The Golden Age Of Roblox: A Retrospective
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Believe it or not I was a big ol' nerdy Roblox kid, and lately I've been feeling some nostalgia for the older days of the site. Today, let's dive into the history of Roblox, from it's inception, to it's development, to all of the weird and wacky games that we used to spend our time on!
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Kinda surprised you didn't mentioned Guests, they were as much of a meme as Noobs and seeing them either having no idea what they're doing or actually destroying actual players in a game is always a funny sight to see back then.
Right!?
I joined back in 2009.
I feel like no one remembers them. funny cause the last guess was very popular
Whats that?
kinda weird cause a guest is right there in the thumbnail too
The third thing they're associated with would be exploiters.
I'm a 25 year old man with no independent experience with Roblox, but my little nephew absolutely loves it and always wants to play it with me whenever I go to visit him. It's really fun to have a game that my 6 year old little nephew knows more about than me.
Same! I’m 24 and it’s really cool having my nieces and nephews teach me about games and tech I don’t know! My nephew (12) schools me at Fall Guys and it’s really interesting to see how good kids are at games
Bro I'm the same age and so is my nephew and it's the same situation. Weird.
I'm 15. Been playing roblox since the olden days. I guess tou could call me. Sigma 🚭 🗿
didn't expect to see you here! love your vids by the way, keep it up!
Same! I’m a 25yr old woman but my nephew loves Roblox and has even asked me to play some tycoon games with him. I have to admit I’m quite impressed by the huge variety of games it has
It's crazy but for some reason one of the things I'm most nostalgic about from Roblox is the old shiny material, there was just something so beautiful about the way it reflected the clouds of the skybox.
oh god yes!!! I remember loving the shiny material so much, my favorite thing about making my own places was just spamming the shiny material because "ooh! shiney!!"
I'm not an oldplayer, but I agree!! That's why I love the items made by Roblox, they are so beautiful and shiny!!! especially the hair
This texture is seared into my brain. I remember building stuff on the basic house map you can edit and blowing them up afterwards to see all the shiny reflections.
Same
Hi, I run the Warrior Cats game! Thanks for highlighting the history of the game on Roblox. I love to look back on it because, in hinsight like you said, everyone was still having a fun time, roleplaying seriously. Whether or not the cats were made out of sausages or modeled in blender didn't change anything for people. Everyone was having a good time, and some of my closest friends come from those days. It's one of the things I hope we can provide to people who play our games as well.
Games die but the connections we can create through playing them can live on. That's probably my favorite part of doing game dev, no matter what age we do it in or what platform we're on.
Mad respect, honestly. I’ve had lots of friends who’ve played your game and loved it
Oh man, I wanna thank you for that awesome experience. The Warrior Cats game made my days a lot brighter and I had so much fun roleplaying with other cats back then!!!
I have SO many memories from that game. Thank you 🥹 What's your username? Can I add you?
ew wtf
@@mangle18423hush, friend. Nobody asked
An interesting thing to note is that nowadays, since Roblox has become so corporate and far-removed from what it used to be, nostalgia is becoming a serious commodity on there. Tons of revivals/archives of various old games are popping up left and right, roblox hat makers are desperately trying to recreate classic offsale hats as closely as possible, and channels like mine and Toastedcherries that go into detail about the old days of Roblox are finding great success. Fans are even creating whole new revival platforms like Novetus that let players use the old clients from the late 2000s and early 2010s. The things you talked about in this video are currently becoming more relevant than they have been in a very long time.
Hi lego man
NITRO!!!
I'm almost tempted to go back on there after all this time, but is it worth downloading it all over again-? 🤔
@@scoopsropes6628 😔
Sounds like Minecraft
I remember loving the "fall down the stairs" levels, because they were essentially an excuse to hang out and chat while your character model bounced automatically down some stairs floating in space
or ragdoll games
@@jdhdhdhdh467 broken bones was a personal favorite of mine
Makes me think of Speed, the custom game/map for Halo Reach. Take your pick of vehicle, drive it down the ramp towards the enemy players and pray you have enough speed to not get hit, if you make it to the bottom you're instantly teleported back to the top keeping your momentum until you become an absolute menace of a wrecking ball.
Had to do some digging to rediscover this one, but Kingdom Life II was such a good medieval fantasy rp. I'd run around being a demon, a knight, a witch, an elf, whatever, looking for all the secrets in the map. Amazing game that was, seems like it's also been modernized tho :(
oh wow, i’d completely forgotten about that one omg !!! i vividly remember morphing into a rat so i could explore the hidden tunnels through the castle lol
the hours i sunk into that game omg
OMG that game was basically what got me into making OCs and writing stories. I kid you not, I'm a huge fantasy nerd and playing that game when I was like 12 was what got me into it. Unfortunately I think the creator turned out to be bad so he got banned and none of the other developers can update or moderate the game so it's kind of dying. I think one of the developers made another version but they changed the map a lot.
the amount of cringy roleplays I did on that game was insane 😭
Oh my fuck i loved that game as a kid. genuinely got me into character creation, i still kind of like some of the ideas i came up with
I’m 22 now, but my friends & I played Roblox & Wizard101 literally every day from when we were like 8 - 15. It’s just not the same anymore. I’m so happy we got to play in its prime with our closest friends at the time. I’ll always cherish those childhood memories.
We loved Darkened Dawn & Welcome to The town of Robloxia, along with other role play games. We loved Obbys and the ones where you had mobs every 60 seconds and had to survive. I miss it so much.
I loved that one
Omg, Darkened Dawn and Eternal Moon 😭
darkened dawn was epic
Wizard101 was SO good, the whole celestia era was peak wiz
My Roblox account is older than a lot of kids playing the game these days. My account is still active and it's 13 years old. Still check in time to time in the older vrchat groups.
honestly one of the funniest things about how roblox developed as a site is how "rpg" and "rp game"are two completely different terms that refer to completely different kinds of games
Ohhhh yeahhh I forgot about this...
Thanks for reminding me :)
Tbf those two terms are very distinct in general, outside of roblox. It's really an internet thing, but still quite funny
Are either of those even a thing anymore? I can't remember the last time I've seen a popular rp or rpg game on roblox
could someone explain the difference? i'm genuinely so curious
Rp game: basically a game where the fun is whatever story you make up there's usually little else to do other wise as they often take place in empty maps with locations scattered around
RPG: standard rpg genre stuff, turn based or whatever else really
In my opinion, the biggest travesty was Roblox getting rid of the genre tab/searching. It was such a heavy blow to me that it caused me to stop playing in 2016/17 after playing religiously since 2011. I've popped in every now and then since, but the genre stuff was my favorite thing ever, especially for Horror things, so that on top of all the other changes Izzy described just snuffed out the fire for me.
they need to fix the search engine for games so goddamn bad. it's been horrible to sift through for the past ~9 years
now you have to find good games with friend reccomendations which is really hard
I heavily agree with this. I got back into the game recently out of curiosity and everything looks so foreign to me. The search feature is fine, but I can’t believe there’s no explore page for games like there used to be. Let people tag their games as genres/mechanics so people can discover underrated gems. I used to play every popular game on the site, but even as a kid I was also always looking for smaller lobbies of lesser known games. Upon returning, those were the ones I wanted to visit the more.
The genre system is very poor. They have the same list of roughly a dozen simple genres since 2008 (fighting, fps, horror, etc) which are very vague. They really ought to have something similar to Steam's tagging, and more popular experiences be reviewed to verify if the tag is legit
i will never understand the thought process behind changing games from being organized by genre, to organizing them by.. successfulness and player count? like yeah the popular section was useful but why would they make every section the popular section
The fact that Izzzy and I as children could have been playing warrior cats together. My middle school years were me at 1 am playing warrior cats on Roblox. That or trying to find a tycoon to play. The best part of tycoons for me were watching your building grow. I think I remember a town tycoon where everyone had their own shop/public service, and gradually everyone would build up this town via tycoon 😅
I used to love this one wolf role-playing game called The Island of Mezaai, coincidentally it lined up with my brief steampunk fixation at the time and I'd always wear a top hat, have a mechanical paw, and be a "tinkerer". Always with a tragic backstory of course. I think I recall following the creator on deviantart as well.
oh man i loved TIOM! i remember for a while i always wore the vip t-shirt, even after i stopped playing much, just because i thought it was pretty lol
OMG did it have like a forest pack and a desert pack, with some huge mountains too?
@@stormfischerr yeah that's the one !
i was waiting for someone to mention TIOM, i loved that game LMAO i remember i would always make myself a lone wolf, flaunting around my VIP accessories.... and during certain updates and map changes, there would sometimes be that secret cave at the back of the mountains, and i'd always claim the cave for myself ☠ also glitching up the old waterfall and watching everyone below trying to get up as well 😭
Oh god I remember that, haha. Used to play it near constantly whenever I was on Roblox. I think it's actually still active- though in a new game.
the absolute nostalgia factor from the thumbnail alone. Those little transparent boxes which would give you items my god those were pretty.
This game was a blast and comprised so much of my childhood, and I'm 20 now haha.
It's certainly not the same as it ever was, and never will be. It's sad but I'm happy it was there for me.
I don't think I even got groomed on there to my memory.
i get that, wish we could go back to how it used to be
i remember kids at this summer daycare thing would gather around the computer to watch each other complete obbies
I remember these boxes from those "Escape the [insert something]" obbies. They would make you be able to "fly" by creating those colorful squares that your character stepped on wherever you went. idk why but it aways made feel so cool being able to fly through the obby i just completed and making other people's lifes miserable by glitching them through the squares so they can never reach the end
@@vitor8128yess, i would literally fly to the start, stand on the beginners heads, and then click the fly/path tool. Always made me laugh when their avatars would be flung across the map
Its scary how Roblox devs are thinking about adding virtual dating sim to a game full of kids
Yes, it really is. There downfall was gaurenteed.
I'M SORRY WHAT
that is actually fucking terrifying
whAt
Isnt it a straight up dating site, not just a sim?
I used to play when I was around 10 to 14 years old (so around 2010) and my favourite game was this one roleplay map that looked like a fantasy kingdom, where you could choose to be royalty, a peasant, an elf, a werewolf, etc. It was so fun. I also remember games that were like the obstacle ones but where instead you had to name whatever picture was in front of you and then you could go through it, eventually reaching the end and getting rewards. Also all of the horror hospital games were iconic 👌
Kingdom life?
@@DylanZeee yesss!
Yesss, you bought back so many memories with mentioning the kingdom life game!!! I use to play it religiously when I was younger and loved to role-play as every character title in the game. Another favorite was classic flood escape and OG Deathrun.
I never played Roblox but once out of boredom read the review on the App Store and Google Play, I had a great time. My favourite was a child saying a server was scary and that you should be “60yo to not be scared”. My guess is that adults told them that when you’re older you’re less scared of things, and they were so scared they thought you had to be at least this old to not be scared. Very cute
joined roblox in 2014, things have definitely changed a lot since then
i do appreciate the fact that bacon hair is still the default avatar :)
Ah boy. I'm pretty sure they're replacing the bacon hairs.
bad news
Weren't you the guy who didn't pay your... nevermind
@@d0rs4fgetznosleep77😭😭😭
pay him back man
i wish roblox didnt have the reputation it does now cuz it was probably my favorite childhood game. I still believe the early-mid 2010s were the best years of roblox, the games were good while still having that classic jank and charm, and the business was growing while not being super corporate like today. it sucks the kids who play nowadays wont get to experience those years
plus the website designs and logo was superior
I miss the old days dearly, I stopped playing maybe 10 years ago. Loved that one pizza store game, that game where everyone tried to break through a wall and there were some guys with the lil power dispensers inside the wall trying to stop you, couple of good mining games, and that survive the disasters one that had a like 2 hour long cycle of disasters happening.
God, I used to love playing Roblox during middle school at IT class with my classmates. It was a fun experience.
But then something terrible called "growing up" has happened and those fun days imediatetly ended.
But ill always cherish those moments, including all my ragequits at obbies
I am still so salty that Nintendo had the Pokémon games taken down. I loved the ones where you played as a Pokémon and used the janky moves to attack people across the map. The exploration value was pretty neat in those games too.
POKÉMON LEGENDS YES
If you played and remember Pokemon Arena X, I saw that the creator of that game is making their own creature game similar to it with the same basic map that they had for PAX
FOR REAL
i literally loved playing Project Pokemon and Pokemon Fighters EX so much, still bummed about it that Nintendo had them shutting down.
Pokemon battle brawlers you will always be real in my heart
I played that one Pikachu game where I think you killed a giant Pikachu? And one called pokemon go with the Roblox balloon and pokemons around the map, and the most popular one, Pokémon bronze(?
From when I first made my account in 2009, I was Obsessed with Roblox until about 2011-2012. I really miss the humility of old Roblox the most. Even if the games from a technical standpoint weren’t as good as they are now, I liked how they all felt like some guy’s personal DIY project that they made for fun - it had a charm that the corporate-mobile-game-esque stuff that floods the site now never will. Retrostudio and Super Nostalgia Zone are the only reasons I occasionally go back to Roblox these days LOL
Yeah!! Many of the games on there are impressive from a technical standpoint, but they don't have the same charm as the ones I played when I was 11-12. Sure, those games sucked. But I liked them (maybe because I was a dumb child). In a way, those games were inspirational. If a game like the Warrior Cats one Izzzyzzz mentioned was popular, it looked like anyone could make a game that other people would enjoy. Nowadays it feels like you have to be ready to devote your entire life to making a game for Roblox, and have a team of people ready to help you. Plus the games back then were nowhere near as predatory in terms of microtransactions compared to the games available today.
As someone a little older than the target audience, this is how I feel about games from the 80s too. Simpler games that felt like you could do that too.
I see what you mean and honestly it's true but I disagree, I play many games that while not looking like shitty Legos like how old roblox did (I mean shitty Legos in an endearing way, lol) they don't feel corporate made, an example that comes to mind is endless parkour which is a very new game that is just a silly simple parkour game with goofy physics and nothing else. And it's the funnest thing ever. I do agree with what you say in a major scale but I think that roblox still is ful with a dudes diy projects, you juts gotta look
I started playing roblox MUCH later but i am very glad im not the only one who feels like a lot of games on there feel very corporate and for profit more than entertainment, there are some recent games that ive played that do have that same silly DIY project feel to them but a lot of times i join a game and theres a bunch of gamepasses and ads for their in app purchases and daily log in type stuff to try and coax you into playing regularly. Its why i dont really play roblox much anymore.
this is making me so nostalgic i played the most during 2008-11! i’m a software developer and making shitty roblox games with my friends was one of the things that got me interested in programming. i also miss the player made ads on the website that were usually just little meme comics
I remember that old warrior cats game. That era was probably the best in terms of what games were on the front page. Back when Kingdom Life was popping, and random superhero games would pop up where you just fight each other in a city. My favorite pokemon was an RPG style one by Alexnewtron (I think) but it got deleted
But I spent more time in groups than I did playing front page games, specifically war groups. It was basically roleplay but centered around organized fighting. The communities were super niche but some groups could get huge
What I truly love is when games use the Old Roblox aesthetic for an actual purpose, not just for "nostalgia's a bitch huh" factor. Take, for example, Jim's Computer, which uses it to create a sense of contrast with the disturbing nature of the game's story, or Phighting!, which takes old, famous roblox games, outfits, gears, stuff like that and turns it into an interconnected universe, even stuff like the original soundtrack has references to old roblox related things. Check both of these games out, they're both really high-quality and need more love(especially phighting, criminal how underrated that one is)
phighting is SO GOOD
@@fluttermorp banhammer stans rise up😔✊
PHIGHTING MENTION‼️‼️‼️
phighting has been getting a kind of big fandom recently
i LOVE phighting so much :]
The golden age for me was back in... I want to say 2010-2011. I used to play "Survive the Disasters" and "Heliwars" primarily.
My name should be *Marssaturn* (picked the name because Pokemon) if anyone wants to add, but I haven't touched the game in at least 5 years.
The game existed back then?? (Haven't yet watched the video) Even Minecraft was only starting to get REALLY big back then, and I've got Roblox filed under "Minecraft for when Minecraft was over", lmao
@@Nitidusroblox technically began way before 2010. it was dynablocks in 2004-2005 but looked way different than modern day roblox. and in 2006 roblox officially began and started going by the name roblox as well. if we’re being super technical, it started in 1989 but it went by interactive psychics and was nothing like current or old roblox at all. it also at some point, between the interactive physics and dynablocks phase went by go blocks. i think that was in 2003? anyways that like rough history from memory so if i get anything slightly wrong then whoops
I played religiously starting in 2007 until probably close to 2011 when Minecraft was starting to pick up steam. I remember the OG bread factory tycoon, Galleons, Sword fight on the heights, and whatever the name of the game was where you had a pet brick and you could feed it to make it taller/wider were my stand-out favorites. I remember around easter when all the maps would get invaded by highly-coveted eggs that had unique mechanics, as well as the gift hats that would open later into unique gear. Some really good memories there, truly a much simpler time.
im still manifesting a deep dive into roblox's stangest community , roblox barbies!!
i believe i commented abt them like a year ago now under one of your vids suggesting a deep dive , but now that the community is really dead its kind of the best time to do so !!
the community is wild and so so so many dramas happened including doxes scams different styles, the reappearance of a whole popstar who's career got lost thru time (ayesha erotica) since before barbies ayesha's career consisted of tiktok audios going viral every now and then
its honestly such a big big rabbit hole that i could talk for hours abt it since i personally have been in the community for a long long time
Whaat. Ayesha was involved? I’ve never heard of this
I've always missed the old Roblox style, and it seems like a lot of modern creators for the platform do, too; I see maps in games that have the old blocky studs on them all the time. They sort of threw away any semblance of a brand identity, and in doing that I kinda think it lost its niche appeal (which was probably the idea, i.e. appealing to a wider audience, but it still kinda sucks). It was always super charming. My friends and I will go back every now and then to play an old client in multiplayer just for the hell of it
To be completely honest, I think Roblox as a platform sort of benefitted from allowing more takes on art direction to flourish and I see the retro style as more a nice little thing in of itself rather than imposed (again, Roblox not being a standalone game but instead an engine for them). What I do see is many more players still opting for a 1.0/2.0/3.0 avatar or something adjacent to it, though, so I think that's a constant.
Oh it was absolutely good for them as a game *engine*, I just miss when it was more of a goofy Lego game. It's kind of a double edged sword, losing them their brand appeal but also making the platform more diverse than ever. It was the right choice as far as business goes it's just not really what appealed to me about it in the first place @@ArbitraryOutcome
I played the warrior cat games RELIGIOUSLY. I remember playing one specific game the most, which had the most customizable cats, and being SO excited when they added paws and individually paintable toes. Sucks its unplayable now.
Also, real ones remember when you had to pick your name from a pre-approved list of prefixes and suffixes. None of this "Melancholy'Whisker" baloney.
@@k4y8k i remember you had to answer a question about blackstar(?) to even join in the first place in the older one, and when people googled the answer to get in we'd all yell at them for not being a ReAl FaN
YES!! The lake territory and forest territory maps were so memorable. I’m pretty sure if I could play them again, I’d know exactly where everything was still.
I absolutely loved Roblox as a child especially it’s older classic style and games. It upsets me that most of those classic game types no longer exist or are replaced by hyper advanced graphics without any of the charm.
Man, I miss when roblox was like this. A genuine, earnest little place to have fun instead of a corporate mess. I still mess around on fashion famous, doors etc with my friends sometimes, but it’s not what it used to be
15:50 Definitely recall watching some kids try to recrate the cupcakes story in there. But half of the server was on standby to heroically save Rainbow Dash from Pinkeminas' attempts to stab her.
If I recall, the player playing Pinkemina got fed up and left. With everyone patting themselves on the back for doing so good at story telling. Good times.
I was so sad when Cupcakes roleplays got banned from the 3d game LOL
I remember seeing something like that too, except I was rainbow dash lmfao (probably not the same situation, but the pinkamena did get mad and leave as other ppl tried saving me)
Tbh that sounds more frustrating not sound like the devil's advocate but imagine you and your friend wants to recreate cupcake then all of sudden the entire goes white knight on you or your friend because they were rainbow dash about to become a cupcake
I never thought the day would come when I saw Izzzy do a deep dive into roblox, but as a 2011 player, I could not be more ecstatic.
LMAO LITERALLY SAME
Fellow 2011 player!
One of my childhood favorites was Heli Wars. You played capture the flag from little rudimentary bases on opposite sides of a desert. There were helicopters, jeeps and probably more that I can’t remember. It’s still up in its original state, but it’s completely broken now.
I played Roblox in 2008 when I was 12 and had an absolute blast playing with friends. The main games I used to play was Solar Wars, Apartment Life and Medieval RP.
Solar Wars was a mode where you could design and fly your own space ships and colonise other planets. The game would allow you to take off, go into space and land on other planets (something which modern Starfield cannot do!). My friends and I would colonise planets and make little cities, and try to make alliances with players on other planets and go to war with those who were against us.
Apartment Life was an RP server we would all play where you could claim a plot and would have a pre-built house you can live in with friends. Rudimentary building tools would allow you to customise your home and we would have a great time “playing house”. One time a hacker joined and gave themself admin powers and basically started a coup, spawning in guns, vehicles like tanks and rockets. It was scary as a kid hiding in our house from players with guns outside after spending months on this peaceful RP server! I have some great memories of this server.
Lastly, Medieval RP is a server I would play that had zero combat and was entirely RP. You could pick your role in the kingdom and there was a 1/1 role as king on the server! If the server was full and all roles were fulfilled it would be like game of thrones and it would be amazing. I’m not sure what year it was, but there was a Roblox Easter event where eggs rained from the sky on every mode across the game at a certain time of day. When this event happened I was playing Medieval RP and it was chaos. Certain eggs would explode when they hit the ground and these eggs ended up hitting the caste on the map and blowing it up! This server that had no combat suddenly turned into a warzone. We had a great time and worked all the destroyed buildings into the RP.
Sorry for the paragraph but I love to share these memories. I was so happy to be there in the earlier days of Roblox. I stopped playing in 2011 when minecraft beta came out I made the transition to this. Hope you enjoy the memories 😊❤ Fantastic video
Especially as someone who had a turbulent homelife as a kid, I practically LIVEDDD in Roblox, starting from what was apparently 14 years ago. I was a A Pirate's Life stan, with Heliwars, Pokemon Legends, Destroy the Giant Noob, and so, so many feed the __ games and obbys in there. There was so much comfort to be found in some of the more repetitive game cycles, fishing up lobsters in A Pirate's Life for a boat that I would immediately squander up against a kraken. I think Roblox has so much to do with why I ended up pretty okay after being neglected as a kid. There was engagement and socialization and the means to indulge my burgeoning childhood creativity in any number of ways I wanted
I’m in my late thirties and have no real connection to most of the topics that Izzzyzzz covers but I watch all the videos because they are a lot like my baby sister in both style and interests. It’s cool seeing the world and pop culture through their perspective for a change. It’s a great reminder that there are different kinds of people in the world who have vastly different interests than myself.
Edit: I was unaware Izzzyzzz uses they/them pronouns. Apologies.
Funny thing to think about is how many completely different worlds (scenes) exist in pop culture, simultaneously, at any time. I am almost in my thirties, and I am one of those kids that were too old to be Gen Z but too young to be Millenials. It's interesting to think I knew what is an arcade, had no idea Doom existed, yet grew up in the "silver age of videogames", where we play at home, there (seemingly) existed only shooters and racers and everything is toxic. I thought I knew everything that was going on currently, then comes Izzzyzzz and reveals the absolute unit of a historical campaign that was Neopets, My Little Pony fan games and artistic japanese games. All happening so close and us none the wiser.
Kinda inspiring to go out there and have a piece of all those uncountable worlds existing right now
Same, izzy's the internet's weird enby kid sister.
These videos create a kind of secondhand nostalgia. Like it's more okay to imagine 2011 as being someone else's delightful childhood, and not the hazy era I just remember as "grad school?? bills????"
Still feels like it can't have been THAT long ago, but it's at least less distressing.
Izzzyzzz uses they/them pronouns 🫶🏻
@@ediem.6483 for reals? How'd i not know that?
I loved playing Roblox from around 2011 to 2016. It was a good five years. My favorite games were Supernatural Roleplay, any other fantasy roleplaying game, Apocalypse Rising, Tradelands, Pilgrim Islands Reborn, Strife, and the After the Flash post-apocalyptic roleplay games (especially the Snowstorm one). Sometimes I think about returning to Roblox, since I still have my account, but I figure it wouldn't be the same considering I am now 22 and Roblox has obviously changed an incredible amount. Some of these games aren't even around/accessible anymore. :(
I've been on the platform since 2009 and have been with it through all the changes. The nostalgia for those early days is bittersweet because they were such simple experiences that wouldn't hold up today. Also quick correction, NDS was made around 2011/12 (the webpage/game slot that the game was later uploaded to was initiated in 2008 but unused)- one of my maps is in the game! I have contributed to other classic games too, such as loleris' the mad murderer and Darkness II in 2013.
Hey, another 2009 player! I played from the ages of 6 to 14 consistently. I still hop on every few months, and I hope some day I have more time to play again. I'm too busy in my third year of college right now.
15:33
Yes, there were many of these; the so called "Decal RP" (decals were the primary name for images hosted on the Roblox site), they boomed in popularity sometime around 2014-2017 with games like Super Paper Mario RP, the Pony Project and various Undertale roleplay games
there were many of these, too many to count, but some more notable ones would definietly be Cul De Sac, Universal Roleplay and Kimonya since they allowed you to use a GUI that let you morph into any decal just from its ID, rather than choosing one from a preset list or spawnroom
I’m a frequent decal roleplayer who mostly prefers TPP. Though, I won’t be talking about the people of Revamp because their mods are…I don’t know how to describe it.
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Man I met the most toxic friend group I was ever part of on an undertale roleplay game
I had bought a gamepass on a undertale RP and remember playing as Sans aus for hours! (Now the game is dead and the teleport doesn't work)
Ah when I say teleport I mean the gamepass worked by teleporting you to a room where you could choose any decal from the library
Man, the talk of Roblox Pokémon games reminded me of one that I used to play before the sudden execution of Brick Bronze which ultimately made a lot of other Pokémon games go dark in fear of getting cease and desisted by Nintendo. I don't remember the name of it, but I remember that legendaries randomly spawn across the map for anyone to get. Was so happy when I got Rayquaza as it could fly in the game without the need to level them up which made getting all the other ones easier. Two of the roblox games I have the most memories of were murder mystery and dinosaur simulator. I played those games all the time as a kid, such fond memories.
I remember it too! The name I’m not sure about either
I think I remember that one too! I remember having to use a pokemon with magnet rise to get a legendary in a tree
I remember that game, I was friends with the owner of it. I think it was back in 2015.
I know what you're talking about! It was "Pokemon Fighters EX"! I used to camp around the spawn points of the legendaries I'd want waiting for them to spawn...
@@foxenne8698That's the game! And yeah, think I saw people doing that too lol. Will always remember the first one I got being Moltres who I just happened to stumble across on my first time playing the game.
back in 2016 i played pokemon brick bronze and phantom forces so much, those games still hold up tbh and recently i have come back to try them for nostalgia’s sake. phantom forces is still a great game and gets a lot of players and is surprisingly impressive mechanically for what it is.
I always liked those factory tycoons where you just started with a simple conveyor and nothing else, you literally had to buy your walls and doors. Some of those games let you kill other players so good luck enjoying the game when you’re being spawned killed and literally can’t lock them out lol
You used to be able to make your own “t-shirts” by taking an image and importing it in. There was a “kirbypedia” or something similar that existed at the time which was basically a list of every one of Kirby’s abilities. I made it my mission to get every single one on a t-shirt using low quality pngs/jpegs I found online in alphabetical order. I think I got as far as Copy Kirby.
I remember playing Sword Fight on the Heights and Paintball on my parent’s Compaq laptop.
There were also a lot of hidden object games, like “find the Epic Smiley face”.
What a time to be alive.
those "find the ___" games were and honestly still are my favorite
You can still create t-shirts they never removed them. though with 3d clothing becoming so popular people mainly use t-shirts for shading (boobs, yes boobs they are always removing them and tons more get added, and like abs etc.) and things like necklaces
I play roblox pretty frequently and I gotta say, it’s really impressive what people can do. My favorites throughout the years are probably Royale High, Misfits High, the most recent Wolf’s Life, and Clear Skies Over Milwaukee. Oh and also Creatures of Sonaria. I’m a roleplayer through and through, and how can I say no to a game that lets me vibe and be an npc in the lives of other players?
I loved Misfits High so much, but it doesn't seem like too many people play it nowadays, which is a shame.
I loved this Smash Bros rp way back that had an insanely large world with giant areas to represent everyone in Smash at the time. So I'd barely ever interact with others and instead go on adventures
the scope and depth of different parts and cultures of the internet will always amaze me. i can't pretend to be surprised by things like 'sex roleplay in the sonic roleplay on roblox' anymore, im just fascinated by how many levels of context you need in order to understand something like that.
Hey Izzzy, can you by any chance, only if u want, consider doing a deep dive into Star Stable, its another mmo game which has had a lot of stories and drama's around it :0
Horse girl online.
You just introduced me to such an interesting mmo, thank you!
@GarciaCavettShut it, bot.
Rattle has some great videos on it, decent length too
THIS
I feel sad you never mentioned the weird rabbithole that was "Vampire Roleplay", later dubbed Darkened Dawn; After the Flash and -22 and Dropping. Although these were extremely obscure, but I am crossing my fingers that anyone remembers these as well as I do :)
There were also those roleplays full of morphs in the map, there was one fnaf roleplay game that had just a few morphs but in my head it looked like the most refined game to ever be created in history
I remember those games, Darkened Dawn is almost dead now except for the small groups of people that host roleplays everyday
omg i loved Darkened Dawn! i also really loved playing Eternal Moon which had a really similar vibe
i very clearly recall playing the original when i was a kid for HOURS
I loved Vampire Roleplay and ATF!!! I remember going underneath the map in Vampire RP and using it as a lair lol. And the ATF games were so cool, they were hands down the most in-depth and immersive roleplaying games on all of Roblox. I haven't been an active player in ages but it's cool to see how far After the Flash has come since the games I grew up playing.
Izzzyzzz, I'm so insanely proud of your growth through CZcams and I'm so happy you've flourished with such nostalgic content. You bring me back to my childhood and remind myself that I'm still the same child at heart, in a positive sense. Thank you for covering EVERYTHING I grew up with. Love you, dude.
From Neopets to Roblox, Creepypasta to My Little Pony. You're awe-inspiring. Thank you again. ♥
this is such a sweet comment, im happy to see that you're happy! :]
@@sabersillygoofy thank you, friend! :>
I remember my favorite Roblox game as a kid of all time was this one called Ultimate crossover RPG where you could play as a bunch of flat Jpegs of various characters from everything from Mario to Dragonball to Sonic to Adventure time, etc, some of the avatars even having animated walking and jumping animations like what you said, and go to a small selection of various locations where you could live out your roleplay fantasies. I specifically remember using the Roll avatar from Megaman, shrunken down to the smallest size because i also forgot to mention that most characters came with a few sprite variants from different games and you could do things like change your size, and i roleplayed as some living doll and went on some adventure with someone playing as Finn the human, and something about it got so heartfelt for me that i remember crying a little bit, a feeling which i'm sure the other person playing with me totally absolutely felt too and it wasn't just me. If by some chance, you're that Finn the human that played on Roblox with someone roleplaying as a tiny Roll doll, hope life's been treating you well
I also have these vivid memories of a water park level i was super impressed by but i can't for the life of me remember which one it was.
i remember i used to play that game! a few years ago i tried to find it again just to realize it got taken down because of copyright or something
@@MiloMeowing damn, that sucks, but i guess with the commercialization of Roblox and copyright protection becoming more and more abusable, it was inevitable.
Something I look back at the most is the old default home worlds you would get, with a house and it had a road going through a mountain and had things like a rideable spaceship. I still have mine and it’s like a time capsule.
In my primary school, roblox was banned (for one reason or another, they never made it clear) but the students really went crazy and claimed that a girl we all had gone to school with died because of roblox... the problem with the story was that she was very much alive, and very much still going to school with us lol
Kids rumours are the absolute best like the things we came up with lmao
In middle school we also had a Roblox ban, due to "scented cons"
Aaah what a dive back into my childhood. I too was a nerdy roblox roleplayer. Was hoping you'd talk about ATF (After the Flash) when you brought up the roleplay games. It was a post-apocalyptic setting inspired by Fallout but was all thought up by the owner with their own lore and stories, they made a bunch of different games in the setting for different locations. I spent many a long night just playing out stories in them with the friends I made there and some Im still friends with today! Thank you for bringing back these great memories!
I remember the lore made that game so intimidating to play on. I still played the crap out of it though. Crane town is to this day a genuinely awesome design.
Unfortunately almost all of the atf admins were pedophiles
I used to play Sandstorm a lot as a kid. ATF has such great vibes then
I absolutely LOVED (still love) the After the Flash series as a kid. When I wasn't roleplaying on all those games, I would just be exploring the maps because they were amazingly designed! I loved there was a radio on some of them, too! Which one was your favorite?
I remember Crane Town so well, ah! Another amazing but underrated spot on that Hawaii map is the abandoned mall. @@man-qw2xj
I was just telling someone a few days ago how me and my sibling got bullied out of the old Warrior Cats game because we never actually read the books and made unnaturally colored cats. Also I am SO HAPPY to see someone else knows Pokemon Legends, I played it so much and loved exploring and doing puzzles to unlock all the Pokemon, I miss it so much. They have another game that seems to be the same thing but not with original creatures. I haven't checked it out yet but sadly I never see anyone else playing it either.
I wasn't around for the early early Roblox days, but my first years on the platform starting in 2015 are very dear and nostalgic to me. Admin houses, roleplay games like Island Life, tycoons and many others (that are either dead or significantly less active these days) were big parts of my preteen years. ESPECIALLY those Undertale RPs. I remember them being jampacked full of players!!
Love this little retrospective. Made me reminisce! I'm very happy you chose Roblox as a subject.
I remember starting back around 2015 as well
also a 2015 player
it’s so different than what it used to be but honestly I enjoy being a college student playing w my friends. Silly games like fnaf or total drama island role-play r made so much better now. I was comparing it to Minecraft the other day but they’re not even compareable at this point. It was community based in a way Minecraft didn’t reach. It truly is self sustaining, I would have never expected big corporations building their own worlds and constantly promoting them like Sanrio or squishmallows
I never played Roblox but I remember watching a friend of mine play it in the 2010's. I remember a multiplayer platforming game (I think?) that was a collection of multiple courses and the waiting area had like bioluminescent mushrooms you could platform. And also I think a FNAF rp game and the characters were just one-dimensional pngs
I joined sometime before 2013 and played extensively as a guest before that point.
One of my favorite games that I kept constantly coming back to was a roleplaying game called something like "Be a winged wolf or other creature" and all you did was fly around and meet other people as wild animals. It was so amazing to me. As a kid who also loved warriors, I can imagine why you liked a game like that too. The game I played was super barebones, but it was fun just to talk to people and act out those little stories. I will always be nostalgic for how simple the maps could get back then.
Another game I played a lot back then was called "Le Bote". It was a sort of naval game where you controlled boats, maybe slightly like world of warships. I was obsessed with it too, I played it almost nonstop until updates broke it and the creator left for college and was unable to maintain it.
One of the first games I ever played was probably "Code Red Rescue". It was one of the Tadcool games, so it was almost entirely freemodels with little extra work put into it. I first saw it at a friend's house, where they introduced me to roblox. It was a really simple game where players could fly helicopters or drive boats to an island and fight zombies.
More recently, and by that I mean within the last eight years, I became a bit obsessed with a game called Wild Savannah, where you roleplay as animals in the savannah. It definitely felt like a place to act out the same fantasies that captured me in the wolf game I mentioned earlier.
I think one of the most interesting things about some of the older roblox games is how intensely social they can be. There wasn't often much game to them, they basically only acted as an extension to playground make-believe, but I feel like that's a thing you don't really see at all in other areas of videogames. As exploitative as roblox the company can be, I think I will always be nostalgic for the experiences I had as a kid playing roblox. Thank you for this video, it helped me remember some things
My favorite thing about your videos is watching your Garfield collection behind you slowly grow and immerse the entire background
Played since 2008, as much as I love the old days 2012-2014 was easily the best years for roblox especially since 2016/2017 was when they started to change to profit rather than just fun
We were eating good. We had
- Murder Mystery
- Mad Paintball
- Grand Mall of ROBLOXia
- Space Knights
- Welcome to the Town of Robloxia
- Robloxity
- Call of Robloxia
and so much more.
Having a long distance best friend as a child meant we were always looking for free multiplayer games we could play together, and roblox was one of our favorites. They actually introduced me to the game and we had an absolute BLAST exploring it over the years. My faves were always work at a pizza place, disaster survivals, a sort of project runway thing where you had to dress to a theme and compete with other players, and this one game we'de play every halloween where you would like go door-to-door in a neighborhood and collect candy? It was super fun. We also loved using the search function to find lesser known games, many of which had literally 0 people playing them, so it was almost like we had it to ourselves. We're still friends and go back to play sometimes for the nostalgia factor :) so roblox has a very fond place in my heart.
This brings me back. I remember watching someone play it at a local library. My older brother asked what he was playing and said Roblox. I always played the tycoon, Obeys, feed, anything on the funny tabs, or the horror tabs. I still have my account that my brother made for me. Good times and cringy times
The nostalgia of Roblox for me is incredible. I started around 2011 and was obsessed. Namely in the rp (specifically warrior cats) the older versions with the lil cylindrical cats. Both were awesome I love the new version as it is now and the fact its still wildly popular since I was heavily into the books :) love hearing about this stuff again since ive moved over to mainly vrchat lol
cylindrical cats all day over the realistic ones !!!
When you mentioned Pokemon, I immediately remembered Pokemon Brick Bronze! It was like a passionate fangame in Roblox, and eve after it was taken down for copyright, people made many copies of it so people could still enjoy it. These copies are now basically dead after the creators made a new game, Loomian Legacy! A Pokemon inspired game with it's own mechanics :)
One of my favorite Roblox games was a kind of survival game where you had a certain amount of time to build a defense before a bunch of monsters were sent out to try and kill you. My sister and I worked out a cheat where we attached blocks to our characters' feet so we could fly so we would win every time. I don't remember what it was called though ):
Build to survive the zombies
@@DylanZeee that might be it... I just asked my sister and she thought it was "build to survive the slimes" so there were probably a few versions
I joined in 2008 and also fondly remember the earlier years of the platform; it’s changed so much and there was certainly a charm to how things were!
I’m still on it as I develop on there but the game is almost unrecognisable from what it used to be.
One game I'll always have fond memories for was called "Ninja Temple Dojo - Train, Become a Ninja". I made a whole host of friends in that game.
Especially since we used a combo of a hotkey stealth ability with a suit morph on the map. It was a "stealth" mode that slowed your character's movement but made you slightly transparent and hid your name from other players. Combining that with the ninja suit morphs, we looked like NPCs since our names weren't visible to the other players. Called ourselves "The No Names", lmao.
There was a Doctor Who game that I played all the time. You spawned in your own TARDIS and the customization options for it were incredible. I would spend literally hours designing interiors
I first started playing Roblox in 2013 and I still play it religiously to this day. It’s so fun especially playing with your other adult friends.
Roblox passed me by, being a 16 year old who had convinced Mum that paying a WoW sub was the greatest idea a year before it went live, I was otherwise occupied. I think the point where I saw full on strategy games inside of Roblox was when I noted just how crazy the creativity of it was, but it was too late to pull me in. The whole oof meme and saga around that afterwards I definitely appreciate, though.
I played roblox religiously in my tween years and always loved logging onto roleplay games just to ignore other players and roleplay alone. I also frequented "adopt and raise" games where gameplay consisted mostly of trying and failing to get adopted and trying not to get kidnapped by people running around trying to scoop you up in a low poly stroller. Now my little sister is in her tweens and I always hear her playing with her friends. I feel like it should make me feel nostalgic but the game has been polished into oblivion and I can barely even recognize it anymore :(
This brought back so many random roblox memories I had suppressed lol, the MLP 2D roleplay used to be so fun, I always loved finding the TARDIS from Doctor Who and played as the show insert Doctor Hooves. That, or a Changeling to make the model swapping make sense.
So many of these I messed with and wow I didn't expect to see so many.
I remember these "Find the X" such as Find the Kirbys or Find the Domos where you'd have to look around a decently-sized map to find all of the hidden characters, each having a cool skin to them. I specifically remember one in Find the Domos where you'd have to go up to the moon and wait for a comet Domo to fly by.
There was also Pokemon Brick Bronze which I won't talk about because everyone already knows about it.
man i loved "find the ____" games as a kid. find the domos was probably my favorite though, it was always fun when a new domo was added and you would join and there would be someone showing people where to find the new one lol. find the kirbys was probably my second favorite though.
I swear, every time I half-heartedly open youtube with a general yearning for some content relevant to my interests, you ascend from the heavens with a new video perfectly tailored to my needs... like the Messiah of chronically-online 20-somethings.
this!! lmao
The Roblox game that I played religiously was Roleplay is Magic, which is a 3d MLP rpg I was SUPER obsessed with. Similar to the other MLP game you talked about (which I also played religiously lol), you would spawn in a room and a pop up would appear on your screen which listed all canon MLP characters that you could choose from, with all the alicorns and villains on a separate tab locked behind a paywall, as well as a custom character option where you could create your own character and you could get pretty creative with this from what I remember. I always made my own characters or created characters based on other media, and very rarely did I play any canon characters because imo creating ocs was the best part of the game lol. The models were pretty good for its time, though definitely outdated compared to now. Maps included Ponyville, Everfree forest Canterlot castle and the Crystal Empire if I remember correctly, though there might be more now I don’t remember. It was very popular when I was playing it from like 2012-2017, but now has almost completely died. I recently hopped back onto that game just to see how it’s held up over the years, and boy it looks amazing now, but there was barely anyone playing it (I think like less than a hundred players?) compared to the thousands and even tens of thousands of active players back in its heyday. Roblox just isn’t the same as it used to be :(
I was waiting for a mention of the mine cart games. The ones where you have to ride on a cart through a loooong track that were kind of boring, but I did them anyway.
Another thing is the coincidence with the popularity of the annoying orange, and how many annoying orange games there were. One that comes to mind is the escape the annoying orange game, where you had to escape a giant model of an orange with big lips
omg and people that already made it to the end would try and block the tracks with the things they got as prizes
or praying that your cart wouldn't derail after a sharp turn, especially if you were so close to the end
I was "too old" for Roblox, so I appreciate the overview! I had no idea it was such a cool creative experience.
One game I used to play a lot of apocalypse rising, which I’m happy is still around. I remember there was another version like it where you can bank your items and I used to bank all the Op guns I managed to get and never used because I was scared to use it. I also roleplayed on this post-apocalyptic map which had such a badass map. It was called after the flash! They had this cool town that was built on the water and that’s where everyone would hangout
OMGGGG I remember both games!! I'm glad apocalypse rising is still running and semi-active
I first joined february of 2013, but played as a guest a few months before. Some of the stuff i played back then were, roblox titanic, a lot of tycoon games, some obby games, natural disaster survival, survive the disasters, flood escape, guest defense and so many other things I used to play! 😄
ik its still a thing but i remember me and my roblox friends would apply for jobs on a bunch of those cafe groups. we would treat it so seriously lmao reminding each other to "get up early or you'll miss the interviews!!" and frantically trying to memorize how to make drinks, having your greetings and stuff ready to copy/paste so you dont get caught with bad grammar (youll get fired). we really had a work schedule when we were 10 LMAO
i spent ENDLESS time on roblox in it's early era. my fav games were the mob survival base builders, the town/public pool rps, and of course the vampire vs. werewolf rps. i remember absolutely grinding for the tix exchange to put fem hair on my character now they just give it out for free lmao such good times
i love current roblox and everything but man i really miss old roblox too sometimes, so simple but so good
"make a cake and feed the giant noob" gave me like, a ratatouille food critic-esque zoom out flashback
I used to play this online game called Migoland? I remember really enjoying it, despite not fully understand what the game was about. Even now if you go to the website it says “coming soon” and I’d be really interested to hear more about it and what happened to it. I personally remember making schools in my home for people to rp in 😆
A shocking and disappointing lack of mentioning Groups! I can't even imagine how many countless hours I spent roleplaying as an army/military person in clans like Roblox Assault Team, FEAR, UCR, etc.. So so much fun doing little training games and fighting little battles and stuff.
Vivid memories of a roblox game where you played as a dinosaur. I LOVED it despite the rudimentary gameplay loop haha
played roblox religiously from 2012 until around 2018, i would give an insane amount of money to time travel back to those early days. the platform now just doesnt have the charm it use to have
@@luuqiixagreed!
I joined in late 2015 and no og player will agree with me on this, especially since 2016-17 was the era where Roblox started changing for the worse, but to me those were the good days. I played mainly older games like survive the disasters, beach house roleplay, Roblox top model and sword fight on the heights. I still revisit those games sometimes because those days genuinely made me so happy LOL
I somehow managed to completely avoid learning about Roblox despite being terminally online until I felt way too old to get into it. I had no idea how crazy the graphics and game mechanics have gotten.... I work with young kids now and a lot of them were super into this horror game called Rainbow Friends that a couple of the kids had plushies of. I was so shocked when I finally learned the game that's big enough to have it's own merch sold in stores is hosted on Roblox. Wild.
Same I didn’t learn about the game till a few years back 😅 I honestly thought Roblox had come out in like 2018 or so. But my nephew loves the game.
Yeah, same. I thought it was some weird Minecraft knock off for little kids with Lego like characters. And I was around for the Minecraft alpha…
I’d love to see a deep dive into Bearville (the build a bear workshop kid’s virtual world)! I didn’t spend a ton of time playing online games, but this was the one I did 😅 I loved so many of the games and I loved seeing my plushies in the virtual world
i remember joining a warrior cats server for the first time and got harassed for choosing a color that was very slightly light purple and was seen as unrealistic and therefore unallowed. i never joined again and have been scarred ever since.
Omg, this video brought back so much nostalgia for me! I played Roblox probably from 2011-2014 (and honestly refuse to play it now since it's lost so much of its classic appeal for me), and I remember the MLP and Warrior Cats roleplay games too! I think Roblox was actually how I was first introduced to Warrior Cats, and led me to drawing furries now (this probably would have happened anyways, since I was on DeviantART looking at TLK stuff since 2008, but still). There was also this one specific wolf game where you just, play as a wolf that I loved too, because it had a waterfall that had a cave behind it - I wonder if anyone else remembers it? I forgot what it was called, I have super bad memory issues.
I also really vividly remember playing Warrior Cats roleplay on Roblox during my parent's divorce, I think it was a coping mechanism for me & for other stuff at that time. I'm still fond of it. (I'm an OSDD system, and one of my alters from this time also has some sort of fondness for it himself.)
To see Izzy making a video about Roblox is like a dream come true, although I have played other games she had made videos about before like Animal Jam and Club Penguin, none of those ever came close to be as fun as Roblox was to me, I have been playing it since 2016 when I was a guest. Seeing all the changes and events that happened over the years along with the community is so interesting because it almost feels like each Roblox era is it's own decade with different graphics, styles, etc. I remember getting excited whenever I got to know someone irl that also enjoyed Roblox like me, also making friends online was a lot more fun than today and we aways used to have fun together playing our favorite games we recommended to eachother. It's kinda sad seeing some of the bad things that happened over time, but I still think it's an amazing game despite what some think. Even if some things may have been better back them, there's deffinitely a reason why Roblox keeps growing even today.
i don't care about the topics, i just want to blow my load of Izzy's face
I played the Warrior cats game religiously as a kid, even bought every gamepass on both the Forest Territory and the Skyclan territory. Nowadays, the new game is just as toxic as the community is, with players basically quizzing you on aspects of Roleplay, trivia and even lore just for you to have a chance to be leader, deputy or medicine cats. I want the chillness of the old games back, life was so much simpler
i love how early 2010s Warrior Cats role play was a universal experience even for people who didnt play robolox. I never personally got into robolox but u can bet 100% that my little emo ass was on a minecraft creative server at 3am spamming some shit about shadowclan LOL
God this video is bringing back so many memories, I joined in 2013 and I used to play Warrior Cats roleplay & Pokemon Legends RELIGIOUSLY
Izzyzzz has become one of my most watched and favorite CZcamsrs. Her consistency is amazing and she talks about topics that I enjoy, and that I am interested in learning more about.
As 22 year old who played Roblox for 3 years straight in the heyday... I'm honestly glad it's still around haha!