Izzy please don't be worried about posting content that's "too boring" or "too obscure." You could literally post a video talking about the history of ketchup and I'd still get excited🤩
It is completely possible that, if not for this video, SuperSecret may never have been mentioned again. So, by making videos like these, you are immortalizing these obscure MMOs. I think that's totally worth doing videos for them.
I'm 20 but wasn't allowed online unmonitored until i was 13-14, so these obscure internet videos make me feel really included in a time of the internet I'm sad I missed out on
I agree its sad people missed these but the internet is a wild place. I'm 13 and was allowed unmonitored online since I Was 9 and things did Not go well for me. It's probably not the worst thing you weren't allowed unmonitored initially? But hey, we're both here now and finding this bygone era! :D
I can relate, my mom wouldn't let me go online ever until covid hit and I needed a computer for virtual learning and a way to play with my friends (tho tbh I'm actually glad she was protective since I've seen Izzy's videos on AJ and MSP and I can completely understand why now)
@@Nova-bv5qb2 years older than you and went on more earlier. The internet has ruined me. Honestly the fact that i can say that i got to play roblox as a guest has got to be a badge of honor. Anyways, id assume it be pretty easy for you to calculate your age
I actually had a family member who worked on this game as an artist. I have NEVER met anyone irl who played it despite my sisters and I desperately trying to make it successful for his sake 😂 Genuinely it’s so insane to see someone else talk about it
Does anyone remember Zwinky? It was definitely that "edgy tween" demographic but with a paper doll sort of vibe, and I absolutely gave my public library malware by downloading it.
I’ve heard of that but I only played Zwinky Cuties meant for kids under 13 the only pet you could get without shelling out real money was a goldfish…I never actually played Zwinky because by the time I was 13 I had moved on
this content is NOT disinteresting, it’s important! all of these games, as crunchy and ridiculous as they are, are art. especially one day when even more internet history of these games go missing, these are important archives. i’m sure twenty years from now, phd students and video game nerds alike will only have content like this to have source material for most games, especially flash games! i’ve read about how many games will totally go forgotten because of the loss of flash, or obsolescence of other formats. this is important to a lot of people!!
Yes!! Game archiving is hugely important, and more often than not the developers and publishers don't care to assist with the effort, at least not in any publicly accessible way. And with the industry becoming easier and easier to get into, especially in the mobile sector, it is not humanly feasible to direct professional archival efforts to every game. So if there's some incredibly niche game you care about, whether it's already lost or not, do your part to preserve its history in whatever way you can. You might be the only person who ever makes that effort, but odds are if you care about that game, you're *not* the only person who cares enough to remember it.
oh boy supersecret fills me with bittersweet nostalgia lol. i remember when it was a 2d game, the art style was so mystical and colourful, and the soundtracks were sooo good!! i loved collecting all the different hairstyles and outfits, and reading the characters' dialogues from quests and item's description was fun as a kid learning english lol. i was so sad when they 'turned' it into a 3d game. the magic was lost. 😥
@@solarmoth4628 haha yes, I remember the random items you can get just by clicking at the objects around you 😆 13 year old me had so much fun exploring the game, despite its simplicity the 3d version was so lacklustre, stripped away of all the charm that the 2d version had. I logged in only once after the major overhaul, then instantly noped out of the game
Growing up as a midwestern American kid in a town of less than 2000 people, I can confirm that hanging out in the woods is just something teenagers do.
Yeah, grew up in a town of about 3,500 people and you would just. Run out into the woods idk. Teachers tried to stop us but they weren't very successful 😭 I spent most of my high school in a city of maybe 70,000 so it didn't las tlong though, but i loved that school so I'm not thay sad about it lol
Ye, if u live in a small town/village you just go to walk around the forest lonely casue its a cool thing to do, I recently bought a bow and fire at stumps
Idk if this website counts as “obscure” but I think it kinda fits: Scratch the coding website for kids. I remember people using it to post art and stuff on there as well as games. There was also tons of drama like the 3.0 update, unnecessary bans and art theft. If you could do a video on it that would be great :)
Izzy, i feel like you are the only one who could do this justice. But does anyone remember Bella Sara? It was a trading card game with magical horses, unicorns, pegasus, etc. There was also a corresponding website where you could take care of the horses on the cards, decorate your house, play a bunch of flash games and I was obsessed with it! At some point they stopped selling the cards and the site is broken now and I've always wondered what exactly happened to the line. I feel like this topic is right up Izzy's alley and they're the only person who could make a proper video about Bella Sara! Maybe a future video idea you'd be interested in?
this is so crazy. i remember playing the old super secret! i never bought a membership so i was only ever the maximum free age of 12. there was a mission that you did for a hair stylist and it unlocked a blue hairstyle which was a BIG DEAL because you couldnt get an non-naturally occuring hairstyles until your character was 13. it's so cool that you made a video about this. thank you for unlocking some memories!
the 3d version was my favorite game as a kid for a few years. i was obsessed. how obsessed???? let me tell you: i was in absolute LOVE with the hamburger guy. i have no idea if he had this name or i invented it, but i called him ryan. and at some point i thought i would get pregnant from how much i was in love w him. thank you SO much for bringing back this memory in the middle of my finals month cause now i get to stare into the void and think abt how insane i was abt ryan instead of actually studying😭😭😭😭😭😭🫶🫶🫶🫶
I misread this badly to the point I thought you said you felt you were impregnating Ryan from how much you loved him and went "Yeah sounds about right"
Animal Jam's still up and running, actually! It's obviously not as popular as it was, and the company's a bit of a hot mess at the moment, but... it's still here...!
I swear Izzzy's videos take me back to the obscure things I played as a kid. Would absolutely kill for a video on UBFunkeys, Littlest Pet Shop Online (LPSO), and Bearville
7:05 "fancy pants adventures" and "low budget flash games" should never be in the same sentence, those masterpieces are on Pizza Tower's level of quality
The quote from Tony Espinoza at 6:31, likely refers to 'vehicles for conversation'. Youth workers especially love to use this term. It basically refers to driving a conversation with the use of an activity rather than just simply sitting down and talking. As an Autistic person, I find the concept very useful to keep in mind for life in general, as it's much less awkward to try to socialise with people when you are doing something together.
As a Jumpstart World Girlie, I screamed seeing the ripped area assets and when you mentioned it lol. Despite the AGGRESSIVE microtransactions, I loved that game. The Dragons area especially, like you mentioned! Also, I'd like to come forward with a request. With all the talk on your channel about dead-in-the-water virtual worlds, has FaunaSphere ever crossed your mind? It was my favorite and was based on recycling as a gimmick. Insanely strange from memory, but a stand-out game in the deep recesses of my childhood.
Izzy is for real the only channel that makes videos about history of various stuff without making me bored like Izzy could literally make a video about the entire history of Roman Empire and i'd still eat it up with big interest
THIS VIDEO UNLOCKED MEMORIES FOR ME. My sister and I were OBSESSED with JumpStart as kids, so eventually we played SuperSecret as well. I specifically remember her buying us membership for it and I have no idea how, but we were stuck with membership until the game shut down. Also half the time we were bored af and just glitching ourselves out of bounds for fun lmao
I remember this game! I used to play it all the time, but wasn't able to get past age 12 bc I couldn't pay for it- but I still had a lot of fun designing and redesigning my character through different 'phases' of her life!
a few months ago i remembered duck life and decided i'd play all of them again and remembered why i stopped playing when i got to the weird humanoid ones 😭
@lemonywater2979 in duck life evolution they start to grow human legs and run like people. Their bodies also look like a person's but their head stays a duck head which I think is even worse
omg THANK YOU i played the old version as a kid/tween and loved it so much! i was definitely part of the old fans that hated the new version with jumpstart cause it removed all the uniqueness and charm, and the old art style reminded me of like a 2000s teen show lol. but no one knows about it either it’s such a shame. it was so fun exploring and decorating my room and growing up my character lmao
SuperSecret was one of my favorite mmo's growing up. The aging up aspect felt REALLY rewarding, I was hooked for a year or so. I have a very vague memory of making a lot of friends and throwing a big party in my "room", it made me think I was a hot shot. Thankfully I grew out of ithe game before it transitioned to 3D, but I was still pretty upset about it when I found out.
@@cometkeiko theres a lot of cool roblox and smaller games that are really about the same. only real change is theres a lot more mobile "games" that scam you for energy and gems
My "am I literally the only person who remembers this" kid/tween MMO was Bearville (originally Build-A-Bearville) that took up my entire life as a 10 year old. It was the only game I had 'membership' on (because I had a Build A Bear that could be registered in the game) and I played it to death, from the fishing for rare items to being way too competitive for my team for the annual camping event. It was definitely filled up with US/UK players but whenever my friends and I talk about playing Club Penguin or on the MyScene website, I'm the lone weirdo who played a virtual Build A Bear game...
Yoooo I adored this game, it was probably my fav MMO outside of Binweevils and MSP. I was devasted when I found out the shut it down there was soooo many mini games and stuff to do plus I could keep my bunny (literally my favourite stuffed animal for years) around with me in a lil backpack 😭😭
Oh my god, I forgot about that one! I played it too, and all the mini-games they had on the other site(?). I must have been pretty young, I don't remember it as well as like, Club Penguin and Pixie Hollow and such.
As a kid I just remember being amazed how pretty the backgrounds were in the original game were. When jumpstart just turned it into teen Jumpstart Online (complete with reusing assets and entire areas) I was absolutely crushed.
i still remember the devastation when i logged onto the site and saw the redesign. it was by far one of my biggest tween betrayals. one of my biggest regrets was never getting to solve every mystery from the original game, but seeing the art again made my day. this and the barbie girls mmo were such a fun chunk of my childhood
Me too, man.. I really miss it. I remember the game's inbox was in the shape of a cellphone and I was very impressed by it back then. I visited the site one day as well, to revisit my fond memories of the game and it's relaxing music but found that horrible overhaul of nightmares instead
I would love to see a tier list of all of the mmo’s that you played as a kid, that would be a way for you to cover them without having to dedicate a whole video to an obscure on with little information on it. It would also show us what kinds of them that you really liked as a kid. Keep up the good work, Izzy!!
Honestly School of Dragons was my favorite MMO. Despite its name it had nothing to do with school and while it wasn’t technically an open world game you could fly around on the back of a dragon that you customized which is everything I ever wanted as a kid. My fondest memory has to be taking advantage of the “20 free gems if you recruit someone to play!” system they had by making 10s of throwaway Gmail accounts and signing them all up for the game. Did not know it was conncected to Jumpstart of all things though.
@@mouldy_burnt_toast9588 i heard it was because they can't afford the httyd lisence from dreamworks anymore. still heartbreaking though. i'm gonna miss my monstrous nightmare and my goofy ass sandwraith
This video unlocked memories of playing some weird little MMO on girlsgogames that had no real gameplay, just walking around and chatting in a server with very few english speakers. I vaguely remember you could also find and drive a car around the map that had pretty funny physics, like going over a small hill sent you flying. I have no idea why I spent so much time on it as a kid, it was just this weird little game that was unlike anything else I had access to at the time.
I played the older version as a kid and I was obsessed! The old art style was so unique and charming, and I remember being upset when jumpstart took over.
Every time Izzzy points out something like flying was behind a paywall and yet she has memories of doing it, makes me wonder how much she spent on MMOs as a kid. Awesome video btw, always love your content.
I THOUGHT THIS GAME WAS A FEVER DREAM, once I kept talking about it and seemingly no one knew what I was talking about lol thank you random Redditor who solved what the name was and lead me here
I have been waiting for this video forever. I absolutely adored the old super secret as a kid and was heartbroken when they killed it. I am sad more people didn't have the chance to play it. At the time though the "underground" nature of it added to the charm for me, a preteen. There were all kinds of mysteries to solve and the entire game had secret rooms, hidden passageways, and a strange melancholic tone to it. If I remember correctly A lot of the mysteries were surprisingly dark about kidnapping and runaways. Also the background paintings for the rooms were so incredibly beautiful and detailed, and the illustrations for all the food items were so interesting and unique. It was weirdly ethereal all around.
yes! Im trying to remember the dark lore, but don't remember it super well. I remember there were quests like the club penguin spy stuff, one of them I remember you could fail and people would drown. If you failed, time would canonically rewind? Idk. I have some screenshots of some of the levels somewhere because I was "scraping the assets to make my own game". I had no concept of copyright lol.
I normally don't comment but I wanted to let you know I really enjoyed your content! I've spent the last couple of days watching all of your videos and think the topics you talk on are so cool, thank you introducing me to cool pieces of the internet!! Also I love all your Garfield stuff
Izzzyzzz, you have a knack for exploring the most interesting sites/topics that have been buried within my mind for years. Absolutely forgot this game existed. I have a vivid memory of playing this game and a grown man PMing me asking for my AIM and other personal info. So wild that I never logged on again! Thank you for helping me find and remember so many different games/subjects!
Izzys just like me fr.. All I ever did when I was a kid was looked up "Top mmos" and tried everything on that list. Also I'd love for you to cover more! I love these mmo vids
Oh my god I’m so excited to watch this!!! I played the original 2d version of the game RELIGIOUSLY until my parents banned me from it bc someone said “he//“ in the chat to bypass swear filters. By the time I got back online it was 3d (and worse in my opinion) and I was barely able to find any trace of the old game. Ty for doing these deep dives into our childhoods!
uh this is a weird ask, but have you ever heard of greetings workshop? It was one of my favorite...computer activities? as a kid. I call it that because it wasnt really a game, it was a software released by Hallmark specifically directed at kids to make cards and posters and invites. It had a lil dog mascot that I truly loved even though it was basically Clippy, furry edition. Idk if itd be interesting enough to make a whole video on but yeah, I needed to share this information and this is probably the only place on the internet where it can be appreciated 😂
i was actually obsessed with the original one. i loved playing fancy pants and bloons through there for some reason. i also liked chatting with other players. i remember the chat was super kid-safe and censored. even using numbers to type things wouldn’t fly. they would completely star (*) words out.
I would love to see a video about the game mentioned in this video when talking about Jumpstart, which is School Of Dragons - it's shutting down soon and even though the community was smaller than most wanted it was still an MMO that many people such as myself loved. Even though it lacked in many aspects such as graphics or things to do there's deffo a lot to talk about it. It was obviously an unfortunate victim of the whole micro-transaction thing that killed many other games but it still holds a special place in my childhood. Love you Izzy
Honestly the more obscure the topic the better. Don’t ever worry about covering something you think only you care about, I wanna hear about everything!
I would absolutely LOVE to see you cover MyEpets. It is TRULY one of the most obscure virtual worlds involving buying actual stuffed toys with codes on the tags. It was a huge part of my early childhood and I feel like you’d really enjoy researching it!!!
never played this one, but I did play World of Jumpstart when I was a kid and when looking at the footage I was like “this looks so similar but I swear I’ve never played this??” and then when you mentioned the similarities it clicked!! great video as always, I always love the topics you choose to cover :)
This was DEEP in the memory vaults. Thank you so much Izzy for keeping it alive! I was obsessed with the blackjack mini game as well 😂 I’d do anything for Flash and the OG early/mid 2000’s games to be back again
You cannot imagine how much time I’ve spent looking for this game again! Just like you said, I thought it was my imagination since I have never seen anyone on social media talk about it. It brings back so many memories!
I was thinking the same about the androgynous thing!! Absolutely love this look on them too!! Edit: (I genuinely love all of their looks, this one is just a little different and it's cool to see)
You reminded me of my favourite obscure tween website Millsbury. It was essentially like Neopets, but with humans and all the games were targeted food ads. I remember the Fruit Loops Toucan trying to convince me to eat healthier.
Izzy and fandom!! I found this TH-cam series that seems right up your alley, there’s only two videos so far but the first is titled “Lacey’s Wardrobe-lost 2006 flash game” its a girlsgogames-esc dress up game gone dark and it totally needs more attention!
I love learning about super obscure things from the Internet and you do so well explaining it! I would love to see a video on 2000’s and early 2010’s ads and commercials that would play on tv. Things like pillowpets, snuggies, fushigi balls, magic pens, stuff like that! I love your content so much!!
Izzy could legit make up a game for her videos and by the end of it convince me not only was it real but that my childhood was ruined for never having played it.
i was so in love with the 3d version of this game, even now i bring it up with my friends and NO ONE even knows what it is, i genuinely thought i was the only one around me that ever played it 😭
Has anyone ever heard of the MMO Dizzywood? It was a super charming virtual world with a unique art style and gameplay. It was also shut down and replaced with something much worse called secret builders lol. But now, there are plans on remaking it with support from one of the original creators of the game! Would be cool if you covered it :)
Omg. This was one of my favorite games! I obsessed over it and hated it when the old version was basically deleted. I was so heartbroken seeing the new version and realizing the old version was gone forever. Thank you so much for this, I haven't seen anything of the old version in a long time and I couldn't even picture it anymore.
I would love to get into all of The duck life flash games, or a whole Toondown deep dive! Honestly though I’ll watch anything, all of your videos give me such a sense of nostalgia. 💕
OMG THIS ONE, this is the one I’ve been trying to remember for such a long time that blue S plagued my mind for years on end with no luck on finding out where it was from, and now I can finally let it go😭 (perhaps a bit dramatic) With pure sincerity, thank you Izzy (Edit: I’m not joking this actually means a lot)
I have two MMOs very dear to my heart. Their shut downs hurt. Millsberry, the only fully free one as it was a massive ad for General Mills, and Dizzywood, you would get powers and I felt like there were so many quests.
omg Dizzywood!! I remember there being a riddles game that had the same ten answers and almost definitely developing touch typing skills from trying to be the first person to write out the answer ❤
Millsberry was so good! I always felt guilty when I came back after a long time because of the character intelligence system. I remember you made your character smart by reading books, but if you didn't read for a long time they became stupid. But since you read the books already, there wasn't a way to make them smart again...
Omg I absolutely adored this game!! I honestly thought this MMO was a fever dream too, since nobody around me ever seemed to remember it 😂 So happy to see it finally being talked about and brought to light again! ♡
it was the best! i loved that it had older looking avatars. as much as i loved MMOs a lot of them had a really childish look to them (makes sense since they were made for children lol) but it was nice to kind of role play as a teen in this game.
I could write ESSAYS about Jumpstart. The dragon area? The desperate trying to get the White and Rainbow colored dragon my beloved. The bug themed area with the big ants and the green slime bouncy pads?! Adored that area. The Madagascar crossover was a PIVOTAL part of my childhood. THE RUBBER DUCKY COUNTING GAME?! And the SCI FI MATH SEQUEL?! The blue haired green skinned math mascot defined my taste in men as a child. I love jumpstart so much
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You mentioned on Patreon that you filmed this video at a really difficult time and honestly I binge so much of your content that I couldn't tell. Looking back, I hope you're doing better and are able to take care of yourself, we all love your work and there's a very real person behind the camera that we would hate to see unwell for the sake of our funny internet videos. Best wishes!
Omg I thought I literally hallucinated this game cause no one I talk to about it ever remembers it 😭 I sunk SO many hours into SS after school. Between this game and Zwinky, I practically lived in my computer. Id love to see a deep dive into Zwinky one day cause that game had a grip on my little 11 year old brain.
I would sell my soul to replay this, I remember playing it from roughly 7-10 though losing interest when the reboot happened. I checked it evertday obsessively and luckily never asked my parents to pay for anything.
Omg THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have literally been looking for this game for YEARS! I loved this game so much and have wanted to come back to it so many times for the nostalgia but have never been able to find it. So sad it died but thank you for making a whole video about it :)
Flightrising just had its ten year anniversary. I'd love to see it's history covered because for all it's flaws it's hung in there where other browser based petsims have not.
I love these internet history deep dives, they are so weird and nostalgic. I keep remembering long forgotten websites and games that I spent a ton of time on as a kid and teen. Gaia Online, Neopets, Runescape, Flyff... Bionicle online? I think that was a thing. And a website called Elfwood that was kind of like Deviantart, but was fantasy-specific. My friends and I also had Piczo websites that we did a lot of chatting in the weird little comment boxes you could make. Weird to think that most of that is just gone forever now.
I LOVE HEARING ABOUT THE OLD MMOS I love the history of MMOs in general, the dead ones, the big ones, the ones of life support, they're so so interesting
The original SuperSecret was hands down my favourite virtual world. I convinced my parents to buy me a membership because they made the older characters look so much cooler. I remember grinding those mini games to level up and get a car. I was so disappointed when they announced they were basically scrapping the game. I thought the 3D look was so ugly, and I remember the new sign-in process being such a pain anyway that I had already given up and moved on to other virtual worlds. But I’ll never forget how special the original was, RIP 😞
Nice to see that Jumpstart was just as receptive to audience feedback here as they are with Neopets 😅 Great video Izzy! I love learning about old obscure games, looks like something I would’ve been super into if I wasn’t fully devoted to Neopets as a kiddo lol
honestly your deep dives into virtual world games are some of my favourites from you, and one reason is exactly because i never played any of them myself. apart from neopets back in the day. i don’t know what it is about it but please keep covering these super niche topics haha !
supersecret was my absolute favorite MMO back in the day! i played the old version religiously until a very specific event. there was a three-day weekend event where free to play players could access the paywalled 'teen' content. I remember having a blast that weekend getting to experience all of the aspects of the game as I never could convince my parents to give me money for things like that (and rightfully LOL!). The unfortunate part is that ALL of my cosmetics were converted to 'teen' versions after the promotion ended, so I basically lost ALL of my collection of clothes. I had been playing for a long time by that point, so I was devasted. I switched to OurWorld after that! I tried to pick up the new supersecret later, but I never had a computer that could run it. :)
I remember Super Secret!! I used to play a LOT back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, before they switched to 3D. I remember constantly making new accounts just so I could age up and play the game. I remember there was a beach map or cove or something, I'd always hang out there and not talk to anyone. Like, that's all I did.
I seriously love how even though you’re confident your phone will survive you’re always so concerned. Usually about whatever the phone hit. Like seriously you’re the best at castify ads lol you got me! That’s for sure
You should make a video on the real tooth fairies. It used to be an MMO about like... Tooth fairies and there was dress up aspects. I looked it up and the art/everything seems very very different.
Hi Izzzy! I feel crazy for remembering Fantage, which I brought my entire neighbourhood to try. The game had a similar story to this one: started out very wholesome, and then had this weird...shift. Understandably, but it seems odd that despite the many people commenting that they wanted the old version, it would appear as though the developers did not take customer reviews. An interesting thing which I found looking up for this was also how it was claimed that the company treated its employees really badly, which as a child, didn't really click up. But thank you for the video, entertaining as always!
Hey Izzy! There was this MMO that I used to play all the time as a kid called Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall. It was basically just this huge crossover of all the major Cartoon Network characters fighting against these like green alien things called fusions.
8:24 Now that you mention school of dragons, iirc that game is getting shut down very soon. Would be interesting if you were to do a HTTYD franchise/fandom deep dive cause it's surprisingly deep with a lot of talented artists
I love hearing about niche, small MMOs! Even if their story isn't well-known or exciting, it's still a story that's worth sharing. Although I've never heard of or played Super Secret, I do want to note a few MMOs that I remember playing excessively and I wish more people new about them. Bella Sara - another comment mentioned this, but man, it was such a wonderful and beautiful game. It started out as trading cards which turned into an MMO/browser game of a sort. Some things you could do included taking care of your own horse, gaining exclusive horses and items through codes from the cards, lots of mini-games, and exploring an open world. School of Dragons - you mentioned this in your video, but I thought I'd bring it up since it's actually shutting down on June 30th after a long run! It's not as niche, but it definitely has an interesting community and history (also, dragons!! flying!!). I'm super sad to see it go since I feel like I've grown attached to my pixel dragons. Spirit Animals (?) - these were a series of books from years ago which gained their own MMO. Not many memories of this game in particular - I remember you got to pick your own animal companion and go on dungeon-style quests with other people. I remember being super into it for a time.
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Izzy please don't be worried about posting content that's "too boring" or "too obscure." You could literally post a video talking about the history of ketchup and I'd still get excited🤩
Yeah this
I watched a video about that and it was actually pretty interesting lol
I totally agree! I don’t know anything about most of the things they talk about yet every video is so intriguing to me.
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Agreed!
It is completely possible that, if not for this video, SuperSecret may never have been mentioned again. So, by making videos like these, you are immortalizing these obscure MMOs. I think that's totally worth doing videos for them.
Gawd damn :(
@@Zenocius HELL YEAH OURWORLD MY LOVE MY LIFE
I recently realized she is essentially an internet archivist for completely pointless and inconsequential things. Kinda cool niche
Imo its really cool hearing about obscure webgames like this. I'd prefer hearing about obscure ones rather than more well known ones tbfh
@@skeetsmcgrew3282first world (opposite of) problems
I'm 20 but wasn't allowed online unmonitored until i was 13-14, so these obscure internet videos make me feel really included in a time of the internet I'm sad I missed out on
I agree its sad people missed these but the internet is a wild place. I'm 13 and was allowed unmonitored online since I Was 9 and things did Not go well for me.
It's probably not the worst thing you weren't allowed unmonitored initially? But hey, we're both here now and finding this bygone era! :D
I can relate, my mom wouldn't let me go online ever until covid hit and I needed a computer for virtual learning and a way to play with my friends (tho tbh I'm actually glad she was protective since I've seen Izzy's videos on AJ and MSP and I can completely understand why now)
@@Nova-bv5qb2 years older than you and went on more earlier. The internet has ruined me. Honestly the fact that i can say that i got to play roblox as a guest has got to be a badge of honor. Anyways, id assume it be pretty easy for you to calculate your age
@@HeavenlyMercury2800kinda grateful she did that for you, have a nice day
That's for the best tbh
The fact this game has a niche fanbase and extremely limited records of its existence is oddly fitting, given the name.
I actually had a family member who worked on this game as an artist. I have NEVER met anyone irl who played it despite my sisters and I desperately trying to make it successful for his sake 😂
Genuinely it’s so insane to see someone else talk about it
the 2d version was genuinely my favorite game and i was DEVASTATED when with the reboot.
the art style was one of my favorite parts of the game, please give that family member ALL OF MY LOVE
"I have NEVER met anyone irl who played it" Me with Dragon Cave, a game that's been running since 2006 but I only discovered it last month.
Does anyone remember Zwinky? It was definitely that "edgy tween" demographic but with a paper doll sort of vibe, and I absolutely gave my public library malware by downloading it.
I never played it but definitely saw the ads for it on flash game websites.
YES I PLAYED ZWINKY HAHAHAHAHA
@@shoyuramenoff same
I’ve heard of that but I only played Zwinky Cuties meant for kids under 13 the only pet you could get without shelling out real money was a goldfish…I never actually played Zwinky because by the time I was 13 I had moved on
I thought you said twink.
Finally, Izzy is throwing their phone again. Nature is healing 🙏
Izzy uses they/them pronouns?
they finally upgraded their phone too!
What, again?
@@Maroon_007
they/she!! :]
@@cresoma 😮 How did I miss this? Good to know
this content is NOT disinteresting, it’s important! all of these games, as crunchy and ridiculous as they are, are art. especially one day when even more internet history of these games go missing, these are important archives.
i’m sure twenty years from now, phd students and video game nerds alike will only have content like this to have source material for most games, especially flash games!
i’ve read about how many games will totally go forgotten because of the loss of flash, or obsolescence of other formats. this is important to a lot of people!!
Rip chezz kids (i didnt know it but its somewhat lost)
Yes!! Game archiving is hugely important, and more often than not the developers and publishers don't care to assist with the effort, at least not in any publicly accessible way. And with the industry becoming easier and easier to get into, especially in the mobile sector, it is not humanly feasible to direct professional archival efforts to every game. So if there's some incredibly niche game you care about, whether it's already lost or not, do your part to preserve its history in whatever way you can. You might be the only person who ever makes that effort, but odds are if you care about that game, you're *not* the only person who cares enough to remember it.
oh boy supersecret fills me with bittersweet nostalgia lol. i remember when it was a 2d game, the art style was so mystical and colourful, and the soundtracks were sooo good!! i loved collecting all the different hairstyles and outfits, and reading the characters' dialogues from quests and item's description was fun as a kid learning english lol. i was so sad when they 'turned' it into a 3d game. the magic was lost. 😥
Same here
I loved playing the 2d game. It was fun finding the tiny objects throughout the game. The 3D version was so ugly, I was crushed when they changed it.
@@solarmoth4628 haha yes, I remember the random items you can get just by clicking at the objects around you 😆 13 year old me had so much fun exploring the game, despite its simplicity
the 3d version was so lacklustre, stripped away of all the charm that the 2d version had. I logged in only once after the major overhaul, then instantly noped out of the game
Growing up as a midwestern American kid in a town of less than 2000 people, I can confirm that hanging out in the woods is just something teenagers do.
As a Southwestern kid in a rural town same
Yeah, grew up in a town of about 3,500 people and you would just. Run out into the woods idk. Teachers tried to stop us but they weren't very successful 😭 I spent most of my high school in a city of maybe 70,000 so it didn't las tlong though, but i loved that school so I'm not thay sad about it lol
Yeah, growing up in a midwestern town of ~70k people, we just loved wandering around forests n stuff. Nature was way better than anything in town.
Ye, if u live in a small town/village you just go to walk around the forest lonely casue its a cool thing to do, I recently bought a bow and fire at stumps
Rest in peace Izzy's wooden wardrobe, it served us well. Fly high angel
I can't like this comment. it's at the number
@@ozmarichardson6524 not anymore 😔
@@Really_Big_Moth rip funny number 😞
@@finneganfox6470 pour one out for the wardrobe and the number :(
Idk if this website counts as “obscure” but I think it kinda fits: Scratch the coding website for kids. I remember people using it to post art and stuff on there as well as games. There was also tons of drama like the 3.0 update, unnecessary bans and art theft. If you could do a video on it that would be great :)
This omg, I would die for a video on Scratch. I've been in the community kind of on and off since 2016 and it really is something.
@@krash1220 yea, I don’t really go on scratch anymore but I check in once in a while. A lot has changed and I kinda miss 2.0
They better cover the dastardly Kaj.
@@atanvardecunambiel8917 who was he again? He sounds familiar but I can’t remember exactly what he did
anyone remember that kit to leader warrior cats one??
Izzy, i feel like you are the only one who could do this justice. But does anyone remember Bella Sara? It was a trading card game with magical horses, unicorns, pegasus, etc. There was also a corresponding website where you could take care of the horses on the cards, decorate your house, play a bunch of flash games and I was obsessed with it! At some point they stopped selling the cards and the site is broken now and I've always wondered what exactly happened to the line. I feel like this topic is right up Izzy's alley and they're the only person who could make a proper video about Bella Sara! Maybe a future video idea you'd be interested in?
It was a European company that went bad is all I found so this would clear many stuff up
Yesss omg!!!
Childhood memory unlocked, holy shit
HOLY SHIT YEAH
Omg I do!!! Rlly wish I could log back in, but they don’t even have the game anymore
2:03 Izzy saying "fly high angel", yeeting it and covering smile is gold, always a vibe to see you be chaotically wholesome
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ill throw you in a well
Hi again
how is it that i see you everywhere.
why are you suddenly everywhere
@@cronotose8558 yeah 90% sure it's a bot
this is so crazy. i remember playing the old super secret! i never bought a membership so i was only ever the maximum free age of 12. there was a mission that you did for a hair stylist and it unlocked a blue hairstyle which was a BIG DEAL because you couldnt get an non-naturally occuring hairstyles until your character was 13. it's so cool that you made a video about this. thank you for unlocking some memories!
the 3d version was my favorite game as a kid for a few years. i was obsessed. how obsessed???? let me tell you: i was in absolute LOVE with the hamburger guy. i have no idea if he had this name or i invented it, but i called him ryan. and at some point i thought i would get pregnant from how much i was in love w him. thank you SO much for bringing back this memory in the middle of my finals month cause now i get to stare into the void and think abt how insane i was abt ryan instead of actually studying😭😭😭😭😭😭🫶🫶🫶🫶
Good luck with your finals you got this
No way, my name is ryan
@@skippyjejthe only thing i can think about when someone says their name is ryan is that one vine
I misread this badly to the point I thought you said you felt you were impregnating Ryan from how much you loved him and went "Yeah sounds about right"
@@noranizaazmi6523 Huh?
We really need kids MMO and websites back. They’re trying to act grown up cause they don’t have anything we had like Club Penguin or animal jam.
Bring back Neopets!
Animal Jam's still up and running, actually! It's obviously not as popular as it was, and the company's a bit of a hot mess at the moment, but... it's still here...!
@@anonymous18264 I remember looking at the retired Paintbrushes and admiring the designs of the Neopets. I think the electric design was my favorite.
There's box critters made by the same person who made club penguin.
sus.
I swear Izzzy's videos take me back to the obscure things I played as a kid. Would absolutely kill for a video on UBFunkeys, Littlest Pet Shop Online (LPSO), and Bearville
UBFunkeys my beloved
I'd love to see them do one on Bearville!
7:05 "fancy pants adventures" and "low budget flash games" should never be in the same sentence, those masterpieces are on Pizza Tower's level of quality
Fancy pants adventures were honestly the pinnacle of online flash games and no one can change my mind
low budget doesn't mean bad! just low budget😅
The quote from Tony Espinoza at 6:31, likely refers to 'vehicles for conversation'. Youth workers especially love to use this term. It basically refers to driving a conversation with the use of an activity rather than just simply sitting down and talking. As an Autistic person, I find the concept very useful to keep in mind for life in general, as it's much less awkward to try to socialise with people when you are doing something together.
As a Jumpstart World Girlie, I screamed seeing the ripped area assets and when you mentioned it lol. Despite the AGGRESSIVE microtransactions, I loved that game. The Dragons area especially, like you mentioned! Also, I'd like to come forward with a request. With all the talk on your channel about dead-in-the-water virtual worlds, has FaunaSphere ever crossed your mind? It was my favorite and was based on recycling as a gimmick. Insanely strange from memory, but a stand-out game in the deep recesses of my childhood.
Izzy is for real the only channel that makes videos about history of various stuff without making me bored like Izzy could literally make a video about the entire history of Roman Empire and i'd still eat it up with big interest
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@@ignacioignogrundinglestheg9089i agree sir ignacio (sorry i just really liked your name)
If you're into Izzy, you may be into some of LiSpeak's videos! I started with Izzy and found Li and watch both religiously now :)
I love their videos too, but I cannot fathom the idea that someone finds the Roman Empire 'boring'.
Izzy and HistoriaCivilis crossover video when?
THIS VIDEO UNLOCKED MEMORIES FOR ME. My sister and I were OBSESSED with JumpStart as kids, so eventually we played SuperSecret as well. I specifically remember her buying us membership for it and I have no idea how, but we were stuck with membership until the game shut down. Also half the time we were bored af and just glitching ourselves out of bounds for fun lmao
I'm realising how old I am now because Super Secret was for the "older kids" on JumpStart. Wow.
OMG I LOVED JUMPSTART
@@happinesshither Yeah I am so sorry 😭
@@mitskiluvrYESSS I swear every time I bring up that game nobody played it! I remember it being decently popular though back then
I LOVEDDDD JUMPSTART AND MATHBLASTER
I remember this game! I used to play it all the time, but wasn't able to get past age 12 bc I couldn't pay for it- but I still had a lot of fun designing and redesigning my character through different 'phases' of her life!
Man what I'd give for a video covering Duck Life. Especially how they kept making sequels, and the one where the ducks morph into humans. Great stuff
a few months ago i remembered duck life and decided i'd play all of them again and remembered why i stopped playing when i got to the weird humanoid ones 😭
Wait, the WHAT
@@em0ville I remember being absolutely traumatized the moment the ducks started growing HUMAN LEGS
THERES ONE WHERE DUCKS MORPH INTO HUMANS ????
@lemonywater2979 in duck life evolution they start to grow human legs and run like people. Their bodies also look like a person's but their head stays a duck head which I think is even worse
omg THANK YOU i played the old version as a kid/tween and loved it so much! i was definitely part of the old fans that hated the new version with jumpstart cause it removed all the uniqueness and charm, and the old art style reminded me of like a 2000s teen show lol. but no one knows about it either it’s such a shame. it was so fun exploring and decorating my room and growing up my character lmao
very vaguely reminds me of the cyber chase style
The character designs kinda remind me of the show, 6teen.
@@JamesLawner ah yeah that’s what i was thinking of! i couldn’t remember the name lol
SuperSecret was one of my favorite mmo's growing up. The aging up aspect felt REALLY rewarding, I was hooked for a year or so. I have a very vague memory of making a lot of friends and throwing a big party in my "room", it made me think I was a hot shot. Thankfully I grew out of ithe game before it transitioned to 3D, but I was still pretty upset about it when I found out.
i always loved these early 2000s MMOs, people were so creative with these things
Same! That experimental era was so nice. Pay to win as hell sure but games back then had their charm for sure!
I never experienced them. :(
I hope they talk about Petpet Park next, there's a new rewritten project and I hope they can email them
@@cometkeiko theres a lot of cool roblox and smaller games that are really about the same. only real change is theres a lot more mobile "games" that scam you for energy and gems
i loved stardoll
My "am I literally the only person who remembers this" kid/tween MMO was Bearville (originally Build-A-Bearville) that took up my entire life as a 10 year old. It was the only game I had 'membership' on (because I had a Build A Bear that could be registered in the game) and I played it to death, from the fishing for rare items to being way too competitive for my team for the annual camping event. It was definitely filled up with US/UK players but whenever my friends and I talk about playing Club Penguin or on the MyScene website, I'm the lone weirdo who played a virtual Build A Bear game...
Yoooo I adored this game, it was probably my fav MMO outside of Binweevils and MSP. I was devasted when I found out the shut it down there was soooo many mini games and stuff to do plus I could keep my bunny (literally my favourite stuffed animal for years) around with me in a lil backpack 😭😭
no i swear you arent i swear i played it too
Oh my god, I forgot about that one! I played it too, and all the mini-games they had on the other site(?). I must have been pretty young, I don't remember it as well as like, Club Penguin and Pixie Hollow and such.
I remember that game! I remember the Cafe and the fact that you could work I there and serve customers
YESS!! theres a rewritten version in the works to my understanding
As a kid I just remember being amazed how pretty the backgrounds were in the original game were. When jumpstart just turned it into teen Jumpstart Online (complete with reusing assets and entire areas) I was absolutely crushed.
i still remember the devastation when i logged onto the site and saw the redesign. it was by far one of my biggest tween betrayals. one of my biggest regrets was never getting to solve every mystery from the original game, but seeing the art again made my day. this and the barbie girls mmo were such a fun chunk of my childhood
Me too, man.. I really miss it. I remember the game's inbox was in the shape of a cellphone and I was very impressed by it back then. I visited the site one day as well, to revisit my fond memories of the game and it's relaxing music but found that horrible overhaul of nightmares instead
Izzy: Are you okay? You're looking a little different
Yeah I noticed that too, i thought it was just me
I noticed this too. Hope their health is okay ❤
i remember they recently said on twitter that their meds have been switched around and they’ve been having some anxiety issues 💔
I didn’t know if it was contacts or their pupils were just huge, but makes sense if they’ve swapped meds. Hope you’re okay Izzy! ❤
Ok, I'm glad it's not just me. I didn't want to be creepy but I'm a bit concerned about her. Her eyes are dilated and she looks thinner.
Izzy is the only person who can make a video about something I don’t know or care about at all and I’ll click instantly.
I'm with you.
I would love to see a tier list of all of the mmo’s that you played as a kid, that would be a way for you to cover them without having to dedicate a whole video to an obscure on with little information on it. It would also show us what kinds of them that you really liked as a kid. Keep up the good work, Izzy!!
this would be amazing
I second this idea. I love watching a tier list/ commentary on the MMOs you've played.
I'd love that!
yesssssssss
Honestly School of Dragons was my favorite MMO. Despite its name it had nothing to do with school and while it wasn’t technically an open world game you could fly around on the back of a dragon that you customized which is everything I ever wanted as a kid. My fondest memory has to be taking advantage of the “20 free gems if you recruit someone to play!” system they had by making 10s of throwaway Gmail accounts and signing them all up for the game.
Did not know it was conncected to Jumpstart of all things though.
Same, and I’m devastated that it’s shutting down without any reason on the 30th June :(
@@mouldy_burnt_toast9588 i heard it was because they can't afford the httyd lisence from dreamworks anymore. still heartbreaking though. i'm gonna miss my monstrous nightmare and my goofy ass sandwraith
SoD players unite
God I still remember SoD being announced
i remember school of dragons! it was one of my favorites! 💜
This video unlocked memories of playing some weird little MMO on girlsgogames that had no real gameplay, just walking around and chatting in a server with very few english speakers. I vaguely remember you could also find and drive a car around the map that had pretty funny physics, like going over a small hill sent you flying. I have no idea why I spent so much time on it as a kid, it was just this weird little game that was unlike anything else I had access to at the time.
Marians World?
I loved those MMOs 😂 I distinctly remember there being a shark one where everyone would just swim around and chat
Sounds like Club Marian! TH-cam user Li Speaks has a whole video dedicated to those Girlsgogames mmos
I played the older version as a kid and I was obsessed! The old art style was so unique and charming, and I remember being upset when jumpstart took over.
Every time Izzzy points out something like flying was behind a paywall and yet she has memories of doing it, makes me wonder how much she spent on MMOs as a kid.
Awesome video btw, always love your content.
I THOUGHT THIS GAME WAS A FEVER DREAM, once I kept talking about it and seemingly no one knew what I was talking about lol thank you random Redditor who solved what the name was and lead me here
babe wake up izzzyzzz uploaded another deep dive of a game ive never heard of and i am SEATED for it
I have been waiting for this video forever. I absolutely adored the old super secret as a kid and was heartbroken when they killed it. I am sad more people didn't have the chance to play it. At the time though the "underground" nature of it added to the charm for me, a preteen. There were all kinds of mysteries to solve and the entire game had secret rooms, hidden passageways, and a strange melancholic tone to it. If I remember correctly A lot of the mysteries were surprisingly dark about kidnapping and runaways. Also the background paintings for the rooms were so incredibly beautiful and detailed, and the illustrations for all the food items were so interesting and unique. It was weirdly ethereal all around.
yes! Im trying to remember the dark lore, but don't remember it super well. I remember there were quests like the club penguin spy stuff, one of them I remember you could fail and people would drown. If you failed, time would canonically rewind? Idk. I have some screenshots of some of the levels somewhere because I was "scraping the assets to make my own game". I had no concept of copyright lol.
I normally don't comment but I wanted to let you know I really enjoyed your content! I've spent the last couple of days watching all of your videos and think the topics you talk on are so cool, thank you introducing me to cool pieces of the internet!! Also I love all your Garfield stuff
Izzzyzzz, you have a knack for exploring the most interesting sites/topics that have been buried within my mind for years. Absolutely forgot this game existed. I have a vivid memory of playing this game and a grown man PMing me asking for my AIM and other personal info. So wild that I never logged on again! Thank you for helping me find and remember so many different games/subjects!
what does AIM stand for?
Aol instant messenger i believe
@@ico.6238 Yup! Those were indeed some interesting days.
@@ico.6238 thank you
Izzys just like me fr.. All I ever did when I was a kid was looked up "Top mmos" and tried everything on that list.
Also I'd love for you to cover more! I love these mmo vids
Oh my god I’m so excited to watch this!!! I played the original 2d version of the game RELIGIOUSLY until my parents banned me from it bc someone said “he//“ in the chat to bypass swear filters. By the time I got back online it was 3d (and worse in my opinion) and I was barely able to find any trace of the old game. Ty for doing these deep dives into our childhoods!
uh this is a weird ask, but have you ever heard of greetings workshop? It was one of my favorite...computer activities? as a kid. I call it that because it wasnt really a game, it was a software released by Hallmark specifically directed at kids to make cards and posters and invites. It had a lil dog mascot that I truly loved even though it was basically Clippy, furry edition. Idk if itd be interesting enough to make a whole video on but yeah, I needed to share this information and this is probably the only place on the internet where it can be appreciated 😂
AH i loved that program as a kid. i remember trying to make all sorts of things with it.
Memories are being yanked violently from my brain today ♡
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ligma balls
i was actually obsessed with the original one. i loved playing fancy pants and bloons through there for some reason. i also liked chatting with other players. i remember the chat was super kid-safe and censored. even using numbers to type things wouldn’t fly. they would completely star (*) words out.
I would love to see a video about the game mentioned in this video when talking about Jumpstart, which is School Of Dragons - it's shutting down soon and even though the community was smaller than most wanted it was still an MMO that many people such as myself loved. Even though it lacked in many aspects such as graphics or things to do there's deffo a lot to talk about it. It was obviously an unfortunate victim of the whole micro-transaction thing that killed many other games but it still holds a special place in my childhood. Love you Izzy
ITS SHUTTING DOWN??? NOOO i loved that game so much even though there was a paywallll
rip school of dragons, you and your bugged out camera will be missed
Well now the entire company shut down
@@Blwbelle (dabs)
Honestly the more obscure the topic the better. Don’t ever worry about covering something you think only you care about, I wanna hear about everything!
I would absolutely LOVE to see you cover MyEpets. It is TRULY one of the most obscure virtual worlds involving buying actual stuffed toys with codes on the tags. It was a huge part of my early childhood and I feel like you’d really enjoy researching it!!!
never played this one, but I did play World of Jumpstart when I was a kid and when looking at the footage I was like “this looks so similar but I swear I’ve never played this??” and then when you mentioned the similarities it clicked!! great video as always, I always love the topics you choose to cover :)
This was DEEP in the memory vaults. Thank you so much Izzy for keeping it alive! I was obsessed with the blackjack mini game as well 😂 I’d do anything for Flash and the OG early/mid 2000’s games to be back again
i swear the blackjack mini game was where my gambling addiction started 😭
Omg same! The supersecret blackjack minigame support group here it seems
@@eviethebunny REAL, bc I would rinse my in game currency on that stupid mini game 😭😂
@@shaymelna we are here for everyone 😤😂
You cannot imagine how much time I’ve spent looking for this game again! Just like you said, I thought it was my imagination since I have never seen anyone on social media talk about it. It brings back so many memories!
How did they go from looking like a teenage girl to a twenty something androgynus higher being? Just slay.
I was thinking the same about the androgynous thing!! Absolutely love this look on them too!! Edit: (I genuinely love all of their looks, this one is just a little different and it's cool to see)
i think that's how aging typically works man idk what to tell you
They grew up I guess
@@naiadnb it’s called cheek filler and i rlly like theirs 💅🏻
Absolutely slay 🎉
You reminded me of my favourite obscure tween website Millsbury. It was essentially like Neopets, but with humans and all the games were targeted food ads. I remember the Fruit Loops Toucan trying to convince me to eat healthier.
Yess, the trix rabbit platformer game stays in my mind from that website
I miss Millsbury. I still think about it sometimes and Im nearly 30 lol.
we lost as a society when millsbury closed
Wish there was a revival project like so many others... Was one of my favorites ngl
Izzy and fandom!! I found this TH-cam series that seems right up your alley, there’s only two videos so far but the first is titled “Lacey’s Wardrobe-lost 2006 flash game” its a girlsgogames-esc dress up game gone dark and it totally needs more attention!
Yess!
I love learning about super obscure things from the Internet and you do so well explaining it! I would love to see a video on 2000’s and early 2010’s ads and commercials that would play on tv. Things like pillowpets, snuggies, fushigi balls, magic pens, stuff like that! I love your content so much!!
You should cover a game called Poptropica. I remember playing that as a kid back in the middle school ages
Loving this arc with their background gradually changing and getting back to it's former glory
Izzy could legit make up a game for her videos and by the end of it convince me not only was it real but that my childhood was ruined for never having played it.
10/10 username
izzy goes by they/them btw!
@@user-ev5gj8xe2bno one cares, and she actually goes by they/she
i was so in love with the 3d version of this game, even now i bring it up with my friends and NO ONE even knows what it is, i genuinely thought i was the only one around me that ever played it 😭
Has anyone ever heard of the MMO Dizzywood? It was a super charming virtual world with a unique art style and gameplay. It was also shut down and replaced with something much worse called secret builders lol. But now, there are plans on remaking it with support from one of the original creators of the game! Would be cool if you covered it :)
That game was my jam back in it's heyday and I'm glad I completely missed out on secret builders
I used to play a ton of SecretBuilders as a kid!
i was just about to comment that! izzy should totally make a video covering dizzywood, i loved playing it as a kid!
I remember dizzywood!! I used to play it all the time in like 2008, I remember it being really cute. Would love to see some content about it!!
I kept trying to remember the name of that game throughout this video omg thank you for this
Omg. This was one of my favorite games! I obsessed over it and hated it when the old version was basically deleted. I was so heartbroken seeing the new version and realizing the old version was gone forever. Thank you so much for this, I haven't seen anything of the old version in a long time and I couldn't even picture it anymore.
I would love to get into all of The duck life flash games, or a whole Toondown deep dive! Honestly though I’ll watch anything, all of your videos give me such a sense of nostalgia. 💕
Oh I love Toontown! I only really got deep into the game once rewritten came out, but I’m interested in learning about the OG version
OMG THIS ONE, this is the one I’ve been trying to remember for such a long time
that blue S plagued my mind for years on end with no luck on finding out where it was from, and now I can finally let it go😭 (perhaps a bit dramatic)
With pure sincerity, thank you Izzy
(Edit: I’m not joking this actually means a lot)
I have two MMOs very dear to my heart. Their shut downs hurt. Millsberry, the only fully free one as it was a massive ad for General Mills, and Dizzywood, you would get powers and I felt like there were so many quests.
omg Dizzywood!! I remember there being a riddles game that had the same ten answers and almost definitely developing touch typing skills from trying to be the first person to write out the answer ❤
Millsberry was so good! I always felt guilty when I came back after a long time because of the character intelligence system. I remember you made your character smart by reading books, but if you didn't read for a long time they became stupid. But since you read the books already, there wasn't a way to make them smart again...
Don’t worry about it being too obscure or niche, I love hearing about little corners of the internet even if I didn’t know about it
Perfect timing as I just started studying. Now I can write down all of the SuperSecret lore on my test instead of the actual answers ^__^
^__^ hehe how silly delulu of you
Omg I absolutely adored this game!!
I honestly thought this MMO was a fever dream too, since nobody around me ever seemed to remember it 😂
So happy to see it finally being talked about and brought to light again! ♡
it was the best! i loved that it had older looking avatars. as much as i loved MMOs a lot of them had a really childish look to them (makes sense since they were made for children lol) but it was nice to kind of role play as a teen in this game.
I could write ESSAYS about Jumpstart. The dragon area? The desperate trying to get the White and Rainbow colored dragon my beloved. The bug themed area with the big ants and the green slime bouncy pads?! Adored that area. The Madagascar crossover was a PIVOTAL part of my childhood. THE RUBBER DUCKY COUNTING GAME?! And the SCI FI MATH SEQUEL?! The blue haired green skinned math mascot defined my taste in men as a child. I love jumpstart so much
i’ve never played this but it looks interesting as hell
it was a lot of fun. The mummy maze was my favorite part
The first version was so good. I remember begging my parents for the membership.
The music was amazing too! I tried looking it up but I can't find it anywhere. Crazy how the SFX, soundtracks and gameplay only exist in my memories 🥲
your contribution to media preservation is immeasurable
People who preserve media are modern archeologist. They're doing important work.
What's your favorite media memory?
Come chat with us Stacy. We will keep you safe.
You mentioned on Patreon that you filmed this video at a really difficult time and honestly I binge so much of your content that I couldn't tell. Looking back, I hope you're doing better and are able to take care of yourself, we all love your work and there's a very real person behind the camera that we would hate to see unwell for the sake of our funny internet videos. Best wishes!
Omg I thought I literally hallucinated this game cause no one I talk to about it ever remembers it 😭 I sunk SO many hours into SS after school. Between this game and Zwinky, I practically lived in my computer. Id love to see a deep dive into Zwinky one day cause that game had a grip on my little 11 year old brain.
I would sell my soul to replay this, I remember playing it from roughly 7-10 though losing interest when the reboot happened. I checked it evertday obsessively and luckily never asked my parents to pay for anything.
Omg THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have literally been looking for this game for YEARS! I loved this game so much and have wanted to come back to it so many times for the nostalgia but have never been able to find it. So sad it died but thank you for making a whole video about it :)
Flightrising just had its ten year anniversary. I'd love to see it's history covered because for all it's flaws it's hung in there where other browser based petsims have not.
You should make a video about Meez! I think it would be interesting cause meez had a lot of scene stuff in it :)
I remember SuperSecret, (2d) I'm glad someone is finally talking about it!
I love these internet history deep dives, they are so weird and nostalgic. I keep remembering long forgotten websites and games that I spent a ton of time on as a kid and teen. Gaia Online, Neopets, Runescape, Flyff... Bionicle online? I think that was a thing. And a website called Elfwood that was kind of like Deviantart, but was fantasy-specific. My friends and I also had Piczo websites that we did a lot of chatting in the weird little comment boxes you could make. Weird to think that most of that is just gone forever now.
I LOVE HEARING ABOUT THE OLD MMOS
I love the history of MMOs in general, the dead ones, the big ones, the ones of life support, they're so so interesting
The original SuperSecret was hands down my favourite virtual world. I convinced my parents to buy me a membership because they made the older characters look so much cooler. I remember grinding those mini games to level up and get a car. I was so disappointed when they announced they were basically scrapping the game. I thought the 3D look was so ugly, and I remember the new sign-in process being such a pain anyway that I had already given up and moved on to other virtual worlds. But I’ll never forget how special the original was, RIP 😞
Nice to see that Jumpstart was just as receptive to audience feedback here as they are with Neopets 😅
Great video Izzy! I love learning about old obscure games, looks like something I would’ve been super into if I wasn’t fully devoted to Neopets as a kiddo lol
honestly your deep dives into virtual world games are some of my favourites from you, and one reason is exactly because i never played any of them myself. apart from neopets back in the day. i don’t know what it is about it but please keep covering these super niche topics haha !
supersecret was my absolute favorite MMO back in the day! i played the old version religiously until a very specific event. there was a three-day weekend event where free to play players could access the paywalled 'teen' content. I remember having a blast that weekend getting to experience all of the aspects of the game as I never could convince my parents to give me money for things like that (and rightfully LOL!). The unfortunate part is that ALL of my cosmetics were converted to 'teen' versions after the promotion ended, so I basically lost ALL of my collection of clothes. I had been playing for a long time by that point, so I was devasted. I switched to OurWorld after that! I tried to pick up the new supersecret later, but I never had a computer that could run it. :)
hope ur eating well and taking care of yourself izzy!!
:OO I used to love this game I'm very happy about this video bc this was not talked about enough
I remember Super Secret!! I used to play a LOT back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, before they switched to 3D. I remember constantly making new accounts just so I could age up and play the game. I remember there was a beach map or cove or something, I'd always hang out there and not talk to anyone. Like, that's all I did.
I seriously love how even though you’re confident your phone will survive you’re always so concerned. Usually about whatever the phone hit.
Like seriously you’re the best at castify ads lol you got me! That’s for sure
You should make a video on the real tooth fairies. It used to be an MMO about like... Tooth fairies and there was dress up aspects. I looked it up and the art/everything seems very very different.
you unlocked a random memory for me omg
@@stvampire omg I'm glad someone else knows what I'm talking about qwq
OMG I WAS LITERALLY THINKING ABOUT THAT SITE WHILE WATCHING THIS VIDEO
Hi Izzzy! I feel crazy for remembering Fantage, which I brought my entire neighbourhood to try. The game had a similar story to this one: started out very wholesome, and then had this weird...shift. Understandably, but it seems odd that despite the many people commenting that they wanted the old version, it would appear as though the developers did not take customer reviews.
An interesting thing which I found looking up for this was also how it was claimed that the company treated its employees really badly, which as a child, didn't really click up. But thank you for the video, entertaining as always!
Hey Izzy! There was this MMO that I used to play all the time as a kid called Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall. It was basically just this huge crossover of all the major Cartoon Network characters fighting against these like green alien things called fusions.
You should really talk about Star Stable Online and their past games it would be so cool 😊
it's been a month Izzzyzzz I miss you 😭
I could listen to Izzy talk about whatever obscure thing that catches their interest, always.
8:24 Now that you mention school of dragons, iirc that game is getting shut down very soon. Would be interesting if you were to do a HTTYD franchise/fandom deep dive cause it's surprisingly deep with a lot of talented artists
I *adored* this game as a kid!! Hope you’re doing okay Izzy 💚
I love hearing about niche, small MMOs! Even if their story isn't well-known or exciting, it's still a story that's worth sharing. Although I've never heard of or played Super Secret, I do want to note a few MMOs that I remember playing excessively and I wish more people new about them.
Bella Sara - another comment mentioned this, but man, it was such a wonderful and beautiful game. It started out as trading cards which turned into an MMO/browser game of a sort. Some things you could do included taking care of your own horse, gaining exclusive horses and items through codes from the cards, lots of mini-games, and exploring an open world.
School of Dragons - you mentioned this in your video, but I thought I'd bring it up since it's actually shutting down on June 30th after a long run! It's not as niche, but it definitely has an interesting community and history (also, dragons!! flying!!). I'm super sad to see it go since I feel like I've grown attached to my pixel dragons.
Spirit Animals (?) - these were a series of books from years ago which gained their own MMO. Not many memories of this game in particular - I remember you got to pick your own animal companion and go on dungeon-style quests with other people. I remember being super into it for a time.