I’ve been apart of this forum for twenty years….

I'm here officially since 2008 but I've been here at least since 2007. But that account that got permabanned when NeoGaf was much, much more woke. Thank god the current incarnation of NeoGAF is nothing like the purple place or I'd have been permabanned multiple times.
 
I've been around since 2008 too!
I used to be pretty active back in the day - especially in Markman's monthly 'Pick-Up Post' threads, various game collecting threads, and the '31 Days of Horror' Halloween movie threads - but now I just send my wife GIFs from the 'Pics That Make You Laugh' thread, lol.
 
I think 26 years for me, if I remember correctly when this place started pre-neo.
 
2006 member here, but I lurked since about 2002 before I had an eligible email account. So I'm probably in the earliest 5% or lower.

Early 2000's forums were the best, back when hardly anyone who could use the internet was older than 25 and everyone strived to be immature and silly. At least that's how I remember that era. 5 pages of reaction gifs before any real discussion started.
 
I have to say, I'm envious.

I really needed community. I was really stupid and tried to find communities for shy people who struggled with loneliness and other problems, rather than spending that time on games & interests and meeting people that way. In 2015, I tried to find something better but idk why, NeoGaf never even came up in my search results. All I saw were dead sites, and I felt like it was too late to play the online games I wanted to try (I guess if things seem dark, you can't think clearly).

I see other people having made connections or at least getting to exchange ideas or mess around, and I can see what I missed out on. Community is so important; people like to say nothing online matters but it very much does.
 
Syphon Filter said:
huh you sure gaf was around in the 90's? i think it was early 00's.
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It was. Other forums I went to were Next Generation magazine and Nintendorks. GameFAQs, Gamespot, and IGN were around but they were shit. I think GAF as its own hosted forum using UBB was 2000, but before that they had another host in the format of ye ancient internet. I just forget if it was 98 or 99 that it really started.
 
That is very long. My account is apparently 11 years old. I came by a few years before that as a visitor 4 - 5 years before I was able to register an account. Needed some sort of business email back in the day to register, which was something I didn't have back then.

Anyway, welcome back. Hopefully it'll bring a smile on your face again like so many years ago. People are still silly from time to time.
 
My 20th is coming up in less than a year. Time flies.

Remember making an account here back in the days because I wrote news for a site and the admin pointed me here to stay up to date. Didn't write long for that site and from what I can see it doesn't exist any more but yeah, that's how it all started.
 
2012 says my user profile but I've been a lurker since my senior year of HS which would've been 2008-2009. I found this forum via the defunct Megadeth (band) forums but couldn't register at the time due to not having an insititutional email.

It wasn't until I made it to university that I had one of those and could make an account.
 
I officially joined in 2008 but lurked before. I stay pretty low profile though so no tags or anything like that.
 
Christopher said:
I might not be as active on NeoGAF as I used to be, but this place still means a lot to me. Back during my first year of college, I was a shy gamer without many people to talk to about the things I really loved…games, geeky stuff, even hiding my Pokémon cards like it was some big secret.

NeoGAF was a safe space where I could finally be myself and connect with people who got it. It honestly helped me through a time when I felt pretty alone.

Even now, logging back in brings a wave of nostalgia. I'm an old man married with FIVE BOYS 💀 Are any of the old heads from back then still around? Would be great to see some familiar names again.
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I joined back around the GameCube days -- was originally Bud_Brigman, but I couldn't get to the email to reactivate my account. So, I started this new account in 2004. Married with two kids, have seen four "generations" come and go. Carry on, old-timer.
 
Only been here about 13 years now but did manage to get tagged after less than 5 years.

Looking back, given the state of NeoGAF at the time, I'm surprised I didn't catch a perm instead
Ralph Wiggum Danger GIF
 
Remember that thread of the guy whose name was changed on Xbox live and then on this board as well?
One of the funniest things, besides the broken Turtle-TV, the feeling of mice balls and of course the "You can look under her skirt"-detective thread about GEIST
 
Same here man... 20 fucking years 💀

I remember discussing the Nintendo Revolution

Bomzaldroppenton

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Thread 'Iwata will drop bomb at GDC?'

Alle grote geheimen over de nog te verschijnen next gens zullen niet alleen op de E3 onthuld worden. Ook op de Game Developers Conference zullen Sony en Nintendo fanboys met hun oren gaan klapperen.

Als we zeggen dat we vol ongeduld op harde feiten over de PS3 zitten te wachten, dan drukken we ons nog voorzichtig uit. De spanning opbouwen is tot daar aan toe, maar het begint er nu op te lijken dat het in Sony’s kamp een zooitje is en dat er voortdurend mensen in paniek aan het rondrennen zijn en anderen volledig gestresst ineen zakken. Om het maar een beetje beeldend te...
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"Back in my day! We had outlines of colored men that always found a way to molest a photograph! And people who wacked off with their sister in the room! You kids and your roblox and diddy epstein..."
 
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Paasei said:
That is very long. My account is apparently 11 years old. I came by a few years before that as a visitor 4 - 5 years before I was able to register an account. Needed some sort of business email back in the day to register, which was something I didn't have back then.

Anyway, welcome back. Hopefully it'll bring a smile on your face again like so many years ago. People are still silly from time to time.
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Same, I remember lurking for the longest of times, but I never had access to the business email. I was pretty happy when I eventually got hold of one.
 
Why does everyone write it as "apart"? It's a part. Apart literally means "separate from " ya know the opposite of the intent.
 
I post at one other forum besides this one, which I actually forgot about this place until it randomly popped up the other day and I didn't realize I joined the year I did, I thought I joined like last year but anyway, next year in the other forum it will be 20 years and it's just weird to think I've spent practically half my life there. It can be hard to find people who like the same stuff to the point of talking about it as much as one can so the forum experience has always been a great one for me. I've made multiple e-friends over that time and there are certain subjects I can talk about on a daily basis so to know there are places I can go to talk with fellow fans is great and saves me from having zero friends irl cuz I don't have to annoy them by nerding out and trying to talk to them about things they don't care about cuz they've grown out of it or just don't like it. I can nerd in secrecy on the internet with other geeks.
 
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I don't actually know how long I've been here :messenger_tears_of_joy:

My join date is only when Gaf started to accept retard email addresses, or there abouts, and I was here long before that, and many beers ago 🍻

It's long :unsure:
 
Holy jeez I wasn't the only grammar police in the thread 😂
Also been here in 2006. So almost as long. Been through a lot, us guys.
 
Sonik said:
I was here since the gaming age forums, when was that?
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I still dream that one day EviLore EviLore will reunite Gaming-Age and end the Great Schism. Would be an event bigger than if the East and Western Churches reunite.

The Gaming-Age guys should be active on NeoGAF and coordinate with the Moderators to select standout posts/threads/polls and refine it into news, reviews, retro games revisit articles, op-eds, etc.

Rebrand Gaming-Age.com with a "powered by NeoGAF" badge…

Shit, if I had the bandwidth, I'd buy Gaming-Age myself.

Then someday we'd talk about forgiving a certain once immature developer.
 
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