okay, so, a lot of webmasters here in neocities usually talk about their favorite nostalgic online games (neopets, club penguin etc.)
for me, that game is habbo. when i think about my childhood, habbo is something that's always attached to it. my childhood--as i don't always like to recall--was turbulent. then again, i had this game. i spent hours and hours living my life here, inside this online universe. it taught me a lot of things. you may think, "but it's only a game", well, for me it's always been so much more than that. it played a huge part in my childhood. growing up, i didn't have many friends in the real world. often times i was estranged and i kept to myself. the people i've met in habbo, the friends i've made, are truly some of the most memorable ones i've had.
i created this page to pay tribute to the game that shaped me a great deal; and is probably the reason why i speak english better than my native language. i love this game to bits and even though i no longer play it like i used to, it will always hold a sentimental value.

what is habbo?

habbo is an online virtual world that was created in 2000 by a company called sulake.

how did you learn about habbo?

when i was 8, i would go to computer shops (i didn't have a laptop as a child) as soon as i come home from elementary school and i remember playing flash games and y8 at the time. anyway, i think i saw an ad for habbo. it was the one with a hospital. of course i had to click it. i managed to make my first ever account: levimay (which eventually got deleted during the merge, because i didn't have a proper email address). when that disappeared, i made another account in 2009 and by that time i already had an e-mail address that my childhood friend roxanne helped me create. i introduced the game to the childhood friends that i had at the time, and we did have a grand time playing it for a while... but eventually, they all stopped playing. i, on the other hand, continued logging in everyday.
i was initially interested in the 'roleplaying' aspect of the game. this was when i was 9-11 years old. let me tell you though, there were are a bunch of p*dos on habbo.
i'm not going to get into that because it's going to get weird. anyway, the more i played the more i learned about what else i can do in the game. i started getting into trading. there was even a point when i would list every single furniture i had. i got obsessed in trying to get 'rich'. which, kind of happened, eventually.

and then i got banned for scamming

okay, let me explain myself. first of all i admit to scamming at some point. in my earlier days of playing. i was young and stupid. i'm letting you in on a secret here but this is probably the only bad thing i've done. i've never even stolen a piece of candy at a store.
i remember that the specific reason i was banned, was because i made a scam site. yes. a fucking scam site. one that pretends to be an affiliate of habbo which asks you to log in to get something free so i can get your password and get all your furnis. i did that at 12/13 years old, i even remember using weebly for it. don't worry though, i never really got to use it because no one was stupid enough to fall for that. and i got banned as soon as i gave out the link to some random room.

when i got banned i was devastated. there were tears. this was in 2011, and my life revolved around habbo. i ended up using a throwaway account that became my main account eventually.

(my username is ugly, i know.)


in early 2013 was when i then learned about casinos. (which are already banned, but some players still find their ways. i personally don't think it's worth the trouble anymore since the moderation has gotten too strict starting in 2013.) playing on casinos were probably the most fun i've had on the game. however, it reached a certain point for me that would be considered addictive. i would even spend real money on the game sometimes. i also sold coins which is technically illegal but that was when i 'quit'. of course i never really did quit because i kept coming back after a while.
i only really quit in mid 2015 when i started to have much more of a real social life (i started college).
i still have the same account and still go on it from time to time, but i no longer really play consistently because it just doesn't feel the same as it used to.(and when i stopped playing i realized that habbo is really filled with some sad teenagers or adults who have no social life outside of those pixels and i was one of those people until i wasn't) i do have some really interesting memories and stories, though.

like at one point i was friends with this low key strange girl who turned out to be a somewhat famous youtuber who i didn't know of prior to our mutual habbo friend telling me she accidentally liked his post from her verified account
after the girl had already unfriended me when i mentioned that she looked like **** from ***** which i only saw one video of. i literally didn't know who she was and i didn't understand why she had unfriended me after that conversation but didn't think much of it. then that same night our mutual friend messaged me about the whole thing because she already unfriended him too after her little 'accident'. anyway i guess i understand why but honestly i didn't really care so like ... i was just weirded out. she was always kind of weird and clingy though, i mean she was nice but... kind of uncanny. like the kind that wore boots with her prom dress. yes she did that and she showed me it. said it was 'fashion'. looks good though. i remember she'd send me random photos and videos of her just to 'update' me. i never kept any just in case you were wondering. it was on kik so i lost all data when i changed phones, and i am not creepy like that. weird kid that one, even weirded than me. and i am weiiird.anyway, i don't follow her or update myself with her whereabouts because i feel that's a strange thing to do., but the last time i checked they had 3 million followers(this was in 2015/2016 i can't fully remember. anyway, that's not really the most interesting thing to happen in habbo for me personally but i thought it may be interesting to share.

okay moving on....

i really just wanted to put up screenshots of some of my habbo rooms here. i made these about four/five years ago. the titles(which are song titles, by the way) were renamed once or twice though, just because...