Thanks for bringing back some of that nostalgia, Devon! Your pictures brought back really funny memories, which include “cc plz,” marching on FM1, and buying and selling stuff on BasilMarket. The game stopped being recognizable once everyone started obsessing over damage and that whole miracle cube thing, but it really drained up a lot of time in my childhood. I distinctly remember that I would wake up at 3 a.m. some days to get into Kerning PQs with people who played from Australia — wrote about it more here, if you’re interested in reading a Maple article too!

MapleStory: The Game That Defined my Childhood