Random Saturday Ep 37: History of Club Geoz

Hey ya'll! It's Shade, with your latest Random Saturday post, diving into the history of Club Geoz! For all those newer jammers out there, Club Geoz used to be a sight in Jamaa Township before Alpha Headquarters was ever a thing. 

From the beta days in 2010 to October 2017,  Club Geoz was accessible for the many different types of jammers looking for a party. Jammers could also go in there to play games like Spider Zapper and Phantom Fighter next to the entrance below, as well as take pictures in the photo booth. 

In it's early days, Club Geoz was originally located where Jam Mart Clothing is today, where the interior was flipped, with the door being on the other side of the room, to match up with the outside of the building. Jam Mart, originally was in Club Geoz's spot (as seen below) before they switched places after the beta. 

For a short time, the dance club remained a members only room, until it was changed for all jammers in enjoy shortly afterward. 

And from then on, it remained, growing smaller after the diamond shop came into the game. Around this time and even before, Club Geoz was growing less and less popular as a place for jammers to visit. Most of the times I had been in the room, the room was often seen as empty with only a few jammers visiting it, if at all.

Nevertheless, Club Geoz was introduced during the Play Wild beta, both through the actual building and the Dance Party, one of the first parties on Play Wild. 

Comparing the Dance Party to Geoz, as seen, the two have very little differences in their interior. While the Dance Party seemed lively and lit up, Club Geoz was lesser that way.

Even in Play Wild, Club Geoz seemed to get the same treatment as it did on Animal Jam, and the dance club mostly sat alone and forgotten. It was only a few years later, when WildWorks finally decided that Geoz was on it's last straw, and decided to get rid of it for good. The weeks up to Oct 12, 2017, the Jamaa Journal introduced a mysterious phenomenon called the lines of power both in Play Wild and Animal Jam. The lines of power seemed to come out of nowhere, theories coming up of maybe the phantoms trying to destroy Jamaa with these lines. And when the 12th came around, Club Geoz was discovered to be gone for good.

For a couple of weeks, Club Geoz remained in this state, at one point, a secret shop appearing that gave jammers access to buying the Club Geoz Headphones. AJHQ, hinted that this destruction of the dance club could've been from something sinister but players who wanted to know answers never found out what really happened that day. And soon enough, Club Geoz was replaced with Alpha Headquarters only a couple of weeks later. 

The Alpha Headquarters was a proven success, a way more popular room than Club Geoz ever really was. It was unfortunate loosing such a big part of Animal Jam history, but ultimately it was something that was going to happen sooner or later due to it's decrease in popularity. Today, Club Geoz lives on, in both the Play Wild Dance Party, as well as the Club Geoz Playset, part of Animal Jam's deal with Jazwares. The Club Geoz music can even be redeemed from a code that comes with the set. 

Club Geoz is an important part of Animal Jam's history and it showed how much the game grew over the years. Even after it's been gone for some many years, Club Geoz still continues to make an impact in the game, from the different items related to it, to the Dance Party in Play Wild.