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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Penguin Chat 3


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 "www.clubpenguin.com" instead. Penguin Chat 3 can still be played here, but it isn't technically the original one.





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 weren't any 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 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 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.





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.
It is unknown is you could Multi-Login.

Copyright: Clubpenguin wikia

Penguin Chat?




Penguin Chat, was an online game which eventually became Club Penguin. It was origionally on the rocketsnail website, but was taken down so players would be confused between Club Penguin and Penguin Chat. Still, you can play it at http://www.penguinchat.com/


There were 3 areas players could visit:




The Snow Room


A plain white room, but very popular because most players are first sent here when logged in.




North Pole
The North Pole is similar the Snow Room, except it has a red and white striped pole on one side of it. If you clicked the pole, then walked, your Penguin would change. This was put up for a unknow reason.


Crash Site
The Crash Site is a room that is next to a frozen lake. It has a Snow Cat with rockets next to the lake.


Differences

There aren't any moderators

You can swear

You cannot report people

There aren't any games

All in all, Club penguin is much better

CopyR: Club Penguin Wikia

Chronological History of Club Penguin


This gives a very factual history of Club Penguin going in chronological order.

1984
Dave Krysko, one of the three founders of Club Penguin (CP), opens a business called New Horizon Productions (NHP). This business specializes in video production and editing services. NHP becomes New Horizons Interactive in 2005, the company that launches Club Penguin.

1995
Lane Merrifield, the second of the three CP founders, starts working at Disneyland in southern California, an experience Lane mentions in articles that is important to the shaping of the ideals of Club Penguin.


October 1999
Lance Priebe, the third of the three CP founders, starts up an online gaming business called
RocketSnail Games.

July 2000
A very early online multi-user communication program called
Experimental Penguins, developed by Lance Priebe, first appears on RocketSnail. This chat program is a very early functioning prototype of the future Club Penguin service.


September 15, 2000
Experimental Penguins wins its first award, the
Cool Site of the Day.

September 30, 2000
The
RocketSnail website mentions that in the last month Experimental Penguins has received more than “25,000 visitors spending an average of 20 minutes each” using the game.

July 2001
Experimental Penguins


July 2001
An updated version of Experimental Penguin gets its own website. This new version of Eperimental Penguin is renamed
Penguin Chat.


January 2003
Public testing of Penguin Chat begins.

2003
A recent
article I came across which mentions when the three founders from Club Penguin came up with the idea for the online business:
“The seeds of the idea for Club Penguin were planted when Lane Merrifield, Dave Krysko and Lance Priebe got together in 2003. Prior to that, Lance Priebe had been developing web-based games in his spare time while working for Dave Krysko at New Horizon Productions, a corporate video and multi-media production company. When New Horizon Productions hired Lane Merrifield as a sales representative these three innovators saw a unique business opportunity. Merrifield, Krysko and Priebe combined their business, creative and technical skills to come up with the idea for a kid-friendly social networking site that they would let their own children use without worry.”


April 2004
RocketSnail develops a kids’ safe version of Penguin Chat for the company
KidZap

January 2005
New Horizon Productions launches its new website as
New Horizons Interactive (NHI). Projects found in their portfolio include two orthographic room building tools, a component often found in online social networking experiences. One tool for designing a wine cellar and another for building a park. The New Horizon office comtinues to be located in Kelowna, British Columbia and the NHI “start up” receives no venture capital financing.


October 24, 2005
The first
Club Penguin site is launched through NHI.

May 2007
NHI begins discussions with a number of companies to find a strategic partner who would acquire Club Penguin and provide support for even greater expansion of the Club Penguin service. Press announcements report that NHI made $60 million in revenues from CP for 2006.


June 22, 2007
The RocketSnail website closes.

August 1, 2007
Disney and NHI announce that Disney will be acquiring Club Penguin for $350 million in cash and an additional $350 million in earn outs if Club Penguin hits certain performance targets by 2009. It’s announced that Club Penguin has 12 million registered members and has over 700,000 paid subscribers to its service. Also announced is that Club Penguin expects to make $35 million in profit off revenues of $65 million within 2007.