The Official Gaming Sites in 1995-2005 Topic

[Enigmus]

http://web.archive.org/web/199612221....nintendo.com/

Anyone here remember this or not?

http://web.archive.org/web/199612192.../www.sega.com/

My, it still has most of the images! And Sega actually looked good back then!

Okay, on to the point: anyone ever used Archive.org to recapture memories of old gaming websites? I'm looking for a link to the archived page for the official site for Mario Sunshine. I have good visual memory of that, but it'd be good to see it again.

[MetalFRO]

Man, I remember the SEGA website looking like that, though I don't remember being graced by the "SEGA!" yell upon visiting. Makes me feel old :P

[Cloud121]

I was a huge Sega arcade junkie as a kid in the mid nineties. I remember the good ol' days of going to the Sega site and drooling over owning a Saturn so I could have Virtua Fighter 2. Didn't get my Saturn until Sunday August 19, 2000. But that's a whole other thread I have in mind for the future.

I still go back to the whole site from time to time just to bring back those memories.

[Steve W]

I always liked the Atari website back then, when they were barely trying to put out the word about the Jaguar. I guess they had just given up by 1996. And I remember Apple's eWorld online service had a crappy browser that made it hard to surf the web after around a dozen web pages. I also remember seeing the site in 640 by 480 with 256 colors rather than the glorious 1280 by 854 with millions of colors I use on my laptop.

http://web.archive.org/web/199610291...www.atari.com/

[Zap!]

My site, Zap! went up around January, 1997 via Geocities and STILL up.

In January of 2009, for the first time in 10 years, I updated it and moved it to www.zaponline.org, adding forums.

[Haoie]

How many people even had internet back then?

Time sure flies.

[snes_collector]

Wow, thanks for the links. Since I didn't have a computer at this point, it's my first time seeing these pages. It's crazy how websites were so much simplier back then. Very cool.

[jb143]

My site, Zap! went up around January, 1997 via Geocities and STILL up.

In January of 2009, for the first time in 10 years, I updated it and moved it to www.zaponline.org, adding forums.

Speaking of Geocities...It's going away this October. Just think of all that old, not updated in ages stuff just dissapearing. A piece of internet history just going *poof*. Sure it was mainly flashing animated gifs but there's still some good stuff on there too.

[Zap!]

Speaking of Geocities...It's going away this October. Just think of all that old, not updated in ages stuff just dissapearing. A piece of internet history just going *poof*. Sure it was mainly flashing animated gifs but there's still some good stuff on there too.

What, I didn't hear of this! So my old site will be forever gone?

[Enigmus]

http://web.archive.org/web/200107021.../www.xbox.com/
Xbox in 2002. Crazy.

http://web.archive.org/web/199812031...igitpress.com/
Well, lookie what I found!

http://web.archive.org/web/199812120....nintendo.com/
Nintendo in 1998.

Also, some of the old shockwave games on the Sega site STILL WORK. After 12 YEARS.
Also, White Knight, better archive your site, and Archive.org better archive the ENTIRE Geocities site, and fast!

[jb143]

What, I didn't hear of this! So my old site will be forever gone?

Yup...though they will let you transfer it to a non-free yahoo account

[Enigmus]

Yup...though they will let you transfer it to a non-free yahoo account

Remember when Geocities actually consisted of city-like webpage areas?

[jb143]

Also, White Knight, better archive your site, and Archive.org better archive the ENTIRE Geocities site, and fast!

That's what I'm thinking too...There's plenty of late 90's gaming sites on there all set to self destruct. And Yahoo isn't doing much to let people know. I got an email last week that I almost missed but that was it.

[Enigmus]

http://www.geocities.com/nintendogandw/
Found a G&W site on the first search.
http://www.geocities.com/nintendopes/index.html?20093
Last updated September 16 2001. Classic.
http://www.geocities.com/snappa_fcw/sega.html
2002. Also an example of old web design.
http://www.geocities.com/mario64sss/index.htm
Ancient Mario 64 guide.

Man, Geocities is a museum. OLD.
Also, anyone who still has links to their or their friends' old Geocities pages, post some links. So there's a chance someone whill make archive copies.

[Blanka789]

There are tons of these sites that I used to visit and have searched out time and time again, but with no luck in finding them.

Hopefully they won't be lost completely.

[badinsults]

http://web.archive.org/web/200106020...ain/setup.html

A very early incarnation of my website. Oh how things have changed! Hard to believe back then how much frames were in use.

[BydoEmpire]

Hah, wow, I used to have a geocities site. Seems like ages ago.

DailyRadar.com was my big "mainstream" site back then.

[Greg2600]

Most of the official sites back then were pretty pointless. Using the Internet Archive is great, but with geocities, lycos, xoom, aol, netscape, etc. sites long deleted, it's difficult. They often had addresses that were impossible to remember. For the most part, I think the only game sites I visited in the late 90's and early 2000's were to download roms.

[Gentlegamer]

For the most part, I think the only game sites I visited in the late 90's and early 2000's were to download roms.

Ditto. Emulation Excitement and The Dump were my favs (long since deactivated).

[joshnickerson]

Lord, I made all kinds of sites in Geocities back in the late 90's. I remember they had a really shitty and limited upload program that didn't work half the time, and there were stupid pop-ups, but dang it, we all loved it! Animated GIFS, MIDIs playing relentlessly in the background... those were the days.

And holy crap, I actually found my old site using WayBack... been years since I even THOUGHT about it...
http://web.archive.org/web/200404040...om/ofnstudios/