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Remembering a fallen friend: Websites you miss.

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aidan said:
The GIA.
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Yup, that was my answer.



Also, the fact that Castle Vidcons just....stopped in mid-August last year makes me sad.

Alas, the death of the pretender Lord Playstation the Third at the hands of the true heir to the throne of Sony apparently spelt doom for the strip.
 
www.samus.co.uk

It was a Metroid fansite I used to frequent :'(

www.happypuppy.com

Game cheats from back in the day.

www.stickdeath.com

No idea why I found this hilarious back in the day.

www.goeureka.com

Used to have this as my primary search engine for finding pr0n. I think I used it mainly on the assumption that if I ever slipped up on my Internet history and my mother saw the logs, she'd look at Altavista for any searches I did. Bear in mind also, that at the age of 13, I installed Red Hat Linux 5.1 (dual-boot with Windows 95) on the PC, compiled a kernel and figured out how to get Netscape to connect to the Internet all with the eventual aim of facilitating my never-ending hunt for nudie pictures.

I must say that I went to extraordinary lengths to hide the stuff and in the process learnt a lot about computers that I wouldn't have otherwise known and sparked an interest in technology that eventually led me down the career path I'm on today. Which is either kind of awesome or kind of sad. Probably both.
 
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I used to go to Pojo.com religiously for Pokemon news and information, same with The Pokemasters. Now those two sites are shadows of their former selves and probably don't get a fraction of the hint. Serebii is better than those other sites ever were, but still.

Also, YTMND. It's still around, but Youtube pretty much killed it. I discovered so many great songs from that site.
 
N64.com
maddox.xmission.com
suprnova
zophar.net
retrogamers.com
planetcool.com (this is really old school)
yahoo.com when it wasn't a portal

do you guys believe that we actually didn't have youtube until a few years ago
 
koam said:
N64.com
maddox.xmission.com
suprnova
zophar.net
retrogamers.com
planetcool.com (this is really old school)
yahoo.com when it wasn't a portal

do you guys believe that we actually didn't have youtube until a few years ago
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Is zophar.net gone? I haven't touched emulation since the DS came out but VADERNOOOOOOOO.gif
 
chexquest.com Used to visit that site non-stop looking to see if a Chex Quest 3 would be made. Only took about 12 years for one to be made :lol

I did semi-recreate it using scans of old (circa 1997) printed pages from the original site :D

http://chexquest.webs.com/emailed/frames.htm

Not perfect but (some pages/content is missing), it'll have to do for now :lol
 
Gotta go with Stage6. Soooooo much content from Japanese TV up on there, and so easy to grab. Veoh can do the same job sometimes, but man, it just doesn't have the insane amount of content that S6 had.
 
aidan said:
The GIA.
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this times 1,000, fuck gameforms. i actually used to visit rpgamer till i found how awesome this place was.

also, the4thrail.com, used to be an excellent review site for comics. ive yet to find one to adequately replace it.

GDGF said:
Nintendorks.com
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wait a sec, i just joined their forums a while back. am i missing something?

edit: oink.co.uk good call, man they were awesome, at least until the place got stupid and said no more live albums, discographies etc etc. became hard as shit for me to find rare stuff that wasnt already well seeded there and keep my ratio up.
 
Proven said:
www.pointlesswasteoftime.com

Now the beauty of that one great site, plus the Mirth Canal, is thinly split between cracked.com, their forums moving to cracked.com, and the website for his book, johndiesattheend.com
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Plus they had all sorts of stuff on their that doesn't fit with the Cracked format, like the Harry Potter reviews with the fake slash fic in the comments, the Starcraft review, the spinning dong gif on the archives page, etc. Plus it seems like Wong writes a lot less now that he's editing Cracked. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Cracked pays a lot better and I'm happy for him, but I still miss the old site.
 
So there was a market for Daily Radar after all? I figured it was universally hated. Anyhow, next-generation.com is the website (it replaced) that I miss.

Maybe Daily Radar made some type of sense in the big picture, but it was probably a mistake to hype it up to Next-Gen readers as the next big thing and then offer it as a replacement when it should have been abundantly clear that the content they were planning to create was so radically different.
 
First message board I ever went to: The Digimon Experience. Great place. Fun users... that would then make other boards (like TDE2, TDE3, WickedTribe, CynicalReality, and others). I haven't talked to anyone who went there in a long time, though I am friends with a few of them on Facebook.
 
Stage6.

viciouskillersquirrel said:
www.stickdeath.com

No idea why I found this hilarious back in the day.
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Everyone I knew used to go there. I also found it hilarious, but that's probably because I was younger. Also, despite having dial up at the time, the games and clips loaded extremely fast. So many memories.

Edit:

OMG The site still has Escape from Greenville! :lol :lol
 
I remember back around 2001 when I watched Outlaw Star on Toonami, I stumbled upon a really cool OS fansite. I used to love that site, but I think it is gone now.
 
MyResistance.net

Was a wonderful forum with a really great active community, but things slowly went to shit the closer R2's release got.. the new format and whatnot was the final nail though.

Good times. :(

+ Stage6
 
I was annoyed to find out what happened to Jump The Shark after the guy sold it. I went back to check the page on The Simpsons again after a couple years and all the original comments were no mas. They probably paid a lot of money to buy the site and what's up now is what they decided to turn it into?
 
westoceandjsets.com

A website full of DJ sets from the 80's up to now, it had so many awesome, old and rare sets, that I visited it almost on a daily basis.

Unfortunately the owner of the site stopped for unknown reasons. (to me at least)
 
All of the Dreamcast sites from 1998. I used to cycle through them daily from a few months before the Japanese launch until the US launch when Gamespot coverage started being the superior option for up-to-date news and reviews.
 
IrishNinja said:
this times 1,000, fuck gameforms. i actually used to visit rpgamer till i found how awesome this place was.

also, the4thrail.com, used to be an excellent review site for comics. ive yet to find one to adequately replace it.
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I can't believe someone actually remembers Gameforms.
 
WorriedCitizen said:
Stage6.com

Still hasn't been replaced properly by anything.
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That was amazing, why cant we have a new one. :( Their search sucked though.

Gamespot.com before the failgate incident.

Neogaf.com search :(

TVtome.com like gamerankings.com, CNET swooped in and murdered it. TV.com is nowhere near as good
 
i haven't given a shit about videgames for years, but when i did GIA was the most perfect site.

3dmodeler said:
I miss the KFCC forum. It used to be my most frequented message board until it closed. I think it had the largest community dedicated to Asian cinema.
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when/why did this happen?
 
I just remembered a new one.

It wasn't a website or anything, but Yahoo! Chatrooms.

They've been dead now filled with spam.
 
Neuromancer said:
I used to really like CNET's Gamecenter.

1995 to 2001

RIP old friend.
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YES!

And stage6 of course.

And wbs.net They keep trying to bring it back but it always stalls.
 
phuck-ign
mmcafe(My Neo-Geo source back in the day on my web-tv)
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Seganet(Not the one run by Sega, but the one run by a guy that went to Gamefan Magazine to write for their website, homeboy has a latino name)
The GIA
That's what I could think of right now, there's a few more I know I'm not mentioning.
 
I miss Gia, Daily Radar, and really, not a cool site but a useful site I miss is Cnet's Catch Up website.

Also, I miss Microsoft Comic Chat, although that wasn't really a website.
 
Pouring out yet another for Lum The Mad. Some of the most hysterical read I had during my EQ Days.

"I will Taxi to Victory!"
 
Geocities.com . Where am I going to go now for late-90s, early-2000 Pokemon fansites (complete with Pokegod rumours)?

Zelda forever. It was the first Zelda site/forum I felt at home with but the admin kept going AWOL and forgetting to pay the server bills resulting in the site shutting down and resurrecting. Well, one time it died.

Fire Emblem Sanctuary of Strategy (FESS). It was an executive decision to shut the forums down (activity was falling pretty badly* and had little hope of recovery). I think the forums are still up but nobody can post or do anything.
*-We lost the domain when Radiant Dawn came out (the person who bought the domain was busy with their degree and forgot to pay the bills meaning it went to one of those holding places...the one that uses that woman with a backpack) and since most of the membership didn't check their e-mails re-directing them to a new domain, we lost them (though a few trickled over the months with "I thought you guys were dead")
 
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