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Yesmar_
09/02/25 1:23:57 AM
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Came across this a week or so ago, and thought I would post it when the anniversary came around. The opening minutes of the very first Off-Season.:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111125034934/https://www.gamefaqsarchive.com/index.php?pg=1212

Love the person that still wants to re-run Sonic/Samus, and it's nice to see that the trend of people getting invested in random Polls of the Day started with the very first one after the contest ended: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/1003-which-scheduled-september-release-are-you-most-looking

Edit: And yes, that's at least 2700 active topics in case anyone's paying attention.

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Metal_DK
09/02/25 2:46:37 AM
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a better time. A much better time. Fuck 2007 and beyond.

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red13n
09/02/25 3:06:27 AM
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Dang September 2002 sent me down some rabbit holes.

Surprised how many of those names I recognize.

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XIII_Rocks
09/02/25 5:03:31 AM
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Yay CJayC! The board will stay alive!

Crazy that this was in doubt at the time. Thanks Ceej.

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Underleveled
09/02/25 5:49:03 AM
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Rodri316 and SSBM Pichu, never thought Id see those names again.

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Forceful_Dragon
09/02/25 8:51:27 AM
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Mastermind2k with the trivia sign up topic brings back big memories.

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MZero
09/02/25 9:12:43 AM
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XIII_Rocks posted...
Crazy that this was in doubt at the time. Thanks Ceej.

imagine how different all our lives would be if the board was closed after the contest
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Leonhart4
09/02/25 9:18:07 AM
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MZero posted...
imagine how different all our lives would be if the board was closed after the contest

I'd have lost contact with everyone five years ago now

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Steiner
09/02/25 9:54:19 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7733c60c.png
i love 2002

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NFUN
09/02/25 9:57:56 AM
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Steiner posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7733c60c.png
i love 2002
O_O

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colliding
09/02/25 10:06:11 AM
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Before my time on board 8

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Underleveled
09/02/25 12:41:13 PM
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I cant believe Star Fox Adventures won that poll, especially with Kingdom Hearts in there.

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Leonhart4
09/02/25 1:17:01 PM
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Underleveled posted...
I cant believe Star Fox Adventures won that poll, especially with Kingdom Hearts in there.

The Star Fox name hadn't been tarnished just yet, and a lot of people were unsure about Kingdom Hearts

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Rango
09/02/25 10:29:08 PM
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Metal_DK posted...
a better time. A much better time. Fuck 2007 and beyond.

I have mixed feelings about this. I can feel the nostalgia for sure. Honestly, the best time of my life was between late 2015 and early 2022.

Everything after that has sucked. Lots of things after 2015 sucked socially in our world. But I was in a happy relationship.

I came here in 2003 when I was turning 15 that year. I'll be 37 now. I'm still very nostalgic for all the games released many years ago. But I wasn't jaded about the world we live in until more recently.

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red13n
09/02/25 11:36:17 PM
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Underleveled posted...
I cant believe Star Fox Adventures won that poll, especially with Kingdom Hearts in there.
Kingdom Hearts was not an established anything.

And SFA was being advertised as a Zelda-like.

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Metal_DK
09/03/25 11:39:33 AM
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Kingdom Hearts when it was first announced was considered lame, childish, and stupid.

Nothings changed, it still is.

Seriously though, people also kinda forget it took a little bit of time for people to actually like Wind Waker because it was too cartoony. The early 00s era of gaming was filled with this. Its the same concept behind why everyone shat on Raiden in MGS2. Hes not "edgy and dark and cool" like Snake.

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Metal_DK
09/03/25 11:44:37 AM
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Rango posted...
I have mixed feelings about this. I can feel the nostalgia for sure. Honestly, the best time of my life was between late 2015 and early 2022.

Everything after that has sucked. Lots of things after 2015 sucked socially in our world. But I was in a happy relationship.

The modern problems started in the late 00s. The double down happened in 2015. But all contemporary problems in "first world" nations (and 2nd world, and probably even a lot of 3rd world tbh) is internet addiction, which became a massive uncontrollable problem in the social media + smart phone + algorithm age.

Sure my older brother was tying up our land line 24/7 in 1998 or whatever, but that was not the norm for most people. It was a manageable addiction in both the amount of people addicted, and the specific people already addicted didn't have such a strong addiction. The addictions were also limited because it took more time to download an mp3 of some dumb blink 182 song or whatever than it did to consume it.

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trdl23
09/03/25 12:00:10 PM
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I've been here for 10 years and I still feel like the new kid on the block

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