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I used to post on a Metroid fansite called Samus.co.uk back when the Prime games were coming out. Everyone coming up with new ways to sequence break and speed run the games, it was good times.

I posted on Penny Arcade and Something Awful for a whole too, before making my way here, to the promised land.
 
Also, to put my two cents in, I used to post on a forum called Gamezville. It was for the community belonging to an old UK TV show on Sky One about videogames. The show itself was pretty diabolical but the forum/community itself was pretty great. The forum closed when the show got cancelled but a few hundred members made the migration to a spin-off forum set up by themselves.
 
GameWinners was my first one but I found it so big and bloated and the lack of images also made it quite limited (hell they didn't have avatars and yet you could have massive text based signatures with glowing text and a million smilies). Someone on there told me to check out this other small community board called Q's Laboratory which was primarily a Nintendo board with a bit of focus on some of FPSs like GoldenEye and eventually Time Splitters 2. Admin got bored of it and eventually closed it but his friend open up his own forum and everyone migrated there. That went through loads of name changes as the owner seemed to come up with a new idea of what the site was every year. First it was Q'sLabs 2.0 but eventually he made it his own thing with more focus on digital art. This would be the place that got me into basic photoshopping, or at the time paint shop proing. I think the last name it had before I drifted off was Valice.

Then I start jumping on random boards, making a few posts and then leaving because I wasn't feeling it from Zelda to general gaming boards. There was even a brief period where I joined a JPop place despite not even listening to the stuff because a friend was on there and we thought it would be fun to take the mick out of someone with me as the fall guy. Teenager eh.

Eventually I ended up on some site that I don't even know if I dare mention by name because you all may judge me negatively for it. ;) It's a popular board where avatars are dress up dolls. I never really cared for investing in the avatar off making use of the cheaper items, I just found a few people on the gaming board fun to talk with. Eventually it introduced their equivalent of the community boards and we all migrated to our own little place away from the main board. There was a period where I used to be really elitist and backseat mod everyone in an effort to improve the quality of the board but it was a losing battle and eventually I gave up on that. The post for gold aspect of it just lead to meaningless spam and the mods in charge of that board basically had too much on their plate to really bother with the small things. Didn't even have proper |OT| policies in place so you'd have loads of "official" Zelda threads for no reason and the same threads about the same mundane things everyday because no one used search. Who would win Link or Cloud?

Then I found 4chan and spent a good deal of years there until I eventually realised what I should have realised long ago, those who made it fun have long gone and now it's full of kids trying to hard to be edgy. Less the mature acting immature and just the immature being plebs.
 
BGBW said:
Eventually I ended up on some site that I don't even know if I dare mention by name because you all may judge me negatively for it. ;) It's a popular board where avatars are dress up dolls. I never really cared for investing in the avatar off making use of the cheaper items, I just found a few people on the gaming board fun to talk with. Eventually it introduced their equivalent of the community boards and we all migrated to our own little place away from the main board. There was a period where I used to be really elitist and backseat mod everyone in an effort to improve the quality of the board but it was a losing battle and eventually I gave up on that. The post for gold aspect of it just lead to meaningless spam and the mods in charge of that board basically had too much on their plate to really bother with the small things. Didn't even have proper |OT| policies in place so you'd have loads of "official" Zelda threads for no reason and the same threads about the same mundane things everyday because no one used search. Who would win Link or Cloud?
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Gaia something?
 
Gamespot system wars... It was fun , even though a bit intellectualy empty. They used to have names for all the different fanboys: Cow(PS), Lemming(Xbox), Sheep(Nintendo ), Hermits( PC ). Was fun reading all the troll posts. Eventually found out that they all used GAF as a source, signed up, and here we are.
 
I think Gametrailers was my first official forum experience, but I used to lurk on the official Zoo Tycoon forums. Now, my only forums are this one and an architecture and urbanity forum.
 
GamingSteve.com, it was an awesome gaming podcast with quite a big forum, which had a huge Spore section in the 2/3 years before release. Then Steve went MIA and the community slowly fizzled away. Just a small core of users is still active.
 
BGBW said:
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I posted there for a bit. But for several years after I stopped I would get e-mails from people wanting to buy some item or piece of clothing I had on my avatar. They all wanted the same thing but I don't remember what it was. Must have been rare.
 
I posted on the official Italian Nintendo Forum before it went down. Some members from there then founded a new forum and I'm still kinda active on there.

The admin and most of the mods there are pretty much the most ridiculous fanboys ever but there's some other cool people so I'm sticking around.
Derpstar said:
I used to post here:
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Honestly, it was pretty terrible. Filled with weebs and Sony wankers.
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i'd join that anti-kingdom hearts forum
 
Was a fairly regular poster on the Shiningforcecentral forums back in the day, probably ending around the time the English translation patch was pretty much done.

It was a nice enough place, and you certainly can't fault their dedication. It just got a bit boring talking over the same damn topics year in year out, so I stopped going there.

It was also the first place I ever encountered (or even heard of) furries. There was some dude who was madly obsessed with the healer from Shining Force III Scenario 1, for about the first year or two I just assumed it was some kind of "in-character" humour so I found it amusing.

Ahh the days when the internet still had the power to shock me.
 
Brian Fellows said:
I posted there for a bit. But for several years after I stopped I would get e-mails from people wanting to buy some item or piece of clothing I had on my avatar. They all wanted the same thing but I don't remember what it was. Must have been rare.
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I think all my emails go to my old email account that I never check. But I tended to go for more down to earth common things. Never bothered donating to the site, or as I called it "paying for pixels" to get those monthly items people scrabbled over.

I probably wouldn't have stuck around if it wasn't for the fact I ended up with a group a quite cool posters early on. But the weird thing is it was one of the first boards I found that allowed swearing so I did see it as quite a mature board when I first came across it. In fact I did once go to an offline meet and one of the people I met on it all the way back then was older than I am now so there were some adults in there amongst the children.
 
the-magibcox.com's forums. I posted there for years. The community became incredibly clique-ish and insufferable.

The website itself was a cut-and-dry feed of upcoming previews from Japanese games, yet the entire forum was heavily in favor of western-developed games and riddled with "PC only!" elitism.
 
I used to hang out in the gaming section at Newsarama.com, until Smash Bros Brawl came out and someone pointed me at GAF.
 
Cosmo Clock 21 said:
Also used to post on FESS and I know some of you are on GAF. I see you.
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That took less time than expected...I almost want to say which FESS but then I forget exactly how many iterations there were...

So for a quick run-down of other places:
Zelda Forever -- Fairly small Zelda community that came and went fairly quickly (owner didn't pay bills, I remember it was my first encounter with an enthusiastic Earthbound fan named Mr.Saturn).
NOE official forums -- I should have done better. I liked the profanity filter that led to ho-oh becoming **-oh. Its like Cafagorious only years ahead of its time (or however it spelt, the Pokemon you have to nickname to trade as fag activates the profanity filter). The whole security glitch of "if you linked to a post anyone who clicked the link was now you" (so could use you Club Nintendo points etc) gave them reason to shut it down (there was no moderation really and there other bugs like extremely long posts would break the thread).
Codejunkies -- Action replay cheat cartridge forums (I also lurked the other action replay sites on the web)
Sonic 2 beta -- This seemed like a sane part of the Sonic fandom...well I say that then I remember the Rockman (not Mega Man, Rockman) obsessed Sonic Sue who pretty much spent every waking (and not so wake) hour on the site until one day they left.

Those last two I was interested in for features that did not make into completed games or other things that are hidden beneath the surface.
 
Ein Bear said:
I used to post on a Metroid fansite called Samus.co.uk back when the Prime games were coming out. Everyone coming up with new ways to sequence break and speed run the games, it was good times.

I posted on Penny Arcade and Something Awful for a whole too, before making my way here, to the promised land.
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SA is better than either PA or GAF tho
 
The Shizz Minibosses forum - I still lurk there from time to time, but this is where I really got into video game message boards.

IGN - I quite enjoyed them about 8 years ago, especially when they had the podcast forum, which was just in its infancy.
 
ShironRedshift said:
Was on Serebii, BMGf, and Smogon, but don't really visit any of those anymore.

Still active on the TheSpeedGamers community forums, though.
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I remember when Serebii first got forums. So very long ago, talked to the guy regularly in the chat he had set up, probably annoyed the shit out of him as I was a little kid.
 
Nintendo Nsider
Nintendo Nsider2
Haddaway forums
Then another forum that had some members of Nsider 2, I forget the name at the moment.
 
Scrow said:
Not smaller, but I spent a lot of time on the IGN forums for a while. Username was Weatherwax.

Was also on the PALGN forums and site that branched off from Australian Nintendo sub-forum on IGN. I was one of the very early founding members, did some designery/flash stuff. Quickly fell away from it though.

Had a brief stint on Opa-Ages too. Who can forget r.eirom? AM CRY!
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Haha, I found myself thinking of the KING OF ROMS recently for some reason, I think I had seen screenshots of Garou.

I was on the UKR forums prior to the various incarnations of this.
 
I know it's not small, but I was a mod on IGNs forums for a while. Then a bunch of us old timers felt we weren't represented so a couple of them created veterangamers.com It's gone now.
 
Modojo was one, in fact I think that was were I first heard complaining about GAF so I came to see what all the fuss was about. I think it was called something else before that though when I first started posting there. Can't remember the name now.
 
EvolvedOnline, KessNet, IlluminedGaming, LandOfBob, and I guess GameFAQs (which isn't all that small, or wasn't circa 2002-2005) were all forums I used to post. They're all defunct now, besides GameFAQs. Oh, also the Nintendo NSider forums, but those closed down around 2007 I believe.
 
Never posted on dedicated gaming forums before, but a lot of forums i used to go to had gaming sub sections
 
My first exposure to forums is a site called Square-Underground. I came across it when I was searching cross the internet for info on whether FF9 was ever going to come to PC. Then I used its less successful alt, Ultima-Destiny, when that shut down. I didn't like the new set of members so I took a break from forums. Now I'm here.
 
First gaming site I posted on with any regularity was probably Gamefaqs circa 2000. Lowest common denominator for sure, but I found that lower-traffic boards for niche games and systems often had a pretty good signal to noise ratio, all things considered.

The place I hung out on the most before registering on GAF was Penny-Arcade. Moderator cliques, forum politics, and an ever increasing "no fun allowed" atmosphere drove me out of there.
 
- Thegamecreators (the company that made DarkBASIC and FPS creator, lol. There were some pretty nice people there, actually)
- CD-Action (biggest Polish gaming mag. Still frequent, mostly anime and music subforums and their unofficial IRC channel)
- PSX Extreme (another Polish gaming mag's forum. Still frequent, pretty loose compared to other official forums)
- PS3site (found them when I got my PS3 - when the owner tried to sell it, there was an exodus of some of the regulars. I was still active for a while, but later left as well. In the end, PSX Extreme bought them)
- PS3team/PlaystationTeam (that's where the people who left PS3site went)
- Krokmania (Polish Stepmania/general music games community, pretty much dead these days. :-/)
- frets.pl (local Frets On Fire site. Got a mod there, but admin closed down the site without telling anybody)
- Project-iM@S (yes, iDOLM@STER)

Used to be registered on Scorehero/Rock Band forums/Frets On Fire fan forum/official PS forums (found a pretty solid team for the MAG beta there) but wasn't really much of a member.

I guess this is most of the gaming forums I was in.
 
I posted on a variety of Chao forums before migrating to The Sonic Stadium. Then I grew some balls, played Minecraft and posted on the forums for a while, and now I'm here.
 
slit said:
Modojo was one, in fact I think that was were I first heard complaining about GAF so I came to see what all the fuss was about. I think it was called something else before that though when I first started posting there. Can't remember the name now.
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It was called Xengen, and before that, it was called Cloudchaser.
 
Dreamcast Technical Pages. Good memories. I remember the time where this High School kid basically broke the specs for the PS2 early. His uncle was an engineer at Sony and told him about it. His name was Suneet Shah IIRC..
 
I used to be active on Serebii forum but I just outgrew it as I got sick and tired of seeing the same topic being posted again and again.

I still lurk from time to time but I rarely post.
 
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