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What are the oldest videogame forums that are still around? I want to read what people thought of old games back when they were released

>> No.7125768

>>7125757
I always go to gamefaqs seems like the best and oldest there are reviews for games even older then the site but obviously not when they initially released.

>> No.7125782

Gamespot and IGN were around during 5th gen. I think you'd have to look at newsgroup archives to go back further.

>> No.7125787

>>7125757
Usenet is as old as you're going to get. Spoiler: it's as shitty ad any forum is now.

>> No.7125801

>>7125757
Rpgcodex.net

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7125814

Now that the dust has settled, was he, dare I say it, /ourguy/?

>> No.7125818

Are there any Fidonet logs from the 80s?

>> No.7125925

>>7125814
Unanimously based.

>> No.7125935

>>7125814
I always wonder what this absolute based KING who dabs on Sonyfags is doing nowadays, and if he still enjoys videogames.

>> No.7125948

>>7125757
Oldest I can think of is the neo geo forums.

>> No.7125954

>>7125768
Same they purged the forums in the late 00s. EVERYTHING was archived before that.

>> No.7125962

>>7125757
TTLG's forum is more active now than it was ~5-10 years ago thanks to the immsim meme

>> No.7126405

I'm just going to assume everyone in this thread is a fucking zoomer that has never heard of USENET
rec.games.video.<insert company name here>
Enjoy

>> No.7126423

>>7125787
alt.games.nintendo.pokemon is actually one of the oldest English language Pokemon communities on the internet, despite Bulbagarden claiming to be the oldest, and people actually still post there occasionally.

>> No.7127014

>>7125962
>immsim

What did he mean by this?

>> No.7127445

>>7125962
>TTLG
What

>> No.7127570

Neoseeker
https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=directory

Not all of it is there but I found some of my posts from back in 2003

>> No.7127590

Retrogaming Roundtable has been around for a while, and is probably one of the oldest existing forums focused on older games as older games.

>> No.7127630

>>7126423
on google groups how do you get it to show the really old posts

>> No.7127632

>>7125814
Fake. Nigger-posting didn't start until around 2004.

>> No.7127696

Usenet has discussion/reviews on Atari 2600 games when they were new in like 1982. Look for groups like net.video. It used to be easy to find this shit before Google broke their usenet archive (they call it "groups") and made it near impossible to search. The entire UTZOO usenet corpus is on archive.org so you can bypass google and go to the source at least and download the original "tapes".

>> No.7128287

>>7127445
Through the Looking Glass, the forum of Looking Glass Studios