Club Caribe restoration footage - 2024

This video shows the "hatchery" sequence from Club Caribe. Users would create their avatar using the built in character customisation tool and arrive in the welcome room before heading out to the Library. These regions were rebuilt entirely from the video footage that we have of the service.

Club Caribe was an online virtual world service operated by Quantum Link for the Commodore 64. Quantum Link or QLink was the predecessor of AOL/America Online.

Lucasfilm Games was contracted by Quantum Link to build the game for them and it operated in a beta form during development known as Lucasfilm's Habitat.

Habitat was the first ever graphical virtual world and some also refer to it as a proto MMO or the first metaverse. Development began in late 1985 and continued up until May 1988.

Development of Club Caribe didn't involve making any changes to the client or server software beyond a title screen update and some copyright/help text. Instead, regions or rooms from Habitat were taken and heavily modified, with new regions being created instead to provide a different looking world than Habitat.

Club Caribe would see a release the following year and operate all the way up until February 1994.

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Видео Club Caribe restoration footage - 2024 канала StuBlad