When JJ2 was first released in 1998, I found it in a store, and not even knowing that there had been a sequel to the first Jazz Jackrabbit, I wanted to have it. I had played Jazz Jackrabbit shareware since I was 4 years old on our old Windows 3.1 computer. Unfortunately I was poor, and didn't get it until 1999.

During this time, maybe some of you remember a service named Won.net supporting JJ2 multiplayer. Well me being ignorant of any listserver patches, and not knowing why I couldn't connect to them, found this site advertised on the box, so I went there. What I didn't know at the time was this service ignored passwords and allowed you to connect to any server. Even now I remember the name of the server, which was "Oldbies Only". I joined, and somehow I remember it being on one of ICEM@N's levels. I remember ICEM@N being the host, and Bartman and IceWing also being in the server. Then I remember everyone screaming HACKER BAN, and I ended up getting banned. I was pretty confused I'll admit.

Next, I joined a server called UR Tryouts. I joined this server and met a guy named URJazz, who was really cool to me, and after I did a test allowed me into the clan UR. I remember he helped me with making my first level and always gave me advice. I ended up getting into playing Duke3D online with this guy as well. URJazz had a hotel for UR called goldwood. I loved the atmosphere of this level. Something about JJ2 made me extremely happy, just how everything flowed together so well. The graphics, the music, the people. Everything was so amazing. I could name so many names of random, seemingly insignificant people who I spent so much time talking to. I didn't really have any friends in real life, I was homeschooled and had just moved to Florida.

The first hotel I ever saw was the A5 hotel by FalconA5. There was just something about this hotel, as crappy as it really is that I loved to death. The music, I think bonus3, made me happy. I met a guy named Overlord who had a moderately complex level in which you got to a certain part gave you a link to his website, Stronghold: Jazz. Here, as a reward, you could download a tool called overlord.exe, which let you open any level in JCS whether you had a password or not.

I met CraccoBoy and joined CC. I loved the Cracco Land of Coin levels, I seriously thought they were the coolest things ever created. I joined TEC. I was the element Power, woo! I loved the TEC hotel as well. I thought it was pretty crazy when they started adding elements like the pokemon Marril though, that's when it was obvious we were running out of elements. I created my own clan, NB. My co-leader was Crazy Rabbit/Crazy R, who made a tileset and hotel for it. We had a LOT of people in it. And I mean a freakin' LOT of people. My recruiting strategy was something like daily going into the many populated servers and spamming, "anyone wanna join nb??" And honestly, all I did was play JJ2, post on the JMMB, and make pathetic stuff in JCS. I still had fun though. I loved the atmosphere.

I seriously miss all the feelings I got from playing JJ2. I really wish everyone who used to play would just come back. But from the way it's looking, everyone's just grown up and stopped it all. Me, I'm basically lost. I feel like the biggest loser with no sense of direction. I feel like I can't do anything, probably because I live with my dad who hasn't had a job since 2000. It's really hard to believe that 9 years later I'm 18 and still in the same community. 9 years ago. It was half my life ago I began playing JJ2. And I was 4 when I first started playing Jazz Jackrabbit Episode 1. That's 14 years ago I started playing Jazz Jackrabbit. I'm a complete loser, and maybe I always will be due to the fact that I feel like I'm literally mentally retarded and unable to do anything worthwhile. But still, this game has always had an amazing atmosphere and made me feel good, even when I was 4. That's something not many games manage to do.

The one other game that I feel does surpass this in atmosphere is called Little Big Adventure 1/Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure. That game, which I've played since I was 4 as well, gives me the same amazing memories as Jazz Jackrabbti does. I'll write more about this later, I'm going to sleep now.

Random paragraphyfying by yours truly