Howard Alan Treesong
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jkeeling said:
This is true! But by that point adding "ripped me off" to "Axen" had already become muscle memory.
It's one of those classic #vidgames memes, though, along with Che stealing O.pa's Saturn games.
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This is true! But by that point adding "ripped me off" to "Axen" had already become muscle memory.
It's one of those classic #vidgames memes, though, along with Che stealing O.pa's Saturn games.
No wonder some of of the people I most respect in this industry comes from a common forum. How was it? I suppose the tone was quite different from GAF.
(If anyone cares, I still in exile from gaf, just wanted to say "Hi" to Justin and try John anowledges he has a PM from me (sory for bothering you so much))
(If anyone cares, I still in exile from gaf, just wanted to say "Hi" to Justin and try John anowledges he has a PM from me (sory for bothering you so much))
Marty Chinn
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Heh I was gonna do this after the other thread about 8-4. Gaz beat me to it. Small correction first; I don't work at EA. I am in game dev though. Anyway, it's good to see so many #vidgamers here that I didn't realize were here. Definitely join the 1up club page that I set up so we can keep in contact. Sinz was also trying to organize a contact mailing list to keep people in touch and see where people have been lately. The irc channel still exists if anyone wants to stop by. Great job gaz on the write up. I can't believe that 9/11 is around. That was a surreal day and the last time I was in Japan. It's funny that you should put that up now cuz I just found my passport last night and I was looking through it and noticed the arrival stamp of 9/11/01.
aparisi2274
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Hayami said:
Who is your wife?
Beer Monkey
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Yusaku said:
I was a regular there for a good while a decade ago and I certainly don't remember it being so GAFfish. The regulars understood that multi-console gaming was the way to go. If it were like GAF, we'd have had constant screaming from Playstation owners that Saturn sucked, and so on.
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rod furlong
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if it wasn't for finding a post in r.g.v.n titled "What's wrong with #vidgames 10 years ago (!), I wouldn't be in a barcelona hotel bar right now, writing blog posts and watching our video team upload assassins creed footage and eating semi-decent mexican food.
thanks for the post, gaz.
if it wasn't for finding a post in r.g.v.n titled "What's wrong with #vidgames 10 years ago (!), I wouldn't be in a barcelona hotel bar right now, writing blog posts and watching our video team upload assassins creed footage and eating semi-decent mexican food.
thanks for the post, gaz.
Beer Monkey
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You had me write a 'letter' for the first ish of IG. Glad things are going well for you in Japan.john tv said:
Yeah, this place is crawling with old #vidgames folks.
rod furlong
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john tv said:
I just realized that I'm logged into demian's GAF account. woops!
<--- skip, btw
aparisi2274
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Ravidrath said:
I hear Zelda Tactics is coming for the Wii now... I guess Pris wasnt lying.. LOL!!!
I actually LOL'ed when I read that... because I forgot about it until I just now..
on a side note, I remember one time I was arguing with IIID about something in the channel and I told him to shut up and go animate the letter Q or something... because he was big into Maya, and sure enough about 10mins later I get a DCC request and when I open it, it was the letter Q bouncing around the screen...
bumpkin said:
God damn, man, you just bummed me the **** out. That was so... surprising when it all went down. Guess that's why they call 'em accidents. I still remember seeing the newspaper clipping and going "that's not him... naaaaaaah, just a coincidence."
If it weren't for living with DaveZ, DaveT and Smak in that tiny ass little one bedroom place in the Mission, I would never have been introduced to the magic that was #vidgames. And I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to work with Shane, Christian, Che and John. Thanks for the good times, guys.
Ignatz Mouse
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Here's a post from me defending #vidgames on USENET.
I then post the #vidgames FAQ from that time period.
Same attitude drew me to GAF, although GAF has lost a lot of the evenhandedness that it once had.
A Younger me said:
I then post the #vidgames FAQ from that time period.
Same attitude drew me to GAF, although GAF has lost a lot of the evenhandedness that it once had.
Heh, I used to ask for ops from time to time. Never got it. Had voice, never said much. I wasn't particularly popular on there, and I certainly wasn't there as long as others. I used a variety of nicks at the time: Duane, KiiLA, MasterBaiter. I was mostly ignored unless I was Sega-bashing. It probably didn't help that I don't really like talking about video games too much in chats. No one remembers me.john tv said:Haha. Sounds like the modern day equivalent of "why don't I get ops??"
What was your /nick?
EDIT: Milhouse -- Justin left Japan years ago. He was in the US for a couple of years and then finally went back to the UK. He still posts here, but nobody knows his username.
PEACE.EDIT: Reading Ignatz's post reminds me that I was probably still more into usenet at that time than web forums or IRC. I wasn't all that popular on there either. Not like DarienA and Marty. We have a lot of notable posters on this forum. This place collects garbage...I mean...nah, I mean garbage.
Marty Chinn
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Man I miss Darkfact myself. I have a picture of me, Sinz, Skip, Pris, Darkfact and Gaz in a bar somewhere at Universal City Walk hanging up in my game room. Heh I also remember one time when we both were in Japan, Dan was staying at Pete's place. I was over there, but Pete wasn't around. I think he had already left and Dan was just crashing there an extra day. Anyway it was late, and we were flipping through channels and we saw the oddest porn that was on Japanese tv. It was some european flick that took place in WW2 and instead of the normal German Kaiser helmet, there was a dildo attached on top. We just died laughing and it was an in-joke between us there on after. Damn I miss that guy.
Oh snizzap, partay time.
Speaking of, I will never, ever have as kick ass a New Years as when Sam, Dave, Dave, Marty, Priz, myself and... shit, I can't remember who else MGSed our way up on top of the SEGA building to watch the fireworks over the Bay. Z and I still talk about it every once in a while. 'Twas magic, I tells ya.
Speaking of, I will never, ever have as kick ass a New Years as when Sam, Dave, Dave, Marty, Priz, myself and... shit, I can't remember who else MGSed our way up on top of the SEGA building to watch the fireworks over the Bay. Z and I still talk about it every once in a while. 'Twas magic, I tells ya.
I can't believe Gaz failed to mention me as one of the founding fathers of Gaming Age. I only ran the editorial side of the damn site from day one
I miss the #vidgames days, though I was pretty much gone by about 2000. I still credit it for legitimately getting me into the industry (thanks John and Mark!). Nothing like sitting up all night working on GA and chatting with a bunch of people from all over the world who are just as nerdy about games as you are.
Good times.
I miss the #vidgames days, though I was pretty much gone by about 2000. I still credit it for legitimately getting me into the industry (thanks John and Mark!). Nothing like sitting up all night working on GA and chatting with a bunch of people from all over the world who are just as nerdy about games as you are.
Good times.
Marty Chinn
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SamBishop said:
I totally remember that New Year's. Ya, that really was a great night. One that I probably won't ever forget.
TekunoRobby
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I missed out
Well #vidgames has certainly impacted my life and thanks to the GAF forums my potential career has absolutely skyrocketed and I've managed to meet fantastic friends such as Demi and Gazunta (and met WAAAAY too many freaking awesome people). I'm still not done yet, lots of work to do! Gaz we need to talk.
Well #vidgames has certainly impacted my life and thanks to the GAF forums my potential career has absolutely skyrocketed and I've managed to meet fantastic friends such as Demi and Gazunta (and met WAAAAY too many freaking awesome people). I'm still not done yet, lots of work to do! Gaz we need to talk.
stewy said:I can't believe Gaz failed to mention me as one of the founding fathers of Gaming Age. I only ran the editorial side of the damn site from day one
I miss the #vidgames days, though I was pretty much gone by about 2000. I still credit it for legitimately getting me into the industry (thanks John and Mark!). Nothing like sitting up all night working on GA and chatting with a bunch of people from all over the world who are just as nerdy about games as you are.
Good times.
Or Brady. Or Dennis Day! Or me. Some day the true story of how Gaming Enthusiast Online became Gaming Age will have to be told.
Isn't much more I can say about #vidgames that hasn't already been said.
I owe a hell of a lot to #vidgames. Everything I've done in gaming and at CNN started off with #vidgames and the great people inside it.
My favourite quote:
<Gazunta> I sit in front of my computer ALL ****ING DAY AND ALL ****ING NIGHT, CHURNING OUT HACK PIECES OF CRAP LIKE A ****ING FACTORY
How far we've come eh Gaz?
I owe a hell of a lot to #vidgames. Everything I've done in gaming and at CNN started off with #vidgames and the great people inside it.
My favourite quote:
<Gazunta> I sit in front of my computer ALL ****ING DAY AND ALL ****ING NIGHT, CHURNING OUT HACK PIECES OF CRAP LIKE A ****ING FACTORY
How far we've come eh Gaz?
...WTF is there a "Yiff Hentai Art" ad on the bottom of my screen here?
Anyway, as much as I loved #vidgames, I'm glad I stopped going when I did. Job + #vidgames would've left no time to actually play games and try to, like, do other stuff.
Oh, hey - is the "Ant" that posts on here the same one from IRC? He's the guy that brought me to #vidgames from AOL, and I'd be interested in knowing what he's up to.
Anyway, as much as I loved #vidgames, I'm glad I stopped going when I did. Job + #vidgames would've left no time to actually play games and try to, like, do other stuff.
Oh, hey - is the "Ant" that posts on here the same one from IRC? He's the guy that brought me to #vidgames from AOL, and I'd be interested in knowing what he's up to.
* mosaic doles out some Psycho Atomic Buster style RAGING SODOMY!!!
Gaz, unless you updated the list in the time I took to read the whole thread, you left out Brad "rudds" Shoemaker (GameSpot), Peter "PeteB" Bartholow (dunno), Andrew "Reno" Alfonso (teaching English in Japan and also prolific freelancer for IGN), Stephanie "sebab" Wukovitz (recovering from pancreas and kidney transplant), Curtis "Necromage/Citrus" Bryan (doing some game program at a uni in Arizona), Antony "Ant" Nguyen (???????), and Dan "Shoe" Hsu (you know where he is).
I'd love to know what's up with Hazama... least I know he's alive; saw him at the last E3 (or was it the one before?).
Roushi is still a Marine I think. He seems to have been playing and writing up PS2 games all summer on his LiveJournal (roushimsx)....
I bet pris will post in this thread soon enough...
Gaz, unless you updated the list in the time I took to read the whole thread, you left out Brad "rudds" Shoemaker (GameSpot), Peter "PeteB" Bartholow (dunno), Andrew "Reno" Alfonso (teaching English in Japan and also prolific freelancer for IGN), Stephanie "sebab" Wukovitz (recovering from pancreas and kidney transplant), Curtis "Necromage/Citrus" Bryan (doing some game program at a uni in Arizona), Antony "Ant" Nguyen (???????), and Dan "Shoe" Hsu (you know where he is).
I'd love to know what's up with Hazama... least I know he's alive; saw him at the last E3 (or was it the one before?).
Roushi is still a Marine I think. He seems to have been playing and writing up PS2 games all summer on his LiveJournal (roushimsx)....
I bet pris will post in this thread soon enough...
Patrick Klepek
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i totally missed the reunion because i was in class, didn't i
also, stewy and capnsmak fired me from gaming age originally. what a bunch of TWATS.
:lol
also, stewy and capnsmak fired me from gaming age originally. what a bunch of TWATS.
:lol
TekunoRobby
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I was at work, NO EXCUSES.
Beer Monkey
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mosaic said:
If you include Steph you have to include Scott 'Oppressor' LeGrand and Doug 'Thunderbird' Engel. Scott was mostly on an even keel as much as Doug was a hotheaded sonuvabitch who was always looking for a fight.
I corresponded with Steph on and off for years after I left the channel. It was chilling to hear of her problems, and I'm so glad that she is still with us.
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