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Post by mrmolecule on Jul 13, 2007 14:35:24 GMT -5
Remember the old days, where Pokemon came and the N64 was "cool"? There were a ton of Pokemon sites, and most of them have kind of died. I used to like Pokemasters.com, which is now a shadow of its former self. After a while, it closed down most of the sections of the site in December 2001. It attempted to bring back the old self by losing its old host but ultimately failed and now holds a rampant forum. Another site that went the way of the dino was Edo's Pokémon Page. The page is still up, but now it is an abandoned ghost town rather than the popular page it was once. Edo quit when Pokemon became less popular and he had a personal breakdown stemming from a bad League experience. Any other old site stories? |
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jul 13, 2007 15:11:09 GMT -5
Hah, a long time ago I actually had a Pokémon website myself. I must've been about ten years old or something. My dad helped me with the site, of course, but it never really had anything other than some stupid GIF animations and a Game Boy emulator with some Pokémon roms. Good times. ;D
(I'd like to see it again, but Archive.org's WayBack machine can't seem to find the site)
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Jul 13, 2007 20:26:45 GMT -5
In 2001, when the second generation of Pokémon had just appeared in America, I was very excited about it, so one day I typed the word "Pokémon" in every existing search engine, and that's how I found this formerly wonderful site called Pokémon Paranoia, which was hosted in Netherlands (not sure if Blueberry_pie had anything to do with it, lol). The site had things you didn't find everywhere: - Roms and emulators
- Anime voices of Pokémon
- 3-D models of every Pokémon (they weren't pretty, but I still liked to see them)
- A "Taso Dex" with a list of Pokémon-themed plastic discs that could be found inside bags of chips of various countries
- Fan games
- An Unown font file!
The site pretty much died after 2001 after Celebi: The Voice of the Forest was released in Japan, but you can still browse it to see how valuable it was. If I remember correctly, its domain name was members.home.nl/pokemon/pokemonparanoia1.html but now you can find it here (AnimeNet.nl has an active message board here) and here. |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 13, 2007 20:53:14 GMT -5
There used to be this great webite until the webmaster realised he couldn't keep up with the advances in Pokemon GSC and moved on to a site all about Nintendo franchises. ;D
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Post by Hiker of Games on Jul 13, 2007 21:41:20 GMT -5
I used to browse Pokemasters back in the day.
Good times.
And PMI was a horrible site. It killed my brother.
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Post by TV Eye on Jul 14, 2007 10:04:32 GMT -5
Anyone remember the Pokegods? I used to search all over the internet trying to figure out how to catch them. Also, who said Pokemon's not popular anymore? I know a lot of people (me included) who has spent many hours playing Pokemon Diamond/Pearl...
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Post by Spud on Jul 14, 2007 12:59:37 GMT -5
I actually once suggested a Idea to mix Magic the gathering with Pokemon TCG. It would be interesting.
Fryguy had a Pokemon site that oddly resembled NinDB back in the day? Interesting.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 14, 2007 17:55:09 GMT -5
Well, I wanted to run my own site, so I picked Pokemon (I was quite active on a number of Pokemon forums back in the RBY days), but it didn't hold my interest. But that's actually where I started my hunt for the characters in that SSBM pre-release trophy video  And NinDB followed! |
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Post by wanderingshadow on Jul 14, 2007 19:26:18 GMT -5
Anyone remember the Pokegods? I used to search all over the internet trying to figure out how to catch them. Also, who said Pokemon's not popular anymore? I know a lot of people (me included) who has spent many hours playing Pokemon Diamond/Pearl... A quick Google search and I discover that there are still websites dedicated to the Pokegods and fairly recent too. This one was last updated this year. Travel back to a lost world where GeoCities, Lycos, and Tripod ruled the web. It's the intrawebs that time forgot! |
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Post by TV Eye on Jul 14, 2007 20:14:15 GMT -5
Anyone remember the Pokegods? I used to search all over the internet trying to figure out how to catch them. Also, who said Pokemon's not popular anymore? I know a lot of people (me included) who has spent many hours playing Pokemon Diamond/Pearl... A quick Google search and I discover that there are still websites dedicated to the Pokegods and fairly recent too. This one was last updated this year. Travel back to a lost world where GeoCities, Lycos, and Tripod ruled the web. It's the intrawebs that time forgot! That brings back so many memories...Pikablu and Venastoise were the main ones I tried to get...Then I found out Pikablu was a separate Pokemon called Marill... |
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Post by Flip on Aug 12, 2007 21:53:00 GMT -5
Pokemon Factory was amazing. It still exists, because they made a whole slew of Ruby/Sapphire fakes. www.pokefactory.pokemology.com/Prolly better now than it was back then, but back then you could suggest fakes and they'd make em for you |
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Post by Smashchu on Aug 13, 2007 13:41:00 GMT -5
Funny. I read the first post listening to the opening music of FF10(if you didn't know, it's sad).
A major bummer. I can remember the very first forum I ever went to died out after a year or two. Loved that place too. i eventually found this place, and the rest is history.
I never really knew any big Pokemon sites back in the day. Anyone know. Is the Gamespy one still up (it was linked to Planet Nintendo).
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Post by Fryguy64 on Aug 13, 2007 14:32:36 GMT -5
I was more into posting on Pokemon forums really. The ol' VGF Nintendo Land Pokemon forum and the RPGamer Pokemon forums (they became a law unto themselves! It was barely about Pokemon after a while though).
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And NinDB followed!
