Dejected, I went off in search of the free (virtual) t-shirt I had been promised upon signing up. “lol” one of them replied, without elaborating. “How do I dance?” I asked, standing at the periphery of a multi-colored disco floor where a few other penguins were shimmying. While the traffic has reportedly been in decline over the past few years - the OG Club Penguin kids have mostly aged out (most of the site’s user are 8-13), and there’s growing competition from other social networking games, like the new LEGO Life - fans both young and old are reacting to the news with emotions that run the Kübler-Ross gamut. Club Penguin, which launched in 2005, will shutter on March 29, ending an 11-year run that at its peak drew 200 million users to the site. The reason for this is that I’m old (my childhood computer games came on floppy disks), but not old enough (in New York years, anyway) to have a child old enough to play in Disney’s beloved virtual world, a massively multiplayer online game for kids populated by colorful penguin avatars and their fluffy pet “puffles.” When the game went live in 2005, I was in my mid-20s and already shacking up with the boyfriend who later became my husband my clubbing days, both virtual and actual, were over.Īnd now I’m too late.
Will club penguin island be on desktop full#
Full disclosure, I hadn’t heard of Club Penguin until a week ago.