Cp History

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

Back then, the whole thing was free and there were things on it that the Club Penguin Team never put back onto Club Penguin.

It was actually very similar to Club Penguin, except there was only one place you could go to, the Town. There wasn’t a Cove, Snow Forts, Dojo, or your own home or anything else, but the Town (which included the Gift Shop, Night Club and Coffee Shop). In fact, the Town looked very similar to how it looks now, but there was more chairs and tables outside the Coffee Shop, and a few other small details. It also snowed in the town too!

And there were no coins or any way of earning coins. And if you tried to walk to the left of the town, you’d go to an area of nothing but snow (and a few construction things), if you went to the left of that, you’d up in another bigger area of snow with a pretty, blue sky. In this specific area, you might see a bunch of penguins in snowcats (big snow trucks) driving around. Then if you went left again, there would be a bunch of penguins just walking around with hard hats on that are probably drilling the ground (with construction things and railings all over the place and a crane in the distance), and then if you went left again, you’d be back at the Town (so it was basically a simple circle). And you could also end up in the Town again if you started off going right from the Town (and kept on going)

There were also signs in some of the snowy rooms in Penguin Chat but I have no clue what they said. I think they were room names. There wasn’t any map either.

Now, the toolbar is a little hard to figure out. In the toolbar, there was the chatbox, the snowball button, the actions button/dance button, a report button, the emotes button, a ‘Joke’ button, and the enter button. There was an arrow button that collapsed the chatbox to make the whole entire chatbox smaller  smaller. To change color, you would click a Color change button on the chatbar, and select a different color. And there was a Chat History and Report button on the upper left of the screen. Judging from the pics I’ve found, there’s also a Heart button and a Musical note button. These are actually two emotes that are still on CP so I think they were just 2 other emotes you can do. And there seems to be a couple Help buttons on the right of the toolbar as well (probably for technical help and stuff)

The Night Club was highly similar. The big differences were that the Band played on the stage, rather than the DJ thing with the speakers (but there were some  Speakers there). And there was no green puffle dancing on the speakers, and there were no stairs leading to the upper floor (there wasn’t an upper floor). And you could get to the secret Boiler room by walking onto the wire of the lower right hand Speaker. The point of the game was just to throw snowballs, dance, and chat.

Talking about snowballs, in Penguin Chat, snowballs were a little bit different. No, they looked the exact same, but when you threw them at people, sometimes you would miss horribly sometimes. The radar that shows up when you push the Snowball button in Club Penguin was way different in Penguin Chat 3.

The Coffee shop was somewhat boring, there was no upper floor, and you couldn’t play Bean Counter there. Back then, everyone used to pretend they were Coffee shop waiters. And there was a lot of kid-dating stuff going on there and in the town.

Now, have you ever heard someone ask ‘how do you become a ninja?’ Well, this is where the myth started from (By the way, you CAN’T become a ninja in Club Penguin yet, they were going to make them, but they made Secret Agents instead). When you opened up the Color select window, if you click the 2nd ‘n’ in ‘Select your new penguin’, a new Ninja “color” would pop out. (No lie, it also took me a long time to figure this out when I first started playing, no one would tell me, so I had to search it up in the comments of the site). Once you select the Ninja outfit as a color you’d have this cool black color, with a headband, belt, and sword on your back. Being a ninja was pretty cool, if you tried dancing as a ninja, you wouldn’t dance but you’d become transparent/almost see-through.

You could also be a Construction worker. You had to click on the Hook of the Crane in the sky (the Crane was behind a fence in the back) in the snowfields that were right of the Town to get the Hard hat (you didn’t have a player card back then so you didn’t really get a Hard hat, you just wore one). And if you danced, you would be drilling the ground. And if you went into the middle snow fields, you’d be driving a snowcat.

As for the Gift shop, if you tried walking into it, you’d be transported to a page in Rocketsnail.com where you could buy merchandise like real life keychains and T-shirts (using real life money though).

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

Here are some pictures from Penguin Chat 3 to help show what i am saying.

Now let’s explain a little more about Club Penguin BETA testing. You could basically try out the new Club Penguin beforehand. Beta testers got one month of free Club Penguin membership, they got to keep their party hat from the very first Club Penguin party ever, and a certain amount of coins (I think about 2,000).

And, last, you can check the Club Penguin Official Blog Archives for all old blog posts from Club Penguin ever since April 2005 here. This includes all the talk about the Beta Tests, the Party, etc: http://community.clubpenguin.com/blog/archives.php

The Archives are at the bottom of the page.