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How did You find Neogaf?

ShirAhava

Plays with kids toys, in the adult gaming world
I would yahoo search (it was 2004-5) video game topics and I noticed a certain forum kept coming up with decent information/opinions so I bookmarked it and would read and lurk until 2007 (I was drafted into the "sony defense force" SDF) so I signed up to support the war effort but it was during the time of those super long waiting periods to become a member so I couldn't actually start posting until 2008.

Fun fact I knew a certain 'you will be judged' mod IRL and worked retail with this person for a while but they had no clue I ever posted here XD
 

Soodanim

Member
Heard about it, most likely on there GameFAQs/Gamespot boards. Then I lurked for years because of the email restriction, then never went into OT because that's where people went to get banned.
 
Came across it when looking for a way to get the "Don't get cocky, kid" achievement in Dead Space in 2008 and people were discussing it on GAF.

Later joined because my homie told me it was the best place on the Internet to talk about games and avoid 13 year old.
 

Azelover

Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
That was waaaay back.

But I remember. There was this site called Gaming Age. It was just a normal website about gaming. And it had a forum, which is now known as Neogaf. Back then it was just called the Gaming Age Forum.

I hope that answers the question.
 

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
Gaming age and other forums got tossed around Videogames.com/Gamespot quite a bit. I lurked nearly from the beginning and much like a lot of things that just take time, I registered later to start taking part in the discussions and recall lurking even when I was already approved.
 

BossLackey

Gold Member
When IGN's boards started to go to shit like a decade ago, my friend told me about GAF and I've been here ever since.

Did a stint in the mind prison that is the purple place. It was awful.
 

xrnzaaas

Member
Damn, that was over a decade ago. I think I was just searching for a gaming forum after a much smaller one I was a part of fell apart. I admit it was a pain to wait that long for my registration to be verified, almost forgot about it.
 

Puscifer

Member
Some years ago some dude was found out to be a gay pornstar and made a thread to confirm it. I finally signed up when I realized I got bored of every other websites sense of discussion, there's so much more appreciated nuanced takes here that I legit laugh that people say this place is heavily left less leaning.
 

clem84

Gold Member
This thread is super interesting.
Dennis Dyack meltdown.
Same.

My journey was as follows.
- I used to discuss videogames in the NNTP newsgroups in the late 90s. '97-2000
- discovered the IGN boards in around 2000.
- frequented the IGN boards and Beyond3D for a few years up until the Dennis Dyack fiasco.
- Signed up for NeoGAF shortly afterwards.
 
I've knew about it longer than I can remember since its such a popular gaming forum.

In 2022 I got bored of VGR because it's too inactive and signed up here.
 

Carton

Member
I was on some Dreamcast forum and somehow ended up on the original GAF in '99 or 2000.
It wasn‘t the Australian ‘Official Dreamcast Web Forum” (ODWF) by chance, was it? That’s where I heard about it; it was also frequently mentioned on an another, now defunct, Aussie forum called PlayNow. I started lurking as a non-member and had never known a forum to move so fast, then I joined a few years later.
 

Lord Panda

The Sea is Always Right
It was via a mate of mine who used to relay shit he had read on GAF way back when, to our Skype group.

He used to be a fairly active member here too but then had a falling out with one of the mods or something, and he left the site.

GAF was a far different place back then... and it's far better now.
 

Porcile

Member
Dragon Quest 9 DS announcement thread. It was linked on some now I presume long gone Nintendo fansite back then. Cube Europe or something like that. That was 2006? Damn.
 

Auto_aim1

MeisaMcCaffrey
In 2007 Gaf was the place to be on the net if you were into gaming. I remember I lurked till 2009 before signing up and it took 1 year for the acc to be approved lol. I remember a lot of old posters like Dragona etc.
 

Coconutt

Member
Use to watch a Lets Play channel on youtube called Two Best Friends Play where they would occasionally bring up Neogaf and looked it up myself after.
 
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