Death of a Game: Habbo Hotel

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@CrimsonWar5 Ай бұрын

Pools closed

@tinysquidwardonachair2236 Ай бұрын

Fuck, you beat me to the punch

@karbin89 Ай бұрын

That’s all I know Habbo hotel for 😂

@amogusenjoyer Ай бұрын

They actually had mods at the pool for the new habbo classic banning pools closing enthusiasts lmao

@CrimsonWar5 Ай бұрын

@@amogusenjoyer the pool shall be eternally closed

@paulosouza449 Ай бұрын

Because of aids

@DeafCope Ай бұрын

this game taught me what is; scam, stranger danger, pyramid schemes, cults

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

gangs, sex, gambling, memes, lol

@Bards.98 Ай бұрын

100%. It was the game that teached me how unfair the world is

@miles3101 Ай бұрын

@@nerdSlayerstudiossthe list of words remind me of that trump speech where he lists types of people lmao. What a cesspool of bad actors it was, and how many important lessons it taught!

@ataridc 27 күн бұрын

all important things to learn about when you're 10 years old, esp cults. everything about this game looks like it was designed by predators to appeal to children.

@delimelone 25 күн бұрын

Why is this so accurate 😂 I went into this game so innocent and went out with a lot of hard lessons learned

@todamusikaqui Ай бұрын

"pretending to be older to hang out with adults" which were just also kids pretending to be adults 😂😂

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

not all of them, I met many people so I would know lol

@starsINSPACE 16 күн бұрын

It was always interesting to me when I was a kid what age other kids would pretend to be in games. Yeah, some kids thought they could pass as adults in games but lots of preteen kids wanted to pretend to be like 16 cuz they thought that would impress their fellow 12 year olds 😂

@Sirfredrickvlogs 8 күн бұрын

@@nerdSlayerstudiossnothing will beat Habbo Hotel turning me into a 12 year old marriage counselor for a 30 something Australian couple. Good times. I hope they're okay lmao

@sup1602 Ай бұрын

Pool's closed, please form into the traditional shuriken formation.

@konnykaze7965 Ай бұрын

Ah, you mean the symbol that marks temples on japanese maps, right?

@exterminatus_now Ай бұрын

Windmill of friendship

@1gient 28 күн бұрын

The symbol of good things that was stolen by the worst people. ...referring to the OG people who stole it just like all the other ideas and symbols they stole.

@sup1602 28 күн бұрын

@@1gient Man that time in the internet was magical. I don't think we will ever get a time like that again. Edit when the rooming bs started, pools closed is the least offensive thing that has happened. At least that was some good fun.

@murrayshekelberg9754 26 күн бұрын

Based

@user-bm1zk9qj6p 27 күн бұрын

the fact Habbo ran so well on browsers back in the 2000s is still wild to me

@__-be1gk Ай бұрын

Pools Closed is the largest cultural impact Habbo Hotel ever made, but to someone who actually played the game, it's a 12 second mention in a half hour long video, wow

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

Most of us were bored of it after the first week. You have to think, public spaces were limited so naturally we would get annoyed lul. Hence why the trolling worked so well.

@MisterFoxton Ай бұрын

It got pretty tired on 4chan after the first week too. Pool's Closed became big because of the real world reaction, but at the time every free browser game was getting an Anonymous raid, most of which actually led to long-lasting communities remaining after the initial surge of players. My favourite was eRepublic because that game was perfect for an otherwise unremarkable country to suddenly pop into relevance as hordes of inexperienced channers suddenly tried their hand at geopolitics and running a country.

@schwingmeister2171 Ай бұрын

There are also 100 Videos about pools closed and we all know the story 😁

@TidyWaste Ай бұрын

Of course the Habbo lover would ignore Pools Closed lol

@Okagesan Ай бұрын

@@nerdSlayerstudioss hey thanks for at least mentioning it, lol. It could have been a buried talking point. It makes sense that is such a small experience for your time with Habbo. Interesting to hear from someone that actually used Habbo extensively.

@Larry Ай бұрын

Strange Channel 4 attacked Habbo Hotel like that, considering they aired an adult animated comedy series heavily based on it a few years before, Empire Sq.

@TonyTheTiger94 Ай бұрын

Aint that just bobba crazy?

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

prob knew the story was a free farm, and they were right. if that was what I wanted to do, I would have targeted them and Club P too

@TSWHedgehog Ай бұрын

Hi, Brit here. Channel 4 and Channel 4 News are associated but different. Channel 4 News is produced by a company called ITN, not by Channel 4. Also, Channel 4 has a remit to air “challenging programmes”, which back in the 2010s, they kept to. C4 News are renowned for their investigations like this; they’ve managed to destroy political parties with it.

@williek08472 Ай бұрын

But, hello you!

@vohkaru131 4 күн бұрын

Are you seriously going to paint journalists as the bad guys for exposing how pdf files were using the game to get access to children?

@amogusenjoyer Ай бұрын

I remember when i finally managed to trade myself into having a very nice house and a lot of furniture, from 0$ spent in game after a very nice dude gave me a few throwaway furniture he didn't want. Only to lose it all after giving my pw to a friend (we were in elementary school) who then proceeded to steal everything. I still think about it to this day, yassin.

@DanielSoulB 10 күн бұрын

I feel ya. I had a bunch of furniture back in 2006 from a friend who always gifted me some from time to time. Then, in 2007 or 2008 I found a video on KZfaq of a guy "hacking" his wallet and giving himself a bunch of coins. Guess what happened next...

@Nayukuo Ай бұрын

God, Habbo was HUGE in my rural australian primary school in the 2005-2006 era. I even won a writing contest Habbo hosted when I was 12, and got exclusive in game items as a reward! Which I then traded for coins because I was a child who could not buy my own in game currency and thought owning a club sofa would be WAY more cool than the rare exclusive event item I won......

@madeline569 26 күн бұрын

Omg drop the writing piece, I bet it's so cute

@TonyTheTiger94 Ай бұрын

Man, the memories i had with Habbo is unreal. The virtual sex was wild. Edit: also the no swearing policy they had where every bad word was replaced with "Bobba"

@V1_ULTRAOFFICIAL. Ай бұрын

bobba you

@thewitchishammered Ай бұрын

I'm gonna bobba your bobba

@allyleech Ай бұрын

bobbaing habbo

@asdfghjeanneh 27 күн бұрын

Bobba will always be more iconic than the tired "pool's closed"

@FelixNothus 11 күн бұрын

@@asdfghjeanneh I literally haven't heard of Bobba until today but "Pools closed" has been echoed for decades so I kinda doubt that.

@Mito383 Ай бұрын

Habbo Hotel was basically my 14 year old introverted escape from reality.

@ivan55599 Ай бұрын

As a finnish person, l find it funny that english speaking persons pronounce finnish names like they would be far eastern-type names. Sulake -> Suleik, Sampo->Sempo

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

While I appreciate the second correction, the first is silly because nobody pronounces Adidas correctly either by that logic.

@allTkindaTstuff Ай бұрын

@@nerdSlayerstudioss su-la-ke

@williamscarcia7903 Ай бұрын

As a finn-american I was having trouble understanding the names lol odd pronunciation

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

@@allTkindaTstuff ad i das

@Juhius Ай бұрын

@@nerdSlayerstudioss Who is "nobody"? Finnish people pronounce Adidas in the intended way at least. Sulake isn't up to interpretation either as it is just the Finnish word for electric fuse, so you just pronounce it incorrectly.

@mrhygiene Ай бұрын

It's over? Well, bobba

@EveryDayVape 5 күн бұрын

No! It will live forever!

@InVinoVeratas Ай бұрын

I remeber this as a kid. I wanted to join the mafia, and this honestly makes me blush with embarrassment remembering this.

@Lt_TuckPendleton 26 күн бұрын

No shame, we all had a ton of fun back then.

@itissatno 16 күн бұрын

Hahaha I always joined the armies

@Simte Ай бұрын

This game taught me how to code when I was a kid. I wanted so desperately to have furni but didn't have the means I just started to program a server in apache to build a clone. I kinda failed but it was am amazing experience.

@Lt_TuckPendleton 26 күн бұрын

Does anyone remember those rooms that had a million sticky notes and you had to open them all one by one to find the password to get to the next room? And after 20 levels youd end up in back in level 1 but in an exclusive area talking to all the new people's entering and thinking you are the best? Haha

@RQS321 Ай бұрын

Its crazy just what Habbo Hotel turned people into.. One of the most bizarre blotches in my history is playing this game and ending up banned. I don't ever get banned in games normally. I'm that guy who plays by the rules and is a total stick in the mud..

@Lt_TuckPendleton 26 күн бұрын

I remember getting banned from there too, pretty sure for swearing at people. It taught me a big childhood lesson to be nice.

@cannon_tortoise Ай бұрын

Not even Batman could get me to confess to being a Master of Foreplay

@cv5953 27 күн бұрын

I'd tell everyone What a king

@ed61730 16 күн бұрын

Bobba

@twelch12 Ай бұрын

Scamming people out of Furni using other people's unlocked "casino" rooms made me the man I am today.

@hausu3163 Ай бұрын

a robber?

@ed61730 16 күн бұрын

I got scammed in this game when I was younger. I learnt a massive lesson from that. Thank you!

@rxxxe6174 16 күн бұрын

I scammed hella rich kids witb rare pay to play falling furni game rooms haha

@ed61730 16 күн бұрын

@@rxxxe6174 dbf you're scamming their perants not he kids haha.

@jimjohnson6944 7 күн бұрын

Based

@DigitalConceptz Ай бұрын

Brings back memories... me and my previous girlfriend would play the hell out of this, and this is back so far she wasn’t even on steam yet.... we made so many memories in that game We were in our real early 20s shes 38 and I’m nearing 40. # Nostalgia Is Real

@Biotear Ай бұрын

Pool's closed due to AIDS, stingrays, and Remilia Nephys.

@nyssiii Ай бұрын

Real?

@Biotear Ай бұрын

@@nyssiii Real as fuck, little doremu. Real as fuck.

@tinoesroho Ай бұрын

[guy who only saw IMVU in banner ads] im getting big IMVU vibes from hotel hideaway

@FrostyMantleM Ай бұрын

I was thinking more Facebook's weird metaverse experiment from a few years ago

@bhaalgorn Ай бұрын

Theyve just restarted the 2005 version of the game and it seems to be doing decently well. Theyre approaching it similar to Jagex, letting players vote for time-appropriate updates

@2reeceybaby Ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to them re-releasing the 2006 version of Snowstorm. I can relive my glory days again. Unless it's already been released? I can't seem to find it in Habbo Origins.

@BennyTheAzn Ай бұрын

It was the beginning of summer 2005 and I remember coming home from high school and logging into AOL to look for some flash games to play on Newgrounds. My friend messaged me and told me about a "Star Wars RP" game he was playing and I was like "WHAT? WHERE?!" He told me it wasn't really Star Wars but people roleplaying in the Star Wars universe on game called Habbo Hotel. I was intrigued. I signed up and was introduced to the RP world of Habbo first... Then I got into furni collecting, casinos, trivia games, etc. I will never forget the friends I made along the way. I hope everyone is doing well. I miss them.

@duzzzz94 25 күн бұрын

I am a Finnish kid around your age. I think my generation grew up hanging out in Habbo, it and Runescape were the only things ppl played. I haven't spared a thought for it in years but seeing those familiar graphics, furniture and dances brings back so many memories

@codyscottmac Ай бұрын

Man I have such fond memories of Habbo. As a super depressed early-teenager it was one of the only places I felt like I could be myself and actually connect with people; because I sure as hell wasn't doing it in school. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and thank you for the hard work you do on all your videos.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

Similar feelings

@rihasanatrofolo2472 24 күн бұрын

Habbo Origins answers a lot of the feedback. 18+, low moderation, classic 05 version and a fresh economy.

@goldenrushter256 Ай бұрын

As someone from Spain, our hotel was used by mexico/argentina users so you can easily see that it didn't end up well unlike US/UK. It's safe to say that the biggest "branch" of Habbo was the .es branch of it, and I believe it was also the most played because well, all spanish-related languages would use it.

@Ignition_Spark Ай бұрын

I haven’t played more than half the games featured on this series but, man, do you make it so interesting to hear about. I genuinely get so excited every time I see a new DOAG video.

@bysigmar3819 Ай бұрын

Im a gamer for 30 years now and I never heard of this game. crazy that it had such a impact in the early years

@PsionicDiamond Ай бұрын

I won a falling furni game and the host kicked me out… I never forgot it. But alas, the game was a huge part of my childhood & I miss the feeling of logging in and roleplaying. Work in a Police department, hospital or just joining a school was so fun

@jackg5321 14 күн бұрын

Haha yes I forgot that school and college rp! So unique

@peepsbates Ай бұрын

POOL'S CLOSED

@trefthergom3085 Ай бұрын

Pool's closed.

@MagitekBahamuto Ай бұрын

Oh this game, I remember seeing an add in my Club Nintendo magazine back in 2006, sadly I didn't start getting internet service until 2010. That pixelated art style looks so lovely.

@stylesrj Ай бұрын

Ah Habbo Hotel. Played that when I was a kid... didn't know how to get furniture, got free furniture eventually, did Harry Potter roleplaying and then I just stopped playing and moved on to other things. Never knew about the Pools Closed meme until much much later and honestly, I didn't think much of the game after I left until now :D

@Meitti Ай бұрын

Kudos for spelling "Elisa" 99% correctly (in all finnish words the first letter is the strongest in intonation). One of my art teachers used to get short gigs drawing decorations for Habbo Hotel, he did most of the egyptian-themed stuff.

@SwoleBenji Ай бұрын

I did my part closing the pool. For what it's worth, it's a super fun memory and that's what matters most in gaming is the memories we take with us.

@Steakout12GA_Primary_when Ай бұрын

Ah Habbo. A game I played pre-2010 (I was born in 2000) solely because it was one of the few games my cheap laptop could run. Doing so many things on Habbo I really shouldn’t have doing at my age lol. I just remember all the Gangster LARPers. Like if someone was dressed in Red and another dressed in blue, Green, purple, or yellow it was on sight with them. Or how about the hospital rooms a lot of hospital worlds. Man such good times. Or when I found a website which had bootleg versions of Habbo that would give the free currency the biggest being named ‘BlahHotel.’ It was a bit sad since it was out of the blue and frankly I had plenty of friends on there I never met again. After the shut down of Blah that’s when I just kind of quit playing. This is probably the only game where I easily had thousands of hours into it and yet don’t have a single friend from that era to this day. But I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t enjoy going back in Time and reliving one of those old Blah Hotel days.

@jackg5321 14 күн бұрын

Yeah I remember the role place and that was my favourite part - cafe or sub way I'd serve guests haha

@kapinder123 Ай бұрын

Do Gaia Online next. "But kapinder, that's not a games, that's a chat site." THEN WHY DO I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING PLAYED EVERYTIME I LOG IN?

@qtips1719 Ай бұрын

🤡@kapinder123 cringe,corny 🤡

@EndGameEnt Ай бұрын

The fact that Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin are both dead is an internet travesty.

@lottedenboon6717 Ай бұрын

Been plating habbo original that launched last week. Just like old school runescape, it goes back to the roots. Its fun so far. Its Habbo from 2005 and updates are voted on by players

@rainechoo 4 күн бұрын

Oh my god, this just unlocked memories of the "orphanage" rp rooms as well as the hospital ones where i saw someone pretend to give birth and someone RPing as a baby only sending messages that said "waaaa" all in lower case, good times

@uonixx4099 Ай бұрын

If you end up doing these kind of games, I definitely hope you look into Gaia online. It had a failing economy, games within the game like "zomg" which the items bloated the market so bad they locked items to players. Or the aquarium that had gold spaming glitches too.

@Ravenna_Black Ай бұрын

Now I'm thinking you should do Second Life, Altered Realms, Than there's Project Entropia which became Entropia Universe, Sansar, InWorldz, Furcadia and Blue Mars. Wolfhome (which is just a chatroom with visual elements that you could move around. This was my first visual virtual world experience online after my time in AOL RP chatrooms.)

@TheMinidow Ай бұрын

Aren't most of those still running? Don't get much publicity these days, but still alive.

@Ravenna_Black 21 күн бұрын

@TheMinidow Altered Reals is still there but functionally dead. Second Life is alive but... it's not attracting new players. It's just an aging invested population. Blueberry which was a big store that started in SL moved out of SL to focus on Roblox and other more popular experiences. And yes, the other reams I mentioned are also still around but like how many actually log in to them. And there are fully dead ones like InWorldz, and Blue Mars. Sansar isnt dead but kinda never felt alive.

@TheMinidow 21 күн бұрын

@@Ravenna_Black just very distinctly remember second life showing up on good morning in the UK way back when, that it's even still breathing is impressive.

@shrekrealista5045 Ай бұрын

This game was HUGE back in 2007 - 2010 here in Brazil

@horizont6172 Ай бұрын

That's right

@theseek7278 Ай бұрын

Any ideas as to why Habbo Origins Brazil is not very populated compared to where it should be?

@horizont6172 Ай бұрын

@@theseek7278 bc time passes and people interests too :3

@yz6644 Ай бұрын

@@horizont6172yeah also people nowadays have other options like Roblox

@theseek7278 Ай бұрын

@@yz6644 Roblox has been around since 2006 though, yet has had quite the interest of of the younger generation despite being an old game.

@cassandral.5840 Ай бұрын

Ppl started to take Habbo WAY to seriously as well. The game wasnt fun anymore because the ones that stuck around as they grew up take the RP WAY to seriously. No "goofing around or being silly." Don't get me started about the "Hospital" and "Adoption Agency". The horrors. 😂

@EddieSlabb 24 күн бұрын

Oh please get started on Hospital, I need to know more.

@flightmastery2677 Ай бұрын

I 100% forgot this game existed in my childhood until now

@nickbruce4653 Ай бұрын

Never even heard of this game and i was the exact age the game was targeted at. Ill be 39 this year, so in 2001 when the English servers started i would have been 16. Im just surprised as i played online games such as EverQuest and Ultima Online. I also used to hang out in MSN and Yahoo chat rooms. So the fact i never even heard of this kinda blows my mind lol.

@TheFatSandwhich Ай бұрын

I remember my friend on Club Penguin trying to tell me about Habbo but Club Penguin chat would filter it out. They had to type the message backwards. 2006, it was like transitioning into a more mature Club Penguin. No going back from that day onwards..

@Destii_p Ай бұрын

You forgot to mention that the gambling part was also heavily exploited and abused. People were able to manipulate in their favor. So they always won. People made a lot of cash from this by scamming kids and other naive players.

@BatJeff 25 күн бұрын

I remember playing furni drop games where the owner of the room would drop down a piece of furniture, and everyone would try to sit on it as fast as possible. When the last person was left standing, they got eliminated. That continued until the last person was sitting, and they got their pick of a piece of furni. That was how I got any pieces for my own room, but I had a buddy who bought about $50 worth of coins using his phone number and ended up getting grounded for it when his parents' phone bill came in. I even remember joining a group called the "Canadian Mafia" who had a bunch of rooms linked with teleporters lol. God this was such a nostalgic video.

@Huhruu Ай бұрын

I remember having one of the biggest trading rooms in the habbo, that is how learned and got interested in trading

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

same, and my like of market economies

@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan Ай бұрын

I have fond memories of seeing ads for this game as a kid. I got all excited, thinking it was a sim type game. You can imagine my reaction when I tried it. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.

@dehboy Ай бұрын

Does anyone remember the Coke spin off of Habbo where you could make music? I need to watch some videos to relive those memories! Both Habbo and that game took a lot of my time! Habbo had their mazes, casinos, and football games... The creativity of the community was astonishing now that I look back at it!

@Native_Creation Ай бұрын

Yes Coke Music was also very popular, very clever with the music element. Spent a lot of time in there too.

@aspen9102 28 күн бұрын

Still remember being a kid in the mid 2000s and everyone in my classroom played or at least had an Habbo account, it was wild and honestly really cool, logging in in the afternoon and seeing everyone there having fun, almost like Minecraft's popularity before Minecraft. For me that was the peak of the "social" aspect of games and never got even close to those feelings again. Even like 12 years later, I sometimes still wonder about the people I met there and got to be close friends and what happened to them as they(and myself) never logged in again, Lindcei, Poiiinha, people online who were more my friends than any irl people at that time in my life.

@WESTMPLS Ай бұрын

Respect for the self report @5:00 😂

@StrobaCat 6 күн бұрын

You forgot something: Retro Hotels also were being played alot by people who couldnt afford credits and thus make their own rooms. A part that always hated from Habbo is that building a room costed quite a bit of money, instead of being free or something....

@nerdSlayerstudioss 6 күн бұрын

I actually mentioned this in the video, but thanks

@Xhotic Ай бұрын

This is one for the ages. With the recent "revival" of Habbo Hotel via the Habbo Hotel Origins, this video is perfect timing.

@Maggot-Milk Ай бұрын

I guess the pool's closed for good this time...

@theactualTVB Ай бұрын

POOLS CLOSED

@23mrcash Ай бұрын

Because of Aids

@xbrain_burstx1829 Ай бұрын

Wonderful and insightful video. I was an incredibly active habbo from 2004-2012 i love finding these videos to feel nostalgia and reminisce. My only qualm is every habbo video i see primarily focuses on 4 things 1) pools closed 2)Police Investigation 3) great mute 4) gambling/ removing gambling. Habbo had its own universe that then spread into msn/skype etc and i feel so much of what made habbo special. The games users would create, the roleplay enviroments, the different social circles, the fansite communities, the fact that uber popular shows like survivor and big brother were recreated. There was a habbo basketball association. Name that artist kept you in tune with modern music trends It was well ahead of its time but we tend to only focus on the bad stuff

@keepitclean8791 12 күн бұрын

Habbo Hotel and GraalOnline were my life growing up, I was a dumb kid back then but somehow the internet just seemed more fun and mysterious.

@bewawolf19 Ай бұрын

Ah, glad to see the pool being closed is still breaking fragile minds even to this day.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

one of the timeless memes of our generation

@tunod- 26 күн бұрын

It's happening again on Origins. I've already seen many people who spent a few hundred or thousand bucks to stock up on rares. Little do they know this game is going to die off very soon

@dudester6442004 Ай бұрын

I liked the personal stuff you added, had many similar experiences myself but with other social games

@christ3548 Ай бұрын

Omg - this whole time I’ve been thinking Hazbin Hotel was Habbo Hotel this whole time. I’ve been asking all my friends that talked about the show “Wasn’t that a video game?” I’m a complete idiot.

@EddieSlabb 24 күн бұрын

That's a unique mistake but it's awesome of you to share with us. Listening to this review I kept wondering why the company was named after Sulik from Fallout 2.

@RasmusMalmstrom 7 күн бұрын

I remember me and my friends using our homephones buying coins at 8-9 years old thinking it wouldn't show up in our parents phonebill... ah the time when you where young and gullible

@Biouke Ай бұрын

I'm glad to finally learn about that game you kept mentioning :) I don't remember hearing much about Habbo Hotel or Club Penguin here in France, as far as browser games go RuneScape had some players but only got localised in 2008 and by that time Dofus had saturated the market.

@weevil8025 6 күн бұрын

I grew up on a Habbo retro called Habboon, was best friends with a child predator who tried several times to get nudes out of me (I was a minor at the time), and met some of the edgiest people I've ever met on that game. The moderators of that game did absolutely nothing about it because they were also kids. I wish I'd have done more about it, but that was many years ago.

@DanielSoulB 10 күн бұрын

I really, reaaally miss the old Habbo style and rooms. The pool, library... Playing Habbo Hotel Origins hit WAY HARDER than I thought it would. Man, those were the days... Even if the rooms are all dead empty, the memories are still very much alive

@ariesforce1988 Ай бұрын

You've made me so happy with that next case introduction! I still have the original launcher and intro movie saved in my documents. So hype for the next one! 😎👍

@nerdSlayerstudioss Ай бұрын

That's awesome!

@anitacrumbly Ай бұрын

You should upload it to the internet archive as a piece of internet history

@wutareutalkingaboot 22 күн бұрын

Interesting timing since habbo origins was just released and the nostalgia is real.

@Marinealver Ай бұрын

4:52 okay, lemme check the rules of the internet **Opens Rule 34 Well it is a game set in a hotel 12:05 oh

@hardboiled2987 10 күн бұрын

I remember blocking the doors with my acc and my alt acc to a big popular area and making people give me all of their 3 daily respects to let them in lol. I was a lil devil for those badges as a kid.

@Honebach2 Ай бұрын

I didnt know that have waited for this until this one popped up!

@grumpykitten424 Ай бұрын

Good stuff keep it up

@benm3382 Күн бұрын

It really was a strange time on the internet around 2005. It's not the same experience as today. Back then the computer itself was a hobby, you sat at the computer and truly plugged your heart in, and MMOs were wild wests

@strikeforce1500 Ай бұрын

As someone who never got a real chance to play Habbo, man, this is Luke seeing a train wreck happen, then somehow it gets worse by the second,but I cannot help but stare at it. With that said,it's always funny to see what slangs people comes up with,and probably the previous generation call it the then equivalent 'brain rot', lol

@platy7730 Ай бұрын

I remember playing this when I was 9, joined the habbo marines and got bullied by teenagers that paid for the membership lmao. Those job rooms were wack

@fluttzkrieg4392 Ай бұрын

The amount of times someone scammed me by selling me two identical portals that weren't actually connected to one another but to some other random portal somewhere and thus useless... Damn, I loved this game. I wasn't rich but I probably had more than most people thanks to my mom buying me some coins a couple times and getting lucky on trades. My Habbo profile says the last time I logged in was in 2014. I honestly thought it has been longer than that. I even remember I had two accounts: The main one where I did everything, and another disposable one for scam sites that promised free coins if you put your username and password (I was a kid so in my mind one of them had to work, right?). After this game I pretty much stopped playing online games and only played singleplayer ones.

@Lt_TuckPendleton 26 күн бұрын

Omg you just reminded me of when that happened to me, and I got one of them english red phone booths that took me to another place full of other phone booths and I went on a massive adventure. Eventually ended up in some super exclusive area in a huge casino hahaha

@kindawolf 9 күн бұрын

Hey I stumbled across this video but I never actually played Habbo as a kid however my mum was actually a moderator for Habbo(A Hobba if you will) she even helped open some of the servers and according to her one of the biggest reasons she thinks Habbo went down hill is because they essentially got rid of half there moderation team which left bad actors to run wild, she has a lot of fond memories of her time on Habbo and I’m sure many stories she could share too ,she also has some screenshots from her time on Habbo hidden away somewhere which are fun to look at.

@michaelkane9996 Ай бұрын

I loved this game as a young kid. This was my jam before I found Runrscape haha. Used to run my own games like the spongebob quiz and the multi-game takeshis castle I ran was popular too 😁 loved it!

@The2012Aceman Ай бұрын

The pool remains closed.

@N3RDYLICIOUS 21 күн бұрын

They just released the OG retro habbo from 2005, its out, habbo origins

@Dylan-yv6ko 25 күн бұрын

I miss this game and I miss what the internet used to be

@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 Ай бұрын

I never knew Habbo existed until long after it was relevant learning about it for the first time after watching a video about the Pools Closed thing. I was mainly a Club Penguin kid in the 2000's while also dabbling in a few others like Wizard 101, Toontown, and 1 or 2 others I forget the names of.

@whtiequillBj Ай бұрын

my first experience into the social internet was IMVU, which I them moved to Second Life a few years later. After that discord, and right now I'm a KZfaq denizen and haven't been very social.

@Kalethekill 23 күн бұрын

I miss Habbo. It was the first place I got into RP (and the RP group is still running today). I haven't played in ages but it made me some of my best friends in the world.

@pavezxxD 23 күн бұрын

That was the first and only time I became a scammer in a game, after someone scammed me (a kid with no income) out of like 30 bucks (around 500 mexican pesos, in a time where that was a ton for my family), I got rich quick and got a month ban, but I still have my stuff and my account lol.

@shushkata Ай бұрын

YES! A new video!

@disregardthat Ай бұрын

bro, the NOSTALGIA. for old time's sake: Pool's closed.

@JeccoGaming Ай бұрын

This game still means so much to me. Half of my current friends wouldn't even know each if it weren't for Habbo. Sure, we never played on the official servers. But here in Sweden, we had a massive retro server scene. Where I met one of my current best friends through a random motto with his skype username. This was 10 years in but to us, it never crossed our minds that it was in decline. Wow, just wow.

@amanda-uw3un Күн бұрын

brazil server here, habbo was MY LIFE back in the day, I tried to play the origins but sadly the brazilian server has so little people

@elzach0 Ай бұрын

I remember playing this in my high school computer programming class in 2005-2007... simpler times!

@AreaNeraTV Ай бұрын

I was on Habbo Italy in 2006-2010 period and later on private servers. Great memories, I have friends till this day, some of them I met in real life.

@knightwolf1363 27 күн бұрын

I love the new intro!

@NULLYUKI Ай бұрын

I have never thought I would see a video here about Habbo Hotel.

@Mendafaen Ай бұрын

I remember my username being "Cyberboy" because Cyberspace was a cool concept I thought, only to have everyone trying to type my name being automatically censored. Good times.