In the beginning rocket snail made penguin chat 3 as a lot of penguins know he is the main founder of Clubpenguin.
There were no coins can you believe it!?
Penguin Chat:
Did you know that Clubpenguin was originally called penguin chat3!
As myself only started Clubpenguin last year, I thought that was un believable and that Clubpenguin was always called ‘ club penguin ‘ until I heard about penguin chat 3, I thought it was fake until I heard it from Teddy! I then thought that it would be awesome to put on fun facts, I knew it a while ago I just haven’t gotten around to it!
(most of the content below was copied from www.clubpenguin.wikia.com )
Originally it was Penguin chat3:
Producer Rocketsnail Games
Publisher Rocketsnail Games
Genre MMOG
Date released 2003
Penguin Chat 3 is the third installment to the Penguin Chat series, that was created by Rsnail. You used to be able to play it on "www.rocketsnail.com", but as of now, they have closed down the site so everyone visits "clubpenguin" instead. Penguin Chat 3.
Penguin Chat 3, was a free online MMOG, and therefore required no membership. There were no coins or any other way of earning currency, and the purpose of PC3 was to simply chat and have some fun.
Igloos
In PC3 there were no igloos, however one public one was later available in one of the empty rooms, which was also the new home of the PC3 Band.
Toolbar
In the toolbar, there was the chatbox, the snowball button, the actions button, a report button, the emotes button, a ‘Tell a Joke’ button, and the enter button. There was an arrow button that collapsed the chatbox to make the toolbar smaller. To change color, you would click a color change button on the chatbar, and select a different color. There was a chat history and report button on the upper left of the screen. Judging from the pictures found, there’s also a heart button and a musical note button. These are actually two emotes that are still on Club Penguin so I believe they were just 2 other emotes you can do. There seems to be a couple help buttons on the right of the toolbar as well (probably for technical assistance etc.).
Snowballs
Snowballs were also available in Penguin Chat 3, however the crosshair was different, and after aiming, the desired position may not be the one that occurs.
Ninja
Ninjas were secret in PC3. When you opened up the color select window, if you clicked the "n" in "Select Your New Penguin", a ninja color would pop out. Once you selected the ninja outfit as a color you’d have a black color, with a headband, belt, and sword on your back. Dancing would make it transparent, identical to dancing as a ninja in Club Penguin.
Construction Worker
You could also be a construction 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 that were 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). If you danced, you would be drilling the ground and if you went into the middle snow fields, you’d be driving a snowcat, a special form of transportation forever immortalized when it was once shown on the wall of the Pizza Parlor, and is a CP pop culture top subject, but was only available on Penguin Chat 3.
Trivia
• The songs that played in Penguin Chat 3 were, "I'm at 9933", "I've Been Delayed", and "Banana Phone".
• Many things from Penguin Chat 3 are in Club Penguin now.
Also, here are the original rooms!
Also, here is a remake of the login page
(photos will be uploaded soon)
Then, there was Penguin Football Chat:
Platform Browser
Producer Rocketsnail Games
Publisher Rocketsnail Games
Genre MMOG
Date released 2001
Penguin Football Chat (also known as Penguin Soccer Chat) is a unique version of Penguin Chat. Players are represented as a penguin avatar dressed in a football uniform with two numbers and colours of their choice. Unlike Penguin Chat, Penguin Football Chat has four rooms. The rooms in order are an upper-left to bottom-right diagonal field with red goals, an upper-right lower-left field with green goals, a field the same as the first field except that it has light blue goals, and a field the same as field two, but with black goals. However, these remain unnamed except for the fact that in the rooms menu, they are named with a number each. You can choose an outfit each time you log on. Everything you say appears in a small white box. When you log on, it says in the box, "[Your name] has entered the world" or, when you log off, "[Your name] has left the world"
It is called Penguin Football Chat, as the original name of the sport is "Football", while "Soccer" is said in North America.
Trivia
The message you get when your name is taken, or when you have a swear in your name.
Room 1 of Penguin Football Chat. Note the soccer ball.
• There is no swear filter on the game, making it possible to swear and not get a ban.
• Many penguins think that Hockey on Club Penguin came from Football Chat.
• Unlike Club Penguin, there are no moderators, although you may see moderator impersonators.
• There is a VERY high chance you'll see some penguins claiming to be famous.
• You don't really have a constant log in (no username or password), you can choose a different name every time you log in.
• Sometimes, if someone chooses an inappropriate name, it won't let you in.
• Unlike Penguin Chat and Club Penguin, you can create a username with one word, but contains both lowercase and capital letters, like "tEsT".
• Unlike Club Penguin, you can log in with two penguins at the same time, with the same computer.
• Not many people are aware of this game. There are not many Penguins playing this game anymore.
• You can choose the name rsnail in this game, but you need to use a uppercase "i" instead of a "l" at the end of the name.
• This game is similar to Club Penguin's Soccer Pitch.
• It is really hard to get the ball in the goal.’
Here are a couple of pictures from Penguin Football Chat
(photos will be uploaded soon)
Then, there was Experimental penguins, a game similar to Penguin Chat 3:
Producer Rocketsnail Games
Publisher Rocketsnail Games
Genre MMOG
Date released 2000
Experimental Penguins is an old game from 2000, which was believed to have started Club Penguin. It was a multi player Game/Chat, similar to Club Penguin and Penguin Chat 3, and it was made around the time of Rocketsnail.
You could choose a name and be a default color, default colors included black, blue, green & red. Little is known about Experimental Penguins since there are not any pictures of gameplay. From the icon they put next to it on Rocketsnail.com, it seems that there was dynamite (explosives) and Snow Cats (vehicles) which soon made their way into Penguin Chat.
Experimental Penguins only stayed up for a few months but it got several awards. It closed down, and then Penguin Chat came along. During Experimental Penguins, there was a game being worked on for it called Snowblasters. The game was never finished before they put up Penguin Chat.
Trivia
• Unlike Penguin Chat, players couldn't swear.
• It was made by rsnail.
• You can now play Experimental Penguins by going here.
Again, some pics from experimental penguins
(photos will be uploaded soon)
And now, we have Club Penguin,
Just a bit of info
Producer New Horizon Inc.
Publisher Disney
Genre MMOG
Date released 2005
If you missed out on the previous fun fact, you can find it in the archives column!
Until February 2nd, Waddle On!
Indy Luva and Teddy2tie
