Any oldies ever thought of writing a history?

[Gilbert]

Hehe so you're officially Scummdead in Ezboard then.

[Sylpher]

Scramm, AG.com, ROTN, Yahtzee, Larry Vales/Rob Blanc, Helm Vs Eric, Little willy, Ags going to Windows.

Just off the top of my head. I think the history will be as interesting as the person writing it. Perhaps a brief overview of each event in chronological order. Each section following with a couple write ups of people who were around and give their thoughts and what they remember.. type of thing.

I joined sometime in.. '99 so I would be happy to contribute whatever I can.

[DGMacphee]

shbazsjiomkom -> Touche. However, I return my touche since you still didn't get the reference. I mean, come on, things make me pee. Classic.

Yeah, strikes me as odd he didn't get the reference. All oldies should get the reference.

Unless...

THEY'RE VAMPIRES! OR ZOMBIES! OR VAMPIRE ZOMBIES! RUN!!!

Also, I remember the infamous Helm vs Eric fight that fool us all (especially me) for 5 days! coutn tehm!

And the exodus from Ezboard was also a point worth mentioning.

[Mr Jake]

even I get the reference.

[Sam.]

ld reallr be interested in stuff that happened before me. I mean stuff like yahtzee leaving and the whoile 2ma2 thing which i still don't really get. What was so special about him?

[Andail]

the whoile 2ma2 thing which i still don't really get. What was so special about him?

Hm...I dunno, he made some good games?

He's also a nice guy, plays the guitar and likes to draw, just like me.

[evenwolf]

2ma2 was one of the best artists with a completed game when I joined the forums.


And he made an infamous MAGS game that featured AGS veterans!  Real good guy.

[Sam.]

i dunno, its just tiki made a post posing as 2ma2 and then told everyone to stop wetting themselves so i thought maybe he was some kind of AGS god. whered he go?

[DGMacphee]

so i thought maybe he was some kind of AGS god.

You're not far from the truth, but you have to have known him to understand.

I can kinda see what eric is talking about after thinking of 2ma2. The history here is something where you "had to be there". We could go about writing it all down, but it wouldn't be the same. Even words can't explain everything.

[evenwolf]

Zooty, you have to try to understand that this is a "hobby forum".

As much a person devotes his time to such a thing, there are still greater priorities in his life.Ã,  2ma2 is surely taking care of those right now, so I am not worried, dissapointed, baffled etc. that he is not currently posting.

That is not to say I would not rejoice if my "hobby forum 'friend'" were once again to return.Ã,  I'll go farther and say that I liked him because he treated me very kindly as a newbie.Ã,  Ã, He even included me and my old avatar in his game, flattering me tremendously.Ã, 

[Punch]

Ah 2ma2. Will we ever see Artie Salamon? *sniff*

To be honest, I'm inclined to agree with others. How funny are Little Willy or Andy P3n15h going to be to people who weren't here to witness them? Probably not very. Slippery treats probably have very limited comedy value upon retelling, even if they do make you pee.

But the main point of this post was just to lament the loss of WTII?

Poobungies

[Pet Terry]

I, too, would be interested in reading the history of AGS. During the two years I've been there, and the few months in 2001, I've learned quite many things about the history but I'd like to see some happenings sorted when they happened and so on. Maybe some comments from oldies would be nice, like someone mentioned.

And 2ma2! Bring us the Artie Salomon! We know you're still lurking there somewhere! (Or then again, maybe you're not...)

[Scid_]

If I remember anything, I'll be happy to contribute. Finally something I'm good at. I mean... I'm pretty much a wreck at moderating the finished games forum.

2ma2 was so impressive because it was the very first game that had actual, well... graphics. This was a time when 80% of all games featured Roger, and half of those had him animated wrong, or not at all.

2ma2 hadn't advertised his game much, it just appeared out of nowhere, and everybody was blown away by how tremendously GOOD it looked. It had never before been seen, and for me personally - I had never even imagined that amateur adventure games could get this good. I'd pretty much settled for every game featuring Roger, ad infinitum. And I liked it that way.

And yeah, then came 2ma2's game. And things changed, forever. They made it so graphically challenged people like myself lost self-confidence and well... our Roger-featuring games got no attention at all. And we started drawing, and tried to get up to that standard... even Phil Reed tried hard to get better graphics going in Larry Vales 2, and more notably in 3 - and that is because of 2ma2's game.

I say the first game with good graphics, I mean the first finished one that got a lot of attention. There were demos and 2-room games before, but nothing finished. And mind you - this was a time in which a finished game was actually cause for celebration.

I can see how the game wouldn't be very impressive in this day and age, what with No Action Jackson and Apprentice, and so much luxury that you can't even play all the good games anymore. It was earth-shattering back then, though.

And that, children, is why the terrorist can never win!

[MillsJROSS]

Should we go all VH1, with "Remember the AGS history?" The only thing about getting together something with all of AGS's history, is that the oldbies cannot alienate the n00b's with jokes of yesteryear. Ergo if we no longer have that control of information, life as we know it could...possibly...be very similar, only people will know things.

Eh...if people are interested I see no harm in telling them what happened in the past. The question is, how does one go about doing that? Do we give AGS life stories on the founding members? Or talk about what happened in the forums? Or when games came out, and how they effected the community?

The only real problem I have, is I can't remember too much. I remember some of the bigger things, moreso in the past, but after a while forum life just melds into one big mush of events. But that could just be me...

In any event good luck to anyone who wishes to go forward with the idea of writing down AGS history.

-MillsJROSS

[evenwolf]

We could talk about how no one dared venture into the General Forum, for fear of attracting the intellectual likes of Las Naranjas or Helm.  I could write a short story in metaphor about that, relating it to a hostage situation.

[Sam.]

yhanks, i just thought that maybe 2ma left in a yahtzee style flurry (which i still dont know about) i really wish i had been aroiund longer but this is the first forum ive been in where n00bs like me have been welcomed and ecnouraged instead of mocked and kicked out. I was probably an a-hole when i first posted here but a year of experience has turned me into the eloquent handsome young man you see before you today.



ahem.

[Esseb]

No, he just gradually stopped posting, which noone really noticed since he never posted much. Then he was gone, or I guess maybe the time between him posting has simply increased exponentionally. We shall never know.

Edit: Never mind that, where the hell is Scurvyeye?

[MrColossal]

Fine... You guys just had to keep on pressing for this!

Well, I can't be held responsible for the actions of The AGS Newsbot... But you just HAD to have it!



I hope you like your... news!

[Goldmund]

Does anybody remember how we started this newsbot extravaganza anyway? I remember that mine was the third one, and it destroyed both Eric's and Andail's (a good bot it was...)

P.S. Hahaha, I'm so deep in making my game these days that I put " before the ) and deleted it only after a while.

P.S.2 Don't you think that P.S.'s that start with Hahaha are somewhat suspicious?

[Pumaman]

The proof is still intact:

http://www.agsforums.com/newsbots.htm


And that's one hell of a newsbot there, eric ... but it's not announcing any news?!?!1