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Club Penguin

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Club Penguin's logo

Club Penguin was a children multiplayer online game, which has many mini-games and activities. It was developed by Disney Channel Entertainment (Disney Canada Inc.). The penguins are the main characters of the game, they can walk, talk, play mini-games and other activities.

Club Penguin originally started as a chat called Penguin Chat, in 2004, then went Penguin Chat 2 and later Penguin Chat 3, but realized they needed more than just a chat, so that Club Penguin was opened to the public 24 October 2005 by Lane Merrifield. New Horizon, the initial parent company of Club Penguin, was acquired by Disney for $350 millions.

On June 20, 2011, a many club penguin players were unable to login due to a downtime. It was closed or hacked. One day later, it was fixed. It was succeeded by Club Penguin Island when it got shutdown at March 2017.

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Club Penguin's message after shutdown

Before shutdown, Camelogical made a world record with fastest ban in Club Penguin.[1] Club Penguin was shut down on March 30, 2017. A message would appear on screen for all players, saying "The connection has been lost. Thank you for playing Club Penguin. Waddle on!"

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