Retro internet sites

[Anonymous No.9720530]

Do you guys have any old videogame websites that are still up and fun to look at to share? I think a lot of us here have vague memories of weird unusual little gaming websites being popular before things became so centralized.

[Anonymous No.9720531]

gamefaqs.com

[Anonymous No.9720532]

Does GameFAQs count?

I can't think of any that are still around but still look enough like they used to for it to be nostalgic. The old Working Designs website was a fun place.

[Anonymous No.9720537]

>>9720532
>>9720531
It counts sure, I remember using the neoseekers forums a lot (which has a negative reputation now, but this would have been around 2005 so the old forums from them are entertaining to go through) back then there were also fan made tiny websites too dedicated to just one game or franchise. I just wonder how much of that stuff is still out there to look at for nostalgia.

YTMND is allegedly up still according to some people which also is kind of period correct. Newgrounds still exists but those are just fun mentions and not really pertinent to the thread.

[Anonymous No.9720538]

Discords or Guildeds if Discord is too pozzed for you. /vr/ is hot garbage so I'd even recommend Reddit and Euro ones

[Anonymous No.9720547]

>>9720537
Last year I pulled out my gamecube and started playing a bunch of games I hadn't played in years. I went to gamefaqs for a bunch of them and ended up using someof the same faqs that I used 15-20 years ago and kept getting deja vu when I was reading them and playing. It was fun.

[Anonymous No.9720553]

Does anyone remember Game Genie Code Creators Club? That was a website I took advantage of from time to time.

[Anonymous No.9720561]

There were some early rule 34 websites that catered to FFVII girls and the like. I don't remember their names but it was my first exposure to porn of video game characters and it made me the man I am today.

[Anonymous No.9720585]

>>9720538
Nothing you said has anything to do with retro websites

[Anonymous No.9720592]

>>9720561
There was a ton of pokemon websites in the last 90's and most of them had easily accessible pokemon hentai. I thank god everyday I somehow didn't grow up to be a weab because I damn sure jerked off to pictures of jesse getting fucked by a tentcruel when I was like 12.

[Anonymous No.9720629]

>>9720592
This reminds me of how ROMs were distributed back then. Before goodROMs you pretty much just found random websites that had a handful of games up at a time. There weren't any ways to download entire sets and nobody had the bandwidth or HDD space for that anyway. Plus emulators couldn't play most games. Publishers were still mostly in the dark about it so you'd just type "Link's Awakening rom" into Yahoo and it would take you to a Geocities website that had it right up on the front page.

[Anonymous No.9720656]

>>9720547
Funny you mention that I had the same thing happen this month but for an obscure RTS pc game, I think the guide was from like 01 or something. It felt good.

[Anonymous No.9720658]

>>9720629
Are any of the old groceries or angel fire websites up still that hosted peoples little fan pages of games they liked? They were like little digital shrines

[Anonymous No.9720685]

>>9720658
Doubt it. But that's exactly what I'm remembering. The Castlevania Dungeon is still around. That's pretty ancient and in the early days was where you could download roms for that series. It obviously looks very different now but from the name and the content it still has that vibe of an old school fan site.

[Anonymous No.9720719]

>>9720530
IGN is still going strong and still shitty.

[Anonymous No.9720724]

>>9720719
IGN? What does the N stand for?

[Anonymous No.9720741]

>>9720724
Noodles

[Anonymous No.9720742]

>>9720658
heres some ones saved from my old bookmarks from ~2002

http://maxpages.com/worldofz64
https://web.archive.org/web/20020208181848/http://maxpages.com/worldofz64

http://www.geocities.com/razor_5785/?20067
https://web.archive.org/web/20021130120051/http://www.geocities.com/razor_5785/

http://www.yamoslair.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20050203181525/http://yamoslair.com/pdark.html

[Anonymous No.9720743]

Off the top of my head, i remember zelda fansites and mario flash animation sites that would also have sections just listing every piece of Mario collectible from back in the day.

Use to poke around a lot on Starmen.net pre-Mother 3 and also Metal Slug Database which i think may no longer be up. Had news, sprite database and hentai.

Forget the actual name, but it may have literally been called Video Game Midi Database. Discovered some stuff like Live A Live while browsing through the music.

For old shops, I used Knights Discounts for cheap 3DO games and NeoGeo Pocket games back when they were being liquidated that you could get there for like around 4usd. Also got my Pokemon Mini from them. Packrat Games was another, sold homebrew Atari 2600 games and was my first introduction to new games for old systems after first on a whim buying a new Odyssey 2 games they were selling at a retro game con i went to in the early 2000s.

I guess the Smash Bros Dojo also back when that was being daily updated with Brawl info also counts.
>>9720629
Ive coomlected the majority of the games ive wanted so I havent been rom searching in a long while, but is that not how it is now? Like did they crack down on stuff to the point you cant just google search for a nintendo published game rom and get a result right away?

[Anonymous No.9720746]

tekzoned.com hardly ever changed in 20 years, for a novelty website.

[Anonymous No.9720752]

>>9720530
>>9720742
>>9720658
here;s a few more

this one was my gateway into beta Zelda OOT. I was obsessed for a while

https://web.archive.org/web/20050209114842/http://zso.krahs-emag.com/

this is where i used to go for beta perfect dark and goldeneye info

https://web.archive.org/web/20040526185726/http://www.detstar.com/

http://subdrag.netfirms.com/gebeta/mcm.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20010406071650/http://www.qslaboratory.com/noframes.shtml

http://web.archive.org/web/20010205141100/http://thescarfaceguy.freeyellow.com/index.html

[Anonymous No.9720764]

flyordie.com is still up.

[Anonymous No.9720770]

I miss old Web 1.0 websites, forums, and shit like that. I mean, there's still a few hanging around, but the consolidation of the internet into social media platforms, Web 2.0 sites, Reddit, and Discord has rendered them virtually extinct.
>rpgclassics
>gamingsanctuary
>classicgaming
>hg101 (pre-redesign)
>fantasyanime
>vgmuseum
>flyingomlette
Plenty of others I'm forgetting. Not to mention all the fan sites/shrines dedicated to a specific franchise, no matter how niche. Shit like lunar-net, shiningforcecentral, lufiaworld, etc.

[Anonymous No.9720774]

Thread has potential

[Anonymous No.9720843]

I have 2 lost to time blogposts I've been searching for years, one was an analysis of gta 3's very specific post y2k, pre 9/11 dreamscape atmosphere. another was an in-depth argument for why the basic smashbros was fundamentally a better game concept than the traditional 2d fighter, insightful enough to be prime bait material even if probably full of shit.

[Anonymous No.9720867]

Superpope was my gateway into Japanese games. Finding out that there were NES and SNES DB/DBZ games was amazing to my child self. Site's still up and the creator is still around.
http://dbz.superpope.com/

[Anonymous No.9720875]

Not a fansite but does anyone remember Buyrite1.com? It was a fairly popular source for imports back in the day back when the that kind of thing were still semi shady operations. You'd get the stuff eventually but they took forever to ship.

[Anonymous No.9720885]

>>9720530
Ushi No Tane is probably the only forum I know of that's still around. I'm glad too, I still consider it the best Harvest Moon fan site on the internet.
They don't exist anymore, but Bioflames and THIA were both fantastic, RIP

[Anonymous No.9720898]

>>9720875
I do indeed remember BuyRiteGames. I got a few things from them (off the top of my head the Saturn DBZ game and maybe a US version of The House of the Dead), but mostly I bought stuff from ebay and eventually Yahoo Japan with a deputy service.

[Anonymous No.9721183]

still got my RETRO GAMES ARE SHIT AND FOR LOSERS tshirt

[Anonymous No.9721192]

>>9720530
https://www.moddb.com/ is a cool old skool site for game mods.

[Anonymous No.9721279]

>>9720867
Oh man, what a nostalgia trip. I still have some of those RealMedia clips on my PC from years ago.

[Anonymous No.9721287]

>>9720547
I use GameFAQs quite a bit, actually. It still often feels like the best source when you're playing something 6th gen and back.

[Anonymous No.9721305]

>>9720532
>>9720531
The only game forum I know other than /vr/ where an average poster feels like an adult. But if you want the real forbidden oldfag fruit that's craigslists forums, average age there feels about 60.

[Anonymous No.9721310]

>>9721183
Was that blog huge at the time or was I was just in a bubble that loved it? I followed it for years, it was a lot of fun, but I rarely see other people who know about it. That guy later went on to do gadget reviews or something. What's he up to these days I wonder

[Anonymous No.9721372]

>>9721310
I think it was pretty popular among UK games fans at the time, sure. Dunno about further afield, or what they're up to now.

[Anonymous No.9721386]

>>9720530

[Anonymous No.9721387]

>>9720885
I still visit ushi no tane whenever I play harvest moon, it's one of the few places with the most comprehensive information on the old games

[Anonymous No.9721473]

>>9720561
I still remember the first time I saw actual hentai. I don't recall the site's name but I sure remember jerking off to a lot of Kagome and Tifa pics.

[Anonymous No.9721504]

>>9720537
>YTMND is allegedly up still according to some people which also is kind of period correct.

It is

https://kaz.ytmnd.com/

[Anonymous No.9721645]

>you now remember browsing photoshopped mortal kombat images on rat.org in 1995

[Anonymous No.9721652]

>>9720530
Some of my old favorites
>Fansites
https://themushroomkingdom.net/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170117231333/http://www.worldofmi.com/
https://www.spacequest.net/
https://www.oocities.org/timessquare/arcade/7435/

>Reviews
http://www.metzomagic.com/home.php
https://www.angelfire.com/hero/tjekanefir/crpg.htm

>Guides
http://mikesrpgcenter.com/

>Random stuff
http://www.it-he.org/front.php
https://nc.bibanon.org/index-2.html

[Anonymous No.9721662]

[Anonymous No.9721693]

>>9720530
https://neo-geo.com/
https://www.fightersgeneration.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20071008010453/http://www.neogeoforlife.com/news.php
http://www.cammyfan.com/
http://shmups.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020223160809/alluro95.tripod.com/raiden/raidenmain.html

[Anonymous No.9721748]

I've never stopped using FAQs, but here are some old sites I'm fond of:

megaman.retropixel.net
crashmania.net
https://members.tripod.com/jbi_caws/justbringit/

[Anonymous No.9721767]

Used to go to a website called Daily Radar. Was mostly a video games website, but they also did stuff like send an editor to amsterdam for the "amsterdam olympics" which was just the editor smoking weed, taking mushrooms and going to a prostitute.

[Anonymous No.9721787]

tip.it

[Anonymous No.9721794]

>>9720530
punchpedia for beat em ups
hg101 is always a good read, but occasionally some stuff posted there is inaccurate, so I wouldn't use it for in-depth technical stuff/mechanics.

[Anonymous No.9721987]

How many websites here are safe to go to? Kind of want to see what these are.

[Anonymous No.9722000]

>>9721987
Haha you sound so innocent. All websites are safe to go as long as you don't install any exes or insert any credit card data.

These are all fine :D

[Anonymous No.9722006]

https://fogu.com/rk2/

They still update with new harvest moon and story of seasons but it started in 2000.

[Anonymous No.9722020]

I used to go to cheatcodecentral when I was a kid and didn't know about gamefaqs, I'm sure all the side editiorial stuff was absolute garbage but I read it anyways. Revisiting it now the splash screen is a "gaming questions with impractical jokers star" from 4 years ago so assume they tried going absolutely lowest common denominator before conking out and liquidating the staff.

[Anonymous No.9722027]

>>9721748
>megaman.retropixel.net
came for this. this site is great for all the classic megaman ( and x and zero ) games.

[Anonymous No.9722029]

http://7deadlysims.com/

If I trigger even just one person's nostalgia with this I'll be happy

[Anonymous No.9722039]

Zophar's Domain is still up.
I still use RPG Shrine quite often. And the old Wizardry archive site.

[Anonymous No.9722050]

>>9722000
….uuuuuuhhhhh bros? is he telling the truth?

[sage No.9722064]

>>9722050
lol zoomies man. you don't get viruses from going to websites and pictures you newfag. you have to actually download some shit. these kids would have never survived the napster days

[Anonymous No.9722214]

>>9722064
Theres more to it than that like embedded code in advertisements, also I was just making sure I didn’t get sent to some fucked up website or l e m o n partied

[Anonymous No.9722341]

>>9722029
Shit I remember 8th deadly sim being my first time attempting an online purchase. That content was better than any of the modern game's expansions.

[Anonymous No.9722357]

>>9720530
https://krystalarchive.com/

[Anonymous No.9722362]

I used to go to Retrogaming Roundtable/DigitalPress back in the early 00s. There was certainly overlap between them and /b up until the mid-00s, which was clear given how quickly the BioForce Ape 2K MONIES shoops spread over to /b.

[Anonymous No.9722739]

>>9720530
Not that much here but an interesting look at stuff from the late 80's and early 90's.

http://www.textfiles.com/games/

[Anonymous No.9722762]

>>9722064
Back in the Windows 98 days it really was like that. You'd spend ten minutes on the web and have a thousand toolbars and malware up the ass as you tried to chase down a popup that kept evading your mouse pointer. Shit was the wild west.

[Anonymous No.9722803]

>>9720530
Gandalf.com

[Anonymous No.9723004]

>>9720537
https://goodolddeutchland.ytmnd.com/

[Anonymous No.9723071]

>>9722803
https://gandalf.com

[Anonymous No.9723346]

>>9720530
You've made me try to find a couple of my own posts on the Big Gaymen Forums in the mid-2000s. Lots of discussions! Lots of info! Patches and mods! Hints and walkthroughs! Screenshots and fan drawings! The Internet was an exciting place.

Also Usenet FAQs and other knowledge databases collected on websites or generously stuffed into the free space left on bootleg CDs by their makers.

[Anonymous No.9723353]

>>9723346
If you want to experience time traveling, finding old forum posts you wrote is probably the closest thing. It’s really fucking weird. Kind of fun though and occasionally nostalgic.

[Anonymous No.9723379]

>>9720530
A lot of the old DOOM sites I perused in the late 2000's are still up to this day virtually unchanged since I first saw them.

http://toastytech.com/doom/

https://webwonderland.com/arenas2/

https://www.doom2.net/

https://www.doomworld.com/wolfendoom/

http://teamtntmemorial.doomgate.de/

https://archive.org/details/vrmondoproject

[Anonymous No.9723427]

Anybody remembers the OPCFG? The "Organization for the Preservation of Classic Forms of Gaming." I used to browse this site, which I found through the Castlevania Dungeon back in '97 or '98. I couldn't stand 3D games at the time so I was looking for 2D gaming fan sites everywhere I could. The OPCFG was also part of a network of 2D gaming fan sites that featured a small "anti-N64" logo at the bottom of the intro page, pretty hilarious in retrospect. Those were the DAYS.

[Anonymous No.9723440]

>>9722362
Man, I loved Digital Press. I used to browse the forums daily from 2004 to 2006 or so.

[Anonymous No.9723465]

>>9721473
I'd put money on it being aerisdies.com

[Anonymous No.9723480]

Dont know if it counts or if its even still around, but i was on a forum called Revolution Report that was basically just a hype forum to discuss the then not released or name finalized Wii. I recall there was a dev who posted on there with screenshots and info on a launch title survival horror game that ended up never getting released and then another dude who kept evading bans and posting gore in a bunch of threads. When the Wii finally did come out, i think they re named the site to The Wiire.

[Anonymous No.9723492]

couple off the top of my head:

https://www.metroid2002.com/

https://www.fireemblemwod.com/ (spanish)

[Anonymous No.9723534]

>frog on the 'log

[Anonymous No.9723664]

https://www.sca.ch/mario/

[Anonymous No.9724229]

What was the website from about 1996-1999 that would let you vote on what you thought the best game at the time was? You'd cast your one vote and they would put out a weekly chart. You could see where your favorite game ranked each week and at the end of the year. Games that peaked at #1 and spent 50 weeks or peaked at #2 and spent 100 weeks on the chart would go into the Hall of Fame.

[Anonymous No.9724891]

>>9722362
God, that Bio Force Ape hoax was so fucking funny.

[Anonymous No.9724921]

>>9724891
Part 2

[Anonymous No.9724947]

I miss going on Gamewinners.com and having literally half the cheats and secrets be bogus shit someone made up.

I also miss scouring old Pokemon fansites trying to outdo each other making up fake shit about "PokeGods" and how to get them

[Anonymous No.9724953]

nu 4chan, social media, reddit and twitter killed the internet

[Anonymous No.9725056]

>>9724947
Same. To this day, Crash Bash has a cheat code to unlock Tawna on most cheat sites.
>>9724953
this

[Anonymous No.9725073]

>>9720867
>website is still as slow as it was at the time

fucking lel

[Anonymous No.9725096]

>>9724947
I printed out 50 pages of "how to find Luigi in SM64" from n64cc.co

[Anonymous No.9725156]

>>9720530
Most old websites that are still running today seem to be archived versions.

Take the Quake Bible for instance. Technically, you can say it's still up but it's not being worked on anymore. I still base my current Quake configs on it whenever I play Quake on a stanger's computer which is why I have it handy.
https://www.quaketerminus.com/quakebible/index.htm

[Anonymous No.9725407]

>>9725096
In colored ink

[Anonymous No.9725409]

>>9725156
>whenever I play Quake on a stanger's computer
What a life you live

[Anonymous No.9725423]

>>9725156
>be anon
>like retro videogames
>also coincidentally insane
>breaks into homes at night to install retro videogames on peoples computers
>leaves before sunrises but usually eats some of their food before he goes
>home owners notice they have a bunch of weird games on their computers and all their hot pockets are gone

[Anonymous No.9725438]

>>9721693
>cammyfan.com
Holy shit, this shit still exist

[Anonymous No.9725621]

>>9720547
Tales of symphonia FAQ eould trigger me hard

[Anonymous No.9725632]

>>9725407
>>9725096
Soul

[Anonymous No.9725641]

>>9720530
>>9721305
AtariAge is the ultimate patrician's choice, although it only appeals to a certain demographic for obvious reasons

[Anonymous No.9725732]

>>9725096
I printed out pictures from Bionicle original website that had 3d renders of characters and written lore about them. Probably around 2001 or 2002.

[Anonymous No.9725804]

>>9722762
kek I remember those days

[Anonymous No.9725828]

>>9720742
Are these all Zelda themed? Also how do you have your bookmarks still from 2002? are you running the same machine somehow?

[Anonymous No.9725836]

>>9723071
>>9722803
What’s this one about?

[Anonymous No.9725854]

>>9725836
Gandy

[Anonymous No.9725859]

>>9725854
An entire website dedicated to the lord of the rings character?

[Anonymous No.9725869]

>>9725859
No the Indian dude

[Anonymous No.9725923]

>>9725869
>you shall not redeem

[Anonymous No.9726062]

>>9723465
Oh yeah. that brings me back. I can literally remember my old room growing up lmao

[Anonymous No.9726093]

>>9720530
HappyPuppy

[Anonymous No.9726123]

>>9725828
its when happens when you do "import bookmarks" over and over again from computer to computer i pretty much have over 200 bookmarks from 2000-2006 just because of that lol

[Anonymous No.9727519]

>>9726093
Why does that logo look like a fursona?

[Anonymous No.9727530]

>>9727519
Because the artist of the one on the right almost assuredly draws furry porn.

[Anonymous No.9727862]

>>9720530
Vimm.net

[Anonymous No.9727945]

>this thread
Also, remember when gbatemp used to list scene releases on the front page? Now they're trying too hard to be a "legit" news site, focusing way more on just standard mainstream gaming news that you can get from any other source instead of focusing on console hacking/emulation/romhacks/piracy.

[Anonymous No.9727986]

https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/

I also had some quality time shitposting on GameFAQs, Newgrounds, and Nsider Forums back in the day.

[Anonymous No.9727991]

>>9720553
Oh my God, I feel my bones turn to dust

[Anonymous No.9727992]

>>9727986
I, too, was a member of Nintendo's Nsider forums. The only forums I ever joined in my whole life. Never even migrated to the unofficial Nsider2 after the official ones got converted into pure tech support after the Wii's launch.

[Anonymous No.9728000]

>>9727986
holy shit what a flashback

[Anonymous No.9728012]

kneel millennizoomies

[Anonymous No.9728112]

>>9728012
Seems like a nice place but who the hell wants to discuss gen 2... Not you, otherwise you'd have a gen 2 thread up.

[Anonymous No.9728287]

I found this PunchOut!!! page I used to browse as a young autistic kid.

http://www.showbizpizza.com/tomspunchout/

[Anonymous No.9728453]

>>9720561
Dude I was just thinking about VGGTS World. Can't believe those stories are almost 20 years old

[Anonymous No.9728454]

Do you guys remember websites where people would share ripped videogame sprites that people would use for their own projects? Fuck bros. I remember making an animation of gundam heavy arms fighting deathscythe with some old snes sprites. FUUUUCK BROS I want to go back.

[Anonymous No.9728458]

>>9728454
They never went away dude
https://www.spriters-resource.com/

[Anonymous No.9728494]

>>9727986
This one got me.

[Anonymous No.9728682]

>>9720530
Check Zophar to see how many emulator projects were around in the early years

[Anonymous No.9728915]

>>9722029
>http://7deadlysims.com/
I have not thought about this site ONCE in the last 20 years, good god. It's amazing how you can completely forget about shit that's still tightly locked away waiting to be brought back.

[Anonymous No.9729318]

>>9727945
Goddamn website design has gone down the shitter with the advent of smart phones. So much filler and useless banners that take up the entire page.

[Anonymous No.9729326]

It's down, but I'll always remember the Eatpoo website's mascot, the Apedog, after finding it in a hidden alcove in Chicken Island West in Tak and the Power of Juju. I always thought it was just a secret Juju God shrine I couldn't unlock, until years later I discovered the truth.

[Anonymous No.9729382]

>>9728112
Gen 2 is more than just atari shit, there's also early 80s computing people talk about there

[Anonymous No.9729417]

>>9720561
Dragon Moon X was the first time I ever saw hentai and my mind was blown. Turned into a massive coomer hentai fiend after that.

[Anonymous No.9730281]

>>9729318
I always wondered why I had vague memories of most website seeming more straightforward to navigate. not just that but ironically even if they did experiment a bit and make a unique or interesting website design it usually still was more intuitive than a lot of modern websites that are both bland and sterile but also often times confusing or difficult to navigate.

[Anonymous No.9730364]

Racketboy
Snackbar games
Retro-sanctuary
Sydlexia
Retrogamer magazine website
Archive.org
Mobygames
Emuparadise
Emulation general wiki
/v/ recommended games wiki
Pcgamingwiki
Time extension
Ign old reviews from 90's and 2000's
Some retro features on nintendolife, pushsquare, outsidexbox, eurogamer, gamesradar, rockpapershotgun
old-games dot com (they used to have free downloads now paywalled but its good to discover and read about old pc games on the catalog)
Hardcoregaming101
IPDB
BYOAC

[Anonymous No.9730413]

Home of the Underdogs

[Anonymous No.9730458]

Use https://theoldnet.com/
Gamewinners is a fun one to see and it's actually useful.

[sister Joe No.9730531]

>>9730413
china contra iran ronald regin

[Anonymous No.9730903]

>>9729318
>>9730281
delusional
you're using a MSPaint recreation of someone else's gilded memory as a reference, websites were just as bogged down with banners, popups and sidebar ads back in the day, why do you think adblock came into existence in 2002

[Anonymous No.9730910]

>>9730903
You’re wrong

[Anonymous No.9730915]

>>9730458
What’s this one?

[Anonymous No.9730918]

>>9730910
you crave simpler times when you were still young, your life didn't suck so much dick and the internet was still fun for you, don't lie to yourself

[Anonymous No.9730947]

>>9730903
>>9730918
>he didn't browse online using WebTV.

[Anonymous No.9730956]

Anyone remember Camp Hyrule? Was some official Nintendo forum thing that went up in the summer and had some exclusive shit to do in it, im assuming like simple flash games. Nintendo Power always hyped it, but i only remember signing up once for it and i either never participated or don't remember anything from it.

[Anonymous No.9733250]

>>9720530
https://mmhp.net (updated with new games though, but the aesthetic is still the same)

[Anonymous No.9733328]

Hardcore gaming 101
It used to be the best site for spending hours reading about games and comparing systems. Really knowledgeable and smart folks.

Then they started writing books and stopped giving a fuck about the site about 5 years ago.

But.... The old articles are still up. Their podcast is cancer and they sound like actual retards, so maybe the ppl who wrote the original articles have long gone

[Anonymous No.9733336]

>>9733328
I think something happened in the 2010s that mindbroke some of them.

[Anonymous No.9733368]

>>9733336
they were always bad. surface level insights at best, and when mobile gaming got off the ground they peppered every feature with dumbass pleas for 30+ year old arcade games to be ported to Iphone. on top of that, the whole John S/Agness Kaku legal drama would need a thread of its own to sum up its stupidity. HG101 has never been credible.

[Anonymous No.9733970]

>>9730918
Do you remember what old websites looked like?

[Anonymous No.9734050]

>>9733328
Yeah, they are long gone.
The podcast is bizarre, because I listened to one episode out of curiosity and it sounds like they don't even like games whatsoever, more so the need to act as a historian.
Overall they're fine for surface level material and should be used as a gateway to other credible sources. I'm not gonna complain that they have a page up about The Scheme or whatever. But understand the insights on basic game design are very shallow, which people seem to struggle with. Like any passing knowledge about the subject and you understand they're just spouting BS. I know the STG community has had issues with getting game facts completely wrong. Maybe they were always bad and our standards were just low. I don't hate em though. Better to have that gateway than nothing at all.
>>9733368
What happened with John S? Isn't that the writer of the Untold History books?

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>>9720561
Vgbabes, hell yes

[Anonymous No.9734080]

>>9720530
vimm.net

[Anonymous No.9734083]

>>9734050
HG101 is fantastic for getting a digestible understanding of an entire franchise from a source that isn't too "in the weeds" like you'd get from a dedicated fanbase. With some games you can get lost trying to understand how the games relate to each other. It's great to be like "I know nothing about Shin Megami Tensei. Let me check HG101" and have it be easy to understand. There's really nothing else like it.

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>>9734050
>What happened with John S? Isn't that the writer of the Untold History books?
shortest tl;dr I can make: John S put up a highly controversial interview with Metal Gear Solid 2 translator Agness Kaku. this interview brought heat from her former employers and was taken down within days, leading to Streisand effect and mass mirroring. afterwards, John hired Agness and her sister as translators for the interviews he would do with Japanese developers for his first book project. then, something unclear but really stupid happened while they were in Japan. Agness' sister got fired by John in a dramatic manner, Agness realized that the HG101 interview got her blacklisted from the industry, and John apparently claimed an allergy to wireless communications and loitered in the hotel room for days on end without getting anything done. afterwards, everyone sued each other and John flew to France to avoid getting served (didn't work). I don't know how the lawsuits ended because I lost interest.

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>>9734050
>Maybe they were always bad and our standards were just low. I don't hate em though. Better to have that gateway than nothing at all.
HG101 were prominent at a time new games journalism was the big idea being pushed everywhere. they were better than THAT certainly, but our standards were indeed very low and something barebones and reasonably comprehensive was refreshing compared to galaxy brained "reviewers" like Gillen or Icycalm.

[Anonymous No.9734451]

>>9728682
I find it shocking you're the first one to bring up zophar domain's. Considering how culturally important it is. AND dude is still updating it to this day with emulator stuff and etc.

[Anonymous No.9734460]

i don't know why, but i really like going to cdromance and seeing what dumb games / hacks he decided to add this week. It doesn't have a complete library but it doesn't really need to. and lately a lot of people are refusing to put up their translations up on RHDN so it's nice to keep up with the translations that are being released

[Anonymous No.9734464]

One of my favourite things to do back then was browsing RPG monster and boss sprites. RPGClassics had a bunch for their various shrines, as well as random other sites like Square-N Classics. https://rpg.retropixel.net/mana2/bosses/

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>>9734460
>and lately a lot of people are refusing to put up their translations up on RHDN

I'm afraid to ask why people are refusing to put up their translations onto the longest-running repository of romhacks on the web. I am.
Because I know it's going to be something involving politics. But I gotta know.

[Anonymous No.9734587]

I didn't need these feels this early in the morning.
Then again I did this to myself by going on /vr/

[Anonymous No.9734604]

There was a time not long ago when you could go to google and specify a date range to find cool old shit or old ass articles on long forgotten blogs. Nowadays it seems that google just scrapes whatever date it can find in the page and/or sites are manipulating metadata or whatever and the actual creation date doesn't fucking matter anymore.

[sage No.9734609]

>>9724947
This was fucking bullshit if you didn't have a printer and were printing off cheats somewhere else

[Anonymous No.9734708]

>>9734604
Google's search algorithm is completely fucked. Many will say it's by design, but I blame incompetence.

[Anonymous No.9734713]

>>9720553

Ah man. The first forum I ever joined. I forgot the name. I'm dead.

[Anonymous No.9734714]

>>9734708
They just fired a couple thousands of vegans, let's just wait and see.

[Anonymous No.9734717]

>>9734708

It's geared completely toward sales and advertising instead of actual utility these days. They are trading on an old name and reputation to fool boomers and zoomers.

[Anonymous No.9734724]

>>9734717
They're "trading" nothing. They've become too big to fail domestically and a monopolist abroad. There is one thing that the US govt doesn't and will not allow in the future, regardless of who wins the elections, and it's important corporations collapsing when they could be helped back up.

[Anonymous No.9734728]

>>9734717
Yeah, but I drive trucks for a living and use Google Maps from time-to-time, and ho-eeshit does blow chunks.
Some "vegan" decided that because -technically- you can save 1m in your commute through bypassing main freeways and causeways that means it's a good idea to zigzag through backwoods, single-lane country roads where there's nowhere to pull over, or stop for 50-100 miles.

And even if you tell it you don't want that route, it will constantly try to send you on it, and not even tell you it's reverted back to the "fuel-saving/time-saving route"

Sorry. Not-/vr/.
/rant

[Anonymous No.9734956]

>>9734570
I don't exactly know myself, I think everyone carries their own reason for it, I don't really follow it much. The most known controversy that I remember was that goemon translation that used "tranny" in a translation (or a similar term I hardly remember) and they sperged out about it refusing to host the romhack or something. It's honestly hard to keep track of this menial drama

[Anonymous No.9734964]

>>9734956
Oh god. That.
Yeah. I remember that. The guy explained it in a very reasonable manner that there was no other English phrase to use what was already a mildly offensive (in a harmless way) line in the game.

Nevermind, I'm sorry I asked now.

[Anonymous No.9735049]

>>9734728
>Some "vegan" decided that because -technically- you can save 1m in your commute through bypassing main freeways and causeways that means it's a good idea to zigzag through backwoods, single-lane country roads where there's nowhere to pull over, or stop for 50-100 miles.
It's not the "vegans", it's the eye in the sky coming to terms with how you can't be a god in a world subjected to the third law of thermodynamics. Over time, systems get lossy and increasingly failure-prone, even if they were designed by competent and forward thinking people. This stuff won't ever get fixed beyond someone slapping on a bandaid, because future-proofing cybernetics is literally a step up from squaring the circle. I wish I had something positive to say here to finish this post, but there's just no way in hell things will get any better. We're on borrowed time, and in the end we all just get fucked.

[Anonymous No.9735141]

What went wrong?

[Anonymous No.9735576]

This site
http://www.caiman.us/
You could download tons of fangames, I think
In particular, I found this one and it was good
http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f2717.html

[Anonymous No.9735594]

I used to frequent some Kirby fansite as a kid that hosted a lot of fun fangames. I vividly remember playing an RPG Maker fangame that I liked cause of the atmosphere. I ain't even that old which is the funny part.

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>>9734604
>>9734708
It's on purpose. They also removed the "order by oldest" for youtube. Gladly the "before: year" still works.

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>>9724947
I still use it.
https://theoldnet.com/get?url=gamewinners.com&year=2013&scripts=false&decode=false

[Anonymous No.9736095]

>>9728012
Guess Atari's still coming out on top.

[Anonymous No.9736127]

I've been revisiting some of the old Final Fantasy games lately and guides.gamercorner.net is such a great companion website to the games.
it's filled with info about every single enemy, location, mechanic, etc and it just makes the games much more fun to play and easy to understand to me
a shame it doesn't cover FF5 tho :c

[Anonymous No.9736145]

>>9730903
Dude, even with adblock on, websites now constantly assault you with popups begging you to accept cookies, subscribe to newsletters, give them money, download apps, etc.
And FUCK endless scroll. Now, if i want to go through the archive of something, my options are to either never turn my computer off so my position isnt lost, or remember my position and scroll ALL the way back to it. Or, more commonly, just give up. Websites today really do not want you reading old content, they want you always on the newest thing. Even if that old content might have interesting content that you want to see. News sites even put up scary red text warnings like "THIS ARTICLE IS OVER X YEARS OLD". As if information from the distant past of 2014 must be completely irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.9736163]

>>9734708
google used to kind of be like valve in that they could shield themselves from any criticism with competence, simply being so far ahead of the competition it wasn't even close. Now they're the black heart of corporate memphis and their search engine blows.

[Anonymous No.9736654]

I read about Blackman on here. Other stuff too. I guess I learned about culture.

The sites pretty much dead now after the admin's wife committed suicide after fighting depression.

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>>9720531
I got suspended for violence recently by misgendering a video game character

[Anonymous No.9736670]

>>9733328
I only know them cause I bought Ikaruga for the Switch (I emulated at 33% speed on Dolphin gamecube emulator as a kid). Anyway, they had a good article.

[Anonymous No.9736675]

i remember there was a nintendo fansite, i think it was just straight up called NintendoLand. They used to have sections for zelda and mario, but i remember they used to have a page in the zelda section full of fan art that people drew. it was cool.

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>>9730903
retard

[Anonymous No.9736679]

>>9730903
retard

[Anonymous No.9736680]

>>9730903
retard

[Anonymous No.9736686]

>>9730903
retard

[Anonymous No.9736881]

>>9736686
How many visitors since 9/6/99?? I can't see the counter how will I know???

[Anonymous No.9737679]

>>9720561
AerisDies holy shit it was literally called AerisDies why are there so many fucking children on this board

[Anonymous No.9737681]

>>9720530
I use GameFAQs when I need to look up shit for an old game but I haven't used the forums since I think 2011.

[Anonymous No.9737703]

>>9720719
I have a soft spot for its shittiness. I will never forget this image, and bonus points for being retro now.

[Anonymous No.9737705]

>>9736679
>mobile WAP version
This isn't really a thing anymore, but I love really simple websites. Here's a collection.
https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html

[Anonymous No.9737718]

>>9737679
Chill, people just forget things.
I've been thinking about making a github page with a list of old websites I used to visit every time I remember one.

[Anonymous No.9737738]

>>9736654
Man i loved this site, saved a bunch of old gifs from there. Randomly going on one night years later and reading about his wife was something else.