"You have played Maplestory for 4 hours now, we think you should take a break from mapling."

This comment goes out to Maple Community back in the day. Whether you're in college now, or working full time, or behind the computer screen reading this, we can all agree there is a level of nostalgia when we listen to old classic MS music. You'll find in any of these videos, people voicing their memories or their favorite experiences that this game had for them. So this comment goes out to all of you. Cheers to all the people I have ever partied with, pq'ed with, trained long hours with, became friends with through guilds/adventures/anywhere, hell, you(the reader) and I might have been friends. That's the point I'm coming across with, the level of connectivity when we were all younger playing this game. The classic experiences we all probably experienced, ex: waiting for the Orbis ship and meeting people, dying at golems, getting to 3rd job, or stuck in El Nath/Sleepywood because you were so damn curious as a noob. I love reading comments of those voicing their memories, because we were all there. Times do change, they really do, and that's why this music hits all of us because it reminds you of the past, when we were young and it was simple. I'm going to speak for everyone here agreeing that we all want to "play" the old maplestory but just can't, you are not alone. Anyways, I hope this comment brought comfort and conclusion. I know a lot of you are reading this and can relate.

This wasn't a game. This was a life experience.

33 years old. Started playing when I was 13. Still missing all my guild mates and master. Still listening this ost while working.

that feeling when you try to log in before the flute music starts

This game came out when I was 11. Now I’m a 30 year old man shedding a manly tear at the good old memories.

26 years old and still coming back to remember the good old days

Anyone else remember making friends on the ship? And hiding under the deck when you get attacked by crimson balrogs? And the occasional higher lvl going out and killing them? Man, sometimes I wonder if others remember me as I remember them.

Even getting scammed back then through drop-game is a good memory.

the person who composed this song should be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

I hope the people I used to play with 15 years ago are doing well in life now

this is definitely one of the top 10 games I will miss for the rest of my life

My soul hurts from hearing this :( Back then when it look you 1 whole year to level up to lvl50

"You've been crying for 5 hours now, we think you should take a break from KZfaq"

I remember in the FreeMarket there'd be a ton people hanging around, and there was usually this one Poison/Fire Magician who'd occasionally cast some Poison skill and green bubbly smoke would appear everywhere and someone would comment 'Who farted?'. It's so empty and sorrowful now, coming there time to time, sitting in the open area that used be so full of players.

i remember back in 2006 i was a noob and some h0e gave me a sleepywood map scroll. i double clicked it by accident and i couldnt find a way out and kept dying to these monsters. so made another character. lol

My friends are gone...

I remembered when some 2 person asked me to play drop game at sleepywood's spa and cuz of that I lost my level 15 archer gloves. It was tough, but then I saw my friend online if i'm not mistaken it was henn0328 something like that with 4 digits in the end. He was online training at henesys training ground one in 2008 around 8pm on a Sunday. 30minutes later after that tragedy, I told him about it and he just smiled and dropped the exact same glove but with better stats... I couldn't thank him enough and it was so emotional back then, all he did was smile... I never got to meet him again or contact him since 2008 that day.. I'll never forget what you did to me.. Thanks hen.

If i could replay one part of my life, it would be this. logging into Maple for the first time in like 2004-2005 . What a time omg i'm almost crying. I still remember my lv 26 bowman with messed up stats thinking INT and LUK would help me... Btw who still remembers Tiger, Suuushi and FangBlade? ;P

I think one of my strongest memories is when i blundered my way into the dungeon cave just past sleepywood, and got stuck, terrified of dying. Some guy twice my level came past, stopped and asked why i was there. Told him i was exploring and trying to find money. He F2'd, told me that he'll get me out, and did so. Gave me 200k, a huge sum for me at the time, and sent me on my way. I miss those days.

Still remember those times where I would skip school just to play Maplestory.. Good old days.

dam Fangblade i think the new gen dont even know who is this legend ..

Bro this is about to make me cry 😭😭 . I miss being young and care free. So many good times playing this

its actually insane to see how much Maplestory has been a part of people's lives.

i almost lost my mind listening to this. it just freaks me out... it makes me so depressed

15 years and this is still playing in my head to this day.

Just a random memory, but I remember that I would hang out at Amoria A LOT, and people would usually be there and I would get invited to random weddings of people I didn't know. Good ol' times ;(

I miss the good times...

banned till 2402, I WILL WAIT

I have to say that even though I "wasted" my childhood on Maplestory, I don't regret it. It brought me good memories, friends and my guild members were like a second family to me then. It helped me get by then.

Two decades later and this song still pops into my head every now and then. I'm glad the legacy lives on here

I can't listen to this for more than a few seconds now. The nostalgia is simply too strong. I played so much of this game to escape from my shitty childhood and shitty, abusive parent. I loved this game like a injured dog loves its rescuer. I hate what they've done to the game in recent years.

RIP theme music 2005-2016

When hidden-street was actually useful

This music makes me really sad. Not because of the memories of the game I had, but because of the memories I couldn't have. I was brought up in Korea and all my primary school friends played Maple. We talked about it all the time, and collected/traded Maplestory related card things at school (kind of like yu gi oh cards). The game looked super fun, but my parents were pretty strict and didn't let me play it. On my 8th birthday, they said they would give me 10 minutes a day of 'gaming time', but by the time I had logged in to maple they told me it was time to go off. When I protested, they told me I was addicted, and they just banned it altogether. The only time I got to play the game is at one of my best friend's houses. The room where we'd play maple and this really nice smell to it, because his mum used to make soaps as a part-time job. As I listen to music from the game now, the fragrances of all sorts of fancy soaps from a decade ago still spring to my mind. Even at my friend's house, I didn't get to play all that much. He'd let me on one of his lower level characters and I'd get to play for around half an hour. It was barely any length, but to me it meant the whole world - the game just felt magical. Hoping one day I'd be able to play the game for myself, I collected tons of guidebooks, posters, comic books and merchandise. I read through all of the guidebooks, trying to remember all their contents, every single little tip. Some of the guidebooks had NX codes in them, and I carefully wrote them down, waiting for the day that I would eventually be able to play the game and redeem them. When I was around 11, my family moved to the UK. I brought all my precious guidebooks with me. When we came, we bought a new laptop, and I was allowed 30 minutes of 'internet' time a day. I finally downloaded maple, but the laptop was really bad, and every time I launched it, no matter what I tried, it would always come up with an error saying it could not connect to the servers. On the rare occasion that it did run, my parents took the laptop away saying my internet time was up. Over the last few years, I had entirely forgotten about the game, all of my guidebooks lying isolated and dusty in some cupboard in my room. I played other games that my British friends played, like Minecraft of League of Legends instead. Last month, I was tidying up my room when I came across a really old Maplestory guidebook from 2004, and decided to finally play the game. This time my family had come to their senses about me and my computer usage (after all I'm 18, they can't really restrict the time I spend playing games anymore). I dug up all the guidebooks, and found, unfortunately, that all the NX codes had expired. But that didn't matter, right? At least I was finally, at the age of 18, for the first time ever, able to play the game I'd been wanting to play since as far back as I can remember. But the game that I played that day was not Maplestory. It instead was a mere shadow of its former self. The game looked different in every way that it did to my memories of it, and to the screenshots in the 2004 guidebook. I remember back in the 00s being impressed by my friends being over level 70. Last month, it took me merely a single day or two to reach level 150. Levelling had lost its value. Tons of new, over-the-top classes. Ones that START and level 100. Level 100 used to be such a huge achievement, but now all anyone has to do is just make a character, and voila, it's level 100. Victoria island was completely different. Everything jumbled up, the map sizes shrunken. There were barely any players. The HUD was different. The game I had been waiting to play for over a decade was gone. After a week of playing this husk of a game, I uninstalled it and once again, my guidebooks are starting to gather dust in a corner of my room. I am distraught. I waited soooooo long for this game, but the game did not wait for me. It had changed beyond recognition. I envy all of you who have had such a wonderful time playing this game. I envy your nostalgia and your memories of the game. You may be sad that you will never get your game back, that it has changed for the worse, but please, cherish the time you had playing it. I would give away an arm and a leg just to have some of your nostalgia and memories, good or bad, that you had playing it. Treasure your beautiful memories of this game that I never managed to play. Treasure them and please, never let them go.

I remember being a six year old kid, just sitting there at this screen singing my own made up song to go with the toon "MapleStory, its the story of Maple". For hours... God, man. I miss this game so much, hell, I still catch myself singing it when I drive. Gets me every time. R.I.P. Old MapleStory

old man voice* fame used to be 7k back then....

This song hits my heart like a brick

2020. Kobe died. Been unemployed for a while now cause of this covid 19 bs. Only thing that has been keeping me going is this nostalgia. I am now 28, I played this back when it was 2007. I was a little late but would play this during my college times, I lost my apartment, money and my uncle. It keeps me sane to hear this music that through dark times, there is always a light.

This game, the vibe, the soundtrack, the community, it was and will always be something else. I can't pinpoint the exact feeling, but even when I think of this maple leaf it just makes me feel things nothing else can. When I hear this login screen bgm, that you were so often forced to wholly listen to because you couldn't login because of internet issues or something else, I feel things nothing else can make me feel. When I think about certain aspects of freedom of this game, it gives me feelings nothing else can give me. I don't know how to explain it, I just can't. There's something beyond unique about having this game fried in my brains, and it's the best thing I could've ever wished for. I'm so grateful that I have experienced MapleStory, as this is and will always be the best thing that has ever happened in my life. I'd like to call it the Maple feeling. Man I wish I was able to expain this feeling but I can't.

Miss the good old days, chilling with friends, hunting bosses, parties everywhere....

Naw bro this about to make me cry. I would play this with my homie up the street ALL THE TIME. His username was cheesylemon, and my was cheesyorange lol. God damn, 2006- 2008 was a good ass time! Maplestory was a bomb ass game.

God I miss the old maple.... F4

I. am. crying. After listening to this :')

i have always wanted to go behind the sign and just walk. all the way to the end and back. maple will always hold a special place in my heart. it was and always will be. my childhood

Sometimes I really wish I could just go back to the good old days, before Big-Bang. The nostalgia is so precise that it will never leave my memory. Yet, most of us have moved on and that age is gone. What remains now is a lost realm and likely will not come again, unless Nexon or whoever runs the game nowadays just hits the reset button and restores a classical Maplestory.

Back here in 2020. Anyone? Good old memories ....

I just wanted to leave my record here: I played Maple Story Global in 2005 or 6 until 2010. - I remember being on the boat for 15 minutes afraid to get out because I was too noob to face the flying Balrogs. And hope not to taking DC. - I remember traveling the dangerous road from Henesys to Sleepwood and seeing level 50 characters and thinking "wow, I want to get to that level one day" and afraid of falling into stone golems. - I remember being stuck in Sleepywood for 2 days as a beginner and not being able to get out due to the high damage of the snakes. Or JumpQuests (I hated thisssss). - I remember doing PQs with groups full of wonderful people (others not so much). - I remember being happy to find a quick way to Ludibrium using the Orbis>Aquarium>Right Tower Ludibrum traversal. - I remember creating expeditions with my newbie friends (who were thirsty for exploration) to go on a journey to the deepest cave in Sleepwood after reaching the dreamed level 60 and thinking I was immortal (mere mistake). - I remember the creation of my first Guild "EliteBR" and the GPQ disputes against the other clans. - These and thousands of other stories... Memories... - I was just a teenager who spent the night playing with friends (some from real life). And I have this feeling of "I want those old times again" but they don't come back. And we have to accept that. obs> And believe me, I've even tried to play the pirated versions with the old versions, but it's not the same thing. But let's think on the positive side: We lived through it. We had that opportunity. We have to be grateful. It was beautiful and we can have this sense of love. And this is beautiful. ❤️ Edit1: Sorry about my English. It's not my native language.

A wise man once said, "Do not cry for what you have lost. Cherish for what you have experienced." Let us close that chapter of our lives, for we know it will always be vivid in our hearts. The Maple Era was an important stepping stone in our growth. But it was just a stepping stone nonetheless. It is time to move on. Push forward so that we may one day experience that same degree of happiness, albeit in a difference medium than Maplestory. But if we return to the current Maplestory to chase that elusive joy from our childhood, we will only end up disappointed and empty handed.

Still coming back to this, more than 15 years later. MS really is a game you never forget.

Don't Cry 'cause its over Smile because it happened

THIS was the real Maple Story friends, I wish I could go back time to experience this again.

Still here 2/22/2022 baby and what a ride it has been since we’ve all played yeah?

Ah! The memories. I miss those good old days. Days when there were only four main classes. Days when people were having fun rather than endless level grinding.

I cherish the wonderful memories I have of this game. Each weekend morning, I would eagerly rise; powering up my computer to reach this enchanting login screen. Once it was booting up I'd run downstairs and grab a fresh cinnamon roll my mother would pick up at the grocery store that morning. With a glass of milk and roll in my mouth I'd run back upstairs popping my headphones on eating while listening to this music before logging in for my weekend adventure. Whenever I yearn to relive those heartwarming moments, I embark on a quest to the neighboring grocery store, picking up the same cinnamon roll and a glass of milk to immerse myself back to those warm memories.

I remember that whenever my game crashed I got pretty mad (you know, might've been in a fight or something, it's pretty frustrating when it does crash), but everytime this music started playing I instantly calmed down. Sometimes I just sat at the log-in screen to listen to the music before finally logging in and playing. This is -by far- my favorite game music, it's amazing.

my childhood

They should change this game's name to DamageStory now, it would make more sense.

Year 2019 who is still coming back to listen to it ?

this seriously makes me feel like shit, I want.. no.. I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED the old maple back:(

Dice rolling: The Theme

Thank you Maplestory. When I was a kid during 2006 to 2015 when I graduated highschool and started college, you molded me to who I was during that point. All the people I have met in those years, though I no longer remember almost everyone, will forever be in my hearts. I was able to communicate with thousands of individuals from all over the world broadening my perspective in life. Learned things from everyone that I could never have learned during those younger years. Learned how to have fun in an adventure especially with friends and enjoyed the littlest of things. Those were the most beautiful years of my youth. The party quests, the party grinding, the expeditions, exploring new areas as low leveled idiots in the deep parts of leafre, THE BOAT RIDE TO ORBIS AND BACK, henehoeing, window shopping at FM, laughing at people who got tobened in that slime quest, and so much more. I wonder where you all are now, I wish I could see you all and thank you for the memories that we've shared. To everyone who played this game during its best years, I wish you the best of luck in your lives and may you never forget these memories. I love you, -A player from GMS Bera batch 2006

the feels on the bus go round and round

Good old Roll Dice for your Start-Stats. Heneys Hunting Ground and Slimes hunting in ellinia... Chilling with your friends while listen to the music. To much changed. 2005-2009 Mapler. :

The picture of this video and the music remind me of times when maplestory was the perfect and free game you could play with friends. I used to like the the single adventurers class ahh the good ol' times.

This was another life I missed so much, sure I can go back to it again but my Maple days won't ever be the same without the people I've met back then to accompany me.

The hype you felt when you rolled a 4/4

You've been playing maplestory for 11 hour(s). We suggest you take a break from mapling.

I'm 17 now and I just miss the game, Waiting for the orbis ship and making up parties just to never see those players again was one of the most fun and memorable times of my childhood and its something ill never forget, my first guild was just people riding the ship and someone just said he lets make a guild so we all pitched some mesos and made it together :')

The NOSTALGIA man, holy I miss this game those were the days 😭😭😭

i made so many friends here... i wonder how they're doing?

Bring back old maplestory, rip 2005-2008, one day hopefully they bring it back :(

Sometimes I switch this to full screen and pretend like the good old days where I would sit and enjoy the music before logging onto Windia channel 3 :''>

'Patch completed, please launch maplestory'.... The amount of joy when finally able to reach the login page😂😂😂😂

Who’s listening to this in 2022?? 😢😢

I always come back to listen to this. No song hits me as hard as this one. My childhood...

Kim Jung-ju, the founder of Nexon, passed away yesterday at the age of 54 :(

sigh... Gone but never forgotten... I will always miss you im now 22 about to grad from university and still talk about you with my friends till this day. Hopefully a game comes of this calibre again one day

NEXON, GIVE US BACK THE OLD MAPLESTORY! I NEED TO FIND WHAT THE GUEST LOGIN BUTTON DOES!

If you played on Bellocan between 2006 and 2009, what’s up!

Dammit, made myself sad listening to this.

MapleStory has some of the best video game OST I've ever heard. Nothing else has quite captured its beauty and timelessness and lasting impression on my soul. I remember booting up the login screen just to soak in the nostalgic music and the charming art - and here I find myself again... Oh, to be child exploring the world of Scania in 2005-2008!

No regrets spending 90% of my childhood playing Maplestory, the memories and experiences still live with me up til today

I have never played this game, yet I am feeling very nostalgic. The feeling is amplified when reading all of the comments as well...

Back when Maplestory was actually challenging... Now, I can level from 1 - 100 in one day... (T . T)

Looking at the comments, and seeing so many ppl missing the old maple makes me feel all warm inside haha :,) i guess everyone feels this way, amazing how a game can bond so many ppl TAT

I'm 24 now, I still fondly remember these moments when I played this game.

Oh we humans move on so quickly I remember me and my best friend playing this for hours! This music was every Saturday morning. Damn brings tears to my eyes, we're not friends anymore but I'll still hold onto those sweet moments on this game!! I don't even know wat this Big Bang update is but it can go to hell. WHO REMEBERS the random haircut quest?? And getting Afros LMAOOO

Reading the nostalgic comments while listening to the music is like watching the movie end credit or something. beautiful...

We have to go back

lovely! :3

Nice music

I love how they made you log in at the beginning of an opening book like you were starting a story and as you progress, you also get further into the book. I just wish they still had the login menu just like this instead of changing it. D= My heart aches for the old Maplestory.

Once a year I feel like I find my way back to this song and all the happy memories of booting it up. Oh maple, how we miss you.

Those days when you could just chill on Henesys huntings grounds without worrying about bills and responsibilities...

They don't make games like this anymore, that's for sure. 2008-2013 player here. My friends at school got me interested in this game, we would play for hours, i was the runt of my group, they would help me level up around ellinia (I was a mage). I remember a few random people i friended in game and we would travel all over to grind levels. Remember getting to 2nd job was a huge achievement.....made multiple characters to try out different playstyles and quest lines........this game had a lot of grinding but with friends, it all worked out. Along with the incredible music, it easily allowed me hours and hours of play time, never seemed like that long. Im 25 now.......and honestly, this game was in a part of my life that almost feels alien to me. I remember making characters and stuff but i don't know what happened to me to where i don't feel the same good nostalgic feels i used to in the past from hearing the music. I've become a depressive person and everything i used to love feels foreign. I hope all my mapling friends i met are doing ok, i know i loved the hell out of this game like you all did

Make this comment section alive again... Don't let this memory die. :(

I really miss the old days of maple, life was so simple and this was a great escape (:

God I remember the first time I played this game back in 2005. Was 16 years old and my sister introduced it to me. I was so excited to play an mmo that was a side scroller. My computer was in my room and hers was in the upstairs office so we'd leave the land line phones next to our desks on speaker so we could talk while we played since we had no idea about Skype. Used to spend crazy hours of the day and night in and around Henesys and Perion training our archers and questing together. She eventually stopped playing as her interests shifted and I slowly stopped too. It became lonely logging in by myself. In this last year I discovered private servers hosting the og maple and I logged on excited to relive those feelings but it wasn't the same. Playing maple was one of the best times I had with my sister. I really miss it.

I remember being really friggin young (5-6 yrs old?) and being sketch af and play drop game in the kerning city weapon/armory shop. RIP maple :,)