The good old days???

[Stupot]

I wish I had been around to try and romance this Miss Chelle character... she sounds interesting.

[magintz]

No Monkey, Magintz is being totally fair. ezboard, The problem with Yahtzee, those were the good old days.

I want to reply to that but don't know what to say It made me laugh... sigh I do miss the good old days.

Perhaps now I'll be one post closer to "breaking out the bubbly"

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

The ezboard days really weren't that interesting to be honest, aside from being the genesis of what is now a strong community and piece of development software.  You've got to realize that with a few exceptions, (CJ, myself, a few others) most of the now 'established' members were just punk kids back then and therefore wholly uninteresting (unless you're a pedophile).

ESPECIALLY AGA!  

[Sluggo]

Some people come back and periodically read the forums...

[Erenoth]

Class of 02, the graduation year when the girls snuck into the guys shower's caught us all naked getting ready for the ceremony. I got so many phone numbers that year...........lol

[Radiant]

I will say a tale of two kingdoms was brillant and that definatly takes me back however it seems like alot of game creators are on hiatous or have moved on.

Thanks, but I've never been on a hiatous, really. I just don't post all that much.

[LimpingFish]

Summer '04.

5+ years dedication to anything is quite an achievement for one so breathtakingly undisciplined as myself.

I often wonder if moving on in general (as life seems to drive us to) is what we all should eventually do, but that leads me to heavier cosmic questions which I'm just not cut out to handle.

[Ponch]

I often wonder if moving on in general (as life seems to drive us to) is what we all should eventually do...

I plan to be here until CJ turns the lights out or until I finish the Barn Runner series -- which, at the rate I'm going, will occur just shortly before the heat death of the universe.

[Wesray]

Like others before me have said, life goes on. One member leaves, a new one joins the community.

I myself have been reading the forums since 2004, but only recently joined the club (yeah, I'm some kind of super lurker, so what? ). Lets hope AGS and the community will exist for a long, long time.

[Stee]

I've been here on and off for the past 5 years. It's the only community I really come back to. I might've missed "the good old days", but there are some good times I've had geeking on here, and some worthy topics to contribute too. I can never guarantee I will always be active, sometimes I come on here for a brief while and disappear for long periods of time, but I know I will never leave (which may be considered unfortunate  )

Unfortunately my infrequency on the forums means I never know where I stand with some people, as chances are they don't remember me from the last time I was here ( I was up until a few months ago inactive for about 2 years).

Its a good place to be and I don't understand why people feel the need to permanently disappear in the first place.

[Gilbert]

Ah, the good old days...






I've been here for more than 10 years and yet never completed a single game.

* Gilbet V7000a cries.

[monkey0506]

Hey Gilbot, up until September 2007 I was following in your lead. You were my idol. Sure I kept some projects lying around to make people think I'm working on a game or two; but actually making one?

Then Trance-Pacific came along with its beta testing and then Diamonds in the Rough which I still have no idea what I did on that game...

'04 was the year for joining the AGS community though. All the best people were doing it. So I jumped on the bandwagon. Albeit the facts might show me as having registered before some of them, we can just ignore those silly little discrepancies.

I love the way these threads always devolve into who's been here the longest though. Really absolutely brilliant. I mean as far as the members currently registered on this forum I'm down at number 651 of 4549 (sorted by date registered). So that would still put me in the top 15% of all members. I don't rank too badly.

And Layabout as I said in my post, there is quite a bit I wasn't around for. A lot of what Prog would call pedophilia I'm sure, but more important things like Yahtzee and the very evolution of the program and the community.

But there's still a lot that's happened in the last 5-6 years as well that can't just be ignored. Sure maybe my memories of "the good old days" and your memories won't be the same or from the same time. Everyone's going to have their own definition, their own ideas of what "the good old days" actually mean.

For example, I think the good old days were when Flukeblake (Flukezy, etc.) was the forum's favourite troll and we all used to give him hell. He was the troll we loved to hate. From his point of view though that might not have been one of the highlights of his time spent in the community. I'm not sure what his views on that might be but you understand what I'm getting at.

Nostalgia threads are awesome because we each get to step back for a moment and reminisce on our own version of "the good old days" and maybe even see what others have to say. They also suck for exactly the same reason however, because they almost inevitably turn into a great bout of douchebaggery over who was here for what and who wasn't there for that! :

[shitar]

Ah, the good old days...






I've been here for more than 10 years and yet never completed a single game.

* Gilbet V7000a cries.

Many people think Im a permanoob who has never made a game and after a decade still  lacks even the most basic understanding of AGS... but thats not true. For the past decade Ive actually been making what could quite possibly be the greatest 2d game ever made. I had to heavily modify the AGS system itself so that I could create a 4500-room game with over 1250 different scripted characters and 3000+ inventory items. It also has amazing artwork unlike anything ever seen. When will this game be coming out? Eventually. Its still a work in progress.

Hah but in seriousness the closest I ever got to making a 'real' AGS game was this one RotN game where Davy Jones returns from the future as a T-800 (Terminator) to protect Mika or something like that. It was pretty ridiculous, kinda wished I had finished it.

[Erenoth]

ah no nothing against you radiant, Im just missing some of the old games a like Two of a kind, and The stargate adventure, im hoping some more of those will come out, 1213 was brilliant i cant remember how many times i played that. Duzz Quest got me in australia I studied there for two years and im gunna move one day. Theres definatly alot of great creators out ther today but I tend to be picky most of the time when i play games and i havent found anything yet to immerse me in my kind of world, maybe selfish, The first game i ever tried was The Adventures of Fatman That was brillant, and when Apprentus came out my friends were gathered around me laughing untill their sides split at some of the jokes. I had to download apprentus for my sister and i helped her through it, and when that quest about Amy where you had to win her love back was one of my favorites.........probably because this girl i had major crush on named Amy caught me playing it and i ended up helping her beat it, which got me a date with her, and the end of which she told me that she had always loved me however her family moved england and that was the last i saw of her.

[Jared]

Hmm, I'm not sure where the hell I stand on these things. I've lurked intermittently since around the time Rob Blanc II and The Treasure of Drunk Island were released, whenever that was, but only recently got an account. I spent years trying to get into AGS, saying it 'sucked' in frustration, giving it up, trying it again, giving it up again, waiting for Glumol in a vicious cycle.

From my casual perspective it seems much of a muchness myself.

[Dualnames]

The good old days are dead. End of story.

I kind of like the days of AGS as they are now. But it seems that's just me.

[Stupot]

Ditto Dual.
These are exciting times to be a adventure gamer in general... and very exciting times to be an AGSer... and I can only forsee things getting better and better, at least for the next couple of years.

[Phemar]

For example, I think the good old days were when Flukeblake (Flukezy, etc.) was the forum's favourite troll and we all used to give him hell. He was the troll we loved to hate. From his point of view though that might not have been one of the highlights of his time spent in the community. I'm not sure what his views on that might be but you understand what I'm getting at.

Hehe, Flukezy is still around. He posts under melon_collie92 I think.

[monkey0506]

The good old days were when I used to go into IRC and pretend to be Babar and then some n00b who used to lurk around here named Zor...

still around

...: decapitated me with his "penish" (sic). Because adding the 'h' to the end makes it not offensive. Everyone knows that.

The good old days were when spaceboy perma-banned me from Stickam because I used a picture of a random from the Stickam room in my avatar. And then spaceboy threatened to sick his lawyer on me. Over something that had nothing to do with him. And it was hilarious. And a bunch of people got thoroughly upset with me for being such a hard-headed, arrogant oaf.

The good old days were having a laugh at TVD (whatever his name was; TerribleVenerealDisease wasn't it? ) over how upset he got at me calling him TVlanD.

The good old days were when I've attempted posting anything in the critic's lounge.

The good old days were every single time I've posted an "about a girl..." thread.

The good old days were every single time I didn't post about my girl troubles.

Etc., so on, and so forth. I rest my case.

[edmundito]

Now I remember that back in 2000, in order to download Adventure Creator (that was AGS' old name), you had to challenge Chris Jones to a drinking contest over what we called then an internet video chat call. Since not many of us had web cameras in those days, one of us actually challenged him and eventually shared his copy of AC through KaZaA (because bittorrent wasn't available yet).

That's why the logo is the Bluecup. It's because Chris used to drink Fosters from a blue cup or straight from the can (which is also blue).