History of ASSEMblergames.com?

Done a few searches and nothing has come up.

Would love to know the history of the site. Who was here when it started? How did the community grow?

In fact I've often wondered how forums in general gain popularity. If you're just a moderator sitting on a board on your own, must take some dedicated networking to get it going.

I've been here a while but it was a bustling community then.

Any info?

 

i was thinking the other day what the history was, from what legit told me it started when i was 2-3 lol thats all i know

 

How old are you? At least then if nobody else answers I have a rough idea of how old I was when it started and how old the site might be.

 

*attempt 3 bloody iPhone* it started in 1995 apparently in bbm script apparently. I was born in 1992 at the end of the 16bit age :L so missed the good gaming years :/

 

According to this:
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20050128122444/http:/assemblergames.com/

"ASSEMbler has been around since 1994"

 

Wow that long. When I first joined there was still some sort of homepage but it just had nice pictures of what looked like NYC.

 

http://replay.web.archive.org/20000818053718/http://assembler.roarvgm.com/
That's when archive.org first tracked the site. I probably would've started browsing around then, I guess. I think I was about 15.

 

It started in 1994 as a dial up bulletin board using wildcat , shotgun bbs.

You could dial into computers around the world pre WWW and download
game roms, etc. I remember calling one in Japan and getting macross roms.

Then it was on aol and geocities, I will have the early content if anyone
wants a laugh.

 

I think we all want a laugh

 

Sure doesn't hurt.

I recall vividly the museum and also recall being somewhat mystified at finding the front page gone and replaced by forums.

 

Here's the old ansi art, my first parody piece, as well as our 1000 hit milestone gift image I got from someone way back when.

 

I find it impressive to know I was so young when this site first started.

 

Man, 1994? I was 7 years old when this started?? haha, that's crazy.

 

http://replay.web.archive.org/20031222061140/http://assembler.roarvgm.com/

This is how I remember it, and I rmember it was Yakumo who directed me and others here from Dreamcast History. It is a shame the DCH site died and the admin didn't really get on here but meh.

 

think it was around 2004 and it is when I joined.
Gee... it's been how many years since...
(time really fly when you don't look at...)

 

The corners of the sticker on that AES cart are squared off, must be one of Dion's special.

 

What does ASSEMbler actually mean, if anything? I always think its related to the Assembly language or something.

 

http://replay.web.archive.org/20000818053758/http://assembler.roarvgm.com/ai8300.html

This it the page that made me come to assembler for the very first time. A friend of mine had sent me an email about an unknown sega system and was wondering if I ever heard about it. 11 years after, this page is still the only information I have ever found about the sega AI (despite the one that had been for sale on ebay uk years ago)
I remember that, by the time, I didn't have internet at home, I was browsing from a computer at the uni