Fantage

According to Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat, Fantage began development after the founders of the game, David Hwang and Peter Bae, created their company in January 2007, and the game was initially an educational math website until they received negative reception from a focus group of kids. A closed beta version of the game was available on October 29, 2007, which granted beta testers full access to features normally available through a paid membership, and the game went open beta on January 1, 2008. The game eventually released on March 17, 2008, where beta testers were gifted with a month of free membership, 1,000 Stars, and exclusive Beta Tester hair items, while new members received two weeks of free membership.

In 2009–2010, Fantage received strategic investments from Nexon. These investments allowed Fantage to hire additional designers and key developers. The resulting site expansion and quality enhancement led to swift growth. In less than four months, from November 2009 to February 2010, Fantage completed the entire site renewal, which involved upgrades of more than thirty mini-games. Within a year, the user base grew from 3 million to 7.7 million registered users.

Within its first few years of launch, Fantage has gained positive reviews, with most of the praise going towards the game's kid-friendly environment. On March 9, 2010, Fantage received the Editor's Choice Award from the Children's Technology Review for excellence in children's interactive media, with the website's review on the game saying: "Fantage, or 'fantastic age' is a responsive, safe and no-fail MMO that resembles Club Penguin back in the good old days." Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat notes that Fantage offers "fun games and social activities in a safe, parent-friendly setting", and how the game developed much more than 200 kid-friendly virtual world games that were then reported of being under development. net by the name of "Alladania" states that the game "has the potential to be more socially involving than games for the younger set but has enough other things going on that a lot of social chit-chat isn't a requirement to have fun."

Jo McClelland of Time has acknowledged the site as one of the best social networks for preteens. Carolina Ribeiro of Portuguese online magazine TechTudo believes the game can be enjoyed by kids while protecting their real identity and appearance with the game's avatars.

A day after Fantage announced their discontinuation, rumors of an attempt to recreate Fantage's environment by creating a private server with the game's files surfaced. This project was then confirmed under the name Fantage Legacy. The project, which promised fan-requested ideas such as all users being given Premium Membership and the absence of in-game currencies other than Stars, gained many support from fans of the original game.

On July 12, 2018, the Fantage Legacy team announced on the project's official blog that the project was being discontinued, due to an e-mail from the official Fantage team that warned them of possible legal action that would accuse the team of Fantage copyright infringement. Despite this, it was also announced that same day that they would be working on a game similar to Fantage (codenamed Plan Z), as the Fantage Legacy team continued posting updates through their blog until May 28, 2019, when they revealed Pixel Park, the successor to Fantage Legacy. The Fantage Legacy website closed on May 31, and Pixel Park eventually launched its public beta on November 28. The first few hours of launch saw 156 users playing the game. The game had features such as clothing, chat, Player Cards, events, and other features.