#Retro Neopets

[aussied]

“The Bunny Rogers NEOPETS exhibition is live on Dublin's Kildare Street, Dublin 2 for 8 weeks from the 5th of October to 5th December 2022

The artist, Bunny Rogers takes inspiration from online gaming and digital identities from her youth, to create brilliant, bold sculptures for this show-stopping NEOPETS exhibition. Rogers' towering bronze sculptures bear resemblance to ornate European gargoyles, but are brilliantly modernized in Rogers' whimsical and bold artistic style”

Photos and description from this post by punetodublin on Instagram.

More information about Bunny Rogers and this display can be found here.

I really wish I could’ve gone to see this! How freaking awesome that these exist!!

[flowergirlmiwa]

NeoPets Newbies forum used to be like this

[sundaysplayzone]

Icon Commission

[insandriumheart]

༺2005༻

[gummy-frog]

neopets bruce joke alts i made for pokemon infinite fusion

you can get them by fusing sylveon and piplup!!

[glitziiegutz]

Cactus Aisha! I love the cactus caps in the nc mall, one of my first oc’s was a cyclops cactus girl with little cactus buns, the new wig made me so nostalgic and I knew I had to draw something reminiscent of my old style.

[retrogamechampion]

The most massive, perpetual collection of soundtracks from lost and abandoned online games

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Click here to download and preserve everything that's included!

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I'm a very oldschool (read: old) cat, so I was there when the very first online games / MMORPGs hit the early internet. From BBSes to games on AOL and Compuserve to Neopets to watching my oldest kiddo playing and loving "Monkey Quest..."

Technology improved over the years and the titles kept getting larger, the userbase having more ways to feel connected - Huge communities grew. Communities that had serious bonds, with the games providing them with IRL buddies, bestest of friends, and even partners. Because of the actual human connections these titles created, they became seriously important.

Now, consider all of that. Have you or anyone you know ever played one of those type of games and then suffered the heartache when a company decides to shut the service down or completely ditches the game, leaving it to fall apart? The emptiness of going to a login screen to see that the servers will never be turned on again - That's a crushing letdown, especially if you never got to properly say "Goodbye."

I mentioned Monkey Quest earlier because my kiddo adored it (and I often watched them play it). It was a really badass lil' platformer with tons of quests and surprising crossovers like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. It was also my kid's first experience with a "friends list." I'll never forget how bummed out they were when they found out that Nickelodeon was shuttering it and they realized they'd never get to experience that part of their childhood again. Of course, fans tried to resurrect it years later, but those projects disappeared again due to legal threats, much like Club Penguin.

To help with the parting sadness and to preserve a serious dose of nostalgia, I've decided to start rescuing the music out of online games like this that no longer exist (or have been left to join the choir invisible) and release them as soundtracks. And, wouldn't you know? I put together one for Monkey Quest first. :)

As more games pass the 15+ year old date (what I consider "retro") or are killed off / abandoned by their companies, more soundtracks will be added with an announcement here in Tumblr.

If I've left out any online games that fit these two descriptions, please let me know and I'll consider adding them to this collection!

For now, though, here's what's included to kick off the project:

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Barraki

Bin Weevils

Hello Kitty Online

Free Realms

Mata Nui: The Online Game

Mata Nui: The Online Game II - The Final Chronicle

Monkey Quest

Neopets

Qring Online

Taan Online

The Matrix Online

ToonTown Online

U.B. Funkeys

Webkinz World

[onemillionwordsofcrap]

Something tragically funny about how fucking Neopets finally grew up and said trans rights, meawhile tumblr didn't even trot out a pride flag this year

[synthaphone]

why'd they downgrade it so hard... the belly marking and the orange ear insides were NICE

[wynns-wonderful-pixel-paradise]

Everquest, Lady Vox

[sunnyscr1bbles]

Just a poogle in the Care Bears Family art style 🌈

[hissi-oil]

[chrominius]

𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 ‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾. ⋅˚₊‧ ୨ 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 ⋆ 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 ⋆ 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 ⋆ 𝘵𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘰𝘬 ⋆ 𝘬𝘰-𝘧𝘪 ୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

[sundaysplayzone]

A real prehistoric Lupe to rule all Neopets ~

[cognitohazard]

i haaaate that so many of the robot neopets look like they were designed and drawn by someone who's never drawn a robot before

[gummy-frog]

Faerie Dolls <3

These are for Infinite Fusion as Celebi alts! Can you guess who you need to fuse to get them?