Re: Slightly OT - Google Groups' Usenet Archive: Accurate?...or

Still missing: KKC, Steve, a, Barry and a few others(I'm sorry, I'm
just braindead right now).

Well, it looks like my very first post in RGVS was in April of 1998
regarding the Sega Nomad. I was a Usenet regular for some technical and
toy-related stuff, but I didn't really have any enthusiasm for gaming
until I bought a Saturn in 1997. The rest, as they say, is discretionary
expenditures. :)

Hehehe, I can dig it. I think my first recorded post(by Google Groups)
was, surprise, surprise, about PowerSlave. ;) I know I had posted
stuff before that, but it's just not showing up. Will add your stats to
the new revision at the bottom of this post. :)

Sadly, a lot of regulars(from back in the day) have just sort of
disappeared. Every now and then we'll hear from someone we haven't
heard from in years...but it's not too often. :(

Usenet is not what it used to be. In place of a single, decentralized and
shared database of knowledge we now have thousands of web forums, none of
which are catalogued or archived. Also, people's interests change over
time. You have guys like Fernando Mosquera and Rob Schmitz who were mighty
pioneers of gaming knowledge and joy, and their voices are lost to us. Not
because we stopped listening, but because they stopped talking.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I know we lost a lot of long time posters
after the Saturn, and then even more after the DC.

Then we have guys like Terrence Briggs, who pop in once every three months
to say hi and apologize. :)

Hehehe, yeah, glad to have him around too. :)

-KKC, enjoying some old gaming swag. Ultima I with parchment maps, a
"gold" coin and 5 1/4" disks. Autoduel with a roadway association map that
shows where to eat and where to buy ammunition in the industrial
northeast. Man, this is the kind of thing Electronic Arts has no clue
about being able to produce.

Back before I even had ever used a PC, a buddy of mine had a pretty
good(for that day and age) and had Ultima 6. Like you're mentioning, it
had that cloth map, some shiny stones and a crapload of other stuff. It
was great. As I went back and picked up a lot of older Mac stuff over
the years, the stuff they used to package with games back then was just
amazing. I mean, I was floored at all the stuff that Dynamix's Rise of
the Dragon and Heart of China came with. No $10 extra "Special Edition"
bullshit back then...

Bel


Here's the revised list:

RGVSega - Started 1993

Eiji - 1993(would this be accurate Eiji, just let me know)
Greg - 1996
Bel - 1997(I still think it was closer to 1995/1996)
Benstylus - 1997
Benjamin - 1997/98
KKC - 1988
Scott - 1999
Ted - 2000

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