Nostalgia-Age: A Prehistory of NeoGAF

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Calcaneus said:
Awesome thread. I always have an obsession with looking with vintage forum threads. Wish I had found GAF way back then rather than hanging in random anime boards. Though around 2000, I probably wouldn't have been allowed membership at 11 years old.
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Back then we didn't have that rule. It was instated because we found out we had to comply with COPPA and decided that simply banning everyone under 13 was much better than dealing with kids and their parents.
 
Did anyone save the Mina is a softcore porn star thread? Circa early 2002 I think...

I really miss MAF :( I remember when he made his grand return and GAF started selling MAF shirts :(
 
Sometimes I wonder if Nintendrones really are in the same "reality" as me. I mean, come on, 2 screens, big deal...... then what ???? First game to be annonced will be Time Crisis ???

This will be a collectors item folks, I'm buying them all when they hit 20$ in bargain bins at Wal-Mart, three months after launch.I didn't do it with the Virtual Boy, I would be rich by now. Nintendo, you can't fool me twice.
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Great to see that Gaf has always suck at predicting.
 
StoOgE said:
Wait,

Is Duane that one guy who is a Florida fan now.

I notice all his posts end in PEACE too.
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same guy. we're so old... it's up to us to pass on our knowledge to next generation of posters... I also remember the thread someone made that spoiled MGS2 a day or two before game release.
 
Forkball said:
Didn't IGN come up with megaton? I think it was in an IGN Cube article and it turned out to be something incredibly lame.
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Started on GAF and found its way onto several gaming sites as rumours. The fanboys took it by the horns and the rest is history.
 
evil solrac v3.0 said:
same guy. we're so old... it's up to us to pass on our knowledge to next generation of posters... I also remember the thread someone made that spoiled MGS2 a day or two before game release.
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It's a bit before my time. I was early 2002 right after my perma ban at TXB.
 
It's a shame that the archive doesn't go back further. I'd love to see some of the threads from the late 90's when I first came on GAF.

I do still remember having discussions on usenet with Doug aka Drinky Crow back in the PSX/N64/Saturn era. How long ago that was! :lol
 
StoOgE said:
It's a bit before my time. I was early 2002 right after my perma ban at TXB.
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:lol

Nothing against the Xbox guys, but I seem to recall back in the day forum goers from TXB were like GameFAQs spawn. Of course, this was before the Xbox brand became more popular past the really rabid fanboys.
 
Been on GAF since late 2002. Time flies.


Lord Federman's Megaton thread is the one I wish I could view again. That shit was fucking classic. :lol
 
Having lurked GAF since around that oldest thread... I can say those threads remind me of today but with less meme's thrown about. Memories... *inserts FHUTA in there somewhere*
 
kitchenmotors said:
:lol

Nothing against the Xbox guys, but I seem to recall back in the day forum goers from TXB were like GameFAQs spawn. Of course, this was before the Xbox brand became more popular past the really rabid fanboys.
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pretty much... yes. I got permed for trying to weasel my way into an admin gig so I could permaban half the forum for lulz.

You can ask Speevy about it. He was around TXB back then. Or Chipopo or x86 is they are still around. They were partners in crime.

Then one glorious day they got around to approving my GAF account and my life became complete.
 
Man, so many old names from back then. TheArtfulDodger, EvilGreenRanger, Darkshire, Fafalada, MrAngryFace, the many names of Doug Ericson.

And yeah, the mini-war with Team Xbox was great fun.:lol I can't even remember what years I modded for the site, I think it was Snowboard days.
 
Tamanon said:
Man, so many old names from back then. TheArtfulDodger, EvilGreenRanger, Darkshire, Fafalada, MrAngryFace, the many names of Doug Ericson.
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Uh, Fafalada still posts under the same name.
 
Tamanon said:
And yeah, the mini-war with Team Xbox was great fun.:lol I can't even remember what years I modded for the site, I think it was Snowboard days.
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the worst fanboy site ever. Literally every xbox release was hailed as the best game ever.
 
I can't believe Mina and Deadmeat posted here.

Probably the biggest -still active- joke characters of the internet.

I started lurking GAF during the 2002-2003 era. So much has changed...
 
Fanta Shokata is still the best late-nite OT gaf thread ever, btw. When was that, 02? 03?
 
I don't think Mina was a joke character. She was just a cam whore who took the chivalry GAF popularity too far and decided to try and launch a softcore porn site that failed.
 
Man, I almost had forgot about ezboards. One favorite GAF moment is opa and Silent Hill. And MGS as well, was that him? :lol

Nice thread Hito.
 
I think my first username on GAF was Gaymer. I was the first out-of-the-closet gay member, it's remarkable how GAF was friendly and tolerant since the early days.
 
Cerrius said:
Lord Federman's Megaton thread is the one I wish I could view again. That shit was fucking classic. :lol
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I remember that thread, it was damn near impossible to keep up with all the posts. I also remember, at the same time of the megaton thread, there was an Olsen twins thread that was just as good..
 
Forkball said:
Didn't IGN come up with megaton? I think it was in an IGN Cube article and it turned out to be something incredibly lame.
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MEGATON first appeared in JUMP! magazine with regards to a "megaton Nintendo announcement" at Jump Festa 2002. GAF picked up on it and hyped it to the fucking moon and pretty much every single gaming news outlet ran with it too. It was going to be an absolute game changer that would propel Nintendo back into the console race with the GameCube.

And then nothing. Absolutely nothing. The event came and went with nothing.

What people hadn't noticed was that Naruto games were announced for GameCube and GBA at the event and that they were the MEGATON. Engrish had never claimed so many victims.

The problem was, because nobody had noticed the Naruto games (the franchise wasn't even heard of in the west and was only just becoming massive in Japan) or understood the original Japanese in the advert, everyone went insane wondering quite when the MEGATON was going to come. So the world kept waiting. This spawned the likes of "Wednesdayton", "Thursdayton", the hilarious pixeled picture of Mario, Sonic and Megaman and trying to tie it in with any little announcement.

Bombzaldroppen! SPANUUUD!!!
 
darkwings said:
the worst fanboy site ever. Literally every xbox release was hailed as the best game ever.
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The best thing about Team Xbox was the run-up to the Xbox 360 release. Everyone started showing off their ePeen by posting exactly what they'd pre-ordered and paid off in their signatures.

Dumb fuckers were already putting down $70-a-piece in August 2005 for games like Alan Wake and Huxley just to show off to a bunch of people they'd never meet. It was like a league table of money-wasting stupidity with people lining Gamespot's coffers with thousands and thousands of dollars for games that still, four years later, barely even exist.
 
I was lurking around the Megaton days.

It was probably GAF at its very best. The Game Cube wasn't doing so hot so Nintendo fans hoped that this game would be the one that would at the very least, put it neck and neck with the PS2. As a result, people thought I'd be Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, etc.

Another highlight was how many other sites (like The Magic Box) would just rip images from the place during the time. Some Megaton jokes made its way into other games (like the Zelda disc prior to WW's release) and seeing other websites host those pictures was pretty lolworthy.

A lot of fanboy pride on the line for this announcement, which was nothing more than a Naruto release.
 
Burai said:
The best thing about Team Xbox was the run-up to the Xbox 360 release. Everyone started showing off their ePeen by posting exactly what they'd pre-ordered and paid off in their signatures.

Dumb fuckers were already putting down $70-a-piece in August 2005 for games like Alan Wake and Huxley just to show off to a bunch of people they'd never meet. It was like a league table of money-wasting stupidity with people lining Gamespot's coffers with thousands and thousands of dollars for games that still, four years later, barely even exist.
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Agent Icebeezy did that I believe.
 
StoOgE said:
I don't think Mina was a joke character. She was just a cam whore who took the chivalry GAF popularity too far and decided to try and launch a softcore porn site that failed.
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Mina had a softcore site? Would've signed right up.

Would've signed up for a Christie Elaine one, too.
 
Midas said:
Man, I almost had forgot about ezboards. One favorite GAF moment is opa and Silent Hill. And MGS as well, was that him? :lol
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You mean getting stuck at the very beginning because he didn't think to crawl under the pipe? Yeah, that was Opa.
 
:lol

i remember getting stuck because i somehow forgot how to push the elevator button, so i tried to kill myself with the cigarette smh
 
I used to be part of a small site like GAF, called "NINTENDORKS" pre-2000... I used to post there for ages till for some reason it vanished, and that's when I found GAF, nearly 10 years later, I get approved to post :D
 
HomerSimpsonMan was rocking that avatar for a loooooooooooooooooooooong time. :lol

One of my fondest memories was the Olimario scandal, and the hype for the MTV unveiling of Perfect Dark Zero.

It's really strange to see the turnaround in company opinion. Nintendo was a living breathing joke around for so many years, and now everyone claims they've been loyal since forever. It's just weird...
 
Grizzlyjin said:
It's really strange to see the turnaround in company opinion. Nintendo was a living breathing joke around for so many years, and now everyone claims they've been loyal since forever. It's just weird...
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In NFL Thread vernacular, the term that applies here is "lifelong".
 
you should have put up the september 11 thread. that was epic. i went batshit nuts in that one.

does The Artful Dodger still post here? he used to be one of my favs back in those days. think i recently saw a post by dreamcaster/beonedge.

damn, i have been posting since 2000, with the same handle, even...
 
nitewulf said:
you should have put up the september 11 thread. that was epic. i went batshit nuts in that one.
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I figured it was easy enough to find.

cashman said:
how long has this been around? Rorschach was the first person I noticed using it last year.
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I'm not really the person to ask, but it's definitely been around longer than a year.
 
Hitokage said:
Mods from that time who are still around include bishoptl and Jim, and some former GA staffers like Alucard and Drinky Crow (aka Castellan aka Wrathful God of Moses aka Doug) continue to post in a non-moderation role.
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Isn't Drinky Vestal?
 
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