when you're 10 years old, esp cults. everything about this game looks like it was designed by predators to appeal to children.

[@delimelone]

Why is this so accurate 😂 I went into this game so innocent and went out with a lot of hard lessons learned

[@user-bm1zk9qj6p]

the fact Habbo ran so well on browsers back in the 2000s is still wild to me

[@noticiasinmundicias]

no one optimizes anything anymore it sucks

[@jewellui]

Why, there were numerous games running off browsers at that time?

[@daysofend]

@@jewellui More like browsers were absolute shite. Browsers today are almost like tiny operating systems.

[@jewellui]

@@daysofend what’s your point?

[@todamusikaqui]

"pretending to be older to hang out with adults" which were just also kids pretending to be adults 😂😂

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

not all of them, I met many people so I would know lol

[@starsINSPACE]

It was always interesting to me when I was a kid what age other kids would pretend to be in games. Yeah, some kids thought they could pass as adults in games but lots of preteen kids wanted to pretend to be like 16 cuz they thought that would impress their fellow 12 year olds 😂

[@Sirfredrickvlogs]

​@@nerdSlayerstudiossnothing will beat Habbo Hotel turning me into a 12 year old marriage counselor for a 30 something Australian couple. Good times. I hope they're okay lmao

[@Burner39]

@@SirfredrickvlogsThey were also kids…

[@user-jn9vt8zi1s]

i was a 7 year old with no parental supervision telling everyone i was a 15 year old.. 😭

[@CrimsonWar5]

Pools closed

[@tinysquidwardonachair2236]

Fuck, you beat me to the punch

[@stardogbillionaire]

That’s all I know Habbo hotel for 😂

[@amogusenjoyer]

They actually had mods at the pool for the new habbo classic banning pools closing enthusiasts lmao

[@CrimsonWar5]

@@amogusenjoyer the pool shall be eternally closed

[@paulosouza449]

Because of aids

[@sup1602]

Pool's closed, please form into the traditional shuriken formation.

[@konnykaze7965]

Ah, you mean the symbol that marks temples on japanese maps, right?

[@exterminatus_now]

Windmill of friendship

[@1gient]

The symbol of good things that was stolen by the worst people. ...referring to the OG people who stole it just like all the other ideas and symbols they stole.

[@sup1602]

@@1gient Man that time in the internet was magical. I don't think we will ever get a time like that again. Edit when the rooming bs started, pools closed is the least offensive thing that has happened. At least that was some good fun.

[@murrayshekelberg9754]

Based

[@__-be1gk]

Pools Closed is the largest cultural impact Habbo Hotel ever made, but to someone who actually played the game, it's a 12 second mention in a half hour long video, wow

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

Most of us were bored of it after the first week. You have to think, public spaces were limited so naturally we would get annoyed lul. Hence why the trolling worked so well.

[@MisterFoxton]

It got pretty tired on 4chan after the first week too. Pool's Closed became big because of the real world reaction, but at the time every free browser game was getting an Anonymous raid, most of which actually led to long-lasting communities remaining after the initial surge of players. My favourite was eRepublic because that game was perfect for an otherwise unremarkable country to suddenly pop into relevance as hordes of inexperienced channers suddenly tried their hand at geopolitics and running a country.

[@frustusCroKi]

There are also 100 Videos about pools closed and we all know the story 😁

[@TidyWaste]

Of course the Habbo lover would ignore Pools Closed lol

[@Okagesan]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss hey thanks for at least mentioning it, lol. It could have been a buried talking point. It makes sense that is such a small experience for your time with Habbo. Interesting to hear from someone that actually used Habbo extensively.

[@Nayukuo]

God, Habbo was HUGE in my rural australian primary school in the 2005-2006 era. I even won a writing contest Habbo hosted when I was 12, and got exclusive in game items as a reward! Which I then traded for coins because I was a child who could not buy my own in game currency and thought owning a club sofa would be WAY more cool than the rare exclusive event item I won......

[@madeline569]

Omg drop the writing piece, I bet it's so cute

[@amogusenjoyer]

I remember when i finally managed to trade myself into having a very nice house and a lot of furniture, from 0$ spent in game after a very nice dude gave me a few throwaway furniture he didn't want. Only to lose it all after giving my pw to a friend (we were in elementary school) who then proceeded to steal everything. I still think about it to this day, yassin.

[@DanielSoulB]

I feel ya. I had a bunch of furniture back in 2006 from a friend who always gifted me some from time to time. Then, in 2007 or 2008 I found a video on KZbin of a guy "hacking" his wallet and giving himself a bunch of coins. Guess what happened next...

[@TonyTheTiger94]

Man, the memories i had with Habbo is unreal. The virtual sex was wild. Edit: also the no swearing policy they had where every bad word was replaced with "Bobba"

[@V1_ULTRAOFFICIAL.]

bobba you

[@thewitchishammered]

I'm gonna bobba your bobba

[@allyleech]

bobbaing habbo

[@asdfghjeanneh]

Bobba will always be more iconic than the tired "pool's closed"

[@FelixNothus]

@@asdfghjeanneh I literally haven't heard of Bobba until today but "Pools closed" has been echoed for decades so I kinda doubt that.

[@Larry]

Strange Channel 4 attacked Habbo Hotel like that, considering they aired an adult animated comedy series heavily based on it a few years before, Empire Sq.

[@TonyTheTiger94]

Aint that just bobba crazy?

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

prob knew the story was a free farm, and they were right. if that was what I wanted to do, I would have targeted them and Club P too

[@TSWHedgehog]

Hi, Brit here. Channel 4 and Channel 4 News are associated but different. Channel 4 News is produced by a company called ITN, not by Channel 4. Also, Channel 4 has a remit to air “challenging programmes”, which back in the 2010s, they kept to. C4 News are renowned for their investigations like this; they’ve managed to destroy political parties with it.

[@williek08472]

But, hello you!

[@vohkaru131]

Are you seriously going to paint journalists as the bad guys for exposing how pdf files were using the game to get access to children?

[@InVinoVeratas]

I remeber this as a kid. I wanted to join the mafia, and this honestly makes me blush with embarrassment remembering this.

[@Lt_TuckPendleton]

No shame, we all had a ton of fun back then.

[@itsrinayaaa]

Hahaha I always joined the armies

[@mrhygiene]

It's over? Well, bobba

[@EveryDayVape]

No! It will live forever!

[@Lt_TuckPendleton]

Does anyone remember those rooms that had a million sticky notes and you had to open them all one by one to find the password to get to the next room? And after 20 levels youd end up in back in level 1 but in an exclusive area talking to all the new people's entering and thinking you are the best? Haha

[@tmlee123]

Omg 😂😂😂

[@yahya2925]

Yeah i also loved doing and making those illusion mat mazes when i was like 10-11. On the surface it just looked like a level plane of floating mats, filling up the entire room's floor space but that was just a illusion. Some were higher than others, lower, etc. And if it looked like a mat was next to you to walk on youd be surprised that you had just fallen off the maze lol

[@Simte]

This game taught me how to code when I was a kid. I wanted so desperately to have furni but didn't have the means I just started to program a server in apache to build a clone. I kinda failed but it was am amazing experience.

[@Mito383]

Habbo Hotel was basically my 14 year old introverted escape from reality.

[@Yugigreg]

Bro same

[@lordbaron888]

Facts 😂😂😂

[@cannon_tortoise]

Not even Batman could get me to confess to being a Master of Foreplay

[@cv5953]

I'd tell everyone What a king

[@ed61730]

Bobba

[@DigitalConceptz]

Brings back memories... me and my previous girlfriend would play the hell out of this, and this is back so far she wasn’t even on steam yet.... we made so many memories in that game We were in our real early 20s shes 38 and I’m nearing 40. # Nostalgia Is Real

[@tmlee123]

So crazy.. I played this game when I was maybe 15 or 16. I'm 34 now.

[@dylanbrower4487]

I was 8 years old when I started now I’m 26

[@RQS321]

Its crazy just what Habbo Hotel turned people into.. One of the most bizarre blotches in my history is playing this game and ending up banned. I don't ever get banned in games normally. I'm that guy who plays by the rules and is a total stick in the mud..

[@Lt_TuckPendleton]

I remember getting banned from there too, pretty sure for swearing at people. It taught me a big childhood lesson to be nice.

[@BennyTheAzn]

It was the beginning of summer 2005 and I remember coming home from high school and logging into AOL to look for some flash games to play on Newgrounds. My friend messaged me and told me about a "Star Wars RP" game he was playing and I was like "WHAT? WHERE?!" He told me it wasn't really Star Wars but people roleplaying in the Star Wars universe on game called Habbo Hotel. I was intrigued. I signed up and was introduced to the RP world of Habbo first... Then I got into furni collecting, casinos, trivia games, etc. I will never forget the friends I made along the way. I hope everyone is doing well. I miss them.

[@codyscottmac]

Man I have such fond memories of Habbo. As a super depressed early-teenager it was one of the only places I felt like I could be myself and actually connect with people; because I sure as hell wasn't doing it in school. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and thank you for the hard work you do on all your videos.

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

Similar feelings

[@Biotear]

Pool's closed due to AIDS, stingrays, and Remilia Nephys.

[@nyssiii]

Real?

[@Biotear]

@@nyssiii Real as fuck, little doremu. Real as fuck.

[@SleepyVesties]

Wemi mentioned, let's go.

[@Biotear]

@@SleepyVesties Now when will she give back my driver's license?

[@Ignition_Spark]

I haven’t played more than half the games featured on this series but, man, do you make it so interesting to hear about. I genuinely get so excited every time I see a new DOAG video.

[@ivan55599]

As a finnish person, l find it funny that english speaking persons pronounce finnish names like they would be far eastern-type names. Sulake -> Suleik, Sampo->Sempo

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

While I appreciate the second correction, the first is silly because nobody pronounces Adidas correctly either by that logic.

[@allTkindaTstuff]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss su-la-ke

[@williamscarcia7903]

As a finn-american I was having trouble understanding the names lol odd pronunciation

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

@@allTkindaTstuff ad i das

[@Juhius]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss Who is "nobody"? Finnish people pronounce Adidas in the intended way at least. Sulake isn't up to interpretation either as it is just the Finnish word for electric fuse, so you just pronounce it incorrectly.

[@twelch12]

Scamming people out of Furni using other people's unlocked "casino" rooms made me the man I am today.

[@hausu3163]

a robber?

[@ed61730]

I got scammed in this game when I was younger. I learnt a massive lesson from that. Thank you!

[@rxxxe6174]

I scammed hella rich kids witb rare pay to play falling furni game rooms haha

[@ed61730]

@@rxxxe6174 dbf you're scamming their perants not he kids haha.

[@jimjohnson6944]

Based

[@robharrie]

Scamming people with my nephew was probably the most fun I’ve had in a game as a kid, we were maybe 14 or so and I always let him win insane prices so other people would bet a ridiculous amount of furniture and lose it all, which made my rooms even more convincing which made me even more furniture lol. Until I gave all my black dragons away to a random stranger because I thought it was my nephew. Stopped playing instantly.

[@tinoesroho]

[guy who only saw IMVU in banner ads] im getting big IMVU vibes from hotel hideaway

[@FrostyMantleM]

I was thinking more Facebook's weird metaverse experiment from a few years ago

[@bhaalgorn]

Theyve just restarted the 2005 version of the game and it seems to be doing decently well. Theyre approaching it similar to Jagex, letting players vote for time-appropriate updates

[@2reeceybaby]

I'm looking forward to them re-releasing the 2006 version of Snowstorm. I can relive my glory days again. Unless it's already been released? I can't seem to find it in Habbo Origins.

[@duzzzz94]

I am a Finnish kid around your age. I think my generation grew up hanging out in Habbo, it and Runescape were the only things ppl played. I haven't spared a thought for it in years but seeing those familiar graphics, furniture and dances brings back so many memories

[@SwoleBenji]

I did my part closing the pool. For what it's worth, it's a super fun memory and that's what matters most in gaming is the memories we take with us.

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

I have fond memories of seeing ads for this game as a kid. I got all excited, thinking it was a sim type game. You can imagine my reaction when I tried it. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.

[@xbrain_burstx1829]

Wonderful and insightful video. I was an incredibly active habbo from 2004-2012 i love finding these videos to feel nostalgia and reminisce. My only qualm is every habbo video i see primarily focuses on 4 things 1) pools closed 2)Police Investigation 3) great mute 4) gambling/ removing gambling. Habbo had its own universe that then spread into msn/skype etc and i feel so much of what made habbo special. The games users would create, the roleplay enviroments, the different social circles, the fansite communities, the fact that uber popular shows like survivor and big brother were recreated. There was a habbo basketball association. Name that artist kept you in tune with modern music trends It was well ahead of its time but we tend to only focus on the bad stuff

[@MagitekBahamuto]

Oh this game, I remember seeing an add in my Club Nintendo magazine back in 2006, sadly I didn't start getting internet service until 2010. That pixelated art style looks so lovely.

[@bysigmar3819]

Im a gamer for 30 years now and I never heard of this game. crazy that it had such a impact in the early years

[@AkanneBeat]

As someone from Spain, our hotel was used by mexico/argentina users so you can easily see that it didn't end up well unlike US/UK. It's safe to say that the biggest "branch" of Habbo was the .es branch of it, and I believe it was also the most played because well, all spanish-related languages would use it.

[@billybob7135]

It reminds me of a similar virtual world called BoomBang where Spanish speakers were lumped into one server. However, that game anyone kick you out of rooms by literally uppercutting you out. The end result was something similar to race wars where Spaniards with their faster internet muscled out Latinos at certain times of day.

[@Szarps]

Im from Argentina, i can very much confirm this. I always lamented the fact that there wasnt a latin version of habbo, prices were absurd high for our standards and also since it was based off scammers "offering jobs", hacking and the stuff, it was pretty hard having stuff basically

[@shrekrealista5045]

This game was HUGE back in 2007 - 2010 here in Brazil

[@theseek7278]

Any ideas as to why Habbo Origins Brazil is not very populated compared to where it should be?

[@yz6644]

@@horizont6172yeah also people nowadays have other options like Roblox

[@theseek7278]

@@yz6644 Roblox has been around since 2006 though, yet has had quite the interest of of the younger generation despite being an old game.

[@claramrts]

@@theseek7278 probably (and I'm saying this from my personal experience playing it) because as magic as it feels when you play it the first time and kind of relive the nostalgia from back then, it's just not very engaging, and things are still behind a payment. To me, it feels weird to pay for some things such as a dip in the pool now, as I'm not an impressionable child asking my mom to pay for it anymore. The experience overall was very underwhelming to me because that's basically having to pay again (and they only accept international cards, mind you) for everything in a game that's just not as serious to me as it was when I was a child/preteen. There's also the fact that the Brazilian version was super glitchy at release and lots of people barely managed to create an account or enter the game, I had to try like 5 times. Personally, I'm kind of just waiting for a less-than-official version to get released somewhere so I can have a bit more fun with my friends who played it back then

[@claramrts]

And just to add another point, the version they chose is not the version that was most popular here. Habbo was just not that accessible here in 2005, most of my friends didn't even have a computer at that time and even with lan houses it was still something quite exclusive

[@stylesrj]

Ah Habbo Hotel. Played that when I was a kid... didn't know how to get furniture, got free furniture eventually, did Harry Potter roleplaying and then I just stopped playing and moved on to other things. Never knew about the Pools Closed meme until much much later and honestly, I didn't think much of the game after I left until now :D

[@trefthergom3085]

Pool's closed.

[@EndGameEnt]

The fact that Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin are both dead is an internet travesty.

[@Meitti]

Kudos for spelling "Elisa" 99% correctly (in all finnish words the first letter is the strongest in intonation). One of my art teachers used to get short gigs drawing decorations for Habbo Hotel, he did most of the egyptian-themed stuff.

[@uonixx4099]

If you end up doing these kind of games, I definitely hope you look into Gaia online. It had a failing economy, games within the game like "zomg" which the items bloated the market so bad they locked items to players. Or the aquarium that had gold spaming glitches too.

[@lottedenboon6717]

Been plating habbo original that launched last week. Just like old school runescape, it goes back to the roots. Its fun so far. Its Habbo from 2005 and updates are voted on by players

[@kapinder123]

Do Gaia Online next. "But kapinder, that's not a games, that's a chat site." THEN WHY DO I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING PLAYED EVERYTIME I LOG IN?

[@Steakout12GA_Primary_when]

Ah Habbo. A game I played pre-2010 (I was born in 2000) solely because it was one of the few games my cheap laptop could run. Doing so many things on Habbo I really shouldn’t have doing at my age lol. I just remember all the Gangster LARPers. Like if someone was dressed in Red and another dressed in blue, Green, purple, or yellow it was on sight with them. Or how about the hospital rooms a lot of hospital worlds. Man such good times. Or when I found a website which had bootleg versions of Habbo that would give the free currency the biggest being named ‘BlahHotel.’ It was a bit sad since it was out of the blue and frankly I had plenty of friends on there I never met again. After the shut down of Blah that’s when I just kind of quit playing. This is probably the only game where I easily had thousands of hours into it and yet don’t have a single friend from that era to this day. But I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t enjoy going back in Time and reliving one of those old Blah Hotel days.

[@jackg5321]

Yeah I remember the role place and that was my favourite part - cafe or sub way I'd serve guests haha

[@m4x899]

I had some funny friends on Habbo. Really unfortunate that i’ll never speak to them again

[@PsionicDiamond]

I won a falling furni game and the host kicked me out… I never forgot it. But alas, the game was a huge part of my childhood & I miss the feeling of logging in and roleplaying. Work in a Police department, hospital or just joining a school was so fun

[@jackg5321]

Haha yes I forgot that school and college rp! So unique

[@nickbruce4653]

Never even heard of this game and i was the exact age the game was targeted at. Ill be 39 this year, so in 2001 when the English servers started i would have been 16. Im just surprised as i played online games such as EverQuest and Ultima Online. I also used to hang out in MSN and Yahoo chat rooms. So the fact i never even heard of this kinda blows my mind lol.

[@Biouke]

I'm glad to finally learn about that game you kept mentioning :) I don't remember hearing much about Habbo Hotel or Club Penguin here in France, as far as browser games go RuneScape had some players but only got localised in 2008 and by that time Dofus had saturated the market.

[@Ravenna_Black]

Now I'm thinking you should do Second Life, Altered Realms, Than there's Project Entropia which became Entropia Universe, Sansar, InWorldz, Furcadia and Blue Mars. Wolfhome (which is just a chatroom with visual elements that you could move around. This was my first visual virtual world experience online after my time in AOL RP chatrooms.)

[@TheMinidow]

Aren't most of those still running? Don't get much publicity these days, but still alive.

[@Ravenna_Black]

@TheMinidow Altered Reals is still there but functionally dead. Second Life is alive but... it's not attracting new players. It's just an aging invested population. Blueberry which was a big store that started in SL moved out of SL to focus on Roblox and other more popular experiences. And yes, the other reams I mentioned are also still around but like how many actually log in to them. And there are fully dead ones like InWorldz, and Blue Mars. Sansar isnt dead but kinda never felt alive.

[@TheMinidow]

@@Ravenna_Black just very distinctly remember second life showing up on good morning in the UK way back when, that it's even still breathing is impressive.

[@flightmastery2677]

I 100% forgot this game existed in my childhood until now

[@aspen9102]

Still remember being a kid in the mid 2000s and everyone in my classroom played or at least had an Habbo account, it was wild and honestly really cool, logging in in the afternoon and seeing everyone there having fun, almost like Minecraft's popularity before Minecraft. For me that was the peak of the "social" aspect of games and never got even close to those feelings again. Even like 12 years later, I sometimes still wonder about the people I met there and got to be close friends and what happened to them as they(and myself) never logged in again, Lindcei, Poiiinha, people online who were more my friends than any irl people at that time in my life.

[@rainechoo]

Oh my god, this just unlocked memories of the "orphanage" rp rooms as well as the hospital ones where i saw someone pretend to give birth and someone RPing as a baby only sending messages that said "waaaa" all in lower case, good times

[@Destii_p]

You forgot to mention that the gambling part was also heavily exploited and abused. People were able to manipulate in their favor. So they always won. People made a lot of cash from this by scamming kids and other naive players.

[@TheFatSandwhich]

I remember my friend on Club Penguin trying to tell me about Habbo but Club Penguin chat would filter it out. They had to type the message backwards. 2006, it was like transitioning into a more mature Club Penguin. No going back from that day onwards..

[@dehboy]

Does anyone remember the Coke spin off of Habbo where you could make music? I need to watch some videos to relive those memories! Both Habbo and that game took a lot of my time! Habbo had their mazes, casinos, and football games... The creativity of the community was astonishing now that I look back at it!

[@Native_Creation]

Yes Coke Music was also very popular, very clever with the music element. Spent a lot of time in there too.

[@WESTMPLS]

Respect for the self report @5:00 😂

[@theactualTVB]

POOLS CLOSED

[@23mrcash]

Because of Aids

[@revolverocelot3741]

i honestly miss habbo hotel.

[@jsnow7919]

Falling Furni taught me one of life's great lessons.... Life's a Bobba.

[@gozzyboy1989]

Aw I remember playing this 20+ years ago

[@Huhruu]

I remember having one of the biggest trading rooms in the habbo, that is how learned and got interested in trading

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

same, and my like of market economies

[@Maggot-Milk]

I guess the pool's closed for good this time...

[@BatJeff]

I remember playing furni drop games where the owner of the room would drop down a piece of furniture, and everyone would try to sit on it as fast as possible. When the last person was left standing, they got eliminated. That continued until the last person was sitting, and they got their pick of a piece of furni. That was how I got any pieces for my own room, but I had a buddy who bought about $50 worth of coins using his phone number and ended up getting grounded for it when his parents' phone bill came in. I even remember joining a group called the "Canadian Mafia" who had a bunch of rooms linked with teleporters lol. God this was such a nostalgic video.

[@Xhotic]

This is one for the ages. With the recent "revival" of Habbo Hotel via the Habbo Hotel Origins, this video is perfect timing.

[@weevil8025]

I grew up on a Habbo retro called Habboon, was best friends with a child predator who tried several times to get nudes out of me (I was a minor at the time), and met some of the edgiest people I've ever met on that game. The moderators of that game did absolutely nothing about it because they were also kids. I wish I'd have done more about it, but that was many years ago.

[@skittlesmash]

I remember starting to play the game when i was 11 lyign that I was 15- the perfect period of being the right age for the game, then coming back as an adult (25 at the time) and being told I was too old to play haha definitely didn't fit in if you were an adult. 100% a teenager game when it comes to socialising. Today it's probably different but in the golden years I don't think I met many adults. If there were, they would have probably lied and said they were teens.

[@Sazandora123]

Finn here. I was never all that much into Habbo back in the day, I played around with it with a (now former) friend but I never took it very seriously at all. My parents didn't allow me to spend money in the game so what little furniture I had was given to me by my friend. Around two or three years ago I reclaimed my old account and I admit to spending a little bit too much money to essentially live out my childhood dreams of having all these fancy items -- I *adore* the pixel art in Habbo Hotel, by the way -- and all these fancy decorated, themed rooms for myself... and then dropped the whole thing after a few days of fooling around. I have some foggy memories of my time in Habbo back in its heyday but nothing major. In fact, me going back to Habbo for a brief joyride a few years ago was what finally pushed me into booting up Sims 3 for the first time (the last time I played any Sims game was Sims 1 when I was too young to understand anything about the game or how to even play it) to basically do what I was doing in Habbo but in a way that didn't require microtransactions. So thanks, Habbo, for giving me the courage to finally step into a game that is now one of my all-time favorites!

[@The2012Aceman]

The pool remains closed.

[@kindawolf]

Hey I stumbled across this video but I never actually played Habbo as a kid however my mum was actually a moderator for Habbo(A Hobba if you will) she even helped open some of the servers and according to her one of the biggest reasons she thinks Habbo went down hill is because they essentially got rid of half there moderation team which left bad actors to run wild, she has a lot of fond memories of her time on Habbo and I’m sure many stories she could share too ,she also has some screenshots from her time on Habbo hidden away somewhere which are fun to look at.

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Same year (and only slightly older) i went with Runescape, ironically also EU/UK based. I still have the character (under a diff name lol) but i did find myself on the first 2000 Runescape players list which was cool. Got all my friends to play at the time, middle of the US. Cuz of that i missed Habbo so cool to hear about it! :)

[@fluttzkrieg4392]

The amount of times someone scammed me by selling me two identical portals that weren't actually connected to one another but to some other random portal somewhere and thus useless... Damn, I loved this game. I wasn't rich but I probably had more than most people thanks to my mom buying me some coins a couple times and getting lucky on trades. My Habbo profile says the last time I logged in was in 2014. I honestly thought it has been longer than that. I even remember I had two accounts: The main one where I did everything, and another disposable one for scam sites that promised free coins if you put your username and password (I was a kid so in my mind one of them had to work, right?). After this game I pretty much stopped playing online games and only played singleplayer ones.

[@Lt_TuckPendleton]

Omg you just reminded me of when that happened to me, and I got one of them english red phone booths that took me to another place full of other phone booths and I went on a massive adventure. Eventually ended up in some super exclusive area in a huge casino hahaha

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

I never knew Habbo existed until long after it was relevant learning about it for the first time after watching a video about the Pools Closed thing. I was mainly a Club Penguin kid in the 2000's while also dabbling in a few others like Wizard 101, Toontown, and 1 or 2 others I forget the names of.

[@dylanbrower4487]

Wizard 101 was a lot of fun I remember that game, I totally forgot about it but thanks for reminding

[@elzach0]

I remember playing this in my high school computer programming class in 2005-2007... simpler times!

[@DanielSoulB]

I really, reaaally miss the old Habbo style and rooms. The pool, library... Playing Habbo Hotel Origins hit WAY HARDER than I thought it would. Man, those were the days... Even if the rooms are all dead empty, the memories are still very much alive

[@christ3548]

Omg - this whole time I’ve been thinking Hazbin Hotel was Habbo Hotel this whole time. I’ve been asking all my friends that talked about the show “Wasn’t that a video game?” I’m a complete idiot.

[@EddieSlabb]

That's a unique mistake but it's awesome of you to share with us. Listening to this review I kept wondering why the company was named after Sulik from Fallout 2.

[@Kalethekill]

I miss Habbo. It was the first place I got into RP (and the RP group is still running today). I haven't played in ages but it made me some of my best friends in the world.

[@keepitclean8791]

Habbo Hotel and GraalOnline were my life growing up, I was a dumb kid back then but somehow the internet just seemed more fun and mysterious.

[@MysticalGoatKnight]

My first interaction with a virtual world, if you don't want to count MMOs (if you do, it's EverQuest as my first) was IMVU and it was... certainly a time in my life. lol It taught me some valuable lessons that ended with me getting traumatized many times. :')

[@Marinealver]

4:52 okay, lemme check the rules of the internet **Opens Rule 34 Well it is a game set in a hotel 12:05 oh

[@strikeforce1500]

As someone who never got a real chance to play Habbo, man, this is Luke seeing a train wreck happen, then somehow it gets worse by the second,but I cannot help but stare at it. With that said,it's always funny to see what slangs people comes up with,and probably the previous generation call it the then equivalent 'brain rot', lol

[@cassandral.5840]

Ppl started to take Habbo WAY to seriously as well. The game wasnt fun anymore because the ones that stuck around as they grew up take the RP WAY to seriously. No "goofing around or being silly." Don't get me started about the "Hospital" and "Adoption Agency". The horrors. 😂

[@EddieSlabb]

Oh please get started on Hospital, I need to know more.

[@JeccoGaming]

This game still means so much to me. Half of my current friends wouldn't even know each if it weren't for Habbo. Sure, we never played on the official servers. But here in Sweden, we had a massive retro server scene. Where I met one of my current best friends through a random motto with his skype username. This was 10 years in but to us, it never crossed our minds that it was in decline. Wow, just wow.

[@bewawolf19]

Ah, glad to see the pool being closed is still breaking fragile minds even to this day.

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

one of the timeless memes of our generation

[@disregardthat]

bro, the NOSTALGIA. for old time's sake: Pool's closed.

[@Dylan-yv6ko]

I miss this game and I miss what the internet used to be

[@RasmusMalmstrom]

I remember me and my friends using our homephones buying coins at 8-9 years old thinking it wouldn't show up in our parents phonebill... ah the time when you where young and gullible

[@platy7730]

I remember playing this when I was 9, joined the habbo marines and got bullied by teenagers that paid for the membership lmao. Those job rooms were wack

[@michaelkane9996]

I loved this game as a young kid. This was my jam before I found Runrscape haha. Used to run my own games like the spongebob quiz and the multi-game takeshis castle I ran was popular too 😁 loved it!

[@zanmaru139]

Second Life fulfills this role for me. For the past 20 years. I've made so many enduring friendships through SL.

[@MichaelRogerStDenis]

I remember alot of the Habbos in this video. These were regulars who always chilled in the main lobby or other places. So many memories. This game raised me lol

[@tunod-]

It's happening again on Origins. I've already seen many people who spent a few hundred or thousand bucks to stock up on rares. Little do they know this game is going to die off very soon

[@wa2k530]

Pool's closed

[@bunjera]

great video! this was the one mmo i really got into as a kid so it’s nice to see a channel cover it, esp so high quality! i feel this comment section is a safe place to confess: i cheated in falling furni hundreds of times. i’m sorry.

[@Waryfuls]

*this game introduced me and my friends to gambling addictions & scamming*

[@hardboiled2987]

I remember blocking the doors with my acc and my alt acc to a big popular area and making people give me all of their 3 daily respects to let them in lol. I was a lil devil for those badges as a kid.

[@whtiequillBj]

my first experience into the social internet was IMVU, which I them moved to Second Life a few years later. After that discord, and right now I'm a KZbin denizen and haven't been very social.

[@benm3382]

It really was a strange time on the internet around 2005. It's not the same experience as today. Back then the computer itself was a hobby, you sat at the computer and truly plugged your heart in, and MMOs were wild wests

[@dudester6442004]

I liked the personal stuff you added, had many similar experiences myself but with other social games

[@Dragonytez]

The nostalgia is actually crazy with this one..

[@ariesforce1988]

You've made me so happy with that next case introduction! I still have the original launcher and intro movie saved in my documents. So hype for the next one! 😎👍

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

That's awesome!

[@anitacrumbly]

You should upload it to the internet archive as a piece of internet history

[@RagnarokPKXD]

Whats most fascinating is that the Habbo player count in 2024 has increased xD

[@b_r_a_n]

i'm so glad you spoke about Habbo Origins👏🏼