Where did Neopets come from?
(Name) Donna: That was my fault I am afraid. Adam and I were bouncing some ideas around, I said Neopets and it stuck. Adam was unconvinced for a while, but overall it didn’t do that badly. Our families were also helping with suggestions, if Adam’s mum had her way Neopets would have been called Coochie Coos 🙂 Who/What was your inspiration during Neopets Creation. Donna: A lot of ideas came from films/tv shows/books/cartoons/games we liked. We just thought of everything that we believed was fun and threw it out there. What did you want Neopets to turn out? Donna: To be completely honest the first few months of Neopets we didn’t have any great aspirations. There weren’t any major entertainment sites on the internet in ’99 so we didn’t have anything to really go by. As we began to see how popular Neopets was becoming we started to realize the potential to create a really dynamic virtual world. I remember we were pretty chuffed when we reached a million players, beyond that it was a bonus!
