Death of a Game: Club Penguin

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[@straightmale4927]

Will you ever cover plants vs zombies battle for neighborville

[@JavierRamirez-lx4ev]

Can you make a death of a game for Final Fantasy 14 online?

[@mysteriousman3973]

Please stop saying CP.. :D You might use it in the context of club penguin, But a lot of people will have a Knee-jerk reaction to the word for something else entirely

[@johnm6295]

@@JavierRamirez-lx4ev Lol how is that anywhere close to a dead game?

[@neetchan54]

Disney shutting down all their iconic mmos always makes me sad

[@kiryukazuma8089]

It sucks, but at the end of the day, they’re all businesses. The companies do need them to be monetarily successful to run. Granted some pure game companies will stick with their MMO’s through the tough times to keep em alive.

[@phaedrus12134]

"Iconic" haha

[@XartiXV]

It's not just sad, it's a bit dumb. Basically, "Why kill the golden goose?"/"Why fix what isn't broken?"

[@shadiafifi54]

@@XartiXVSeems to be a recurring habit for them *_looks at Star Wars_*

[@kirrb-dot-exe]

I miss toontown and pixie hollow

[@Indigo_Gaming]

I was all aboard the first few expansions, The Freezing Crusade and Wrath of the Lich Peng, but as soon as Mists of Penguaria released, I checked out.

[@rachelblake2350]

Maybe I spent too much time on 4Chan as a teenager, but I have to say this was a weird, slightly uncomfortable watching experience with "CP" constantly being mentioned. Kinda funny too.

[@rachelblake2350]

@@gerryw173ify my favourite was the talk of Disney buying CP, or maybe "this was a growing trend in the CP community."

[@tecmangames69]

for me it's the contrary, i growed up with club penguin, so everytime i see "CP" first thing that cross my mind is club penguin lmao.

[@NicoTheCinderace]

@@tecmangames69 Same here

[@fuchswolfsson2622]

As someone, who didn’t get the reference, i googled it. Immediately regretted it.

[@rachelblake2350]

@@fuchswolfsson2622 *FBI OPEN UP*

[@sukamadik5983]

Your videos makes hearing about dead games and dreams a delightful experience.

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

Glad to hear that :)

[@NobodyHere951]

Dead games and dead dreams... that resonates with me...

[@ArtflPhenix]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss wow the next death of a Game is kinda like abortion. the game was shut down before it was released

[@Alex-nr4xb]

Yep, I love hearing about all these populated games that I never even heard of since I only played in a small number of MMORPGs. It's a glimpse into an entirely different world.

[@celticsuave]

Club Penguin will always have a place in my heart, where I'll remember it fondly. RIP

[@hbsea4698]

The use of "CP" jump scared the shit outta me looool

[@aheahe7943]

Hopefully you do a video on VMK - Virtual Magic Kingdom, which was Disney's OFFICIAL, direct competition to Club Penguin. It was literally the exact same game, a flash based social hub with minigames meant for an audience of kids but everything was Disneyland theme'd. Funnily enough, Disney actually bought Club Penguin 9 months before shutting down VMK in 2007, which screams very obviously that the reason they shut it down was to focus on Club Penguin. Feel like that would be an important piece to the Club Penguin story and why Disney did the things they did with Club Penguin.

[@bellabella852]

I grew up playing this as a kid, it was a nice escape from family drama and was the first place I got to express myself as a girl. I remember collecting a lot of stuff in the game and even collecting the trading card game IRL. Hearing that it was being shut down made me very sad.

[@detectiverick9934]

God dame Disney shutting down this classic game for another, worse game, they simply shut down later.

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

one of the most bizarre fumbles of our time

[@jaywerner8415]

They also killed ToonTown for after buying this too.

[@mariofire3940]

CP Island didn’t even last 2 years that’s how bad it was 💀

[@N12015]

This is the first game I truly experienced that you covered here. As a part of the well known "flash generation", who also grew without a console up until 2011, I LOVED that game as a kid, kinda obsessed with it and the cute puffles and the vegetarian polar bear... but I noticed the game started to have a bit of a downfall when stuff that used to be free became paid content, which even my 13 year old me could understand as unfair. I'm sure after that point I moved to Wii, then 3DS, then the abyss who is LoL and Mobile, then recovered. It's just a great place where people was just ridiculous and the minigames creative. I wouldn't say is MMO game, not RPG in the current meaning, but a Multiplayer Online and OG definition of Role-Play Game, and that made the game unique.

[@N12015]

PS: Never heard of Club Penguin Island up until 10 minutes ago, and I was a mobile gamer who grew up with Club Penguin back in 2017.

[@SebitzuF]

hey, i had the same experience, fall 2008 - january 2010 played club penguin and flash games on kongregate almost every day, got a console in late 2010 (modded nintendo ds) then a wii in 2012 but i bricked the wii by trying to mod it. unbricked it in 2018-19. Club penguin was good until they shoved the membership in your face. Coming from romania it was way too expensive at the time, and I found accounts on the web. Karma is a bitch cause my account got leaked and hacked too due to using CP Trainer. Yahoo Messenger and Roblox at the time were very nice. Sonic Adeventure DX from a friend's CD etc. I used to have a folder full of cartoon images and wallpapers but I lost it.

[@ABoredReplier]

Is this really the 100th video in the series? If so, congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

wow thanks so much

[@PlayBoxWii60]

My little brother and his friends use to play this when they were kids He passed at age 21 in 2020😔 Thanks for the uploads

[@paranoia_xo]

Sorry for your loss

[@PlayBoxWii60]

@@paranoia_xo thank you 😊🙏

[@ferminlarran41]

:(

[@tyisamess]

Being in elementary school and playing Club Penguin and Webkinz was a great time!

[@timothy558]

Dropped to my knees in the middle of a Walmart parking lot

[@SliminBlue]

I'm really hopeful that Box Critters does well. The same creator behind both, a similar vibe to both, but now Lance Priebe/Rocket Snail has WAY more experience making games and can make Box Critters the best product possible without the Disney "agenda" forcing crossovers into the game every other month and the absolute need to profit constantly. If Box Critters can become the Club Penguin 2 that never was, I'll be very happy. We need to honor Club Penguin's legacy in some way, and with fan run private servers being controversial to say the least, Box Critters may be the best way to do that.

[@crusadingcomrade8873]

I remember growing up with club penguin, I had left by the time there was the more blatant Disney additions, but I still enjoyed every minute of it. Also abbreviating Club Penguin as c p made a lot of the sentences sound off, especially if taken out of context... Though all it did was make me laugh :)

[@armorbearer9702]

You have a strong point about how the game stopped innovating. This is especially true in terms of the minigames. Why could Disney not come up with new tracks in Cart Surfer or new areas for the Ice Fish minigame.

[@Tempest-jc3me]

This one has been a long time coming. The death of this icon with never be forgotten. Also in regards to Disney targeting CP reworks feels the same as Cartoon Network targeting FusionFall reworks. If they were in it for the money they would just hire these people on and restart the franchise. They just do it because copyright laws can be total BS sometimes, and they are salty that someone else did a better job then they could.

[@dullsunrise8820]

Already feeling the nostalgia thanks to the thumbnail alone :”)

[@atlaslcv6062]

This game was a big part of my life in 2008 - 2010. I loved it. Before it was disconnected, I played it around 2017.

[@StandardGaming]

I'm logged in to New Club Penguin as this premiers so I feel like some sort of penguin necromancer

[@Catspirit123]

Oh man I played this so much back in the day. It was such a cute little game and I was really sad to hear when it closed. Having a safe online space to socialize is a good experience for kids in the internet age to have imo.

[@RoyaLotad]

This game raised me better than my biological dad did.

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

REAL

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

he'll add my entire biological faimily in there to 😅 To be fair I was given up willingly

[@MrFrigid247]

watching this and realizing I actually remember playing penguin football chat, and when club penguin originally launched on miniclip. As a kid penguins were my favorite animal, it was so crazy when club penguin came out, it was like they had made a game just for me. Seeing what has become of it really breaks my heart. I swear every year of adulthood another part of my childhood dies.

[@dawgwiddaglasses]

F. Waddle on, my boyos.

[@Lansze]

me listening to this video in public:

[@Cecekcz]

Step 1: try not to cry Step 2: cry a lot

[@Chessrook44]

I still wait to see you do a video on UruLive, a Myst MMO (Yes, a puzzle MMO) that actually died at least twice before currently continuing on in a fan-run server that is officially endorsed by the developers themselves. AND STILL GETS UPDATED.

[@nekipeh7373]

Man, i miss playing card-jitsu games and exploring newly added places on map...

[@CarlolucaS]

I beg you all to not abreviate Clup Penguin.

[@TasteTh3Rambo]

I’m surprised Disney hasn’t tried to make a CP movie yet. I feel like it’s a no brainer.

[@dannylopez5976]

Love putting your content on at work. Perfect for tedious work, with a story of famous or infamous games.

[@Big-Chungus21]

Its weird to think that Club Penguin hasnt existed for almost 7 years now. It was a massive part of my childhood, and I do miss it a bit. Some of the other games from my childhood like Skoodle or Skooville have been mostly forgotten, it was a website / game that primary schools would sign you up to in the UK.

[@NPGLAMB]

Club penguin journey is as good as rewritten and it has no ads.

[@badabingbing474]

My friends and i bonded by watching CP videos on utube back in the day.

[@panduvandal]

(O.O)

[@kzhasimp3018]

Me loving Club Penguin as a kid is probably the reason I'm so attached to this other game called Sky. The game is simple as Club Penguin was, with the feature of customizing your avatar and the main feature of the game being a social MMO. These two share those feats, alongside some kind of big world but that is also built by rooms in some way. Club Penguin was really important to me in my childhood and seeing how it fell down makes me rather sad.

[@Kylohn]

According to the community manager at the time, the team pitched a new game in the world op CP which got greenlit, only for CPI to shut down 2 months later and the team being fired

[@thatguywesmaranan]

nerdslayer: "disney..." ah, case closed...

[@herekongato]

I was a very little kid when this game was popular and i didnt quite speak english back then. I remember i couldnt do like anything in the game, i managed to try 2 really bad minigames in a few hours. Then i went back to play a good and intuitive pc game like half life or counter strike.😂

[@Gartneren1234]

The number of things that Disney has manged to milk dry and than abandon are frightening and fascinating at the same time.

[@sliightdriizzle6011]

playing this game as my parents screamed at each other before their divorce was peak childhood

[@hadoukenfighter]

Hyena's already? that has got to the fastest death of any game i've seen.

[@CL.Drumming]

Cp was said too many times here's man I felt uncomfortable by the end lmao

[@MrSoso1050]

stop thinking about child po*n sir

[@NumbHydro]

​@@MrSoso1050Your pfp says the contrary.

[@MrSoso1050]

@@NumbHydro how

[@NumbHydro]

@MrSoso1050 Well, you are gonna keep distorting my words, what is the complete image for this anyways? Also weebs=cp.

[@MrSoso1050]

@@NumbHydro complete image? you are looking at the entire image, I only drew a head because I needed a pfp lol

[@sirrealgaming6913]

Every time you acronymed Club Penguin it made me laugh XD Having said that youtube's bots might take that for another word w/o context You might wanna reupload after changing that for peace of mind juuuuust incase

[@ZalvoTFT]

If the Death of a Game video makes me sad. Then it really proves how much that game means to me :(

[@brycevo]

This and Gaia were my favorite online games when I was younger

[@JynxedKoma]

The amount of times I got banned from this game as a child, LOL.

[@addict3276]

Club Penguin has a very unfortunate acronym especially for a childs game.

[@ikereckart7193]

you calling Club Penguin "CP" makes me uncomfortable

[@EnzedDev]

You need to rinse your brain if thats what you think about

[@FrostyMantleM]

Shout out to the time I was actually able to get one of those "free item generators" to work and hacked a Red Lei for my penguin. Good old days.

[@Tortoiseshel]

I don't know why I'm on such a Club Penguin kick lately, I've never even played it (I was a Toontown kid) but all these videos that have been coming out about it lately are just so fascinating to me.

[@DACrowley]

When "CP" makes things awkward out of context

[@CYXNIGHT]

They're fighting Herbert in heaven my little pengwads

[@terencepaul7475]

Oh no, i wasnt ready to see this, the memories man, the friends i made in that game, now its gone 😭

[@mr.batman1796]

Im 18 and I fr miss this game, even now I would play it when I don't have stuff to do, kinda sad that rewritten got shut down because it was the only good "copy"

[@kakkershaw]

I've heard you talk about this title a lot over the years so it's cool to see it reviewed. I missed this one for some reason as a kid.

[@ToniToniToniToni]

I LOVE CLUB PENGUIN! Club Penguin will live on forever and ever, it will never die, in 50 years there will still be club penguin and even if there's no internet by then for some reason, we will group up and play club penguin as a tabletop.

[@prototype0z19athesaturdaym9]

I remember playing this mmo game back in the day, me and my younger brother would usually asked my mom to create accounts for us, (because i didn't have my own google account at the time) we only have 7 days to wadding around the game. Until that last weekend. It was the last day of this game, i remember seeing ton of videos of bunch players gathering saying farewell to each other. After the shutdown of club penguin, i created my own google account. To this day i still have the permission slip of my club penguin account in my email.

[@aeonstrife147]

Wild hearing "The Magic of CP" 💀

[@lilmoris1]

Club Penguin is a wound that us now 30 year old dudes will never recover from...

[@zintosion]

Man this was such a nostalgia bomb. WADDLE ON!

[@ScarlexP]

I really enjoyed the heck out of Club Penguin but I noticed they eventually locked more and more content behind membership even old minigames like the jetpack one. I clearly remembered I was able to play that from start to finish but when I came to to play it again sometime later, they locked the rest of the levels. As a kid back then, my parents do not really trust purchasing membership online. So I was stuck waddling around and slowly losing more stuff to do and eventually moved on to Runescape.

[@isaiasvargas2515]

Internet has ruined me. Was laughing the whole video

[@sillerbarly4927]

I spent most of my early childhood on clup penguin. I rember those days trying to uncover hidden rooms on the map, or even try to tip that Ice burg. Unfortunately i left club penguin some time around when the dinosaur event ended and before the star wars event started. I never got the chance to log on one more time to see them finally tip the iceberg and see the send off. In fact i did not know it was shutdown till 2020

[@brunoyudi9555]

i cracked every time you said "cp" lol

[@kjax139]

I’ve always wondered what killed this. Never knew

[@VeryRGOTI]

Is it possible for you to make a video about Growtopia? it used to be a beloved childhood MMO i grew up with, but nowadays it's become a shell of its former self. There are many sources you can look into, that can help with investigating the death of Growtopia too! I've yet to see a big channel speak about the game.

[@Rhewin]

I feel like you said "turn of the century" to describe 2000 to make me feel old >.>

[@PiroKUSS]

This one's gonna hurt. Waddle on, fellas.

[@Crzypengu]

Just found this video. Overall a very good and informative video on one of the biggest MMOs of all time. The game meant a whole lot to me and I have even visited the Studio back in 2017. Great video and I look forward to watching more of your videos on other video games.

[@yarr_bro]

Excellent video on a nostalgic title from many childhoods. I’ll always be thankful for the memories the game provided me.

[@treiz01]

The studio behind Club Penguin was local to me. I know some people who got paid the big cash money when Disney bought them out.

[@lnb3692]

24 minutes of life for me to relive. Amazing video essay.

[@averagewhiteguy2]

When I played Club Penguin as a kid, I think I had a blatant misunderstanding as to what the game was. I NEVER used any of the social aspects. I just played the mini-games a lot and took care of puffles. I also played the Wii game. And to me, that felt pretty similar to how I played the PC game. But since I never used the social aspect for the PC game, I quit after about a year or year and a half. I'm surprised pre-teen me spent so long in Club Penguin without doing anything social.

[@Super1337hung]

Used to play club penguin and do ninja challenges for the badges and outfits, good times.

[@ani-no2wh]

the intro animation is everything

[@sabate1194]

Always preferred Puffin Party, great way to chill out after a day riding on Rubber Dinghy Rapids at Alton Towers

[@lyvekis8824]

Hui, is the next case "Hyenas"? The game from Sega and Creative Assembly that got scrapped before it even fully released?

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

ding ding ding

[@N12015]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss Oh, I wanted it to be fortnite

[@bjorn-falkoandreas9472]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss Might wanna be careful about what footage you include. As I said yesterday, CA tried to strike Volund for that "mood video" by Neill Blomcamp. They are currently on a scorched earth mission. If it is true that their marketing dept mostly told Sega what they wanted to hear, I can only imagine how personal Sega does take it. And they will have a spokesperson at CA. And that somebody is currently fighting for dear life. Which can easily make you collateral damage. This is very, very raw for management at CA. The meltdown is becoming more and more public with each fired person. Edit: Finding somebody formerly inside should be no trouble at all. They seem to speak to LegendOfTotalwar and Volund the most. It is not pretty.

[@nerdSlayerstudioss]

No developer has tried to come at me in such a way but if they would like to I would openly welcome such hostilities. It's horrible publicity for them. Because my job is to preserve games and their significance that's it.

[@lyvekis8824]

@@nerdSlayerstudioss I remember CA going after a bunch of Warhammer creators, too. They can be very vicious if they want to.

[@danielheflin6658]

Okay, I just put it together. You, like me, also used to stay up to/wake up at like 5 fucking am with adult swim on and would watch that same stupid awesome show where you'd basically never actually be able to solve it using the clues the show itself gave. God, great show.

[@danielheflin6658]

CASE CLOSED

[@TheMentalgen]

I think a Whirled episode could make for a decent short watch. It was a flash based social chat room like CP, but everyone could upload their own avatars made with flash.

[@m4rt_]

I loved playing Club Penguin as a kid, and to be honest, I was a little obsessed with it. So when it shut down, even though I hadn't played it a lot in the few years prior, I was still very upset about it. It felt like I had lost a part of my childhood. When they launched Club Penguin Island, I didn't have a mobile device that supported the game, so I was unable to play it, but eventually it released on PC. When I eventually tried it, I realized how stripped down the free to play experience was compared to the original game. It felt like it was a cash grab for Disney to try to squeeze all they could from the IP. You could essentially only walk around and chat. Though closer to the shut down of the game, they had unlocked more features for the free to play players, but at that point they had alienated most of their fanbase already. Currently I play on some private servers from time to time, but it doesn't entirely feel like it's the same. This is likely because they are essentially just hosting the original game, it feels like it's frozen in time, though maybe with some small updates here and there. Also, the playerbase is not as big as it used to, so it can be hard to fully enjoy parts of the game that required interactions with other players.

[@thatguynobodywants3716]

"You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it"

[@TheInfamousCloaker]

The most weird thing that was never brought up was that another company that was in talks about buying club penguin before Disney was Sony, I wonder what the timeline where Sony bought club penguin instead of Disney would have looked like.

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

As much as I'd hate to admit it, but that reference to The Far Side took me back, as I never played this game. Old and all

[@taida_9105]

The amount of time i played with the OG CP as a kid, is making me laugh. But i will hold into those memories as long as i can. RIP

[@JcgLounge]

Man I miss Club Penguin. The first online game I actually was invested in.

[@zerohcrows]

damn this was such a throwback. thanks for the video and great nuance when talking on the private servers !!

[@amaldeep3791]

Rip. This game made my childhood awesome it's been 15 year,i missed the game alot🥹

[@SquidGains]

Just call it Club Penguin 😂

[@JaKeBoT4416]

I remember playing so much of the ninja card game thing as a kid. Good times such a nostalgia trip.

[@Ceimash]

Club penguin helped me to see that I am not a guy who can have 2 girlfriends.

[@Fallensuperior]

This was legit my childhood. I would beg my parents for membership every month and grind the mine cart game for gold lmao

[@PenguinDT]

No matter the genre or media, there's one formula to rule them all; if (CaseInvolves(Disney)) { reason = Disney; }

[@lavenderlemons888]

Love your vids! Would be cool to see your take on habbo hotel. I remember CP and HH were the two big social games when I was a kid.

[@TheGonkDroid]

I would love to the death of a game: Pirates of the Caribbean Online

[@mizeeinhorizons]

The only browser game that I can think of that survived is Animal Jam with National Geographic I think it’s due to its trading system and rarity of items which keeps it going and many players keeping on long term memberships through multiple accounts for storage and etc.

[@chuckd4sho]

I love CP🤩🤩🐧🐧

[@user-un2pf4ht9l]

🤨

[@Mrflappyyexpress]

Who is going to tell him

[@rikku942]

...

[@HVVVVVVVV]

👮‍♀️

[@ricojes]

hella sus

[@dosluchadores]

Its so funny to hear an Ad of skin care in a videogame channel lol

[@gabrielsch8292]

wake up babe, new nerdslayer upload