Neopian Experiences by tatsuherutsu2001 |  |
NEOPIA CENTRAL - July 5, 2002. What does that mean to you? I can imagine nothing,
except maybe a birthday of a relative, or you, or a friend, maybe. To Americans,
it's the day to use up all your remaining fireworks. To me, it's the official
Second birthday of my first venture into the realm of Neopia. I remember it
vividly...
I have always been a lover of virtual pets. I own around eight different virtual
pets (several tamagotchis, a digimon, and a giga pet, and various cheap rip-offs),
although I've lost interest in them over the years. Anyway, I'd heard about
a site called the Alien Adoption Agency from a friend of mine on a message board.
The AAA was a neat site at first, but a banner flashing the words "Neopets.com-come
get your online virtual pet!" soon caught my attention. I clicked the banner,
and ended up in the wide, wide world of Neopia.
My first account was active for a grand total of three months, when my e-mail
service died, and I lost the password to my account. I stopped playing when
school started. I had one or two accounts over the school year, losing both
to my bad memory and equally bad e-mail service(s). Somewhere along the line
I mentioned Neopets to a friend, who mentioned it to a friend, who mentioned
it to a friend, and one of the big fads near the end of the Sixth Grade was
Neopets. It was then I created my most active/successful account to date. It
turned One on the 26th of January.
Unfortunately, that account was lost last Christmas, when the greedy human
mind of mine took hold, and unfairly used a bug in the Fruit Machine to its
advantage. I took another Neopets break. This break lasted about a month, when
two things triggered my natural Neopets love: 1) the realisation that it wasn't
the Neopets staff's fault I was frozen, nor was it my friends, or any one else's,
it was mine. And 2) My good friend Melly gave me an account.
I played for a while on the gift account, and then decided to sign up again,
ready to start clean. Hence, tatsuherutsu2001
was born.
Through the months I was absent on Neopets, a lot has changed. Not only has
Neopets gained wider popularity, but prices for training items that were previously
as worthless as the Tombola booby prizes have skyrocketed. Faeries and Codestones
were worth about 500 Neopoints, and have since quadrupled in value, due to the
opening of the Battledome.
Although I have yet to prove this, I've found evidence of a Unicorn Paint
Brush. Looking back through the Picture Competition, there have been several
pictures featuring a pet that looks like it's been painted, and one of the spotlight
(pet or site, I can't recall which) pets mentions that she used to be a unicorn
Elephante.
If you could only see what
the Neopets looked like back when I first started playing... silly cartoon-like
pictures, and only 20 different species to choose from. Some of them were humanoid
creatures (the Bruce and the Macy Gray, which later became the Kau)! Now the
population has grown so much, and the graphics have been improved a good deal.
All in all, the past years of Neopetting have been some of my best Internet
experiences yet. I'd like to thank the Neopets team and the active Neopets players
out there for making all of this possible, and I look forward to many more years
on the haven known as Neopets :) |
