Club Penguin

Club Penguin, commonly abbreviated as CP , is a Chat Room designed known as penguins for kids (but it's open for all ages) that was developed by New Horizon Interactive. Using cartoon penguin avatars, players can chat, play mini games, and participate in other activities with one another in a snow-covered virtual world. Club Penguin was first made available to the public on October 24, 2005 on 12:00 PM (Penguin Standard Time) and has since then expanded into a large online community. Club Penguin shares similarities with other popular browser-based online environments such as RuneScape and Habbo Hotel. It has been qualified for the Better Business Bureau - Kid's Privacy Seal of Approval. Club Penguin was also awarded the "Editor's Choice" award from Children's Technology Review Magazine.

Logo
Though most of the game can be played for free, some of features are not available unless a membership is purchased. These features include: upgrading and buying things for your personal igloo, buying clothes, hats,accessories for your penguin,wigs, Card Jitsu Fire, Water, and access to special party rooms.

Toys
Club Penguin has sold many merchandise such as stuffed plush penguins, and stuffed puffles, mix and match figures (in which head, body, some items, and lower parts of a penguin come off to mix with another set or another penguin in the same set) and Card-Jitsu cards; including Card-Jitsu Fire and Water cards.

These toys can be bought at many stores worldwide, but are most notably found at Toys 'R' Us.

Books
Ten books, such as "The Ultimate Official Club Penguin Guide Volume 1","The Official Stage Playbook","Secret Agent Handbook", "Stowaway! Adventures at Sea" and "Waddle Lot of Laughs",The Great Puffle Switch,Dancing with Cadence,Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal:Heroes Unite,and Stuck on Puffles are all created by the Snowball Press also known as Club Penguin Headquarters.

Games
Club Penguin has 3 games available in stores - 2 on Nintendo DS and 1 on Nintendo Wii. These games are as follows:


 * Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force for DS,
 * Club Penguin: Herbert's Revenge also for DS,
 * Club Penguin: Game Day for Wii.

Sites supporting Club Penguin
Club Penguin can be played via six different websites:


 * ClubPenguin.com
 * Miniclip.com
 * Disney.com
 * WildTangent Orb
 * AGame

Languages
Club Penguin is currently available in 5 languages.
 * English (American)
 * Espanol
 * French
 * German
 * Portuguese

Achievements
These are the achievements which Club Penguin achieved.
 * 2009 Webby Awards
 * Wired Kids- Best of the Web Award 2009
 * Parents Choice Recommended- Gold Award- 2008
 * Children's Technology Review- Editor's Choice
 * N.A.P.P.A. Gold 2008
 * Kidspot- Best of 2008
 * Entertainment Standard of Excellence- WebAwards- 2009
 * BAFTA Awards- Nominee
 * Better Business Bureau- 2008 Torch Award
 * TRUSTe
 * ESRB Rating- E for Everyone

Trivia

 * Club Penguin's Business Number is 1-888-861-4111. Only call if you have any serious questions or if you want to unban your penguin that had been banned forever (lots of users have successfully accomplished this before).
 * Club Penguin originally came out in 2005.
 * Club Penguin was created in 2000, as Experimental Penguins, but since the team was still working on the virtual world, it was released in 2005.
 * When Disney bought Club Penguin they changed the logo by putting the Disney logo above it.*
 * Club Penguin had 3 logos. The logos are (Old CP (2005-2007) (2007-2010 the one at the home page. 2011-??? The logo in the Cp short called Never Wake a Sleeping Sensei!

Sources and References
|http://Disney.com