Nexon korea developers Q&A (organized by asf)

Question: What aspires you to create maplestory?

Answer: Maplestory started out as character customizing. We didn't expect the Maplestory today. In 2003 in Korea, there's a game similar to Maplestory but it's in 3D. So we decide to make a 2D version of it.

I would like to know which game it was

also.... dam so much maple posters plushes and things..... I would like to have at least 1 thing of those