TNL Is Ten Years Young

[No One]

Somebody should recommend TNL for the board-approved gaming sites.

My only real interaction with ECM was back during the Gamefan days, right after Grandia was released for the Saturn. He did a two page write-up on the import and used my plot summary/translation I had posted on my old website when he played through it. He emailed to ask if it would be alright if he gave me a little shout-out in the article (which he totally did). I was thrilled. I talked to shidoshi a few times via email back then too. Back when he had that great website with the Blue Mary shrine. :P

Not sure how I found TNL. I remember I was living in Kentucky at the time. Think I just ran a search through Google for a game I was playing and happened to get a thread here in the results. I read through it, and there was a link to Jeremy's infamous Shenmue 2 review thread, which had me crying I was laughing so hard. I spent the next five years lurking and digesting the wiki before it was lost.

[Almaci]

And gamefan before that, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah the memories.

[Mman]

fuck we are old.

[Diff-chan]

We should all go register and ask for our $20.

I want the $50 I spent on Stretch Panic at release.

[shidoshi]

The CG Anime shrines were a pretty blatant rip off of that. Which were one of the first attempts at a massive image board. Then separately japan came up with 2chan in 1999 and moot ripped off 2chan to make a fluid version of what the CGshrines were doing.

The person who ran the CG Shrines even admitted to me that he ripped of my website. *heh*

Do we have any screenshots or anything of the TNL forums from before the influx of GameGO refugees? I have this vague memory of what they looked like, but then I also think I'm getting the TNL forums mixed up with some other forums (one where one of the main mods was female).

[Razor Ramon]

I just remembered no one here really played SF well so I went back to SRK. It took me a while to come back and enjoy these boards, but in the process I just passed over a ton of shit that happened.

[Fe 26]

If only it would have lasted

[bahn]

Here is some random stuff I came across:

http://web.archive.org/web/200008160...3-preview.html

http://web.archive.org/web/200008160...ial/index.html (includes a feature written by former IGN EIC, Makaze (Jeremy Dunham)

http://web.archive.org/web/200008150.../UltraBoard.pl (long before we jumped to new software. Kenshin called the pre-Fight Club board, the Flame Board)

http://web.archive.org/web/200006180...aff/index.html (the old staff page)

[Nash]

I know I joined back in college, but it doesn't feel like 10 years. It's been lots of good times here. I've never met anyone here in person, but I consider most of you as friends. I've shared some big moments of my life here (i.e., wedding) and you guys got me through some tougher times (i.e., law school). I don't post as much now because of work and other time constraints, but I'll always be around. Here's to another 10 years.

[GohanX]

Ah, memories. I didn't know that Jeremy Dunham was Makaze.