The Official Gaming Sites in 1995-2005 Topic

[Sonicwolf]

I wonder how many instances of the "Under Construction" animated gif will pop up in this thread alone.

[jb143]

I had never been to the old Sega site before. I never realized they had playable PC version demo's you could download. The files are still there on the archive site too!

[sebastiankirchoff]

I remember printing a Final Fantasy Guide off of one of those old sites back in 99 or 2000. It helped me alot, even though I was only 6 or 7 years old and barely understood the concept of RPG's.

[orangest]

The ol' RGVCers certainly remember Mr. Michael J. Novak-
http://web.archive.org/web/199701141....com/~vga2000/

Nice to see TSR's NES archive is still functioning-
http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/

I feel like I'm should be using a different browser somehow...

[Nirvana]

DON'T GO TO THE FINAL FANTASY WEBSITE I'M ABOUT TO POST, ALL THE LINKS TRY TO ATTACK YOUR COMPUTER WITH A VIRUS

But ffgurus.net used to have awesome information on FFVII and FFVIII, and it was an insanely popular forum from late 1999-2000. It continued to be popular, but it slowly died down. It just recently closed down, as the guy who owned the domain or whatever forgot to pay for the site. It's a shame, I lost contact with pretty much all those guys.

Also, gamesages.com was the site I used to go to for video games; it used to be affiliated with gamefaqs. Excellent site. I miss it. GameFaQs pretty much won the battle between all video game websites.

[Dire 51]

So who remembers the OPCFG (b. 1998, d. 2006, r. 2008)? Good times, good times.

[Haoie]

With the end of Geocities: What a total waste!

[Famidrive-16]

I'm still surprised World of Nintendo is still up:

http://world-of-nintendo.com/

Although a shortcut in Mario 64 I sent in there when I was 10 is no longer up, sigh...

[Breakpack]

I remember the first emulation site I visited was Hitman games back in late '97.It had a 'Sail Away' midi playing in the background,lol!Dave's Arcade and Emuchrist were among other emu sites.I used to think Dave was Dr. Dave from Gamepro

[DragonMaster Sam]

I remember the first emulation site I visited was Hitman games back in late '97.It had a 'Sail Away' midi playing in the background,lol!Dave's Arcade and Emuchrist were among other emu sites.I used to think Dave was Dr. Dave from Gamepro

I used to remember alot of emulator/rom sites back in the day, like Emurater.

And speaking of old sites, there's one I used to visit called NintendoLand. The site is still up, but it hasn't been updated in about 8 years.

[Enigmus]

And speaking of old sites, there's one I used to visit called NintendoLand. The site is still up, but it hasn't been updated in about 8 years.

On the contrary. They've announced they're going to rehaul the site after years of abandonment. Last updated August 4.
And I searched OPCFG, and Google said it might harm my computer. Dang.

[PentiumMMX]

One I liked was NES Worldwide (Not to be confused with the more well-known site, NES World). It was one of very few (read: about 3 or 4) NES sites that actually talked about the NES and it's games instead of mindlessly bashing the N64 and\or Gamestop.

Probably the best part of the site was a section called Game Genie WeirdNES, where people would submit Game Genie codes that caused all kinds of weird and sometimes cool effects on various games. I always had such fun playing around with the codes they had; seeing what all they'd do.

Oddly enough, the site was shut down a few months after the owner of the site joked about shutting it down on April Fool's Day back in 2003; evidently joking about closing your site is just as good as seriously telling people you're going to close it.

I'm still surprised World of Nintendo is still up:

http://world-of-nintendo.com/

I loved that site as a kid for the Worst Nintendo Experiences people would submit. I have a backup of all the stories they used to have saved on my flash drive in a basic text file, because I enjoyed reading them so much as a kid.

[YoshiM]

I'm still surprised World of Nintendo is still up:

http://world-of-nintendo.com/

Although a shortcut in Mario 64 I sent in there when I was 10 is no longer up, sigh...

Oh man! I totally forgot about that site. I had written a couple reviews like WWF Warzone for the N64. Unfortunately a login is required to read it.

Anyone remember the old Happy Puppy site? I used to go there often back in the late 90's to find PC game demos.

This is probably one of the first gaming sites I visited regularly after I got an N64: the aptly named N64.com , waay back before IGN was the huge media site it is today.

Or how about the old Gamespot, another first for gaming news for me. Hey look, they even have a "low band" version for faster surfing!

Dang, I'm getting all nostalgic here.

[Baloo]

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!

Watch out, don't play those games, they may work but they just tried to give my computer the Bladerunner virus through Shockwave Adobe shit. Luckily Spybot stopped it.

Watch out! Although it's cool that the sites are still up.

[rbudrick]

Anyone remember VGR's Homepage?

He had a bunch of lists of games for many systems, long before I knew about DP. I still use these lists to this day as checklists. What ever happened to that site, or VGR for that matter?

-Rob

[p_b]

Davesclassics, before it turned into a virus-throwing crapfest of a site.

[badinsults]

Anyone remember the site Gamers Intelligence Agency? I have no idea what the URL was, but this was a pretty good site. It shut down because they could not pay for hosting.

[Breetai]

I remember the first emulation site I visited was Hitman games back in late '97.It had a 'Sail Away' midi playing in the background...

Hey, I remember that!

I used to always download stuff from "The Dump." Great site for Genesis and Turbographx-16 stuff. I wasn't too concerned with SNES roms since my Pentium 75 didn't handle them too well. Genesis and TG-16 games were a breeze, though.

[Enigmus]

Watch out, don't play those games, they may work but they just tried to give my computer the Bladerunner virus through Shockwave Adobe shit. Luckily Spybot stopped it.

Watch out! Although it's cool that the sites are still up.

I need no worries about the games. I have Kaspersky. That thing blocks EVERYTHING. Hell, when I open Kega, it sometimes thinks the keyboard support is a keylogger.

[Enigmus]

Sorry about double post, but anyone ever seen one of the first wikipedias?
http://web.archive.org/web/200211301...wikipedia.org/