The predecessor Of Club Penguins: Snow Blasters/Experimental Pinguins

 Does anyone remembers Snow Blasters? No? Let me tell you about this predecessor of Club Penguins..

The first seeds of what would become Club Penguin began as a Flash 4 web-based game called Snow Blasters that developer Lance Priebe has been developing in his spare time in July 2000's. Priebe's attention was brought to penguins after he ''happened to glance at a Far Side cartoon featuring penguins that was sitting on his desk.'' The project was never finished and instead morphed into Experimental Penguins. Experimental Penguins was released through Priebe's company of employment in July 2000's but went offline the following year. It was used as an inspiration for Penguin Chat,a similar game which was released shortly the removal of Experimental Penguins. Then,Penguins Football Chat was released in 2003 and was the second attempt at a penguin-themed MMORPG. It was created on Flash 5 and used the same interface as Experimental Penguins. 

The game contained various minigames such as the premiere title of Rocket Snail games called Ballistic Biscuit,a game that would be placed into Experimental Penguins and eventually be adapted into Club Penguin's Hydro Hopper. Lance Priebe,as well as co-workers Lane Merrifield and Dave Krysto,started to formulate the Club Penguin concept when the trio were unsuccessful in finding ''something that had some social components but was safe and not just marketed as safe'' for their own children. Penguin Chat's third version was released in April 2005 and was used to test the client and servers of Penguin Chat 4,which was later renamed Club Penguin. Users from Penguin Chat was then invited to beta test Club Pinguin.