*Username
Ivorina
*Your best memory of zOMG
There is so much.. I remember when it first came out. I was sooo excited. Even when I hear the music to this day it is nostalgic to me. I believe it was halloween when it came out? 2008? It was soon after that, that I began to invite my friends to play on that game with me. Boy did we have fun.
We began to develop our own stories about our lives in ZOMG. There was the first time when Ivorina introduced her friends to it. One of the friends didn't realize that the gnomes were evil and was running around panicked trying to escape them. Just in time, before he became dazed, Ivorina's (my) brother appeared and shot the gnomes and saved my friend. In real life, for weeks afterwards he would flinch whenever he saw one in a store or on someone's lawn. Same with the flamingos!!
One of my favorite memories was the first time my brother and I saw a land shark. We laughed so hard as we had died so instantly and there was mass chaos all around us.
I spent a lot of time with my mom and brother on ZOMG. I lived far away in another state so we used it as a way to hang out together and mess around. When I moved away from my friends, we used ZOMG the same way. Sometimes I would literally fall asleep while playing the game. (I actually was quite good at playing it in my sleep though.) My friend would be like, "ARE YOU SLEEPING?" cause he'd see me running into trees and then pausing and not doing anything. hahaha it was great. I beat the Otami Ruins Boss while sleep-playing.
One thing we liked to do was all pick an outfit theme and dress up together on outings. Sometimes we were all jungle people, sometimes pirates, sometimes animals, sometimes mer-people. We were always mer-people when we went to shallow seas.
There was this glitch with Ryn and Lyn (is that how you spell it?) they wouldn't speak to us. We thought we'd never move on but then somehow we found a way to keep progressing in the game anyway! We wrote a story about how the twins were displeased with us and instead of speaking with us, threw us over the cliff side into shallow seas! The man at the light house rescued us and gave us these strange potions that turned us into mer-people. That is how we were able to bypass the "rejection" of Ryn and Lyn and continue our questings in Shallow Seas.
6 years later I got married and invited my husband to play too. It was SO fun to be able to run around with him on there and show him everything. He worked really hard to get to Gold Beach. We were so proud of him when he finally reached level 9. We were about to take him to Shallow Seas.... but now it's gone. I think I am still in denial honestly... He doesn't know yet. I haven't told him. He keeps asking if ZOMG is back yet.