Old VGF. (News Forum, reviews, etc.)

[glux]

needs more shoutbox

There's a WoT for that.

/iPhone reference

[Metal Man]

I, for one, do not miss the shoutbox; I always blocked it.

[Galefore]

Eh. I had some good times in the Shoutbox, so I can't say I hated it, though I did always prefer the early stages of the shoutbox to the error-ridden final version we used for the longest time.

[Deku Tree]

oh man I just now thought of vgf as "video game forums"

:(

I was a member for a few months before I realized it was Video Gamers First.

[Bad Dragonite]

*remembers the many names and recovers from death-beating*

"Vibrating Grizzly Feeder" was a nice one.

[Metal Man]

Eh. I had some good times in the Shoutbox, so I can't say I hated it, though I did always prefer the early stages of the shoutbox to the error-ridden final version we used for the longest time.

Yeah, even I used it a little in the early stages of it. Later on it became a nuisance.

[Apiary Tazy]

It was also were alot of arguments between Bandit and Bartman started if I remember.

[Bad Dragonite]

I remember using it a bit in its last days. I wasn't sure where exactly it went for a while there, and never read an official message, so I figured it was either just taken down, or made a donaters/admins/mods thing only.

[spooky scary bearatons]

It just feels like a million years ago, but I still miss the old VGF. Call it what you want, the old UBB had a cleaner, more compact look; but there was more to it than that.

The News Forum, with its non-automated news posts, Bolt, and the debates it had put to shame the PP&R flaming and Shanebot junk. The old Gunjin buzzed with activity, and little of it was bickering or godmodding. NC was alive with Jay's comix; Nintendoland actually had something to do with us and had monthly DeathMatches, and the Liedholms even posted here.

The Misc. Forum had the header thing, and Tunbs posting there with his amusing replies; there was sort of a happiness then that is gone now, dead and empty. The main site was a real site, with reviews and life. It had staff members who also posted on the forums, and a lot more of them than today.

Fewer forums existed and those which did were variously pruned or ensured to be in decent condition; no zombie forums were allowed back then. There were also many tens to even hundreds of more users, and they were fairly active.

There was a wide and vibrant, shining community. Much was possible, and much was done. It was sort of a Mecca for discussion.

But, alas... it is gone forever. Most of the members here joined after it died (primarily 2005 or later) and those who were there are too few in number to recapture it. UBB became untenable due to idiotic management by the people who made the software; the dot-com bust led to the firing of all the staff who didn't feel like doing it for free.

Jay went to College; the Liedholms vanished for years, then later gave away control of Nintendoland to punk children who didn't understand the old site and just paved it over with a generiblog format that basically killed everything (including that site TML slaved on, it's gone now too.) The Gunjin greats by and large left; the remnants slave away at something which has nothing to do with what the place was founded on.

The snarky ones are gone; WEAPON, Tritoch and co. are gone, and Lurch only posts occasionally. The big posters such as Golem and Kirbyking also went out to lunch. Others, like Dopefish, split off and made their own communities. The News Forum was mysteriously combined into Misc...

...Then both the old Misc and News forum were obliterated and replaced with a limp-wristed general forum.

Ah well. I guess I should stop thinking about it so much. It was silly to think it'd last at all; it was all sort of a dot-com boom thing, anyway...

*Shrugs and trudges on in the gray, dreary VGF of today, wandering by the smashed wreckage of the News Forum, covered in tabloid newspapers thrown everywhere by Shanebot*

for this topic set your glasses to lolnostaligia

[LOOT]

rose tinted glasses on gooooo

[Metal Man]

I present to you, the Captain Obviouses of VGF.

[DarkZero]

*remembers the many names and recovers from death-beating*

"Vibrating Grizzly Feeder" was a nice one.

I remember it once being 'Very Generic Forums', but we realized that it had the word 'Eric' in it, so we had to change it.

[Metal Man]

There was also NetGen Forums.

I made all of 2000ish posts there. Even got the post count added onto here. How quaint.

[Bad Dragonite]

and of course Virginian Goat Farmers (I think that was actually listed as the name for a while. I'm not sure though.)

[Deepfake]

remember dai grepher?

oh no one does because ai refuses to archive it :mad:

That was just Luigi 64 aka Platinum Luigi.

Evidence: http://www.vgf.com/forums/metroid-forum ... eline.html

[Metal Man]

Somehow I am not surprised if it was Luigi 64. Wonder if I have him confused with the Luigi 64 who beat people up in the Gunjin with the pimp stick. Then again, that guy's name was SUPER Luigi 64.

[Rainbow Dash]

Wow, an easy way to keep track of AI's past PDNs is to look at the "last posted in by" section in the metroid forum.

e: also did the wikipedia article ever go to arbitration?

[Metal Man]

No; according to the archived talk, Dai Grepher eventually imploded after being informed that ArbCom would simply laugh him off due to results of a poll.

[Deepfake]

Somehow I am not surprised if it was Luigi 64. Wonder if I have him confused with the Luigi 64 who beat people up in the Gunjin with the pimp stick. Then again, that guy's name was SUPER Luigi 64.

Yeah, SL64 is a totally different guy.

[heh]

i miss tubs

thats about it really, maybe some other folks, they don't stick to my mind as well