About, the History of and the Guide to CLUB PENGUIN

BETA TESTER

During the beta stages of Club Penguin’s development, anyone could sign up to be a beta tester. Beta testers received special benefits upon the official release of Club Penguin, including a month of paid membership, coins and a pink and yellow party hat.

PLACES IN CLUB PENGUIN

Club Penguin is divided into various rooms and distinct areas. Many game locations can be accessed by clicking on the Club Penguin map. Some places are reached by clicking their general area on the map and then walking the penguin to the specific location. Other places are only available for access on certain days or at certain times.

Each player is provided with an igloo for a home. Members have the option of opening their igloo so other penguins can access it via the map, under “Member Igloos”. Members may also purchase larger igloos and decorate their igloos with items bought with virtual coins earned by playing mini-games.

ROOMS IN CLUB PENGUIN

The Town: Coffee Shop (book room), Night Club (dance lounge), Gift Shop

The Plaza: Pet Shop, The Stage, The Pizza Parlour

The Cove

Forest (treehouse during Medieval Party 08)

The Snow Forts: Ice Rink

The Dock

The Beach: Lighthouse (beacon), Rockhoppers Ship

Ski Village: Ski Lodge, Sport Shop

Mountain

The Dojo (hidden)

Mine (hidden): Cave (pool)

Iceberg (hidden)

Rockhopper’s Ship (not always available): Captain’s Quarters, Ship Hold, Main Deck, Crow’s Nest

Party Rooms: Treehouse (during Medieval Party of May 2008), Whale Inflatable (during Water Party of June 2008) and VIP Backstage (during the Music Jam Party of July 2008)

HISTORY OF THE STAGE IN CLUB PENGUIN

NOVENBER 2007:

Space Adventure

Theme: Space

DECEMBER 2007:

Twelfth Fish

Theme: Shakespeare

JANUARY 2008:

Squidzoid vs. Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal

Theme: Super Heroes

FEBRUARY 2008:

Team Blue’s Rally Debut

Theme: Basketball

MARCH 2008:

Space Adventure

Theme: Space/Adventure

APRIL 2008:

Quest for the Golden Puffle

Theme: Adventure

MAY 2008:

12th Fish

Theme: Adventure

HISTORY:

Before Club Penguin, there was something called Penguin Chat (2005). You used to be able to play it on rocketsnail.com (Yes, that’s what rsnail stands for), but as of now, they have closed down the site so everyone visits Clubpenguin.com instead. Penguin Chat 3 was very fun, to tell you the truth.

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 home 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. Oh, and it snowed in the Town!

And 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 up in another bigger area of snow with a pretty blue sky. In this specific area, you might see a bunch of penguins in snowcats (look it up in dictionary) 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). And 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 but I can’t remember what they were.

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 thing with the speakers (but there were Speakers there). And 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). And 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. It would also snow sometimes in the Town.

The Coffee shop was somewhat boring, there was no upper level, and you couldn’t play Bean Counter there. Back then, everyone used to pretend they were Coffee shop waiters.

Well as we all know NINJAS ARE REAL. You can become a Ninja with the New Card-Jitsu Game.

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, it also took me a long time to figure this out when I first started playing, no one would tell me). 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 transparent/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 didn’t really get a Hard hat, you just wore one). And if you danced, you would be drilling the ground. And if you went into the middle snow fields, you’d be driving a snowcat, WOOT!

As for the Gift shop, if you tried walking into it, you’d be transported to a page in Rocketsnail.com where you can buy merchandise like real life keychains and T-shirts (using real life money though, Penguin Chat didn’t have coins, remember?).

And that’s just about all there was to Penguin Chat 3 (that used to be playable at rocketsnail.com).

Now here’s the sad part. One day, the Rocket Snail team announced they were creating something called Club Penguin. When I went to the site clubpenguin.com, all that was on its site was the logo and it said it was Under Construction. Then they closed Penguin chat for a while, so I had nothing to do but play Mancala, Ballistic Biscuit, and a few other games on rsnail.com

After waiting the rest of the summer for Club Penguin, I finally stopped checking the site everyday. When I looked again in late October, I had missed the grand opening, the Beta tests, and everything else. I’m pretty sure I made accounts but I can’t remember the names or email addresses anymore.

Also, there was a Club Penguin BETA testing. That was basically to try out the new Club Penguin beforehand. Beta testers got one month of free Club Penguin membership, they got to keep their party hat from the very first Club Penguin party ever, and a certain amount of coins (2,000).

Just a few more things before I let you go, no ninja myths are true! There’s one myth out there that says if you don’t move in the dojo for 30 minutes but stay logged on by talking and chatting, you’ll be a ninja. Don’t listen to those lies! Its just to waste your time! I knew it was a lie from the moment I heard it, and now I’ve tested it out just to prove it to you and nothing happened! (You can check it out yourself if you want to waste a half hour…)

And, last, you can check the Club Penguin Official Blog Archives for all old blog posts from Club Penguin ever since April 2005 here: http://blog.clubpenguin.com/archives/2005_08_01_archive.html

EVENTS

2005

• Club Penguin Opens

2006

• December – A wider selection of igloo music is introduced.
• December 2006 – A Christmas party happens during the Jolliest time of the year

2007

• Sometime in 2007 – Players are eligible to become tour guides
• April 13, 2007 – Stage added to lighthouse.
• April 27, 2007 – Ship Hold opened on the Migrator
• May 30, 2007 – Cove open to public. Contains binoculars which work similarly to the telescope in the Beacon
• Sometime in 2007 -The game catching waves gets 2 more levels
• Sometime in 2007 – Water party begins and umbrealla hat,A free item gets relased
• Sometime In June 2007 – A new item adds to the water party as it extends till next monday.Leaving a free items of blue water wings and umbrella hats.
• Sometime in 2007 – A new igloo contest is relased with the fishbowl ilgoo because the igloo contest was my life in a fish bowl!
• August 1, 2007 – Disney buys Club Penguin for $500 MILLION !! WOAH!!!
• October 26th – Golden Puffle spotted at Forest and Mountain at every half hour (alternating)

-Caitiecat12

Some of this text is from Watex’s Site.