**** LOOK! LOOK AT ME! CORRECTIONS COMMENT ! **** I missed a few things in this video that are very important, I'm very sorry to the following for not including you in the video, that is my bad. 1. Barbiegirls.com There actually is a barbiegirls.com rival project in the works that I glossed over in my research, you can check it out here: "www.flowcode.com/page/barbiegirlsrewritten" or at there TH-cam @BarbieGirlsRewritten 2. Littlest Petshop Online There is also a LPSO.com rewritten in development as well that I did not find originally, you can check it out here: "lpso-revived.carrd.co/#" or at there TH-cam @lpso_revived 3. Nicktropolis Nicktropolis as well has a revival effort titled "Nicktropolis Timewarp" that can be found here "gamejolt.com/get/build?game=803261&build=1496726" I don't know how I glossed over these, but I did, witch is very shit. These are very cool, amazing efforts to bring back games that I and many of you loved. and they deserve recognition, so if you were a fan of any of these please go check these remakes out.
I remember some other virtual one about choosing a team to live in their place (There were green and red team) both had diff currencies and if you wanted to visit the red team place you would have to go to some bank to convert the currency and you could even go to fight for the green team or steal money from the other team and wars and events ,and once you have chosen your team you cannot go back , I don't remember the game name but it was made the middle eastern channel for children (MBC3)
the hilarious thing about pixie hollow is that you used to only be able to make pixies. making a male character wasn't even an option. so boys would go on there and make a girl character with short hair and spam "IM A MAN" in the spawn area
I can't read that without thinking of "I'M A MAN! _Punch_" Anyway, that's pretty funny And may or may not have led to a few kids doing some deep self-questioning while very confused
That reminds me of when I would play Royale High in junior high as a girl with short hair, which eventually led me to realize that I preferred when people would "mistake" me for a boy.
One of my absolute FAVORITE online games was Fantage. I played religiously everyday as a child & even convinced my parents to buy the subscription that gave you access to the special clothes & accessories in world. I got up to a very high level & did pretty much every special event they had. I played for years until I eventually outgrew the game & my parents had to cancel the subscription. The game shut down a few years ago but I think about it every now & then lol
when i was a kid my account glitched and I managed to get permanent membership at the cost of not being able to open my profile ever again. I could wear whatever I wanted!
Shararam is still up because of the popularity of Kikoriki in Russia, and it's still played by a bunch of people. (I'm a Russian person myself, and I've played Shararam a lot in my childhood, it was just absolutely the same as club penguin, but with Kikoriki branding)
I’m almost to the end and crying because there’s no StarDoll!! I LOVED StarDoll! You could talk on forums, create your apartment and decorate, play games, dress up your avatar. Ugh. That was the first thing I ever had a membership for!
Omg zwinky!😂 i remember my parents got pissed cus it kept tricking me into downloading its toolbar and it would give me pop-ups and was annoying to fully get rid of 😂
I’m just happy to see Pixie Hollow Online finally acknowledged for once. It feels like it’s the one virtual world Disney made that was never acknowledged by mainstream media. I don’t know what that game did to me in my youth to make me so obsessed with it but I am. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
It’s ironic now that I think about it how mainstream media didn’t really talk about it despite how successful the 2000s Pixie Hollow movies, comics, and books were. I am going to guess that since Winx Club was at its peak popularity when the game came out media chose to focus on Winx Club instead
you can still play a rewritten fan version of it, but it's offline and you can't save your progress. its fun to play for a bit. its still being worked on
I haven't seen anyone mention it, but Monkey Quest seems to be a pretty obscure one and used to be one of my favorites for some reason. It was made by Nickelodeon and you would be able complete quests that were kinda like Super Mario levels. I have kinda faint memories of playing it, but I remember that I really loved it and played it pretty often. Literally anyone I've ever asked about it irl has never heard of it.
I'm still an active player of Wizard101, lol. I've got two level 160 characters, another that's about 145, and some smaller ones in Celestia / Krokotopia. It's great. 10/10 would recommend you pick it up again during one of the free membership periods. I also played Stardoll, thanks for bringing that one up haha
I showed up for bin weevils. I am the biggest bin weevils fan. It’s all I’ve played since my conception. Bin weevils put me to bed. Bin weevils fed me breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bin weevils 2 is coming
Chit Chat City, OurWorld, Fantage, SmallWorlds, WoozWorld, and Zwinky. Along with a few others I forget the names for were my FAVOURITE Virtual Worlds. I miss them. R.I.P Childhood.
I was LOOKING for the CCC comment omgg that was THEE game. I heard someone rebooted but it will never be the same. It's era was fantabulous. I played it in high school and I would do the drawing part when a teacher came to make it seem like I was just making artwork. Avis 😭
My older sister used to play SmallWorlds ALL THE TIME back then. I enjoyed watching her play and chat with other people. Can't recall too much, but man does it give me hella nostalgia.
OurWorld was for me what Club Penguin was for others. It lasted surprisingly long and only died a bit after the death of Flash. So far I haven't heard a single person uttering its name. Also, one reboot I'm really excited for is Free Realms Sunrise. Free Realms was the chillest virtual world/social game I've ever played.
ourworld was THE virtual world for me, i was crazy about it. i just googled to see if it was still up so i could go play only to see that it shut down in 2021.... i'm devastated 😭i hope that rewritten project pans out
Our world was kinda wild. You could earn gems by filling out surveys. I would fill out surveys with fake information for hours and get sooo many gems lol
As someone who spent over a decade playing moviestarplanet, that game was very wild. Hacking, glitching, scamming, cheat engine, forum drama, msp youtube, rare collecting, etc.
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I've never heard anyone talk about this game before it's called Bella Sara It was basically this horse game that had packs of trading cards you bought with codes to get those horses online. You couldn't do much with the horses themselves besides feeding & brushing them but there was lots of fun mini games to play. Those games would give you coins you could use to buy items to decorate your room and I think each horse you logged on would come with its own unique item to put in your room too. I can't entirely remember, it's been a long time. I'm not sure if it's still up today, last I checked it was but that was 3 or 4 years ago now. I had so much fun on there & a handful of others on this list too. Webkinz, Poptropica, Animal Jam, Pixie Hollow, Littles Pet Shop, & Build-A-Bear were some of my favorites.
@@sarahradulovich5865i got a book or like a puzzle or something and it turned me onto the game ! it was so cool. & turned out my friend had the game too so it was even better lol
Bro seeing UB Funkys again was probably the most out of the blue nostalgia I ever got to experience. I had so many and I just now remembered how they looked like and especially how the world and minigames looked like. Thank you!
Sad not to see Fantage on here but hearing about Nicktropolis sends me back. I'd only really ever be active around halloween for the Vampire vs Werewolves event for as long as it ran bc I love all things vampires forever. I'm glad to hear that people know of it at this point.
I genuinely loved Fantage, but looking back on some things it screwed up my viewpoint on "beauty/pretty" for a while because all the cool clothes/hairstyles/eye colors looked better on lighter skintones. I remember I went to the game's tanning salon to change myself from black to white so I could wear rares 💀
Here is a list of some other virtual worlds, that I remember playing: 1. Panfu - It is a very popular virtual world, similiar to club penguin but with pandas. It is so popular, that I'm a bit shocked, that it didn't make it to this video. It had many crossovers, with Disney, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Lorax, Nintendo, Megamind... 2. Happystudio - McDonald's Second virtual world. It was from around 2010-2016 3. Monkey quest - Nickelodeon's world with monkeys. It had some pvp or something too, i dont really remember. There is a recreation of the whole game, as a minecraft map. I also have dreams about this game from time to time... Yeah, pretty wild. Especially that I didn't played it much. 4. Nickelodeon's the club - Similiar to nicktropolis, but with Penguins from madagascar, Icarly, Fanboy and chumchum and such. 5. LEGO Star Wars III Beta - A virtual world. It wasn't a beta version of LEGO Star Wars III. It was a completly diffrent game, where you basically only unlocked characters, and went trough places, with a possibility to watch some trailer footages. There was only 1 minigame in which you had to build the III with some other players, from the lego bricks. It had also clones literally sh1tting themselves, when a sith attacked them. Yeah, pretty wild. It was 2D btw.
Anyone remember a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends game on Cartoon Network that was essentially its own virtual world? You got to design your own custom imaginary friend and play as him in the house. You could talk to the characters from the show, see other people running around, and complete chores around the house to earn prizes.
@@annalisa9755 Thank you! "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Big Fat Awesome House Party" has apparently been both archived and restored to a playable state by the folks at BlueMaxima.
barbiegirls actually originally had a great deal with the mp3 player !!! later on they had monthly memberships, but originally you could only get the "VIB" (very important barbie) status from getting the mp3 player, AND (!!!) whatever clothing came on the mp3 you selected, appeared on your barbiegirl when you input the code online. it was god tier and some mp3's were more rare than others so the clothing was also more rare along with that, was pretty sick imo
The brief Windows Movie Maker intro may have added 20 years to my lifespan, thanks, man. Edit: 5 years have been removed again at the reminder that the best version of Poptropica was ripped away from us.
@@bjiru_ There is one vitral world that you missed and it was a skylander’s MMORPG called Spyro’s Universe. It was really cool, it was kind of like U.B funkeys, but the skylanders came with codes and you’d have to use the codes to add that specific skylander in. Sadly it lasted only a year. My boyfriend and i used to play it as kids it was nice to see another person remember it so i was hoping to see it here for him and i. If you ever do an part two of this iceberg you should check it out.
I’m quite surprised you didn’t mention Petpet Park, which was a virtual world spinoff of Neopets. Seeing what Tales of Neopia would’ve looked like it seems like it was scrapped in favor of Petpet Park which was essentially a simplified version of the former
i came here to say that i swore i played a 3d neopets world that looked just like the neopia concept art, this is it!! bc i swear they had some of those fantasy settings on the map
I MISS THIS GAME SOOOOO MUCH, my 8 year old self cried for days when p3 shut down. my username was blueberry101531 LOL I didn't know how usernames rly worked at the time but i went by blue (or bleu, how my friends called me) for YEARS after
you mentioned LPSO, but before that, they had LPS VIPs (vips standing for virtual pets, i think). they were similar but slightly different, LPSO was a lot more expanded and i think it leaned into the multiplayer concept more (I don't know, I never played it) LPS VIPs were the same idea, you bought a pet and you could add it to your account. there were no customisation options for the pets, but you could name them, give them clothes and you could decorate your own room, as well as visit friends' rooms. there were several online areas to explore, and a few minigames to play. one was a rythm dancing game, i think? anyway, it's definitely lost media now, which is a shame.
Aside from some comercials, old videos of people playing it and the website in the way back machine and also the plushies there is no way to play this game, its sad because I remembered playing it as a kid, I even have 3 VIP plushies with me! Most people only remember the LPSO game, I wish there was a revival of the VIP game as well
Poptropica used to take up so much of my free time as a child it’s so disappointing to find out they took out some of the best aspects of the game now but I’m happy it’s still playable at all
Fantastic video! I was a fellow virtual world nut and must've played any my crappy little computer can handle. Fantage, ChitChatCity, Ourworld, Zwinky, Spyro's Lair, Fishao, Hello Kitty Online, Smeet, GaiaOnline, Whirled, Legends of Oz, and so so so many more that I can't seem to remember the names of. Heck, even Total Drama Island used to have a virtual world space IIRC. If we count Avatar/Pet-based forums (like Neopets) there are and were so so so many, most of which are completely lost. It's wild to me that so many worlds and games people used to play are just all gone.
damn, i missed quite a few XD, those all sound fucking cool as hell, TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND ONE TOO!???! THAT IS CRAZY!!. but yeah, its crazy, lost media is insane
DUDEEEEE OH MY GOD, I REMEMBER HELLO KITTY ONLINE,,, that shit sent me down a rabbit hole as a kid…… also I miss fantage so much the history behind whatever the devs are even doing is wild man.
i need another one with migoland, petpet park, ourworld, imvu, secondlife, woozworld (i think?), omgchat, stardoll, adventure quest, etc... ourworld and migoland were my personal faves. i LOVED them and am so sad to this day that its gone 🤧 also I'm SHOCKED the Mcdonalds game was here. it is deep in my memory
Kinda sad OurWorld wasn't on the iceberg, but admittedly it did get pretty obscure past 2011-ish. Sadly it closed in October 2021... However, I'm currently working on a 3D remake of sorts whilst a friend of mine is working on a full-on rewrite!
Omg that's so cool! OurWorld is probably the virtual world I spent the most time on as a kid and I had some pretty formative memories there, but I've never seen anyone else talk about it!!! I'm really happy to hear about the remake, good luck to you and your friends :]
no way i spent so much time on that game its not even funny i didn't know if anyone else remembered it. super cool that you guys are working on those remakes though!!!!
When you said you knew nothing about animal jam, and then gave it that wholesome explanation. Oh boy. The history of this game is kind of crazy, and I think all the educational aspects flew out the window in like 2015. Nowadays it’s mainly just people trading and focusing on the rarity of items (it always has been to different extents). It used to be owned by National geographic, which explains the educational origins, but it no longer is.
oh fuck really? that is fucking interesting as hell, I would have never known, did very surface level research for most of these due to how many there where but its really interesting to here about the deeper lore of them all, thanks so much for sharing
Items from the beta of the game were not accessable anymore so anyone who owned them would trade them to others and everyone was obsessed with owning beta items There were also villains called phantoms trying to polute the intire world and would kidnap people and you could go on optional Adventures to save the lands some adventures actually most of them were for members only you could also as an animal have your own tiny pets, there were also lots of creepypastas on youtube about the game i remember watching And hackers
Wait it's not owned by net geo anymore? Also when he was mentioning this, I was hoping he'd mention the beta version of crystal sands called sandy shores or something like that. Apparently someone somehow was able to get ahold of it and then made their own server of it. (It's been years so my memory may be a little fuzzy) basically there was a big scare going around to never follow anyone to Crystal sands as you could end up in the beta version and get banned by ajhq. I was able to avoid mostly every kind of hack or band that's been going around except for the one around 2020-2021? Where basically the whole game was hacked and I lost my account due to it. I tried getting back into animal jam play wild but I quickly learned that I just miss the nostalgia now and not the game itself.
Toontown has pretty much come out as the titan of virtual worlds nowadays, fan-made servers like Corporate Clash get MASSIVE updates. They had an update that added 16 boss fights with mechanics that completely turn the game on its head its insane.
it really has became the juggernaut, even going up against the likes of PSO2 and wizard101, and its a shame because a lot of these virtual worlds deserve the same love but either companies wont allow it or no one cares enough.
I remember playing one of Cartoon Network around 2008-2011 where you controlled big headed avatars called Toonix. You could dress them like popular characters of the time (BenI0, Foster Mantion, Grim Adventures, Chowder, Flapjack, etc.) and you could join rooms with more people and talk with them. I remember searching about it some time ago and found that was exclusive to South America. I'm not so sure tho. Maybe somebody else knows about it?
I played that alot aswell. Although I prefered playing FusionFall, a 3D Unity-based MMO on browser. It was Cartoon Network's more exciting MMO. At that time I was around 9-12 in age and had very limited knowledge in English, but it was still worth it. Around 2012 Cartoon Network would redirect visitors to their website to their nationality's Cartoon Network website, so that sucked a but IMO. Eventually it shut down. At least it was fun to hang in there for a bit, even that's a opinion I got in middleschool. Have a nice week.
im british and binweevils was the MOST POPULAR virtual world over here, me and my mates used to play this shit 24/7 when we were kids and this was our main obsession for a couple of years in 2010-2012
OH MY GOD this entire time ive been trying to think of the name of this!!!!!! im so glad someone else remembers this 😭😭😭 id never rest easy if i couldnt figure out the name of it, i loved it soooo much
I remember tirelessly searching through shady websites attempting to find all of the special codes to unlock some of the worst clothing you could get. I never actually did any of the fighting quests in the game I just fucked around and talked to randos.
There's a FreeRealms revival project in the works. It's called FR Sunrise. The latest news about it was the early beta signups started in 2020. I think the signups are still open. It's being developed by a single guy, so it's going really slowly. I would link it, but youtube just decided to hate links recently. I remember putting a lot of hours into it.
I was an Animal Jam kid. I had a membership for several years. It wasn't really 'play as your pet' but more 'you are the animal' and the biggest aspects to me were trading & 'rares', roleplays (especially family ones), and den decorating. If you want more info on it, I'm the person to ask because I was obsessed as a kid.
I was a HUGE AJ kid as well. I started playing in late 2011 right after beta ended 😭 that game consumed so much of my life and actually is how I met my best friend that I still talk to daily. I still pop in to check AJ classic every now and then, it's one of the most nostalgic games for me
I miss playing it. I remember being in the schools library and seeing an ad for it in a net geo magazine. I also role played a lot as a warrior cat or trading people.
I used to play millsberry which was like a generals mills cereal virtual world. I completely forgot about it until this video jogged my memory. I love unlocking nostalgia!!!
i'm adding two to the list: 1) panfu, like club penguin but with pandas. my first virtual world, had really fun customization and missions 2) mundo gaturro, about the infamous argentinian comic gaturro (deserves another iceberg of its own). it absolutely rotted me and my friend's minds at one point, we were out there learning how to get into other people's accounts to get the most valuable items and shit. had some fun minigames and clothes
The best part about Jumpstart was getting to grind quests to be a mermaid and having everyone ask you how to be one, it was so fun. That and all the out of bounds glitches.
One Virtual world you didn't mention and barely anyone mentions is Zwinky. I was an avid player from the late 2000's up until the sites closure in the mid 2010's, it was made by a small team i think and used emojis as avatars and used a tool bar for the game and for emojis. it had a heavy late 2000's art style, clothing, furniture, music and it was great. It had several big collabs with Sketchers, Snoop dog and more. They had several minigames, worlds, characters to talk to etc. Out of all the virtual worlds back then Zwinky was one of the most interactive with it's fanbase and fanartists, legit they did many clothing collabs with actual players of the game, did art and clothing competitions and the winners of them their clothing was actually put into the game, listened to the player base and genuinely it was great, heck you could even design your own clothes and wear them. It's just sad how little people talk about Zwinky even though it had such big collabs and had a very active player base for many years.
Zwinky was one of my favorites!! I spent so many hours on there. The outfits were my favorite thing about it, they were just so cute and fun. The pizza mini game was my fave.
i LOVED zwinky! i was poor growing up so i couldn't afford to buy anything ever but i loved walking around and talking to people, the artstyle was so good
zwinky was so good !!! i remember one girl taking me to her house trying to convince my she was actually hannah montana and i also got in trouble for saying cum instead of come bc there was a character limit and I had no idea what I did wrong or why i was getting warnings bc I had never heard of that word lmao
I’m surprised gaia online didn’t make the list considering it would’ve been near the top. My super deep iceberg suggestion is Crazy Tao although it doesn’t exist on a browser and might be considered an MMO. Maybe a lost MMOs iceberg would be interesting!
i used to love bella sara, its basically a game where you could buy irl cards of these pretty horses and collect them on the website :,) it made me so happy as a kid
Oh my god same. I still have my binder full of trading cards! I'd spend so long grooming my horses, I miss it so much. I even had a Bella Sara game on my Nintendo DS.
Omg I'm so glad other people knew about bellasara, mostly people don't know what I'm talking about when I mention it. I would login at 6am as a kid just so I could have enough time to take care of all my horses. It made little kid me so happy, and I still have all my trading cards
im from brazil and a lot of these didn't arrive here. HOWEVER, we had Mundo Gaturro (i think it is from argentina? im not sure) and Mundo Toonix (aka toonix world, this one was from cartoon network portugal, i think). These were INSANE and i was shocked when i found out they weren't avaiable in english and other languages. i miss these sooo much
eu era viciada em mundo gaturro animal jam e club penguin eu achei q mundo gaturro era mais popular na america latina shhsjsjd fiquei chocada quando n vi ninguem mencionar nos comentarios..
I know the feel man, But your alive today too, maybe the magic of being 8-13 is gone, but now there is the magic of being 20,30 or whatever age you are, make sure you live your life to the fullest, and give yourself in 10 years something to be nostalgic for too
Smallworlds is missing from this list! Cannot believe it was not featured, it was actually my favorite and they have remade it now in Spanish as “MiniMania”
omg I was wondering if anyone else remembered smallworlds. i remember it was my mom who introduced me to it when I was like 11 claiming it was like a "child's Second Life" 😅
jumpstart, barbie girls, and supersecret omfg.. i was such a virtual world enthusiast as a kid i would literally just look up new virtual worlds to play on
Probably the most well documented virtual world video. I was just talking about my time with Club Penguin and Bin Weevils as a child. My friend and I were having this convo, he told me about Yoville, and his time with it. We got into the rabbit hole on online virtual worlds. Nostalgic with a bittersweet sadness. Thank you for making this.
I almost forgot about Poptropica before you mentioned it, sunk so many hours into that game finishing all the islands. I wish I could go back to those days ahah
@@lawlessofarabia I know exactly what you mean, I miss those days back then too, it is some bittersweet happy sadness my friend, those days are over, but if they were infinite we wouldn’t hold them as close to our hearts as we do, but we’re also here, living today, making all kinds of new memory’s that our future selves will reminisce on too, nothing lasts forever, and there’s such beauty in that, thanks for sharing your story my friend :3
We used to play moviestarplanet as kids here in Europe, and they have recently made a second game! I logged in a week ago or so, extremely anxious over the fact that its probably going to be INFESTED with kids, but to my suprise the game is filled with people over 18, wanting to relive their childhood and all the nostalgia! I'm happy I found back hahah
tbh the game: Sky Children of the Light really gives that same vibe as it is a community based game and lets u wonder the world to look for currency. it also has npcs that lets you buy cosmetics from them. its a pretty new game and available on many platforms
May I say, I feel like free realms 100% deserves to be in this. It’s nuts from having a rick roll boom box to being able to have houses you have so much creativity in and could actually go out of bounds. Fun to explore lands and variety, and eventually getting ported on the ps3. FR sunrise currently is the only fan recreation aiming to bring everything back. Whereas there is another fan creation that is out there but only able to explore things while plenty of features and what not are still missing. I played Free realms religiously back when I was younger and still remember so much, from the dessert area launch, to the Halloween event, scammers on the beach and exploring peoples homes and found they made mansions with blocks.
Free realms was out of its league man! Nobody knew about it and it had SO MUCH TO DO! I cried when it shut down and stayed on till the servers died. I loved that game.
anyways i always role played as like a lost princess of the world. i remember the valentine’s day event, the minigames, and all the really beautiful backgrounds
@@itsrainingagan3772 NO SAME THOOO! I had friends on their and we roleplayed until my mom found out i could type to strangers XD she was very afraid of me leaking our adress even tho I knew better and never been asked. I loved to go to the main towns sort of water area behind it and go into the cave,it was so beautiful and loved to be like "wow! this is where my character came from! *0*"
i loved animal jam so much. the houses, yard sales, trading, mini games, animal facts, parties, exclusive animal zones, the scamming… one of the most nostalgic things from my childhood i miss my friends on there so much 😭
I used to play these games, maybe they'll spark some memories for someone: Gaia Online, Transformice, Handipoints, Woogi World, Wizard101, Ty Girlz, Foopets, Beanie Babies 2.0, Sifaka World, Tinier Me
I'm surprised you didn't include Free Realms! It was one of my personal favorites and had a decently sized explorable map with customizable 3D characters. Didn't look bad for the time, either. Maybe if you get enough suggestions, you could make a part 2 one day. 🙂
Some virtual worlds I remember playing that aren't on the iceberg are Panfu, Pandanda, and Webosaurs. The former two actually aren't lost (Panfu has a fan-hosted server and Pandanda has an offline launcher that is basically a complete archival of the game + its fan revival), though the only thing left of Webosaurs are two minigames hosted on Flashpoint. It's kind of a shame, since that one had a PvP 2d fighting minigame as one of its main selling points.
I spent the past 2 years explaining the concept of McWorld to my friends who insisted they had no idea what I was talking about. Virtual Worlds were my childhood and i'd do anything to see some of them come back.
Im a bit sad you didnt mention Petpet park. it was my all time FAVE game ever. Also i dont know but would Wizard/Pirate 101 count as a virtual world? I feel like it leans much more into an MMO but i still think theres tons of char customization and house building that could make it count. Edit: also!!! I cant believe i completely forgot about this, but Nanovor online was my absolute SHIT. I legit had a baby meltdown when the servers shut down.yearsago edit: AAAAALSO- Bela Sara? The horse game. + there was this one weird ass Betty Sphagetti Online game i nonstop played when i was little that i still have nightmares about to this day
After seeing the two neopet games mentioned, I was really hoping for a petpet park name drop too. It can’t be that obscure since it was on the nick website with monkey quest and nicktropolis but maybe it got overlooked.
This reminded me of Pandanda. It feels like a fever dream when I look up old content related to it. Thanks for bringing so many memories I thought might have been completely lost.
Its so comforting seeing someone talking about ub funkeys 😩 Every sunday my dad and I would go to walmart and he'd let me get one toy everytime, and Id always chose a new ub funkey. I still have my collection
I know later in the video you mentioned a lot of them were games "no one played" but this video is so insane and strangely cathartic cuz I WAS THE ONE PLAYING THEM!! LMAO. I had an INSANELY chronically online childhood, like more than most gen z kids i know did... Im the youngest of my siblings so my parents naturally gave me the least amount of supervision when it came to internet access. This lead to me from the age of like 4 for the rest of my life having absolutely unfiltered, unchecked, unrestricted internet access. This obviously hasnt done good things for me mentally, but its cool to see games that I only have very vague memories of (like rollypolyland) being talked about. Whats even crazier is there are SOOO many of other ones that werent even mentioned that I rememeber, like birdzworld, star86 (aka biglittlebang for the OG's), panfu, franktownrocks, club cooee, adventure quest, petpetpark, zwinky, ourworld, millsberry, secretbearworld, meez, fantage, and woozworld just to name a few off the top of my head lmao
I played the absolute shit out of VMK. My sisters HATED me so much for playing it every single day after school. I made friends on there that ended up transitioning to over virtual games. I literally CRIED my eyes out when they shut the game down. I remember making VMK music videos with our little characters. Insane times. Major throw back. Great video!
This video was not only an incredible journey of nostalgia but strangely validating. When you mentioned “Mcworld” close to the beginning, I almost screamed because I have been talking about that game for years! There is ONE virtual world that I never see talked about that would be completely lost media if it weren’t for the TH-cam channel; it’s called Zookazoo. It was to the point where I thought I made this game up. ALSO BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO I WAS ABLE TO REMEMBER MUCHIZ. I had a Bratz one!!
I played so many of these it's silly - I was OBSESSED with online worlds. I got reminded of another virtual world I played a ton as a kid and really had to hunt down what it was called - Woogi World. It was ClubPenguin adjacent but for kids safety education I think. I actually was able to dig up some of those old "how to earn a lot of (insert game currency)" vids that never actually worked lol! A nice trip down memory lane, great video :3
i miss fantage. that game was my childhood. i loved the fashion show minigame, that was my favorite. im surprised fantage isn't on there because there's a lot of lost media from the soundtrack to the official fantage youtube channel
You're missing Worlize!! I played that one all the time! It shut down a while ago now, and I still miss it. It was like a virtual chat room where your icon was just a png you uploaded, but it was fun! You could make your own house/"world" where others could join, you could visit other worlds including "Harry's Bar" which had a chat bot you could talk to (and would give you pngs of drinks if you asked!) The game originally started as a My Little Pony virtual world under a different name, which I also played, but then changed to Worlize. I've never seen anyone talk about Worlize, like it's completely forgotten. So I'd love if someone finally talked about it.
Ive just given it a google, that looks extremely interesting, Its mlp origins are also very interesting, at this point im defiantly going to make a part 2, I have had so many suggestions of ones I missed, so ill defiantly give it a run down, thanks for sharing :3
Surprised "Rango The World" wasn't included here. It was basically Club Penguin but for Rango (that 2011 movie about the Johnny Depp Chameleon in the wild west).
There's another virtual world missing on this list that I remember so much and it was Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Big Fat Awesome House Party. You get to create your own Imaginary Friend and walk around the house, find other online Imaginary Friends in the process, interact with the characters from the show, and play a bunch of games. It was a short lived online game that CN made in 2007 that was supposed to last for one year but they extended it for one more year until the end of the series on 2009.
OMG this is such forgotten media that I literally forgot about it, even though they recommended me MY FIRST USERNAME! They had a system where if your username was taken, they'd give you a list of other weird ones and I completely forgot that that username, that I used for so long, CAME FROM THERE! My mind is blown right now 🤯
I wish beanie babies 2.0 had been on here. It was one of my favorites, i loved any virtual world with stuffed animals. I think I got into it because in 2009 McDonalds had mini beanie babies in their happy meals, that came with virtual codes for the game.
I didnt watch yet but ill tell you I love the fact that you make videos that feel like they were made for fun and about things YOU are interested in, and that's why im a sub rn
i still log on to animal jam every day! you don’t actually play as a pet, like you thought, you can just play as different animals. you can get pets but they’re really just decorative
It's so sad as it was one of the few that was 100% made by the players, pretty sure a lot of game devs and programmers started out in whirled, tho tbf it was a copyright infringement haven so I can understand why it died so hard.
YES i was searching if anybody knew what whirled was it was an absolute gem, looking back on it i don't think there was any other virtual world out there that was entirely bolstered by usermade content. so much time wasted. so many memories! rare avatar trading, designing your own rooms, making fun of statics/kawaiis, animal roleplay groups, playing corpse craft, werewolf, scribble, etc. hanging out in Adopt Me! - LONKING, does anyone else remember lonking? god. take me back.
@@pagedmaj iirc, the three rings ceo straight up said that it was an 'abject failure' from how little they got back from it, 5 million dollars was invested i honestly think it was too obscure to catch the ire of big companies, i always saw tons of nintendo avatars running around. biggest issue i imagine is that it was incredibly easy to rip avatars so you didn't have to pay bars. people were banned for it, but you could eventually get away with it scot-free as the players dwindled
truly! i had to scroll so far down to find any mention of whirled here. it was quite special. to this day, i've yet to encounter someone who has also heard of it. i lament its loss pretty frequently and would give anything just to explore my old rooms again.
Some that weren’t mentioned that I vividly remember playing were Chimpoo, Webbli world, Tootsville, Dinokids, Franktown rocks and Shidonni. I loved shidonni because you could draw your own pets and even make one into a real plush
Omg someone mentioned Tootsville!! I vividly remember my cousin and I going on the computer and searching up virtual world games until we came across Tootsville. I just remember a bunch of elephants farting it up on there. Didn’t like it very much lol
I used to be a big fan of a virtual world called Dizzywood. Played it for years I’d say until they changed the style and gameplay into something a lot more restrictive and lame. Loved Dizzywood. I recall convincing people I was a dev for the game, you were able to change the colour of literally every aspect about your appearance so I changed everything to blue and I guess people hadn’t realised you could do that so believed me when I said I worked for them. Lies and slander I was like 11. I also played a chat room virtual world called Tinierme that was pretty cool, spent my first real internet related all nighters in middle school on that site. Did some sexy rp on there without really realising what I was doing, just sort of playing along to what everyone else was doing. My first ever bf was on there as well, we talked like one time then started dating then he never really talked to me so broke up with him. His screen name was Lelouch which I didn’t know at the time was from an anime I thought he just had a strange name and genuinely told people about him. Embarrassing but extremely funny. Good times back when the internet was fun. One of my old roommates was really big on movie star planet and told me he used to convince people to gift memberships to him. He had like drama, we even found an ancient TH-cam channel that mentioned him by name! I frequented maybe 5-6 other weird virtual worlds not mentioned here, some I don’t even know count as a virtual world. In Canada we have YTV which had a kids website where you could play games and pile around and do stuff in order to dress up/customise this like robot alien thing? Fun fun fun. Last thing, when I was a child I had a build a bear but I may have gotten it before they implemented the virtual stuff, or maybe I just didn’t know about it at the time? Anyways, when I learned about the game I was really upset I couldn’t put my snow leopard into the game so I emailed the build a bear people explaining that I had my stuffies birth certificate and included a detailed written physical description of her based off of my own measurements. I think I must have been like 8 so it was clearly written by a child, but whoever answered the emails at the time must have really felt for me because they emailed me back with a username and password that they had created for me that had a snow leopard already registered in the game and I was able to actually play with it!! It was a really cool thing they did, some random employee of build a bear going out of their way to make sure I could enjoy the game. I don’t know if I thanked them but I wish I could cause it stuck with me. Also that game was busted as hell they had a bank system where you could put all your money in the bank then fuck off for like 6 months and when you came back you got crazy interest so I was always rich whenever I remembered the game existed hehe
I remember playing this game called Whyville. You only had a head and shoulders and you had to feed your character a balanced diet or it would have jaundice or pox or something the next time you logged in. They partnered with Toyota to promote the new Scion, and everyone was grinding so they could get in-game Scions, because if you didn’t have one, you weren’t cool. 😂
I'm honestly so surprised that you didn't list Gaia Online! I think it's still running, but it was an iconic virtual world for preteen weebs in the late 2000s - early 2010s. Also, I was on Weeworld as well during that time and it was truly the wild west of avatar chatrooms. Oh the things I was exposed to as a 12 y/o pretending to be a cool emo teen.
@@Twiddle_things we met in 2012 on Gaia in the "rallys" area where you had your own custom scion lol. Met in real life in 2013. (he traveled form Europe to meet me) Got married in 2019. 💕 We are still so happy together.
amazing video! i too was a chronically online kid who would sign up to anything that even looked a tiny bit like a virtual world. i still think about many games often, one of them actually being MiniMonos! thank you for reintroducing the memory of this game that has been nothing but 'that one monkey world' for the last decade of my life. some more that i still think about: Panfu - can't express the delight i experienced when i saw a rewritten was made. the stories rivalled moshi monster HQ missions for sure. Free Realms - boy, i still mourn this game. i was too young to understand why it ended but i assume it was due to costs. such beautiful art style paired with fun places to explore and people to meet. hope i get to see it again one day. Garden Party - this was MY 'no one else has heard of this?' game. likely lost media. i remember loving the painting mini game and just being a little character in a garden world. RIP. idressup - this game was fun and actually skipped my school's censorship wall so my friends and i would play during IT class. it was basically Stardoll but with better customisation (and also a sick MP3 player which played any song in your room - iconic). the ending to it's lifespan was wild, who knew a game where you dress up could get in a LOT of trouble with the law! Chit Chat City - a weird but fun game i spent hours wandering around in. it's gained some small attention lately as it appeared on my TikTok FYP in a nostalgia compilation. the girls that get it, get it! i might add more in the replies as i go down nostalgia lane, hopefully i maybe sparked some memories for fellow commenters?
my favorite virtual worlds were definitely Habbo, Fantage, Free Realms and Moshi Monsters. I always get sad thinking about how I will never get to play most of them ever again.
you can though !, Habbo's still up, moshi monsters has a rewritten, I found a website for a beta Free realms rewritten, If your talking about the wonder and magic of being a kid and playing them though, your right, theres something so special about being a kid, but theres also something so special about being a teenager, young adult, adult, and elderly person, make these days something your future self can reminisce on just like you are on those days back then right now ;)
@@bjiru_ Yeah lol that is what I meant, I look back fondly on all the friendships I made on those websites and all the adventures I had haha, I sometimes find myself wondering how my virtual world friends from back then are doing now. I've tried replaying Habbo hotel but last time I went on it, it was mega dead 😂, I didnt know about Moshi Monsters rewritten, and I had no idea the beta was finally open for Free Realms Rewritten! I heard of it back when they were still working on it but I kept forgetting to check on it
I remember when Moviestar Planet was all the rage at my school. I also tried Club Penguin and Panfu (one I only think existed in Northern Europe). My older siblings all played Habbo, and friends of mine were STILL addicted to Habbo into their twenties haha
The video essay/commentary/iceberg channel format isn't hard to master, but definitely takes a lot of devotion and commitment. I'm glad this small little indie channel found his stride and attracted the algorithm. Very deserving of the 100K views. Despite being his only video of the sort, his video was well-made: informative, comprehensive, nostalgic, and even entertaining. Like I found myself laughing a lot of his jokes, which I appreciate. Comedy isn't necessary for an iceberg video but he went the extra mile and peppered his own little gags and charm in. As a fellow person born in October 2001, I'm envious of the creator's passion and creativity. Hopefully he considers making more iceberg content. (At least, if there are any topics izzzyzzz hasn't already covered LOL) P.S. RIP classic Poptropica, Webkinz, and the GOAT El Club Pinguino.
I spent a lot of time on ToonTown, and Nicktropolis gave me lots of happy memories. I'm surprised you didn't mention Milsbury, Freerealms, or Smallworlds as those were all very popular for their time and had lots of activities associated with them. The void in my heart for these kinds of games will never be filled :(
Oh my god- I was thinking EXACTLY this! Smallworlds was such a massive part of my childhood, I spent an embarrassingly long time playing it. Millsbury too, but I feel like that’s very niche 🤣
While watching this I remembered one game targeted towards girls called f.a.m.p.s. It was a a character insert game like webkins. The starter kit came with the toy, this donut looking scanner that needed to be plugged in and the CD. They also sold other characters that were all named after different emotions. I even looked it up while the video played and even asked my friend who owned them as well. I ended up finding out that it’s considered lost media with only a few videos on here and more photos of the toys. I also found out it was made by Mattel and there’s still info on it on their website
I remember there being a Korean MMO known as Katamari Damacy Online, and I think it had some online world elements such as a hub world, socialization features, character customization, a home that the player could probably accessorize (allegedly), and a few other things. It’s lost media now.
LPSO and Tamatown unlocked a memory for me omg. Tamatown was SO cool to me, especially when the Music Stars came out. also still absolutely heartbroken about barbie girls world no longer existing. ;-; im surprised you didnt cover Fantage, that game was my life and i thought it was HUGE!! some others i can think of are All Girl Arcade, Ty Girlz/Beanie Babies 2.0, Wooz World, Groovy Girls, Growtopia (dont know if that counts) and PetPet Park which was a branch off of Neopets, and whatever the American Girl one was called... (InnerStarU or something like that??). I still play Toontown Rewritten and Neopets regularly (am playing Neopets as i watch this video and type this comment lol), and occasionally visit Club Penguin Rewritten and Moshi Monsters Rewritten. :D
OH there was also one for Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. I can't remember anything about it other than i thought it was SO COOL (and then barely played it womp womp)
15:46 actually there is a rewritten project for LPSO that is currently still in the works called LPSO:Revived, the team has made some amazing progress so far and there is actually already demo builds up to play. :)
Also I'm surprised how obscure Kung Fu Panda World was, it was the only virtual world I actually played as a kid and I remember being obsessed with Tigress Jump in particular lol
looking at the comments I notice that there's so many obscure virtual MMOs that used to exist! the ones that I haven't seen mentioned yet are CatPawIsland and Migoland/Spineworld. CatPawIsland is still on I think, I remember it being really fun and it's got a lot of the 2000s aesthetic, very nostalgic and customisable :-) Migoland holds a very special place in my heart. I've never seen a game like it and as far as I've seen it's not really known ! anyway, I love the way you edited this video, it's very charming and it definitely took me to a nostalgia trip. keep it up !! 🥺
I loved Spineworld! Just commented about it. At one point, I was playing it more than Club Penguin (which I was and am still obsessed with). It really was so unique.
OMG I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO COME OUT!!! There’s a few other lost virtual worlds and mmos that I used to play when I was younger. The main one is a game called Hello Kitty Online. Their TH-cam channel is still active and I believe the website was up for a while too! It worked a little like toontown with how it installed and it played a lot like Little Space Heroes mixed with Habbo Hotel. It was super cute and I remember being so invested in the story however it shut down “softly” a year after I had started playing it. I haven’t been able to find any more information on it or even find if the old server is still up. I do, however, have the disc that the game came on and I’d love to connect with other Hello Kitty Online/Sanrio fans who want to rebuild the game!
oh my god I had no idea of that one, I gave it a quick google search it looks so fucking cool, and came on disc too? that is very unique, There are countless that have been suggested to me after making this so ill be doing a part 2, and ill be sure to find all I can on hello kitty online aswell ! thank you so much for sharing, I hope you find a community to connect with and get something started !
@@bjiru_ For sure!!! Yeah it was amazing! I remember being just so enamored and fascinated by the story that they had made for the game when I was younger. I still have the disc and the user manual for it too, I got the premium edition of it ages ago. If you need more “witness testimony” for that game let me know cause I have so many stories to tell haha!
The sheer joy in seeing Barbiegirls on here was probably more than I should've had LMAOOOOO but wow talk about blasts from the past! I remember so many of these but I definitely frequented barbiegirls and lpso the most--tho I hopped on Club Penguin a bit towards the end of my virtual world streak before I hopped to like. Roblox. Also! Barbiegirls does have a Rewritten project currently ongoing called Barbiegirls Rewritten and they have a YT channel and discord server sharing progress as it goes! Super stoked for it :]
I believe that MyCoke was previously known as CokeStudios, and there was a rebranding that happened at some point. I was obsessed with that game as a kid! What stands out to me most was how the world had a strong sense of place. They really nailed the concept of the game, which was that you were hanging out at various music venues throughout the world. I really loved that you could make your own music, and you could earn points by taking your turn as the DJ at the various clubs. Overall it was a really fun time and I would love to visit the worlds even just one more time. Oh! There was also a Shark-Tale tie in club (or set of clubs?) that seemed to exist and then never left, sort of like the speed racer tie-in you mentioned. I don't remember any other tie-in worlds.
Meez, Zwinky, Disney's Magical Kingdom, and Gaia Online were my childhood. They cross my mind from time to time, you might have to do a part 2 because the comments mentioned some good ones!!
I'M SO SO HAPPY SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS!! In every conversation Ive ever had about childhood games, nobody remembers Ourworld. It had the best clothes and RP/pretend play potential with all of the different areas. To this day I regard it as one of the best examples of game design for children because all of the love put into hiding secrets in the game, shops only available on certain days, etc. Ourworld is so close to my heart. I believe it is still active, but every few years I go on my old account just to reminisce. Everything in my inventory is the highest rarity now!
I played a lot of Jumpstart for some reason and it’s nice to hear someone talk about it a little bit!! as a kid the game felt sooo real but I went back recently and watched some gameplay videos and realized how ridiculous it was, especially the sound design. I guess the best piece of lore is the penguins of madagascar world they added for a while. it was freaking awesome :O
@@staticforest1197 oh my god YESSS. i miss the new york world and madagascar world so much. i also briefly remember a super tall mountainous world that felt like italy maybe? It might have been tied to madagascar too I have no idea. so so so many memories with this game
Gosh I love animal jam. They have a brand new mobile/pc version! And the classic one is STILL updated every weekend! Has a huge (mainly older) audience too, and they still add and update educational facts to the game! Now they are even teaching us about- buoyancy?… yeah, kinda learned that in third grade but hey, at least they they try!
It’s amazing seeing how a virtual world goes from millions of total active users to only end up being forgotten by 99 percent of those users. I was just reminded by the McDonald’s one and the mcodes. I tried to see if I can get all of the codes but gave up on the game after a week
AHHH i was really really hoping that someone would make a video like this !! it wasn't mentioned in the iceberg unfortunately, and i don't think i've ever met anyone who had played it, but there was a virtual world called Panfu where you could make your own panda character and travel through the towns and stuff, it was primarily used for roleplaying purposes from what I remember, but you could customize your character with stuff (i think). my favorite feature was the quests that NPCs around the town would give you and you would have to wait LITERAL REAL LIFE DAYS in order to proceed with a quest in the game. the ingame models were also lowkey a little freaky looking
I'm British. I got (temporarily) banned from Panfu for repeatedly trying to "laugh in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way" in the hot potato game. In the UK, we don't replace that word (avoiding it lest TH-cam block the comment) with "snicker", at least not back then, and being an innocent child I was completely dumbfounded as to why my messages were being blocked and why I got banned.
Secret Builders was one of my favorite virtual world and nobody ever remembers it!! i have such vivid memories of talking to shakespeare and einstein, since both fictional and real historical figures were inexplicably npcs in the game
Jumpstart mention woww! I played a ton of these games but no one ever knows jumpstart. Honestly surprised it wasn't lower! It was such a fun game to play. Because of chat restrictions there wasn't crazy drama but still funny situations that have happened throughout the game's lifespan. Thank you for the video :)
**** LOOK! LOOK AT ME! CORRECTIONS COMMENT ! ****
I missed a few things in this video that are very important, I'm very sorry to the following for not including you in the video, that is my bad.
1. Barbiegirls.com
There actually is a barbiegirls.com rival project in the works that I glossed over in my research, you can check it out here: "www.flowcode.com/page/barbiegirlsrewritten" or at there TH-cam @BarbieGirlsRewritten
2. Littlest Petshop Online
There is also a LPSO.com rewritten in development as well that I did not find originally, you can check it out here: "lpso-revived.carrd.co/#" or at there TH-cam @lpso_revived
3. Nicktropolis
Nicktropolis as well has a revival effort titled "Nicktropolis Timewarp" that can be found here "gamejolt.com/get/build?game=803261&build=1496726"
I don't know how I glossed over these, but I did, witch is very shit. These are very cool, amazing efforts to bring back games that I and many of you loved. and they deserve recognition, so if you were a fan of any of these please go check these remakes out.
I was gonna pull an "um actually", about Barbie Girls. Then I saw this
So now I won't
havent watched the vid, but didnt see ipigworld on the list? so i assume its not in the video?
I remember some other virtual one about choosing a team to live in their place (There were green and red team) both had diff currencies and if you wanted to visit the red team place you would have to go to some bank to convert the currency and you could even go to fight for the green team or steal money from the other team and wars and events ,and once you have chosen your team you cannot go back , I don't remember the game name but it was made the middle eastern channel for children (MBC3)
I remember a virtual world game called Pakamas that I don’t think anyone remembers… can you find it for me?
um actually there are jumpstart revivals Called Jumpstart Restarted That Recently Launched
the hilarious thing about pixie hollow is that you used to only be able to make pixies. making a male character wasn't even an option. so boys would go on there and make a girl character with short hair and spam "IM A MAN" in the spawn area
I can't read that without thinking of "I'M A MAN! _Punch_" Anyway, that's pretty funny
And may or may not have led to a few kids doing some deep self-questioning while very confused
That reminds me of when I would play Royale High in junior high as a girl with short hair, which eventually led me to realize that I preferred when people would "mistake" me for a boy.
Dumb_Killjoy still a girl doebeit
Trans icons /pos
i'm not like most girls...
I have a cock. *earrape glue70 casin*
One of my absolute FAVORITE online games was Fantage. I played religiously everyday as a child & even convinced my parents to buy the subscription that gave you access to the special clothes & accessories in world. I got up to a very high level & did pretty much every special event they had. I played for years until I eventually outgrew the game & my parents had to cancel the subscription. The game shut down a few years ago but I think about it every now & then lol
i would pay any amount of money to get Fantage back lol
@@brittanybritt9797me too I loved the fashion show
when i was a kid my account glitched and I managed to get permanent membership at the cost of not being able to open my profile ever again. I could wear whatever I wanted!
sometimes i think about the time where i truly fell in love with some random ass guy there for the first time
sameee and I loved the fashion competition game sm
Someone should make an index to keep a catalog of all these games so they’re not forgotten
This is actually an emerging field in archaeology no lie
where do I apply? Seriously, trying to get history scholars to take "internet historical study" seriously has been hard.@@Eerie_Canal
@@Eerie_Canal fr? sign me up tbh
Will you settle for a Google Doc keeping track of all the virtual worlds, as well as their rewritten versions?
Shararam is still up because of the popularity of Kikoriki in Russia, and it's still played by a bunch of people. (I'm a Russian person myself, and I've played Shararam a lot in my childhood, it was just absolutely the same as club penguin, but with Kikoriki branding)
I’m almost to the end and crying because there’s no StarDoll!! I LOVED StarDoll! You could talk on forums, create your apartment and decorate, play games, dress up your avatar. Ugh. That was the first thing I ever had a membership for!
I really liked Stardoll, but it just sucked that all the coolest stuff cost real money.
Stardoll isnt lost, its still around. but he still had webkinz on the list so yeah idk why he wouldnt add stardoll
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THINGGGGGGGGG
Lmao I still play Stardoll :)
stardoll was everything
meez, imvu, woozworld, and zwinky were some of the ones i miss the most 😭 unrestricted internet access as a child shaped my youth in good and bad ways
oh how i miss meez
@@Rxhina I think they might be bringing it back, not sure though
@@Rxhina meez was the best
Omg zwinky!😂 i remember my parents got pissed cus it kept tricking me into downloading its toolbar and it would give me pop-ups and was annoying to fully get rid of 😂
How dare you bring up Imvu 😅😂 holy fuck Meez too, I was chronically online at this point as well. Camaraderie with everyone here 💪👾
I’m just happy to see Pixie Hollow Online finally acknowledged for once. It feels like it’s the one virtual world Disney made that was never acknowledged by mainstream media. I don’t know what that game did to me in my youth to make me so obsessed with it but I am. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
favorite game ever…no one understands
It was my favorite game, always played it after school, i was so sad when it shut down
Did you know there’s a beta retro version of it? Aka owned by fans! But they’re trying to bring it back!
It’s ironic now that I think about it how mainstream media didn’t really talk about it despite how successful the 2000s Pixie Hollow movies, comics, and books were. I am going to guess that since Winx Club was at its peak popularity when the game came out media chose to focus on Winx Club instead
you can still play a rewritten fan version of it, but it's offline and you can't save your progress. its fun to play for a bit. its still being worked on
I haven't seen anyone mention it, but Monkey Quest seems to be a pretty obscure one and used to be one of my favorites for some reason. It was made by Nickelodeon and you would be able complete quests that were kinda like Super Mario levels. I have kinda faint memories of playing it, but I remember that I really loved it and played it pretty often. Literally anyone I've ever asked about it irl has never heard of it.
OMG I loved monkey quest!! I was totally forgetting about it!
I was waiting for this one to be brought up!
I remember that one too! I discovered it through an ad on the Rambo movie (the animated one)
I LOVED IT SO BAD IT WAS SO COOL
yessss monkey quest and pet pet park!!
Missing ones that I loved as a kid:
Stardoll, IMVU, WoozWorld, Wizard101, and GaiaOnline
Wizard101 is still super strong rn too!!
My bf asked me to download wizard101 on my laptop and every now and then he logs into his childhood account
W101 will always have a special place in my heart
NO CAUSE HOWD HE MISS THESE THEY WERE HUGE!
I was also thinking IMVU!! I forgot about Wizard 101 and Gaia Online but they totally belong on this list
I'm still an active player of Wizard101, lol. I've got two level 160 characters, another that's about 145, and some smaller ones in Celestia / Krokotopia. It's great. 10/10 would recommend you pick it up again during one of the free membership periods.
I also played Stardoll, thanks for bringing that one up haha
I showed up for bin weevils. I am the biggest bin weevils fan. It’s all I’ve played since my conception. Bin weevils put me to bed. Bin weevils fed me breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bin weevils 2 is coming
Matthew also
BIN WEEVILS 2 IS COMING?!?
Love that for ypu
Thanks buttondowndingo!!!!
me too i am the biggest fan of binweevils out of everyone i have ever met i lived and breathed it back in the day
Chit Chat City, OurWorld, Fantage, SmallWorlds, WoozWorld, and Zwinky. Along with a few others I forget the names for were my FAVOURITE Virtual Worlds. I miss them. R.I.P Childhood.
I was LOOKING for the CCC comment omgg that was THEE game. I heard someone rebooted but it will never be the same. It's era was fantabulous. I played it in high school and I would do the drawing part when a teacher came to make it seem like I was just making artwork. Avis 😭
I was hoping someone else remembered Zwinky! I used to love that game, mostly for the avatar customization aspect
My older sister used to play SmallWorlds ALL THE TIME back then. I enjoyed watching her play and chat with other people. Can't recall too much, but man does it give me hella nostalgia.
Omg, I think you’re one of the very few people to mention Ourworld 😭 that was my favorite and there’s barely any videos on it
ZWINKY OH MY GOD
“Im a boy. I do boy stuff” and “I was infamous among my parents” both got me
OurWorld was for me what Club Penguin was for others. It lasted surprisingly long and only died a bit after the death of Flash. So far I haven't heard a single person uttering its name.
Also, one reboot I'm really excited for is Free Realms Sunrise. Free Realms was the chillest virtual world/social game I've ever played.
ourworld was THE virtual world for me, i was crazy about it. i just googled to see if it was still up so i could go play only to see that it shut down in 2021.... i'm devastated 😭i hope that rewritten project pans out
Our world was kinda wild. You could earn gems by filling out surveys. I would fill out surveys with fake information for hours and get sooo many gems lol
dude I lovedddd Ourworld!
i miss ourworld so much
AND DOWNWORLD! I miss them both :’(
As someone who spent over a decade playing moviestarplanet, that game was very wild. Hacking, glitching, scamming, cheat engine, forum drama, msp youtube, rare collecting, etc.
was?
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
The whole anonymous hacking saga was a trip
PEAKKK childhood game for me. I will cherish those memories forever along with my account that I luckily still have lol.
oh my GOD i’m pretty sure i spent a majority of my tweenagehood on that site 😭😭 i still keep my account as like an archive lol
I've never heard anyone talk about this game before it's called Bella Sara
It was basically this horse game that had packs of trading cards you bought with codes to get those horses online. You couldn't do much with the horses themselves besides feeding & brushing them but there was lots of fun mini games to play. Those games would give you coins you could use to buy items to decorate your room and I think each horse you logged on would come with its own unique item to put in your room too. I can't entirely remember, it's been a long time. I'm not sure if it's still up today, last I checked it was but that was 3 or 4 years ago now.
I had so much fun on there & a handful of others on this list too. Webkinz, Poptropica, Animal Jam, Pixie Hollow, Littles Pet Shop, & Build-A-Bear were some of my favorites.
I remember I got a free trading card in a magazine, which introduced me to the game!
i loved bella sara!!!!
omfg girl i loved that game so much. so underrated and lots of fun
@@sarahradulovich5865i got a book or like a puzzle or something and it turned me onto the game ! it was so cool. & turned out my friend had the game too so it was even better lol
Yes!!!
Bro seeing UB Funkys again was probably the most out of the blue nostalgia I ever got to experience. I had so many and I just now remembered how they looked like and especially how the world and minigames looked like.
Thank you!
Sad not to see Fantage on here but hearing about Nicktropolis sends me back. I'd only really ever be active around halloween for the Vampire vs Werewolves event for as long as it ran bc I love all things vampires forever. I'm glad to hear that people know of it at this point.
I used to pretend to be a boy on fantage
I loved Fantage, I played it all the time. I stopped playing it as much as I got older, then I heard it shut down. Fun times!
I genuinely loved Fantage, but looking back on some things it screwed up my viewpoint on "beauty/pretty" for a while because all the cool clothes/hairstyles/eye colors looked better on lighter skintones. I remember I went to the game's tanning salon to change myself from black to white so I could wear rares 💀
DUDE I FORGOT THE NAME OF THAT GAME OH MY GOD THE MEMORIED
I LOVED FANTAGE
Here is a list of some other virtual worlds, that I remember playing:
1. Panfu - It is a very popular virtual world, similiar to club penguin but with pandas. It is so popular, that I'm a bit shocked, that it didn't make it to this video. It had many crossovers, with Disney, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Lorax, Nintendo, Megamind...
2. Happystudio - McDonald's Second virtual world. It was from around 2010-2016
3. Monkey quest - Nickelodeon's world with monkeys. It had some pvp or something too, i dont really remember. There is a recreation of the whole game, as a minecraft map. I also have dreams about this game from time to time... Yeah, pretty wild. Especially that I didn't played it much.
4. Nickelodeon's the club - Similiar to nicktropolis, but with Penguins from madagascar, Icarly, Fanboy and chumchum and such.
5. LEGO Star Wars III Beta - A virtual world. It wasn't a beta version of LEGO Star Wars III. It was a completly diffrent game, where you basically only unlocked characters, and went trough places, with a possibility to watch some trailer footages. There was only 1 minigame in which you had to build the III with some other players, from the lego bricks. It had also clones literally sh1tting themselves, when a sith attacked them. Yeah, pretty wild. It was 2D btw.
Aw man I love Monkey Quest, I wasn't super smart so i got stuck alot but it was such a cool game.
monkey quest!!
holy crap Panfu unlocked a memory so hard i think i would have gone the entire rest of my life forgetting about it had i not read this comment
i loved Panfu and monkey quest! i remember it kinda having WoW vibes?
i remember a panda game called pandanda, wild that there were two of them lmao
Anyone remember a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends game on Cartoon Network that was essentially its own virtual world? You got to design your own custom imaginary friend and play as him in the house. You could talk to the characters from the show, see other people running around, and complete chores around the house to earn prizes.
100% remember and played this one
Thank you for this memory unlocked !
Yes!!! Foster’s big fat awesome house party!!!
@@annalisa9755 Thank you! "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Big Fat Awesome House Party" has apparently been both archived and restored to a playable state by the folks at BlueMaxima.
YES. It had a name generator/remixer for signing up and it strangely enough gave me the name I use for my email now. 😭
barbiegirls actually originally had a great deal with the mp3 player !!! later on they had monthly memberships, but originally you could only get the "VIB" (very important barbie) status from getting the mp3 player, AND (!!!) whatever clothing came on the mp3 you selected, appeared on your barbiegirl when you input the code online. it was god tier and some mp3's were more rare than others so the clothing was also more rare along with that, was pretty sick imo
I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers this
There’s nothing more that I want in this world than a Bearville remaster :,(
SAME😭😭😭😭😭
I MISS BEARVILLE CUZ LAST TIME I PLAYED I WAS SIX AND IT SHUT DOWN WHEN I WAS TEN!
@@user-ash705 I LOVED THAT GAME WHEN I WAS LITTLE!
I still use the username I created in Bearville: Biancabear580 😢
The brief Windows Movie Maker intro may have added 20 years to my lifespan, thanks, man.
Edit: 5 years have been removed again at the reminder that the best version of Poptropica was ripped away from us.
Your welcome, and sorry XD
@@bjiru_ There is one vitral world that you missed and it was a skylander’s MMORPG called Spyro’s Universe.
It was really cool, it was kind of like U.B funkeys, but the skylanders came with codes and you’d have to use the codes to add that specific skylander in. Sadly it lasted only a year.
My boyfriend and i used to play it as kids it was nice to see another person remember it so i was hoping to see it here for him and i.
If you ever do an part two of this iceberg you should check it out.
I miss OG poptropica I still remember my old user and password of my childhood acc but I haven’t played in years cuz they changed it a ton
you guys can play the old poptropica on the flashpoint archive
I’m quite surprised you didn’t mention Petpet Park, which was a virtual world spinoff of Neopets. Seeing what Tales of Neopia would’ve looked like it seems like it was scrapped in favor of Petpet Park which was essentially a simplified version of the former
Petpet park was so fun I miss it so much
i came here to say that i swore i played a 3d neopets world that looked just like the neopia concept art, this is it!! bc i swear they had some of those fantasy settings on the map
i miss this game so so much and barely anyone remembers it
I MISS THIS GAME SOOOOO MUCH, my 8 year old self cried for days when p3 shut down. my username was blueberry101531 LOL I didn't know how usernames rly worked at the time but i went by blue (or bleu, how my friends called me) for YEARS after
I played petpet park religiously! I remember you could use a command to act like a zombie
you mentioned LPSO, but before that, they had LPS VIPs (vips standing for virtual pets, i think). they were similar but slightly different, LPSO was a lot more expanded and i think it leaned into the multiplayer concept more (I don't know, I never played it)
LPS VIPs were the same idea, you bought a pet and you could add it to your account. there were no customisation options for the pets, but you could name them, give them clothes and you could decorate your own room, as well as visit friends' rooms. there were several online areas to explore, and a few minigames to play. one was a rythm dancing game, i think?
anyway, it's definitely lost media now, which is a shame.
I remember being heartbroken when LPS VIPs shut down and switched to LPSO!
Aside from some comercials, old videos of people playing it and the website in the way back machine and also the plushies there is no way to play this game, its sad because I remembered playing it as a kid, I even have 3 VIP plushies with me! Most people only remember the LPSO game, I wish there was a revival of the VIP game as well
Poptropica used to take up so much of my free time as a child it’s so disappointing to find out they took out some of the best aspects of the game now but I’m happy it’s still playable at all
man i loved that game, the pirate and space islands were my favorites, but then they started to monetize the shit out of it and i fell out of love 😭
POPTROPICA WAS MY JAM BACK IN FOURTH GRADE MY FRIENDS AND I WOULD SPEND INDOOR RECESS ON OUR LAPTOPS PLAYING POPTROPICA
Fantastic video! I was a fellow virtual world nut and must've played any my crappy little computer can handle. Fantage, ChitChatCity, Ourworld, Zwinky, Spyro's Lair, Fishao, Hello Kitty Online, Smeet, GaiaOnline, Whirled, Legends of Oz, and so so so many more that I can't seem to remember the names of. Heck, even Total Drama Island used to have a virtual world space IIRC. If we count Avatar/Pet-based forums (like Neopets) there are and were so so so many, most of which are completely lost. It's wild to me that so many worlds and games people used to play are just all gone.
damn, i missed quite a few XD, those all sound fucking cool as hell, TOTAL DRAMA ISLAND ONE TOO!???! THAT IS CRAZY!!. but yeah, its crazy, lost media is insane
OMG CHITCHATCITY. I got my friend hooked on it hahahah.
DUDEEEEE OH MY GOD, I REMEMBER HELLO KITTY ONLINE,,, that shit sent me down a rabbit hole as a kid…… also I miss fantage so much the history behind whatever the devs are even doing is wild man.
I loved OurWorld!! Glad to see someone else mention it ❤️
IT WAS SUCH A GOOD MMORPG LMAOOO@@Blargle42069
i need another one with migoland, petpet park, ourworld, imvu, secondlife, woozworld (i think?), omgchat, stardoll, adventure quest, etc... ourworld and migoland were my personal faves. i LOVED them and am so sad to this day that its gone 🤧
also I'm SHOCKED the Mcdonalds game was here. it is deep in my memory
There is a Migoland private server now, though it's not always online and a lot of features aren't implemented yet.
Adventure Quest is still up and the devs made other games too and a remake!
i loved petpet park fr it was so intricate and big and i miss it sm
isnt* imvu still up
jesus christ i forgot about adventure quest. that was my faaaavorite
Kinda sad OurWorld wasn't on the iceberg, but admittedly it did get pretty obscure past 2011-ish. Sadly it closed in October 2021... However, I'm currently working on a 3D remake of sorts whilst a friend of mine is working on a full-on rewrite!
Omg that's so cool! OurWorld is probably the virtual world I spent the most time on as a kid and I had some pretty formative memories there, but I've never seen anyone else talk about it!!! I'm really happy to hear about the remake, good luck to you and your friends :]
no way i spent so much time on that game its not even funny i didn't know if anyone else remembered it. super cool that you guys are working on those remakes though!!!!
i loved our world!!
omg pls tell me when y’all release it i would love to play ourworld again
I spent waaay too much time on ourworld
When you said you knew nothing about animal jam, and then gave it that wholesome explanation. Oh boy. The history of this game is kind of crazy, and I think all the educational aspects flew out the window in like 2015. Nowadays it’s mainly just people trading and focusing on the rarity of items (it always has been to different extents). It used to be owned by National geographic, which explains the educational origins, but it no longer is.
oh fuck really? that is fucking interesting as hell, I would have never known, did very surface level research for most of these due to how many there where but its really interesting to here about the deeper lore of them all, thanks so much for sharing
Items from the beta of the game were not accessable anymore so anyone who owned them would trade them to others and everyone was obsessed with owning beta items
There were also villains called phantoms trying to polute the intire world and would kidnap people and you could go on optional
Adventures to save the lands some adventures actually most of them were for members only you could also as an animal have your own tiny pets, there were also lots of creepypastas on youtube about the game i remember watching
And hackers
@@NyxTrix.good ol Fman122 and Wretchedjungle
Wait it's not owned by net geo anymore?
Also when he was mentioning this, I was hoping he'd mention the beta version of crystal sands called sandy shores or something like that. Apparently someone somehow was able to get ahold of it and then made their own server of it. (It's been years so my memory may be a little fuzzy) basically there was a big scare going around to never follow anyone to Crystal sands as you could end up in the beta version and get banned by ajhq. I was able to avoid mostly every kind of hack or band that's been going around except for the one around 2020-2021? Where basically the whole game was hacked and I lost my account due to it. I tried getting back into animal jam play wild but I quickly learned that I just miss the nostalgia now and not the game itself.
Toontown has pretty much come out as the titan of virtual worlds nowadays, fan-made servers like Corporate Clash get MASSIVE updates. They had an update that added 16 boss fights with mechanics that completely turn the game on its head its insane.
I love toontown so much, as I kid I was obsessed
it really has became the juggernaut, even going up against the likes of PSO2 and wizard101, and its a shame because a lot of these virtual worlds deserve the same love but either companies wont allow it or no one cares enough.
I remember playing one of Cartoon Network around 2008-2011 where you controlled big headed avatars called Toonix. You could dress them like popular characters of the time (BenI0, Foster Mantion, Grim Adventures, Chowder, Flapjack, etc.) and you could join rooms with more people and talk with them. I remember searching about it some time ago and found that was exclusive to South America. I'm not so sure tho. Maybe somebody else knows about it?
I played that alot aswell. Although I prefered playing FusionFall, a 3D Unity-based MMO on browser. It was Cartoon Network's more exciting MMO. At that time I was around 9-12 in age and had very limited knowledge in English, but it was still worth it. Around 2012 Cartoon Network would redirect visitors to their website to their nationality's Cartoon Network website, so that sucked a but IMO. Eventually it shut down. At least it was fun to hang in there for a bit, even that's a opinion I got in middleschool. Have a nice week.
The fact you didn’t mention Fantage at all bro how did you miss that 😭😭😭
i was waiting for it
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they have it as a mobile fashion game now but its so barebones it's only fun for about 10 minutes
and panfu
Remember Frank Town?
im british and binweevils was the MOST POPULAR virtual world over here, me and my mates used to play this shit 24/7 when we were kids and this was our main obsession for a couple of years in 2010-2012
One of my fav games that I played as a kid.
Free Realms is so underrated as a lost virtual world. I remember so many days of rushing to get school work done just to play. I miss FR.
i dont think we'll be able to play it again...
this was my favorite!!! i wish they’d bring it back 😢
OH MY GOD this entire time ive been trying to think of the name of this!!!!!! im so glad someone else remembers this 😭😭😭 id never rest easy if i couldnt figure out the name of it, i loved it soooo much
apparently there's an unofficial revival trying to happen called FR Sunrise :0
I remember tirelessly searching through shady websites attempting to find all of the special codes to unlock some of the worst clothing you could get. I never actually did any of the fighting quests in the game I just fucked around and talked to randos.
I was entirely addicted to Free Realms. So many hours in that world. I miss it :'(
i remember that! i always wanted to play it again 😭
There's a FreeRealms revival project in the works. It's called FR Sunrise. The latest news about it was the early beta signups started in 2020. I think the signups are still open.
It's being developed by a single guy, so it's going really slowly. I would link it, but youtube just decided to hate links recently.
I remember putting a lot of hours into it.
My absolute favorite. I talk about it to this day. Played it on the last day, too. Horrible experience of being there for the server shut down 😭
@@AlliRayyI played it the day it shut down too! I remember everyone assuming it was an April fools thing because it shut down like the day prior
I was an Animal Jam kid. I had a membership for several years. It wasn't really 'play as your pet' but more 'you are the animal' and the biggest aspects to me were trading & 'rares', roleplays (especially family ones), and den decorating. If you want more info on it, I'm the person to ask because I was obsessed as a kid.
I was a HUGE AJ kid as well. I started playing in late 2011 right after beta ended 😭 that game consumed so much of my life and actually is how I met my best friend that I still talk to daily. I still pop in to check AJ classic every now and then, it's one of the most nostalgic games for me
I miss playing it. I remember being in the schools library and seeing an ad for it in a net geo magazine. I also role played a lot as a warrior cat or trading people.
I was the kid who told all my friends and then they told their friends and then I got the whole school playing it
@@w花b I do.
YESSS dude the hours I would spend trying to trade stuff was insane
I used to play millsberry which was like a generals mills cereal virtual world. I completely forgot about it until this video jogged my memory. I love unlocking nostalgia!!!
Me and my friend were obsessed!!
millsberry was so fun!!
I played this too! There was a mini game where you jumped on cushions in the air?
Was bummed to see this wasn’t mentioned! Loved this game
i was looking for this! my favorite one even some irl friends played it and we would add eachother lol i wish it was back
i'm adding two to the list:
1) panfu, like club penguin but with pandas. my first virtual world, had really fun customization and missions
2) mundo gaturro, about the infamous argentinian comic gaturro (deserves another iceberg of its own). it absolutely rotted me and my friend's minds at one point, we were out there learning how to get into other people's accounts to get the most valuable items and shit. had some fun minigames and clothes
I was like, where is Panfu? I played the hell out of it as a kid. I kept begging my parents to get Gold Panda, lol
Yeaaaa PANFU 😢 I used to love it so much
Mundo gaturro 😭💔
MUNDO GATURRO omg i had so much fun playing this
PANFU FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT
The best part about Jumpstart was getting to grind quests to be a mermaid and having everyone ask you how to be one, it was so fun. That and all the out of bounds glitches.
One Virtual world you didn't mention and barely anyone mentions is Zwinky. I was an avid player from the late 2000's up until the sites closure in the mid 2010's, it was made by a small team i think and used emojis as avatars and used a tool bar for the game and for emojis. it had a heavy late 2000's art style, clothing, furniture, music and it was great. It had several big collabs with Sketchers, Snoop dog and more. They had several minigames, worlds, characters to talk to etc. Out of all the virtual worlds back then Zwinky was one of the most interactive with it's fanbase and fanartists, legit they did many clothing collabs with actual players of the game, did art and clothing competitions and the winners of them their clothing was actually put into the game, listened to the player base and genuinely it was great, heck you could even design your own clothes and wear them. It's just sad how little people talk about Zwinky even though it had such big collabs and had a very active player base for many years.
zwinky was soooo good. i used to have so many accounts on that game.
Zwinky was one of my favorites!! I spent so many hours on there. The outfits were my favorite thing about it, they were just so cute and fun. The pizza mini game was my fave.
i LOVED zwinky! i was poor growing up so i couldn't afford to buy anything ever but i loved walking around and talking to people, the artstyle was so good
Omg I remember zwinky 😮
zwinky was so good !!! i remember one girl taking me to her house trying to convince my she was actually hannah montana and i also got in trouble for saying cum instead of come bc there was a character limit and I had no idea what I did wrong or why i was getting warnings bc I had never heard of that word lmao
I’m surprised gaia online didn’t make the list considering it would’ve been near the top. My super deep iceberg suggestion is Crazy Tao although it doesn’t exist on a browser and might be considered an MMO. Maybe a lost MMOs iceberg would be interesting!
GAIA WAS AMAZING!! Can’t believe he didn’t mention it
@@angylls It still exists...
@@angyllsit still exists
I'm surprised there's no pet pet park mention
I think the lines are blurred between MMO and virtual world, they are almost the same thing
i used to love bella sara, its basically a game where you could buy irl cards of these pretty horses and collect them on the website :,) it made me so happy as a kid
Oh my god same. I still have my binder full of trading cards! I'd spend so long grooming my horses, I miss it so much. I even had a Bella Sara game on my Nintendo DS.
I remember this. What an era
Omg I'm so glad other people knew about bellasara, mostly people don't know what I'm talking about when I mention it. I would login at 6am as a kid just so I could have enough time to take care of all my horses. It made little kid me so happy, and I still have all my trading cards
Yess
i wish i still had my account and cards omg.....
im from brazil and a lot of these didn't arrive here. HOWEVER, we had Mundo Gaturro (i think it is from argentina? im not sure) and Mundo Toonix (aka toonix world, this one was from cartoon network portugal, i think). These were INSANE and i was shocked when i found out they weren't avaiable in english and other languages.
i miss these sooo much
eu era viciada em mundo gaturro animal jam e club penguin eu achei q mundo gaturro era mais popular na america latina shhsjsjd fiquei chocada quando n vi ninguem mencionar nos comentarios..
Virtual world games were like crack for me as a broke kid with no consoles, life rly hasn't been the same since flash died
The thumbnail alone nearly fucking killed me. Nostalgia is an awesome but sucky feeling. I miss being 8-13. Instant subscription
I know the feel man, But your alive today too, maybe the magic of being 8-13 is gone, but now there is the magic of being 20,30 or whatever age you are, make sure you live your life to the fullest, and give yourself in 10 years something to be nostalgic for too
@@bjiru_ there’s always something around the corner worth sticking around for. Looking forward to seeing what else you put out! 💙
Smallworlds is missing from this list! Cannot believe it was not featured, it was actually my favorite and they have remade it now in Spanish as “MiniMania”
i was thinking this, i was so sad when it closed down
RIP SMALLWORLDS. THE REAL ONES WILL NEVER FORGET
Omg yes! Never heard anyone else talk about this game. I used to play it all the time
omg I was wondering if anyone else remembered smallworlds. i remember it was my mom who introduced me to it when I was like 11 claiming it was like a "child's Second Life" 😅
jumpstart, barbie girls, and supersecret omfg..
i was such a virtual world enthusiast as a kid i would literally just look up new virtual worlds to play on
Probably the most well documented virtual world video. I was just talking about my time with Club Penguin and Bin Weevils as a child. My friend and I were having this convo, he told me about Yoville, and his time with it. We got into the rabbit hole on online virtual worlds. Nostalgic with a bittersweet sadness. Thank you for making this.
I almost forgot about Poptropica before you mentioned it, sunk so many hours into that game finishing all the islands. I wish I could go back to those days ahah
@@lawlessofarabia I know exactly what you mean, I miss those days back then too, it is some bittersweet happy sadness my friend, those days are over, but if they were infinite we wouldn’t hold them as close to our hearts as we do, but we’re also here, living today, making all kinds of new memory’s that our future selves will reminisce on too, nothing lasts forever, and there’s such beauty in that, thanks for sharing your story my friend :3
@@lawlessofarabiaabsolutley no offence but how can you almost forget something you spent so much time on?
I actually really miss virtual worlds like this. I wish we had some new ones that are as good as these old ones
I think it’s for the best, too many people got groomed on these online chat rooms. :/
We used to play moviestarplanet as kids here in Europe, and they have recently made a second game! I logged in a week ago or so, extremely anxious over the fact that its probably going to be INFESTED with kids, but to my suprise the game is filled with people over 18, wanting to relive their childhood and all the nostalgia!
I'm happy I found back hahah
tbh the game: Sky Children of the Light really gives that same vibe as it is a community based game and lets u wonder the world to look for currency. it also has npcs that lets you buy cosmetics from them. its a pretty new game and available on many platforms
May I say, I feel like free realms 100% deserves to be in this. It’s nuts from having a rick roll boom box to being able to have houses you have so much creativity in and could actually go out of bounds. Fun to explore lands and variety, and eventually getting ported on the ps3. FR sunrise currently is the only fan recreation aiming to bring everything back. Whereas there is another fan creation that is out there but only able to explore things while plenty of features and what not are still missing.
I played Free realms religiously back when I was younger and still remember so much, from the dessert area launch, to the Halloween event, scammers on the beach and exploring peoples homes and found they made mansions with blocks.
Free realms was out of its league man! Nobody knew about it and it had SO MUCH TO DO! I cried when it shut down and stayed on till the servers died. I loved that game.
i was also wondering why it wasn’t on here. i guess it counted more as an MMO?
anyways i always role played as like a lost princess of the world. i remember the valentine’s day event, the minigames, and all the really beautiful backgrounds
@@itsrainingagan3772 NO SAME THOOO! I had friends on their and we roleplayed until my mom found out i could type to strangers XD she was very afraid of me leaking our adress even tho I knew better and never been asked. I loved to go to the main towns sort of water area behind it and go into the cave,it was so beautiful and loved to be like "wow! this is where my character came from! *0*"
@@stygott Agreed! been super excited to play it again when the project FR sunrise eventually opens, even as a early access!
i loved animal jam so much. the houses, yard sales, trading, mini games, animal facts, parties, exclusive animal zones, the scamming… one of the most nostalgic things from my childhood i miss my friends on there so much 😭
I used to play these games, maybe they'll spark some memories for someone:
Gaia Online, Transformice, Handipoints, Woogi World, Wizard101, Ty Girlz, Foopets, Beanie Babies 2.0, Sifaka World, Tinier Me
i miss woogi world so much
OMG TINIERME WAS MY LIFE
i don't think transformice counts as a virtual world (?
@@un_weon_cualquiera. you're right, I just wanted to share some of the multiplayer games that I remembered :)
Still miss Beanie Babies 2.0 so much.
I'm surprised you didn't include Free Realms! It was one of my personal favorites and had a decently sized explorable map with customizable 3D characters. Didn't look bad for the time, either. Maybe if you get enough suggestions, you could make a part 2 one day. 🙂
Im so sad I had to scroll so far to finally find a FreeRealms comment!! I thought maybe it was a fever dream of mine hahaha. Miss you FreeRealms!
i was really surprised too!! i miss freerealms so much
in tha video he said mostly only browser based virtual worlds except toon town
Free Realms was my all time favorite and I miss it like crazy every day :(
Omg I loved free realms
Some virtual worlds I remember playing that aren't on the iceberg are Panfu, Pandanda, and Webosaurs. The former two actually aren't lost (Panfu has a fan-hosted server and Pandanda has an offline launcher that is basically a complete archival of the game + its fan revival), though the only thing left of Webosaurs are two minigames hosted on Flashpoint. It's kind of a shame, since that one had a PvP 2d fighting minigame as one of its main selling points.
i had not heard of webosaurs that sounds super cool, also forgot panfu woops :p
Pandanda was so fun!
oh my god panfu. that really takes me back. i used to be a "journalist" for the finnish version with my fan blog and everything
SOMEONE REMEMBERS PANFU!!!!!! why was it so ominous
whats the fan server called?
I spent the past 2 years explaining the concept of McWorld to my friends who insisted they had no idea what I was talking about. Virtual Worlds were my childhood and i'd do anything to see some of them come back.
I imagine 4chan's visits to Habbo Hotel changed the landscape of virtual worlds forever.
It was in 2004-2005 right? Then I'd say it shaped more than changed, as most were still coming
Pool's closed.
Im a bit sad you didnt mention Petpet park. it was my all time FAVE game ever. Also i dont know but would Wizard/Pirate 101 count as a virtual world? I feel like it leans much more into an MMO but i still think theres tons of char customization and house building that could make it count.
Edit: also!!! I cant believe i completely forgot about this, but Nanovor online was my absolute SHIT. I legit had a baby meltdown when the servers shut down.yearsago
edit: AAAAALSO- Bela Sara? The horse game. + there was this one weird ass Betty Sphagetti Online game i nonstop played when i was little that i still have nightmares about to this day
Yes, Petpet Park!! I miss my Kassegat Catty5617
After seeing the two neopet games mentioned, I was really hoping for a petpet park name drop too. It can’t be that obscure since it was on the nick website with monkey quest and nicktropolis but maybe it got overlooked.
@@Pink_Petal_PowderPetPetPark was Def overlooked and is a shame:( it did had a good lore
This reminded me of Pandanda. It feels like a fever dream when I look up old content related to it. Thanks for bringing so many memories I thought might have been completely lost.
Yesss loved pandanda. Even had a little jingle to remember how to spell it as a kid. Panda N D A!
HOLY SHIT ANOTHER PANDANDA PLAYER
Its so comforting seeing someone talking about ub funkeys 😩 Every sunday my dad and I would go to walmart and he'd let me get one toy everytime, and Id always chose a new ub funkey. I still have my collection
I know later in the video you mentioned a lot of them were games "no one played" but this video is so insane and strangely cathartic cuz I WAS THE ONE PLAYING THEM!! LMAO. I had an INSANELY chronically online childhood, like more than most gen z kids i know did... Im the youngest of my siblings so my parents naturally gave me the least amount of supervision when it came to internet access. This lead to me from the age of like 4 for the rest of my life having absolutely unfiltered, unchecked, unrestricted internet access. This obviously hasnt done good things for me mentally, but its cool to see games that I only have very vague memories of (like rollypolyland) being talked about. Whats even crazier is there are SOOO many of other ones that werent even mentioned that I rememeber, like birdzworld, star86 (aka biglittlebang for the OG's), panfu, franktownrocks, club cooee, adventure quest, petpetpark, zwinky, ourworld, millsberry, secretbearworld, meez, fantage, and woozworld just to name a few off the top of my head lmao
FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONS FRANKTOWNROCKS
PETPETPARK MY BELOVED
BIGLITTLEBANG OHMYGOD I LOVED THAT GAME AND COULDN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS CALLED
I played the absolute shit out of VMK. My sisters HATED me so much for playing it every single day after school. I made friends on there that ended up transitioning to over virtual games. I literally CRIED my eyes out when they shut the game down. I remember making VMK music videos with our little characters. Insane times. Major throw back. Great video!
okay were you on VFK also
This video was not only an incredible journey of nostalgia but strangely validating. When you mentioned “Mcworld” close to the beginning, I almost screamed because I have been talking about that game for years! There is ONE virtual world that I never see talked about that would be completely lost media if it weren’t for the TH-cam channel; it’s called Zookazoo. It was to the point where I thought I made this game up.
ALSO BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO I WAS ABLE TO REMEMBER MUCHIZ. I had a Bratz one!!
I played so many of these it's silly - I was OBSESSED with online worlds. I got reminded of another virtual world I played a ton as a kid and really had to hunt down what it was called - Woogi World. It was ClubPenguin adjacent but for kids safety education I think. I actually was able to dig up some of those old "how to earn a lot of (insert game currency)" vids that never actually worked lol! A nice trip down memory lane, great video :3
Came to the comments just to see if someone else mentioned woogi world.
i miss fantage. that game was my childhood. i loved the fashion show minigame, that was my favorite. im surprised fantage isn't on there because there's a lot of lost media from the soundtrack to the official fantage youtube channel
they have a fantage mobile game called fashion designer , it's really barebones but still nostalgic
@@dingusweenie thank you so much wowee 🐹
You're missing Worlize!! I played that one all the time! It shut down a while ago now, and I still miss it. It was like a virtual chat room where your icon was just a png you uploaded, but it was fun! You could make your own house/"world" where others could join, you could visit other worlds including "Harry's Bar" which had a chat bot you could talk to (and would give you pngs of drinks if you asked!) The game originally started as a My Little Pony virtual world under a different name, which I also played, but then changed to Worlize.
I've never seen anyone talk about Worlize, like it's completely forgotten. So I'd love if someone finally talked about it.
Ive just given it a google, that looks extremely interesting, Its mlp origins are also very interesting, at this point im defiantly going to make a part 2, I have had so many suggestions of ones I missed, so ill defiantly give it a run down, thanks for sharing :3
I WAS ABOUT TO MENTION THIS ONE
@@bjiru_hey. Ir you gonna make a part two you should add toonix world, a latín american exclusive cartoon network mmo
WORLIZE OMFG, I THOUGHT THAT ONE WAS COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT. I SPENT SO MUCH TIME ON THERE
omg I USED TO LOVE THIS GAME
I used to be a huge fan of a virtual world called OurWorld, which I played back in 2011, if I remember correctly. It was super fun.
Surprised "Rango The World" wasn't included here. It was basically Club Penguin but for Rango (that 2011 movie about the Johnny Depp Chameleon in the wild west).
There's another virtual world missing on this list that I remember so much and it was Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Big Fat Awesome House Party.
You get to create your own Imaginary Friend and walk around the house, find other online Imaginary Friends in the process, interact with the characters from the show, and play a bunch of games. It was a short lived online game that CN made in 2007 that was supposed to last for one year but they extended it for one more year until the end of the series on 2009.
Omgg I thought no one else remembered that game I remember being so sad when I couldn’t find it anymore 😢
OMG this is such forgotten media that I literally forgot about it, even though they recommended me MY FIRST USERNAME! They had a system where if your username was taken, they'd give you a list of other weird ones and I completely forgot that that username, that I used for so long, CAME FROM THERE!
My mind is blown right now 🤯
I wish beanie babies 2.0 had been on here. It was one of my favorites, i loved any virtual world with stuffed animals. I think I got into it because in 2009 McDonalds had mini beanie babies in their happy meals, that came with virtual codes for the game.
I didnt watch yet but ill tell you
I love the fact that you make videos that feel like they were made for fun and about things YOU are interested in, and that's why im a sub rn
I do do that, Im glad so many others find them interesting too though, thanks dude :3
i still log on to animal jam every day! you don’t actually play as a pet, like you thought, you can just play as different animals. you can get pets but they’re really just decorative
Same!!!!
Things like this really make me realize how lost and forgotten Whirled is. I spent all my time on that site when I was younger.
It's so sad as it was one of the few that was 100% made by the players, pretty sure a lot of game devs and programmers started out in whirled, tho tbf it was a copyright infringement haven so I can understand why it died so hard.
Whirled Club is a thing and seems to have a small playerbase. Won't be the same as back then, but it is there.
YES i was searching if anybody knew what whirled was
it was an absolute gem, looking back on it i don't think there was any other virtual world out there that was entirely bolstered by usermade content. so much time wasted. so many memories!
rare avatar trading, designing your own rooms, making fun of statics/kawaiis, animal roleplay groups, playing corpse craft, werewolf, scribble, etc. hanging out in Adopt Me! - LONKING, does anyone else remember lonking? god. take me back.
@@pagedmaj iirc, the three rings ceo straight up said that it was an 'abject failure' from how little they got back from it, 5 million dollars was invested
i honestly think it was too obscure to catch the ire of big companies, i always saw tons of nintendo avatars running around.
biggest issue i imagine is that it was incredibly easy to rip avatars so you didn't have to pay bars. people were banned for it, but you could eventually get away with it scot-free as the players dwindled
truly! i had to scroll so far down to find any mention of whirled here. it was quite special. to this day, i've yet to encounter someone who has also heard of it. i lament its loss pretty frequently and would give anything just to explore my old rooms again.
Some that weren’t mentioned that I vividly remember playing were Chimpoo, Webbli world, Tootsville, Dinokids, Franktown rocks and Shidonni. I loved shidonni because you could draw your own pets and even make one into a real plush
Omg someone mentioned Tootsville!! I vividly remember my cousin and I going on the computer and searching up virtual world games until we came across Tootsville. I just remember a bunch of elephants farting it up on there. Didn’t like it very much lol
Was looking for someone else who remembers franktown rocks
I used to be a big fan of a virtual world called Dizzywood. Played it for years I’d say until they changed the style and gameplay into something a lot more restrictive and lame. Loved Dizzywood. I recall convincing people I was a dev for the game, you were able to change the colour of literally every aspect about your appearance so I changed everything to blue and I guess people hadn’t realised you could do that so believed me when I said I worked for them. Lies and slander I was like 11.
I also played a chat room virtual world called Tinierme that was pretty cool, spent my first real internet related all nighters in middle school on that site. Did some sexy rp on there without really realising what I was doing, just sort of playing along to what everyone else was doing. My first ever bf was on there as well, we talked like one time then started dating then he never really talked to me so broke up with him. His screen name was Lelouch which I didn’t know at the time was from an anime I thought he just had a strange name and genuinely told people about him. Embarrassing but extremely funny. Good times back when the internet was fun.
One of my old roommates was really big on movie star planet and told me he used to convince people to gift memberships to him. He had like drama, we even found an ancient TH-cam channel that mentioned him by name!
I frequented maybe 5-6 other weird virtual worlds not mentioned here, some I don’t even know count as a virtual world. In Canada we have YTV which had a kids website where you could play games and pile around and do stuff in order to dress up/customise this like robot alien thing? Fun fun fun.
Last thing, when I was a child I had a build a bear but I may have gotten it before they implemented the virtual stuff, or maybe I just didn’t know about it at the time? Anyways, when I learned about the game I was really upset I couldn’t put my snow leopard into the game so I emailed the build a bear people explaining that I had my stuffies birth certificate and included a detailed written physical description of her based off of my own measurements. I think I must have been like 8 so it was clearly written by a child, but whoever answered the emails at the time must have really felt for me because they emailed me back with a username and password that they had created for me that had a snow leopard already registered in the game and I was able to actually play with it!! It was a really cool thing they did, some random employee of build a bear going out of their way to make sure I could enjoy the game. I don’t know if I thanked them but I wish I could cause it stuck with me. Also that game was busted as hell they had a bank system where you could put all your money in the bank then fuck off for like 6 months and when you came back you got crazy interest so I was always rich whenever I remembered the game existed hehe
i loved dizzywood!!
I LOVED BUILD A BEARVILLE TOO!
Yes dizzywood mention!!!! I never hear anyone talking about that I was so into it as a kid
YESS DIZZYWOOD no one ever remembers this one 😭
I remember playing this game called Whyville. You only had a head and shoulders and you had to feed your character a balanced diet or it would have jaundice or pox or something the next time you logged in. They partnered with Toyota to promote the new Scion, and everyone was grinding so they could get in-game Scions, because if you didn’t have one, you weren’t cool. 😂
I'm honestly so surprised that you didn't list Gaia Online! I think it's still running, but it was an iconic virtual world for preteen weebs in the late 2000s - early 2010s.
Also, I was on Weeworld as well during that time and it was truly the wild west of avatar chatrooms. Oh the things I was exposed to as a 12 y/o pretending to be a cool emo teen.
Lol I came here to say the same thing :)
I met my husband on Gaia online!!
@@CjtrineSky omg that's so cute!! 😭
@@CjtrineSkyaww! For how long have you two been together? :D
I still keep in contact with friends I met on Gaia!
@@Twiddle_things we met in 2012 on Gaia in the "rallys" area where you had your own custom scion lol. Met in real life in 2013. (he traveled form Europe to meet me)
Got married in 2019. 💕 We are still so happy together.
amazing video! i too was a chronically online kid who would sign up to anything that even looked a tiny bit like a virtual world. i still think about many games often, one of them actually being MiniMonos! thank you for reintroducing the memory of this game that has been nothing but 'that one monkey world' for the last decade of my life.
some more that i still think about:
Panfu - can't express the delight i experienced when i saw a rewritten was made. the stories rivalled moshi monster HQ missions for sure.
Free Realms - boy, i still mourn this game. i was too young to understand why it ended but i assume it was due to costs. such beautiful art style paired with fun places to explore and people to meet. hope i get to see it again one day.
Garden Party - this was MY 'no one else has heard of this?' game. likely lost media. i remember loving the painting mini game and just being a little character in a garden world. RIP.
idressup - this game was fun and actually skipped my school's censorship wall so my friends and i would play during IT class. it was basically Stardoll but with better customisation (and also a sick MP3 player which played any song in your room - iconic). the ending to it's lifespan was wild, who knew a game where you dress up could get in a LOT of trouble with the law!
Chit Chat City - a weird but fun game i spent hours wandering around in. it's gained some small attention lately as it appeared on my TikTok FYP in a nostalgia compilation. the girls that get it, get it!
i might add more in the replies as i go down nostalgia lane, hopefully i maybe sparked some memories for fellow commenters?
I’ve never seen anyone else talk about i-dressup, I loved that game so much and it was one of first social virtual games I ever played!
my favorite virtual worlds were definitely Habbo, Fantage, Free Realms and Moshi Monsters.
I always get sad thinking about how I will never get to play most of them ever again.
you can though !, Habbo's still up, moshi monsters has a rewritten, I found a website for a beta Free realms rewritten,
If your talking about the wonder and magic of being a kid and playing them though, your right, theres something so special about being a kid, but theres also something so special about being a teenager, young adult, adult, and elderly person, make these days something your future self can reminisce on just like you are on those days back then right now ;)
@@bjiru_ Yeah lol that is what I meant, I look back fondly on all the friendships I made on those websites and all the adventures I had haha, I sometimes find myself wondering how my virtual world friends from back then are doing now. I've tried replaying Habbo hotel but last time I went on it, it was mega dead 😂, I didnt know about Moshi Monsters rewritten, and I had no idea the beta was finally open for Free Realms Rewritten! I heard of it back when they were still working on it but I kept forgetting to check on it
I remember when Moviestar Planet was all the rage at my school. I also tried Club Penguin and Panfu (one I only think existed in Northern Europe). My older siblings all played Habbo, and friends of mine were STILL addicted to Habbo into their twenties haha
i was a virtual world addict as a kid and played most of these :’) it made me so happy to see this video show up! i feel so understood
The video essay/commentary/iceberg channel format isn't hard to master, but definitely takes a lot of devotion and commitment. I'm glad this small little indie channel found his stride and attracted the algorithm. Very deserving of the 100K views. Despite being his only video of the sort, his video was well-made: informative, comprehensive, nostalgic, and even entertaining. Like I found myself laughing a lot of his jokes, which I appreciate. Comedy isn't necessary for an iceberg video but he went the extra mile and peppered his own little gags and charm in. As a fellow person born in October 2001, I'm envious of the creator's passion and creativity. Hopefully he considers making more iceberg content. (At least, if there are any topics izzzyzzz hasn't already covered LOL) P.S. RIP classic Poptropica, Webkinz, and the GOAT El Club Pinguino.
My exact thoughts
right i think i developed a lil crush throughout the video
I spent a lot of time on ToonTown, and Nicktropolis gave me lots of happy memories. I'm surprised you didn't mention Milsbury, Freerealms, or Smallworlds as those were all very popular for their time and had lots of activities associated with them. The void in my heart for these kinds of games will never be filled :(
Nicktropolis omg!!!
Oh my god- I was thinking EXACTLY this! Smallworlds was such a massive part of my childhood, I spent an embarrassingly long time playing it. Millsbury too, but I feel like that’s very niche 🤣
SMALLWORLDS !!! W/o smallworlds I don't believe Id've developed social skills 🤪
FUCKING FREEREALMS OMGGG
2 more to add to that list are Zwinky and Meez, they seemed to have a pretty active user-base atleast to my kid brain
While watching this I remembered one game targeted towards girls called f.a.m.p.s. It was a a character insert game like webkins. The starter kit came with the toy, this donut looking scanner that needed to be plugged in and the CD. They also sold other characters that were all named after different emotions.
I even looked it up while the video played and even asked my friend who owned them as well. I ended up finding out that it’s considered lost media with only a few videos on here and more photos of the toys. I also found out it was made by Mattel and there’s still info on it on their website
I remember there being a Korean MMO known as Katamari Damacy Online, and I think it had some online world elements such as a hub world, socialization features, character customization, a home that the player could probably accessorize (allegedly), and a few other things. It’s lost media now.
You’re naturally funny and very entertaining, got much more out of this iceberg than I excepted. Please keep it up.
LPSO and Tamatown unlocked a memory for me omg. Tamatown was SO cool to me, especially when the Music Stars came out. also still absolutely heartbroken about barbie girls world no longer existing. ;-; im surprised you didnt cover Fantage, that game was my life and i thought it was HUGE!! some others i can think of are All Girl Arcade, Ty Girlz/Beanie Babies 2.0, Wooz World, Groovy Girls, Growtopia (dont know if that counts) and PetPet Park which was a branch off of Neopets, and whatever the American Girl one was called... (InnerStarU or something like that??). I still play Toontown Rewritten and Neopets regularly (am playing Neopets as i watch this video and type this comment lol), and occasionally visit Club Penguin Rewritten and Moshi Monsters Rewritten. :D
OH there was also one for Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. I can't remember anything about it other than i thought it was SO COOL (and then barely played it womp womp)
I LOVED innerstaru!
FINALLY SOMEONE THAT REMEMBERS THAT GAME 5-8 YEAR OLD ME THOUGHT IT WAS THE BEST GAME EVER BUT I HATED HOW LONG IT TOOK TO LOGIN!!!
bring back petpet park
15:46 actually there is a rewritten project for LPSO that is currently still in the works called LPSO:Revived, the team has made some amazing progress so far and there is actually already demo builds up to play. :)
Also I'm surprised how obscure Kung Fu Panda World was, it was the only virtual world I actually played as a kid and I remember being obsessed with Tigress Jump in particular lol
looking at the comments I notice that there's so many obscure virtual MMOs that used to exist! the ones that I haven't seen mentioned yet are CatPawIsland and Migoland/Spineworld.
CatPawIsland is still on I think, I remember it being really fun and it's got a lot of the 2000s aesthetic, very nostalgic and customisable :-)
Migoland holds a very special place in my heart. I've never seen a game like it and as far as I've seen it's not really known !
anyway, I love the way you edited this video, it's very charming and it definitely took me to a nostalgia trip. keep it up !! 🥺
oh interesting, Ill have a look at those for part 2, catpawisland especially seems very interesting very obscure,
also thank you much :3
I loved Spineworld! Just commented about it. At one point, I was playing it more than Club Penguin (which I was and am still obsessed with). It really was so unique.
OMG I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO COME OUT!!! There’s a few other lost virtual worlds and mmos that I used to play when I was younger. The main one is a game called Hello Kitty Online. Their TH-cam channel is still active and I believe the website was up for a while too! It worked a little like toontown with how it installed and it played a lot like Little Space Heroes mixed with Habbo Hotel. It was super cute and I remember being so invested in the story however it shut down “softly” a year after I had started playing it. I haven’t been able to find any more information on it or even find if the old server is still up. I do, however, have the disc that the game came on and I’d love to connect with other Hello Kitty Online/Sanrio fans who want to rebuild the game!
oh my god I had no idea of that one, I gave it a quick google search it looks so fucking cool, and came on disc too? that is very unique, There are countless that have been suggested to me after making this so ill be doing a part 2, and ill be sure to find all I can on hello kitty online aswell ! thank you so much for sharing, I hope you find a community to connect with and get something started !
@@bjiru_ For sure!!! Yeah it was amazing! I remember being just so enamored and fascinated by the story that they had made for the game when I was younger. I still have the disc and the user manual for it too, I got the premium edition of it ages ago. If you need more “witness testimony” for that game let me know cause I have so many stories to tell haha!
@@eviescealf9029 hahaha, I might take you up on that, depending on how much there is known, thanks so much
@@bjiru_ Anytime haha! I’m just glad that someone’s here to help document this stuff!
The sheer joy in seeing Barbiegirls on here was probably more than I should've had LMAOOOOO but wow talk about blasts from the past! I remember so many of these but I definitely frequented barbiegirls and lpso the most--tho I hopped on Club Penguin a bit towards the end of my virtual world streak before I hopped to like. Roblox. Also! Barbiegirls does have a Rewritten project currently ongoing called Barbiegirls Rewritten and they have a YT channel and discord server sharing progress as it goes! Super stoked for it :]
I saw that! even joined their discord channel to see their updates
I believe that MyCoke was previously known as CokeStudios, and there was a rebranding that happened at some point. I was obsessed with that game as a kid! What stands out to me most was how the world had a strong sense of place. They really nailed the concept of the game, which was that you were hanging out at various music venues throughout the world. I really loved that you could make your own music, and you could earn points by taking your turn as the DJ at the various clubs. Overall it was a really fun time and I would love to visit the worlds even just one more time. Oh! There was also a Shark-Tale tie in club (or set of clubs?) that seemed to exist and then never left, sort of like the speed racer tie-in you mentioned. I don't remember any other tie-in worlds.
Meez, Zwinky, Disney's Magical Kingdom, and Gaia Online were my childhood. They cross my mind from time to time, you might have to do a part 2 because the comments mentioned some good ones!!
I’m sad that our world wasn’t mentioned in here! OurWorld was such a good virtual world I played nonstop as a kid!
Bro I used to tear that game up! I was always in the pursuit of vampire teeth and finally got it.
Omg ourworld was literally my favorite
I'M SO SO HAPPY SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS!! In every conversation Ive ever had about childhood games, nobody remembers Ourworld. It had the best clothes and RP/pretend play potential with all of the different areas. To this day I regard it as one of the best examples of game design for children because all of the love put into hiding secrets in the game, shops only available on certain days, etc. Ourworld is so close to my heart. I believe it is still active, but every few years I go on my old account just to reminisce. Everything in my inventory is the highest rarity now!
I played a lot of Jumpstart for some reason and it’s nice to hear someone talk about it a little bit!! as a kid the game felt sooo real but I went back recently and watched some gameplay videos and realized how ridiculous it was, especially the sound design. I guess the best piece of lore is the penguins of madagascar world they added for a while. it was freaking awesome :O
I played JumpStart back when it was a CD ROM not a website lol
The Madagascar world was amazing!! And the New York world they made for it, I miss it so much
@@staticforest1197 oh my god YESSS. i miss the new york world and madagascar world so much. i also briefly remember a super tall mountainous world that felt like italy maybe? It might have been tied to madagascar too I have no idea. so so so many memories with this game
@@inershark YES! there was an Italy world for Madagascar as well!! I distinctly remember you could climb the tower of Pisa lol
Gosh I love animal jam. They have a brand new mobile/pc version! And the classic one is STILL updated every weekend! Has a huge (mainly older) audience too, and they still add and update educational facts to the game! Now they are even teaching us about- buoyancy?… yeah, kinda learned that in third grade but hey, at least they they try!
It’s amazing seeing how a virtual world goes from millions of total active users to only end up being forgotten by 99 percent of those users.
I was just reminded by the McDonald’s one and the mcodes. I tried to see if I can get all of the codes but gave up on the game after a week
its insane man. thats primarily why i wanted to make this video, to shed light on those in witch only remain in the echo's of memory's
AHHH i was really really hoping that someone would make a video like this !! it wasn't mentioned in the iceberg unfortunately, and i don't think i've ever met anyone who had played it, but there was a virtual world called Panfu where you could make your own panda character and travel through the towns and stuff, it was primarily used for roleplaying purposes from what I remember, but you could customize your character with stuff (i think). my favorite feature was the quests that NPCs around the town would give you and you would have to wait LITERAL REAL LIFE DAYS in order to proceed with a quest in the game. the ingame models were also lowkey a little freaky looking
The Panfu community is tiiiny but still kicking!
@@Wendiz WHATTTT THATS SO CRAZY I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT IT'S STILL GOING??? HAHAHAH THATS SO COOL
i loved panfu so much omg
Was hoping someone would mention Panfu!! That game had so many cool features!
I'm British. I got (temporarily) banned from Panfu for repeatedly trying to "laugh in a half-suppressed, typically scornful way" in the hot potato game. In the UK, we don't replace that word (avoiding it lest TH-cam block the comment) with "snicker", at least not back then, and being an innocent child I was completely dumbfounded as to why my messages were being blocked and why I got banned.
Secret Builders was one of my favorite virtual world and nobody ever remembers it!! i have such vivid memories of talking to shakespeare and einstein, since both fictional and real historical figures were inexplicably npcs in the game
Thank you for validating me omg. Do you remember these writing competition things? I think they gave you prompts and you finished them?
Jumpstart mention woww! I played a ton of these games but no one ever knows jumpstart. Honestly surprised it wasn't lower! It was such a fun game to play. Because of chat restrictions there wasn't crazy drama but still funny situations that have happened throughout the game's lifespan. Thank you for the video :)