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Stage6 during the brief couple of months between it becoming popular and the authorities starting to notice where it had basically every TV show and every Anime and movie you could think of streaming in HD... It was amazing
 
Next Generation Online - The NGO forums is actually where I first met some of the older members of GAF

Dreamcast Technical Pages, DC-United, Seganet, and others - I was a big fan of all the Dreamcast sites (and I also ran one), but of course once Sega left the hardware business they all died.

Jump the Shark - It's a shame that TV Guide killed the site when they bought it. It seems like they just wanted the domain to redirect traffic to their main site and had little use for the content. But the site was great for reading and discussing the high/low points of TV shows from the past 40 years.

Gaming-Age Front Page - Remember how Gaming-Age was just regular gaming fansite, but the forums just kept growing and growing. Going from a small parasite to a monstrous tumor! It's literally become a social hangout for tens of thousands people beyond just games.

EDIT: The front page is still here. :lol I literally haven't been to the front page in about 5-6 years! I figured NeoGAF had destroyed it. Good to see it's still around though. :lol
 
Operation N2000 or OPN2000, it was pretty dedicated and focused on possibilities of the N64 successor. Very smart place in spite of the narrowed focus.

It went onto to get taken over by Billy Berghammer and become Planet N2000/Gamecube and most of the forum discussion went to a dedicated place...as time went on discussion kind of ground to a halt.

Still the most consistently good discussion in a discussion forum I've ever seen. Hell the people there seemed to be more civil and have more insight into tech stuff than any of the 'devs' posting on Fatbabies by a large margin.

I miss classic Nintendorks too.


Edit: oh hey, it got mentioned last page. Hey other people who remember that place! I was so pumped when I got a letter posted.
 
DailyRadar

When it shut down, it pretty much created a shock around the internet. Some of that shock hit others a little too hard, like IGN, who relatively shortly after, made the entire message board system pay-only for a bit. Lost a lot of good users then.
 
I dont remember the url, but it was this videogame cheatcode site i would go on all the time in the n64 days. Then it got bought out or something....
 
oldmanmurray.com


I read every TF2/Portal update just for the nostalgia. I know Erik is behind those


lucky me, I still have UK-Resistance
 
Tommie Hu$tle said:
Daily Radar was the beginning of the end. Next Generation Online Shat all over DR.
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Haha. The same people who did Next Generation Online did Daily Radar.

And to all the people who mentioned Next Generation and Daily Radar: Thank you.
 
I miss this music blog RedLightGlow...it was basically Oink before Oink.

Does anyone here remember "David Wonn's Unique Videogame Glitches"? I used to visit that site all the time for cool glitches on N64 games. I even posted one for Perfect Dark! (not really that excited, but I was back when I was 12...or however old I was.)
 
Jon said:
Does anyone here remember "David Wonn's Unique Videogame Glitches"? I used to visit that site all the time for cool glitches on N64 games. I even posted one for Perfect Dark! (not really that excited, but I was back when I was 12...or however old I was.)
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Oh, I remember that. I was disappointed that he apparently dropped the site because of problems with his e-mail or something.

It's still up, which is cool.
 
An old art forum called Cat-5, ran by a girl named nem0. I found a lot of people, some I still keep up with, through that site, and in turn found other communities and people I never would have found without the links posted there.
 
MC Safety said:
Haha. The same people who did Next Generation Online did Daily Radar.

And to all the people who mentioned Next Generation and Daily Radar: Thank you.
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Yea I used to email Aaron just as he switched over. He replied back quite a bit before DR, but started to get swamped and slowly stopped replying. Aww well.
 
Shalashaska161 said:
Nintendo's Nsider forums. I went there almost everyday for 4 years, and then one day Nintendo just closed up shop without any warning. I met a lot of great people there, and I wasn't able to contact any of them again because Nintendo didn't tell anyone it was closing. It really hurt my opinion of Nintendo and it still hasn't recovered.
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Oh god this. Even moreso, who remembers Hyrule Town Square, which was pretty much Nsider's "beta"?
 
MC Safety said:
Haha. The same people who did Next Generation Online did Daily Radar.

And to all the people who mentioned Next Generation and Daily Radar: Thank you.
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you were involved in that? man, call up mike salmon and start that shit back up. get chris slate and bill donahue on board, and francesca reyes, and patrick baggata, and i will pay ten dollars a month to read that site.
 
beelzebozo said:
you were involved in that? man, call up mike salmon and start that shit back up. get chris slate and bill donahue on board, and francesca reyes, and patrick baggata, and i will pay ten dollars a month to read that site.
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Chris Slate is running Nintendo Power and Fran Reyes is running OXM. I'm not sure what the other folks are doing.

And, of course, I think Daily Radar has been replaced with Games Radar.
 
MC Safety said:
Chris Slate is running Nintendo Power and Fran Reyes is running OXM. I'm not sure what the other folks are doing.

And, of course, I think Daily Radar has been replaced with Games Radar.
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it just ain't the same, bro.

and i subscribed to nintendo power when chris took it over. such is my dedication.
 
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