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Club Penguin “over the years”. The CP event documentation.
August 2005.
August 22nd – Club Penguin beta testing starts.
August 22nd – The rooms available are: Town, Coffee Shop, Book Room, Night Club,
Dance Lounge, Ice Rink, Ski Village, Dock, Dojo and HQ (PSA).
August 22nd – Available games right now are: Astro Barrier, Bean Counters, Mancala
and Ballistic Biscuit.
August 23rd – Mancala removed from the Coffee Shop’s first floor.
August 24th – Mancala was added to the Book Room.
August 24th – Sled Racing online for beta testing, only two players can play at one
time, for the moment.
September 2005.
September 12th – Snow Forts is added and the Map is updated with the Snow Forts,
as well.
September 12th – Mail boxes added to streamline buddy requests. Prior to this,
buddy requests would just pop up and interrupt you, if someone sent you a request.
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September 12th – Igloo design is updated from the Penguin Chat 3 look to the current
look.
September 12th – Progress bars are added to loading screens.
September 21st – Beta Test Party, Club Penguin’s first ever party occurs. It happened
twice, 3:00 PM GMT - 5:00 PM GMT and then 3:00 PM PST – 5:00 PM PST, the party
was up for 4 hours in total. This was to test how many Penguins the server(s) could
hold. The Party Hat item, was released at this party. The party peaked at 155
penguins online. (Notice the Mailbox on the Chat Bar, that was the “View News”
button.)
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September 21st – Penguin Style, September ’05 catalog, is released.
SWF
September 23rd – News is moved to the top left corner of the screen.
September 23rd – ‘View News’ replaced with, ‘Edit Player’
September 23rd – Quick Emote Keys are added (shortcuts, for e.g. E+1 or E+T)
September 23rd – Music and sound is added to Ballistic Biscuit.
September 23rd – Sound is added to Mancala.
September 23rd – Exiting your Igloo takes you to the previous location you were in
(before this, exiting your Igloo would take you to the Town.)
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October 2005.
October 5th – Ballistic Biscuit, is made harder.
October 5th – Sound is added to Astro Barrier.
October 20th – Music and sound is added to Bean Counters.
October 24th – Club Penguin has opened its doors.
October 24th – 1st issue of The Penguin Times, is released.
SWF
October 24th – Penguin Style October ’05 catalogue, is released. Flags were released
for the first time.
SWF
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October (Unsure of the date)- Better Igloos October ’05 (to November ’05), is
released.
SWF
October 27th – Halloween Party 2005 begins. Town and Night Club are the only
rooms decorated.
Halloween Party 2005 Town SWF
October 28th – Fan Edition of The Penguin Times is released. (This was the first time a
newspaper Issue contained player submissions.)
SWF
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October 31st – Halloween Party 2005 ends.
November 2005
November (Unsure of the date) – Mancala is added to the PSA HQ.
November (Unsure of the date) – Beach is added to the Map, but is not accessible,
yet.
November 1st – All Non-Members get to have a Basic Igloo, too.
November 3rd – Sports Shop is opened.
SWF
November 3rd – 2nd Issue of The Penguin Times is released.
SWF
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November 8th – 3rd Issue of The Penguin Times, is released.
SWF
November 11th – 4th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released.
SWF
November 14th – Games give more coins that before. (Check the November 16th
newspaper, for more information.)
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November 15th – Penguin Style November ’05 is released.
SWF
November 15th – “furry creature” sightings occur at random places on the island ,
during the week.
Town SWF (Creature sighting)
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November 15th – Better Igloos November ’05 – December ’05, is released.
SWF
November 15th – An Igloo Upgrades catalog, is released. This one stayed till February
2006. You could change your Igloo’s colour and size.
SWF
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November 16th – 5th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released.
SWF
November 18th – Auto-Disconnect message is added.
November 18th – A new room called ‘Mountain’ is opened. (Ski Hill was called
‘Mountain’ in 2005.)
November 21st – 6th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released. The creatures are
introduced.
SWF
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November 24th – 6th Issue of The Penguin Times is released. (Yes, for some reason:
this issue and the previous one, both are labelled as the 6 th Issue.)
SWF
December 2005.
December 1st – Penguin Style December ’05, is released.
SWF
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December 1st – 7th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released. (Creature information
revealed!) There was also a “Name That Critter!” contest included in this Issue, it
started on December 1st and ended on December 7th, 2005.
SWF
December 5th – Server Testing 2005 took place. Billybob made this post about it.
Players visited clubpenguin.com/test and here they had the ability to log on to a Test
Server. Here, many items were hidden, which both Members and Non-Members
could wear. (This test server was the same as normal, except with different things,
such as items being hidden.) Items obtained on this test server could be worn on
actual servers.
December 5th – Black Toque, is hidden in the Ice Rink and Pink Toque is hidden in the
Dock, on the Test Server
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December 7th – PayPal option added, for purchasing Membership.
December 7th or 8th – 8th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released. (The contest is now
over, and the winning name was, “Puffle(s)”) The winners got 5000 coins, each. This
was the first, ever, Colour Issue!
SWF
December 8th – A new Room called “Ski Lodge”, opened for beta testing, on Club
Penguin’s Test Server and Blue Sunglasses were hidden in the Mountain, on the Test
Server, as well.
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December 15th – Better Igloos December ’05 – January ’06, is released.
SWF
December 15th – New game, Puffle Roundup is released, to capture the newly named
and discovered creatures. This new game is played at the Snow Fort
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December 15th – 9th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released. The main
announcement is the recent release of Puffle Roundup. A featured Igloo contest is
held, too. This was also, the first Issue to contain the ‘Secrets’ section.
(Notice: The “WE NEED YOU!” button is added, and the “Delivered every Thursday”
text is added, as well.)
SWF
December 20th – Open Igloos now show up on map.
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December 22nd – 10th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released. Three winners were
announced from last week’s newspaper’s featured Igloo contest, the 1st place won
5000 coins for winning, and the 2nd and 3rd place got 2000 coins, each.
SWF
December 22nd – The Room Ski Lodge is now open for everyone.
December 22nd – The first ever Club Penguin Christmas Party, began! (Christmas
Party 2005) It was the biggest party in Club Penguin, at that time. Over 12,000
Penguins visited.
A total of three rooms were decorated. These included: Town, Ice Rink and Ski Lodge.
The Ski Lodge contained the Christmas Scarf item and the Ice Rink contained the
Santa Hat item, both were available for Non-Members.
Main theme (Music SWF)
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December 25th – Christmas Party 2005, ended. The gifts remained available for a few
more days, so more Penguins could pick them up.
December 29th – 11th Issue of The Penguin Times, is released.
SWF
December 30th – New levels are added to Astro Barrier.
Extra:
Player Cards
2005 started out with this kind of player card. You had two inventory slots, one had
items you literally put on, and the other had colours/backgrounds/pins/awards/etc.
(Notice, the Spy Phone on the bottom right corner.)
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This is how other penguins’ player cards looked to you, the 2nd shaded button, is the
‘Find’ button. (Notice how it is a face instead of the question mark, modern Club
Penguin had.)
This is how a Moderator’s player card looked like back in 2005. (Notice the ‘M’
Badge.)
This is how an online Buddy’s player card looked like.
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This is how the Player’s Inventory looked like. The Inventory worked a bit differently,
when you clicked on one item, your Penguin would wear it, and the item would
disappear from you inventory and when you removed the item from your Penguin,
the item would appear in your inventory again.
Settings
This is what the ‘Settings’ pop-up looked like back then, notice how there isn’t an
option to mute sound but you can toggle between Ultimate Safe Chat, and then back
to Standard Safe Chat! This stayed from 2005 till 2008, it was changed after CPIP.
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You didn’t need to use a Parent Account to reset your password! You could log onto
your Penguin and change your password, directly in-game.
Buddy List
The old Buddy List had a “Users In Room” option! This option stayed till the list was
revamped.
Back then, when someone declined your request, you’d get a notification.
When Moderators typed something, their text would be red on the chat log.
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Servers
The servers in 2005 till 2008, were separated into countries. Australian servers were
released on March 24th 2006.
The servers looked like this from 2005 till April 2006.
Secret Agents
Becoming a PSA Agent in 2005 was a little bit different to 2008.
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End of Club Penguin 2005. A great start to a great game.
Written by
Superqami
Special thanks to
Joee
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