An Introspection Into Roblox Nostalgic Games

As many of you may already know, Roblox is a gaming platform with many adventurous experiences that a person can play. These experiences teach many valuable lessons that every person should know. However, a lot of the experiences that teach these lessons are from a past time and so people of the younger generation would never understand the meaning of Roblox without understanding the experiences that shaped it.

During its youth and early development stages, there were many games (now known as “Experiences”) that were very popular because they were probably good back then. There were many Robloxian classics in the old but not ‘proto-robloxian days, such as 2003-every year before 2016, which were very old’ days, such as Natural Disaster Survival, MeepCity, and many other Roblox games. Natural disaster survival was a very popular classic that had you and a bunch of other roeblockianites surviving a lot of natural disasters, which was very scary because the natural disasters were very strong.

However Natural disaster survival is really not a disaster culturally to Roblox because the creation of MeepCity was the real deal. MeepCity was a very popular Roblox game that took place in some kinda city, and you had these meeps. MeepCity had a variety of cool and fun activities to do, like fishing, playing the piano, and other things that all took the form of entertaining minigames for players to play. There was also a racing minigame known as starball and you could make pizzas in another minigame. Another very popular thing that happened in Meep City is a lot of parties in-game due to the number of people present and how many meeps were in Meep City. Even though it experienced some drama and mishaps, Meepcity kept living after whatever drama it had faded away, and the future looked optimistic. And the ice cream minigame was pretty cool.

Contrary to popular belief, there were actually more than 2 classic popular Roblox games, with another one being Flood Escape. The premise of the game is very easy to guess because the name spells it out. There is a flood of water, and you need to escape it by going through many rooms, jumping a lot, and pressing a button here and there. The idea of flood escape is that of a great but also hectic and intense journey across many rooms filled with intense parkour, which overall made the experience very cool. In practice, it was exactly that because you had to escape a lot of floods promptly to avoid becoming… water food. The idea of Flood Escape’s creator, CrazyBlox, is that he is a creative genius who managed to forever shift the landscape of Roblox by releasing his magnum opus for the world to see. After the flood escape, CrazyBlox made a lot of Robux (Roblox’s dollar), CrazyBlox released a sequel to the game, which also made him a lot of Robux and was really just the first game, but better. Though both Meep City and Flood escaped being lost to the battle of relevancy over time, they now have fewer than 1000 concurrent players at any given time.

Lastly, to top off the Robloxian classics are 2 experiences which have also been massacred by the inescapable forces known as “time and change”. The first of these is an OLD game named “Bake a Cake”. Just like Flood Escape, the premise of this game is exactly like the title. The process for baking a cake is quite different in this game compared to baking a cake in real life. In Bake a Cake, the journey began with a conveyor belt of dough, and you had to put it through several stations until finally you got to pick out the flavour/icing and then feed it to the giant noob. You would generally repeat this process over and over again until you either got bored or realized there was a shop where you could spend the points you got from feeding the giant noob. Bake a Cake tried to avoid falling into obscurity and nostalgia, but as previously established, no game is safe from time. The second Robloxian classic and the last to be covered in this literary work of analysis is “Elemental Battlegrounds”. This is going to be a real shocker, but the gameplay matches that of the title. You have to pick from an assortment of elemental powers and then battle other players using your powers to get money. The money could then be used to get new and cool elemental powers. Elemental powers could also be combined with other elemental powers to make stronger elemental powers, making competitions easier. This game became the first to popularize the battling genre, and many future games would be inspired by it. This game was actually loosely based on the infighting between Beatles legend John Lennon and his wife, which led him to get with his awesome wife, Yoko Ono. I believe this game was popular because conflict and competition are parts of intrinsic human nature, and battle games such as Elemental Battlegrounds were stages for these parts of human nature to come to life. The average Battlegrounds hater would not understand the method behind the joy of friendly competition until, of course, they experience it themselves. Elemental Battlegrounds is truly a creation of human nature and its ultimate implementation, and can very well be considered the root of the battlegrounds genre on Roblox.

In conclusion, Roblox is a quirky and odd collection of communities and experiences that demonstrate so many things and lessons. Each game tells a story about something that can happen in real life. MeepCity is all about living a fun and happy life until a computer hacker makes you lose all your friends and people you know, Flood Escape tells you to escape when there is a flood, Bake a Cake teaches you to create cakes using massive machinery and then using said cakes to feed yourself and a giant, and lastly Elemental Battlegrounds teaches you the creativity of superpowers. All of these games work together to teach us lessons that are important in life, such as we must all fight to free Don Lemon.

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