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tnw said:
I noticed that too.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5465282#post5465282
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5429501#post5429501
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5418478#post5418478
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5326024#post5326024
These are just from the first page of his posts.
MetalAlien
Banned
either a link on usenet or a post on the old NGO forums... At the time (1997-98) I remember talking to The Hand on usenet, and within a short time I was posting here as well... when NGO died, I posted here quite a bit.
Been so long, I believe I found it when I first got the internet in my extremely rural area.
I lurked for years and years, worried that I wouldn't have the time to add anything useful* to most of the threads. Finally applied, never got in.
Applied again a year later, never got in.
Applied one last time, got accepted.
*As of 12:30am EST Feb 1st 2007, still have yet to add anything useful to most threads.
I lurked for years and years, worried that I wouldn't have the time to add anything useful* to most of the threads. Finally applied, never got in.
Applied again a year later, never got in.
Applied one last time, got accepted.
*As of 12:30am EST Feb 1st 2007, still have yet to add anything useful to most threads.
Back when psx2online.com joined with ukgamers to form the lovable abortion known as spinned.com, there was some cross-pollination with GA people which included Alucard, who got stiffed on a Dreamcast. At least I think it had something to do with that. I do know that as spinned died, I read GAF more and more.
Teknopathetic
Member
Linked via Dimension-S, a Sega fansite board around feb. 2000.
Diablohead
Member
It's one of those websites I use to hear about alot from online friends, decided to check it out and just browsed every few days for a good year, signed up a while ago and never looked back for gaming news.
Der Kommisar
Banned
Someone on cloudchaser/xengamers told me about it.
The Interrobanger
Member
I honestly can't remember. I'm pretty sure it was either from a DC website or Nintendorks back in the day. I think I've only ever had 2 names throughout the years, yet I lurked a hell of a lot back in the golden days.
I used to lurk/post on the www.psx2central.com forums way back around 2000-2001. They kept linking here for news and discussions and eventually I just decided to go straight to the source. I lurked for a long while here, then I tried to register when the forums were made for users only but the goddamned registration took so long that I more or less forgot about it completely.
Eventually the forum stopped became open again and I came back and some time later I randomly tried to log in and was suprised to find my registration had finaly gone through.
Eventually the forum stopped became open again and I came back and some time later I randomly tried to log in and was suprised to find my registration had finaly gone through.
Nameless
Member
Well, the main GA parge used to be a constant my daily rotation of gaming sites I read, so I visited the forums every now and then from ther, but not often . I was a regular poster on Cloudchaser/XG when I really took notice of GAF, as so many news threads would link to here. I lurked here for the news for 3-4 years before I started to post regularly.
Someone over at Digital Press mentioned this place a long time ago and said not to come here because y'all were idiots.
So I came over to check it out and decided to stay with you idio--er really nice people.
Seriously though, DP used to be my stomping ground after I left AtariAge. Now I'm here and rarely visit DP. And only AA once in a while. And I don't mean Alcoholics Anonymous.
So I came over to check it out and decided to stay with you idio--er really nice people.
Seriously though, DP used to be my stomping ground after I left AtariAge. Now I'm here and rarely visit DP. And only AA once in a while. And I don't mean Alcoholics Anonymous.
Manmademan
Member
I was looking for gamesarefun.com, and took a wrong turn
Bored in the summer of '99, I was on a kick of reading the letters section of The GIA, but that wasn't getting updated frequently enough to hold my interest. I started looking for other video game websites that did the same thing and came across gaming-age.com. They had some good stuff there, but then I noticed their forum section. Instantly hooked. Lurked all summer and finally joined up in September 1999.
I don't remember when exactly I started browsing. Though, I've seen a couple incarnations of the forums IIRC ... I was registered when it was on ezboard (?). At the very least, I was lurking heavily. If someone could put a year on that, it'd be nice. I'm guessing around 2001-2002ish.
I was pointed here by some ... special IGN people. They talked about how fast it got news and that it wasn't filled with complete idiots. So, I started browsing. I was actually registered for a good while without ever posting too (IIRC, there was a time when guests couldn't browse).
I was pointed here by some ... special IGN people. They talked about how fast it got news and that it wasn't filled with complete idiots. So, I started browsing. I was actually registered for a good while without ever posting too (IIRC, there was a time when guests couldn't browse).
During my search for some E3 news(98 I believe) I found Gaming-age.com's E3 writeup that gave 'worst of show' award to DK64. I registered to complain that I was sure there must have been some Power Rangers crap that would have been much worse. Then I didn't post at all for a few months. Pretty sure I came back for some more Nintendo defense after that and then stuck around. Man I was such a Nbot back then..
Good times good times.
Good times good times.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Well, I was a regular over at the hardcoregaming message board back when it was GAF's "rival" so to speak (even became a so-called editor at one point though I was lazy about it). I lurked here for a bit, hit it off with Darkshire back when he was mod and made this my permanent place of political bitching.
There's a few (former?) HG heads that post here--Cahill chimes in over at the gaming side every now and then, Border was an editor there, and I think this Shinobi is the same one I used to see over there as well.
There's a few (former?) HG heads that post here--Cahill chimes in over at the gaming side every now and then, Border was an editor there, and I think this Shinobi is the same one I used to see over there as well.
Back in 1999 Matt Cassamassina (if that's how you spell his name) linked here from one of his mailbags on ign64.com. I came, saw that this place got the gaming news faster than anywhere on the net and the [OT] posts were mixed in with the videogame posts (like dogs living with cats), but it worked. Registered pretty much right away, lurked for a looooong time, posting sporadically, then just started posting whenever I felt like it. Man, it's been too long. I shudder to think of the time that I've spent here.
WHOAguitarninja
Member
I found it through a dreamcast.net poster named Mugthis(who also posts/posted) here around 1999 or so.
Infinitemadness
Member
I stumbled while searching for a new game site for news. Found gaming-age read a bit here and there and forgot about it for a while. Then, Sony was going to announce the official PlayStation 2 name. I think Gaming-age.com "Broke" the news that it was going to be called "PlayStation Wonderful". I then clicked the forum link to see who else was laughing at this bogus news. Been mostly lurking since.
UpperCaseN
Member
a friend recommended it to me. I've only been a member for a few months now
platypotamus
Member
You basically can't work in game development in America getting linked to GAF on a frequent basis.
blame space
Banned
It was during one of the somethingtons when speculation on the Revolution was at an all-time high. I think 4CR linked me here.
I used to post on the-magicbox forums until it started to turn into childish flame wars on a daily basis. Often times they would use GAF as sources, and finally sweedishrodeo convinced me to get on GAF. I lurked for a couple of months, and didn't post much when I first joined. I guess E3 06 was when I broke away from junior status as I started to post regularly then.
I used to go to some other gaming-tech forum (N2000 something? I don't remember) with characters like "Jason" and "Deadmeat" and then little by little some plp of that forum migrated to GAF--it was like 2 years before the "Dolphin Cove"...that's all that I could remember. Most of those techy plp moved onward to Beyond3D, this I know.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
People posting links and etc from GAF on other forums. I followed the links and got sucked into this abyss.
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