Shmups.com Forum users & posts...

[LoneSage]

Also one more interesting fact… Out of the 1164 registered users, how many are actually female shmupers?
Girls?

I wonder where myster telstar went. For a few months I thought she was a guy because of the myster part.

[Rob]

My very first (and only post at Network54) shmups post:

August 10 2002 at 10:49 PM Rob
Where did you find a new copy of PSX Gunbird? More importantly, are there more where that came from?

Little did I know the PS version of Gunbird was wobble-only and my search for a new copy would end up costing me $50 for a used one.

[Ghegs]

Also one more interesting fact… Out of the 1164 registered users, how many are actually female shmupers?
Girls?

I wonder where myster telstar went. For a few months I thought she was a guy because of the myster part.

She made a brief re-appearance just few days ago as ckm.

More importantly though, where's Fev?

[Randorama]

When I met this site, it was already "Owned" by Akira, Felix the Cat... and someone else I forgot the name.. (Ugh, I remember he had a nice site with soundtracks)

Aurang, i suppose.

[Super Laydock]

After rediscovering shmups (took a few year's pause) I refound the genre with Gunbird 2. Looking for some info on past shmup favourites (Super Laydock, Salamander, etc.) I found the shmups.com site with the then present MK2 forum.
This forum is still by far my favourite hang out on the internet today. .

[TWITCHDOCTOR]

Also one more interesting fact… Out of the 1164 registered users, how many are actually female shmupers?
Girls?

I wonder where myster telstar went. For a few months I thought she was a guy because of the myster part.

She made a brief re-appearance just few days ago as ckm.

More importantly though, where's Fev?

Fev is alive and well. I don't think she posts here any more though.
I know she's around because she was our first fan to buy our CD" Ride the Boss" , from Vodkatron.

[ST Dragon]

The fourth was at Gamespy. Most here will have joined when the forum was hosted there, and will remember what happened to it quite recently. If you need a refresher, Gamespy's servers went *boom* and the massive store of info on the old databases is virtually unretrievable.

I'm sure a lot of the data can be retrieved from the internet archives.

[CMoon]

Wow, I wish I could remember when I first joined. I remember seeing Twitch having a flamewar with someone named something like Green Tengu (???) over how tate was or was not elitist (gosh, nothing changes!--well other than Twitch being way more laid back now and not having women appear and dissapear in his avatar!) OK, I know I was on the old MK2 board at some point in 2003. 2002??? I know it was before Ikaruga came out.

[TWITCHDOCTOR]

Wow, I wish I could remember when I first joined. I remember seeing Twitch having a flamewar with someone named something like Green Tengu (???) over how tate was or was not elitist (gosh, nothing changes!--well other than Twitch being way more laid back now and not having women appear and dissapear in his avatar!) OK, I know I was on the old MK2 board at some point in 2003. 2002??? I know it was before Ikaruga came out.

Yea, I remember. I really don't rememeber how things escalated to that point though.
I was stating why I buy imports, with a "stiff stance" on the subject... Because most games of that type never make it over here, and when they do, too many things are usually left out IMO. I was then refered to as an elite harcore asshole due to the fact that I prefer the import versions. So I fought back.



BTW: If anyone has any links...lets just let that thread die and stay dead? Agreed?

[Ord]

I joined late 2003. I had been lurking way before that though. It's a great site and the folks on these forums are generally good people.. Sure there is the odd fuckwit that drops by, but they don't usually last all that long.
There are a few forum members that have gone since these forums went back up in the new year, (thanks for that link Action Jackson ), maybe they just changed their handle.

[Bloodreign]

I don't care about post counts, I care about the quality of the posters, something that is very good here. People know their stuff here, and that's all I care about.

[SNKJorge]

I've been registered since the very beggining, I just don't post much.
I survived both moves.

[subcons]

I had far more posts before the overhaul of the boards. I think I had to re-register...?

I don't post much any ways. I'm more of a reader.

[elbarto]

I've been lurking since the Network54 days..

[Marc]

Joined during the Classic Gaming period, then dropped off for a while as I had a lot of person shit on my plate. Was good to come back though.

[D]

the King of posters is: dave4shmups followed by a close 2nd: BulletMagnet (with the cool Life Force Parody Avatar) and 3rd: captain ahar (with the Pirate Kitty avatar).

As far as BulletMagnet goes this thread comes to mind.
(I just saw that thread and I remembered this thread and I laughed)

Parental Advisory:
I'm just posting for the entertainment value. No judgement or grudge or jealousy or whatever you can think of. No hatred or beef with BulletMagnet. I like him.

Just thought I'd say this before I get flamed from all 7 directions

OK then, I'll admit to being jealous to his post count, to save someone the trouble of accusing me, you see how social I am?

[JBC]

I just hit 400 posts. BUT - that's 400 times i said something relevant, funny, informative, or inquisitive. It is a rare occasion when i just post a smily or say 'cool'. At least i hope...

I still despise post counts. Ughh!

[captain ahar]

i've been here for a few years (02, i think), although i can't remember my screen name from the old days. i didn't post much anyways, as i was terrified of the community then (i had to credit feed to get past level one of dodonpachi). now as most will attest, i practically live here.

oh, and turn out the light when you're done, i'm trying to get some shuteye.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

I wrote some R-Type Final Boss strategies at the old GameSpy forum and something about Gradius V.... I'm looking at something like a 1% constructive post ratio.

<-------WIN

[Shatterhand]

I remember when I joined, the "hot shmup", which seemed to be the one everyone was playing, which was the shmup of all shmups was Soldier Blade.

I dont remember why or how, but I have from my memory that everyone would always somehow state how excellent Soldier Blade is, how everyone should play Soldier Blade.

Nowadays I wonder if most people even know this game

The time when Ikaruga was going to be released also was irritating... of every 3 topics, 2 were about Ikaruga

[dave4shmups]

Out of curiosity, I checked the Member list statistics and… out of the 1164 registered users, only 190 of them have made any more than 100 posts. The remaining 974 have not even passed the 100 posts.

It’s considerable that 760 users have made less than 20 posts!

That’s surprising if you consider how fast the forums get updated. At times it almost feels like a chat room rather than a message board.
Almost in real time!

So far the King of posters is: dave4shmups followed by a close 2nd: BulletMagnet (with the cool Life Force Parody Avatar) and 3rd: captain ahar (with the Pirate Kitty avatar).

Yeah, I am the king of posters! I am an information junkie, and have always been intensely interested in something since the age of 18 mothns, when I became intersted in mechanical things!

At any rate, I discovered this site in late 2004 after Googling for "2D shooters", and at that time, was just emailing Malc back and forth. I was, and remain, simply astounded at the amount of information in the Xenocide Files on shmups! At any rate, I first joined the forum in March of 2004.

I definately agree that it would be better to have information up on the screen stating how long each forum member's been here, rather then post counts.

[Shatterhand]

Actually, this info is there.

Just look below the username, it has a "Joined:" line

[GaijinPunch]

If you need a refresher, Gamespy's servers went *boom* and the massive store of info on the old databases is virtually unretrievable.

I never got the full story on this, but Japanese Gaming was/is on Gamespy. (dynamic5 -- Shmups was on dynamic4) and it's always been completely intact. What did Gamespy officially say? Unlucky? I just can't imagine them NOT having a backup of their Unix servers.