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Through a Dutch forum back in the day. Lurked since I signed up a couple months after the migration.

 

[ShirAhava]

I would yahoo search (it was 2004-5) video game topics and I noticed a certain forum kept coming up with decent information/opinions so I bookmarked it and would read and lurk until 2007 (I was drafted into the "sony defense force" SDF) so I signed up to support the war effort but it was during the time of those super long waiting periods to become a member so I couldn't actually start posting until 2008.

Fun fact I knew a certain 'you will be judged' mod IRL and worked retail with this person for a while but they had no clue I ever posted here XD

 

[Soodanim]

Heard about it, most likely on there GameFAQs/Gamespot boards. Then I lurked for years because of the email restriction, then never went into OT because that's where people went to get banned.

 

[Sub_Level]

Kept getting linked to it on Gamefaqs for various news and rumors.

 

[Spyxos]

I heard about Neogaf in a podcast over 10 years ago.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Came across it when looking for a way to get the "Don't get cocky, kid" achievement in Dead Space in 2008 and people were discussing it on GAF.

Later joined because my homie told me it was the best place on the Internet to talk about games and avoid 13 year old.

 

[John Bilbo]

Through a friend.

 

[Azelover]

That was waaaay back.

But I remember. There was this site called Gaming Age. It was just a normal website about gaming. And it had a forum, which is now known as Neogaf. Back then it was just called the Gaming Age Forum.

I hope that answers the question.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

A guy wearing a trench coat pulled me into a dark alleyway, said ‘you like console wars?’ and started showing me some Gaf threads. I was hooked

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Gaming age and other forums got tossed around Videogames.com/Gamespot quite a bit. I lurked nearly from the beginning and much like a lot of things that just take time, I registered later to start taking part in the discussions and recall lurking even when I was already approved.

 

[BossLackey]

When IGN's boards started to go to shit like a decade ago, my friend told me about GAF and I've been here ever since.

Did a stint in the mind prison that is the purple place. It was awful.

 

[hullostranger]

Lurked since the OG 360 and PS3 reveal threads. Loved the energy of the place and decided to make it official shortly thereafter!

 

[xrnzaaas]

Damn, that was over a decade ago. I think I was just searching for a gaming forum after a much smaller one I was a part of fell apart. I admit it was a pain to wait that long for my registration to be verified, almost forgot about it.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[Puscifer]

Some years ago some dude was found out to be a gay pornstar and made a thread to confirm it. I finally signed up when I realized I got bored of every other websites sense of discussion, there's so much more appreciated nuanced takes here that I legit laugh that people say this place is heavily left less leaning.

 

[Celcius]

The "Post Your Gaming Pickups" and "Post Your Gaming Setup" threads are what brought me to NeoGaf.

 

[TheDreadBaron]

I think I just googled video games forum and then lurked for years

 

[SEGAvangelist]

June will be 20 years for me. Used to be on a forum called Dreamcast Technical Pages and when that shut down, many of us moved over here.

I too came from this wonderful place.

 

[Vyse]

I too came from this wonderful place.

Those were some great days my friend!

 

[SaniOYOYOY]

One of those ff versus thread on 2011.
Aaah the game that never was

 

[clem84]

This thread is super interesting.

Dennis Dyack meltdown.

Same.

My journey was as follows.
- I used to discuss videogames in the NNTP newsgroups in the late 90s. '97-2000
- discovered the IGN boards in around 2000.
- frequented the IGN boards and Beyond3D for a few years up until the Dennis Dyack fiasco.
- Signed up for NeoGAF shortly afterwards.

 

[NightmareFarm]

I've knew about it longer than I can remember since its such a popular gaming forum.

In 2022 I got bored of VGR because it's too inactive and signed up here.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

When Demon's Souls hit Japan and GAF was the only message board that shared my enthusiasm for it.

 

[Carton]

I was on some Dreamcast forum and somehow ended up on the original GAF in '99 or 2000.

It wasn‘t the Australian ‘Official Dreamcast Web Forum” (ODWF) by chance, was it? That’s where I heard about it; it was also frequently mentioned on an another, now defunct, Aussie forum called PlayNow. I started lurking as a non-member and had never known a forum to move so fast, then I joined a few years later.

 

[Lord Panda]

It was via a mate of mine who used to relay shit he had read on GAF way back when, to our Skype group.

He used to be a fairly active member here too but then had a falling out with one of the mods or something, and he left the site.

GAF was a far different place back then... and it's far better now.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

At first bland but with enough salt pretty tasty to get your teeth into.

 

[Porcile]

Dragon Quest 9 DS announcement thread. It was linked on some now I presume long gone Nintendo fansite back then. Cube Europe or something like that. That was 2006? Damn.

 

[Auto_aim1]

In 2007 Gaf was the place to be on the net if you were into gaming. I remember I lurked till 2009 before signing up and it took 1 year for the acc to be approved lol. I remember a lot of old posters like Dragona etc.

 

[hybrid_birth]

I googled hot girls that want sex and neogaf came up.

 

[Coconutt]

Use to watch a Lets Play channel on youtube called Two Best Friends Play where they would occasionally bring up Neogaf and looked it up myself after.

 

[nush]

I googled hot girls that want sex and neogaf came up.

Evilores SEO is on point.