Remember Neopets?

[Eomega123]

I had a green JubJub named Itsybitsyfluffyduffy. He once caught a disease after I spun the wheel of misfortune and I felt so terrible. I finally found a cure in a small player owned shop. I sent the owner a thank-you message.

Good god that was a long time ago...

 

[BlackEagle95]

Damn this takes me back...I had all the "Guy" ones. The dinosaurs, snakes, etc. It was my first obession. I even paid my sister 5 dollars once to feed them while I was grounded. I haven't been back in like 8 or 9 years, and honestly, i'd like to hold on to the fond memories, so I don't think I will go back.

It was awesome though. I remember going to a pet shop in-game and seeing the sign
"If anything growls...back away slowly" Still find hilarious.
It was the people that made it great.

 

[EcstaticObsessive]

I don't remember what my pet was, this was pre-facial hair me we're talking about here, but I do remember the very mean lizard at the 'adoption centre' and how I was always guilted into not quitting by him...

Yeah, the mean old Techo. He's the reason I never got rid of any of my pets :'(

I had a green JubJub named Itsybitsyfluffyduffy. He once caught a disease after I spun the wheel of misfortune and I felt so terrible. I finally found a cure in a small player owned shop. I sent the owner a thank-you message.

Good god that was a long time ago...

This post touched my heart c:

It was awesome though. I remember going to a pet shop in-game and seeing the sign
"If anything growls...back away slowly" Still find hilarious.
It was the people that made it great.

This. This this this this. It was a community. A community of kids, sure, but it showed me a lot. I loved visiting other profiles and reading what people liked, and visiting the forums to chat.

For a pre-teen in New Zealand, suddenly being able to chat with people from all over the world was a big thing.

 

[soul_rune1984]

I still play neopets. I have a zaffara (curently Island/Christmas) a kougra (Faery), an accara (Island)and a nimmo (Halloween)the most awsome thing is I got all their colors through random events. I still love neopets it's great for casual gaming.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I do not like neopets and I regret the time I spent with it.

I do not like the management, the direction, or the design which the site currently has, and has for some time.

As far as the account deletion, it's always been a practice for neopets to remove longtime users, so im not surprised to hear about such things.

I myself am permabanned, apparently. If it ever becomes known to admin who i am, my account is immediately removed. I pissed Adam off gooooood, it seems.

does that asparagus-riddled jerkoff still run the site, or has he finally cut and run?

 

[Onomatopeia]

Yeah, I remember sitting on ICQ and mIRC playing Neopets, I had a Flotsam and a Jetsam. My (ex) girlfriend used to sit and play it for hours after finishing highschool.

 

[Denamic]

Man, neopets.
Good old times.
A facebook game without the facebook part.

 

[Slayer_2]

Ahhhh, I remember that game... back in the day, hahaha. I had some kind of dragon thing, and I was starting to build a pretty slick house. Then I discovered Quake 2, and I forgot the password/username. It was fun, I liked bumper cars and chia bombers the best.

 

[D-Pad]

I lied about my age the first time.

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Anyway, haven't been there for at least 6 or 7 years or so. I do remember them putting out a crappy Playstation 2 game though.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

Ah, NeoPets, how I once loved thee. All the time spent playing games and being decent enough at them to keep one or two pets happy... Then I fell out of it and returned years later to find not only more games, but the fact that I now completely suck at them. Is it because they changed the game's speed and overall difficulty? *shrugs* Maybe, but the overall quality has declined there as well. The maps are also crammed with so many things that I just don't know what and where anything is any more. That was the last time I bothered to look, at least. The latest attempt to do anything lasted less than a week before the nostalgia was gone.

 

[Mechanix]

I remember neopets...pretty much the first online website I became addicted to

I had a lot of fun on that, but it sure does suck that it's all about the microtransactions now.

 

[trebthegamer]

my account seems to have survived (due to a recent nostalgia moment)
to start they added a store kinda like the mann co store in TF2(that should make the haters hate), their add-choice makes even less sense(40+dating adds? wtf? ), the site seems to have loads of buggy pages and to top it off they recently added a game for witch you need to pay to play it. it seems to go downhill i wonder when they'll pull the plug.

 

[EcstaticObsessive]

I still play neopets. I have a zaffara (curently Island/Christmas) a kougra (Faery), an accara (Island)and a nimmo (Halloween)the most awsome thing is I got all their colors through random events. I still love neopets it's great for casual gaming.

Ooh! Add me! Please? I'd love to have a fellow Escapist for a Neofriend c:

I myself am permabanned, apparently. If it ever becomes known to admin who i am, my account is immediately removed. I pissed Adam off gooooood, it seems.

does that asparagus-riddled jerkoff still run the site, or has he finally cut and run?

Hoo boy, what did you do to earn that?

 

[Catie Caraco]

Omg, my neopets account still exists! It's pretty durn sweet, if I do say so myself. I've got a Usuki Usul (Male, so he's like a little Musketeer) a Royal Peophin (those are totally my favorite), a Disco Koi (that took FOREVAH!) and a Halloween Ixi (my second favorite, I remember when they debuted). My username is ReisHeavenlyKnight, if anyone is interested in looking me up. Dear God, Neopets used to be my homepage when I was in Junior High. I legit spent hours there, and my oldest and dearest internet friend was met via that website. I'm sure lots has changed since I was last on, which I think was in 2007 or 2008. I had a college room mate who was into it, and I felt safe enough exploring it again in that environment. Oh... neopets....

I almost want to curse the OP for reminding me. As if I didn't have enough modern internet distractions...

I've gotta feed mah pets now.

 

[GaryH]

I lied about my age when I joined and it's been so long that I can't remember my password and no longer have the email account that I registered with. Shame... my neopets haven't been fed in something like 9 years.

I used to be obsessed with neopets though. it might be for the best that I can't access my account anymore.

 

[Soraryuu]

Hey, I do remember playing it a good, long while ago... was it in second grade I started playing?

I've got some fond memories of it. Like the paper they released regularly. Ah, good times...
My favorite breed was the bug-like one. Can't remember what it was called again. I DO remember it was woefully unpopular, however.

 

[Senaro]

I recently tried finding my neopets account again. Managed to remember my old screen name, but the password is beyond me, and linked to a parent's old email account that hasn't been used in years. So I sit there staring at my starving yellow Shoyru. Poor thing.

 

[DarkRyter]

I've had several accounts.

They all had Shoyru's.

But I can never last THE GRIND.

 

[EcstaticObsessive]

I almost want to curse the OP for reminding me. As if I didn't have enough modern internet distractions...

I've gotta feed mah pets now.

Aha, sorry about that. Ooh, does this mean your account is still up and running? Can I have a looksie?

My favorite breed was the bug-like one. Can't remember what it was called again. I DO remember it was woefully unpopular, however.

I'm just going to guess, but was it a Buzz? The flying bug one?