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Habbo Launches Classic Version of Game on Mac in Throwback to 2005
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Really, Flash on ARM wasn’t a great experience, and the web is a much better place without Flash. I thought we’d finally gotten to the point where that was no longer a controversial opinion (aided by Adobe’s terrible security posture), but here we are.
Honestly, that’s about all I know about Habbo Hotel. I was about the right age for it, but we didn’t have a modern computer (or internet access at home) back in those days. (We had an offline cantankerous Windows 95 desktop and an even more cantankerous Coleco Adam stored in the basement.)
I've never heard of it either, I grew up in the age of dial-up. I was using services like CompuServe, GEnie, PeopleLink, etc. I even ran a BBS at one point. Most of the games I played back then were not online anyway.never heard of this game, guess that makes me real old ... I grew up way before there was an internet
Damn, I too feel old reading this.
But I have good memories of Habbo. I met there a good friend from the other side of the planet, we got “married” (on Habbo), and kept contact via messenger (MSN) app.
We were long distance friends for years, and while the story doesn’t end with a real world wedding, we lost contact for 12 or 15 years… until we somehow contacted again, this time in the smartphone era. The joy of the first conversations after so many years was great. Like meeting an old friend you really loved.
So far, we haven’t met in real life, almost 20 years later, I don’t enjoy traveling and she hasn’t come to my country. But who knows if we’ll meet in real life some day.
I remember helping a few of their developers with some coding eons. I mildly enjoyed the game for a few weeks and then forgot about it.
I think it is because it is a time of still having great electronics/games but without the ads, social media, pressure, it was just do as you please and have fun no internet connection needed
Please remember
Always ask your parents' and/or bill-payer's permission first. If you don't and the payment is later cancelled or declined, you'll be banned.if this is 18+ why you gotta ask your parents?
I'm not saying it's controversial and I agree it was the right decision at the time because the hardware just couldn't handle it.
But that is why the original Habbo Hotel, and countless other flash games of the era, died. Very few of them migrated to native apps on mobile platforms.
Unfortunately many young folk still live with parents until 25 when various tax breaks end. I left when I was 17. Seemed like a fine year.
I was genuinely surprised when I realized this. There's no way I'm going back to shin high socks.
Stuck culture. We ran out of ideas, everything has to be a nostalgia rehash of old IP
New Ghostbusters movie!
New Batman movie!
New Alien movie!
Nothing. Because the 2000’s was so much it’s own thing with a: a new millennium, b: so much new ways of exploiting new tech that the world had not seen or used previously.
It lasted a full decade (to 2010’s) before real 80’s nostalgia made an entry. And then near the start of the 20’s the 90’s nostalgia spearheaded by Gen Z who started to mix n match everything old and new. It was 90’s all over again but this time with internet, mobile computing and social media already woven into the fabric of society.
It’s probably a self-aware reference to the demographics of the Habbo user base back in its glory days.
I’ve taken to calling it IP Necromancy. Much like a farm field, a series has to be left fallow for a couple years every now and then to recharge. But no, Hollywood feels the need to make every property into an MCU style content factory (even as interest in the MCU itself declines, in part due to overexposure).
Yeah, big enough for artists to pay HabboHotel to market their new albums and virtually visit the hotel to talk to fans.
But made up pedo controversy (and the response of disabling chatting functionality in game) and the death of Flash killed the player base.
Haha I have a dutch female friend who played on habbo.com instead of .nl and is still, over a decade later meeting up with people she chatted with on that game. it's fascinating.