How did you find BenHeck Forums?

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:31 pm

Well my friends and I had been planning on putting a NES in a toaster, so I started looking around to see what kind of stuff had been done. one thing led to another and here I am

5M05H13 · Post by **5M05H13** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:35 pm

I was just searching for pics of a SNES in google images and i noticed a handheld one. i was very interested i opened the picture and that took me to benheck.com later that day i stumbled across the forums but didnt register til i looked at some of Life of Brians work. i just wanted to be able to comment on his work. but i had problems for two weeks because apparently benheck forums don't like hotmail email address. so i finally tried using my home email account n boom it worked straight away. of course by then i couldnt find LoB's work and couldn't comment on it

Sorry Life of Brian

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:50 pm

Yeah, CTF, you couldnt hate, me, I'm yo buddy!

Anyways, apparently there is a member here who has been watching me, and it is someone from my school. Someone with a low post count. I think I know who, but I cant put them on the spot without decisive evidence.

SS

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:55 pm

Sparkfist wrote:I was looking up stuff on Ataris, can't remember what exactly, and found Ben's Classicgaming.com forum. After a few months Ben setup the now Benheck.com site and forum. I signed up after about a week or two, I"m currently member #20.

So thats how you got to be a admin!

IDK how I found this place, but ever sense that day it has been a little worse here.

mothatrucka · Post by **mothatrucka** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:31 pm

A friend of mine was on here for a while, and she pointed it out to me. I guess she heard of it from some other friend of hers who posted a NESp here a few years ago.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:25 pm

Ben's old site eventually lead to the new site, which was remade multiple times until forming the version we see today. I had found the initial forums, but not joined till a later iteration.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:37 pm

The Popsci article about Ben's SNESp around the time when his book came out. I lurked for a few months after that, then registered.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:48 pm

Wow I read about his 360 laptop in popsci, and from that day on I lurked the n64 forum until i finally joined.

Post by **Black Six** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:50 pm

I found Ben's original website on ClassicGaming. Moved here when he created this site. Third member, woohoo!

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:57 pm

I think I found this site because of this site: http://nestable.classicgaming.gamespy.com/p64.shtml#

I think I was searching "How to make a Portable TV" of all things when I came across that site.

Turknatr12 · Post by **Turknatr12** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:06 pm

I knew Ben because my uncle was in Adventure

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:32 pm

Sometime around March 2006, I was reading a (VERY Nintendo-fanboy laden

) thread somewhere with the topic of something along the lines of "what will you do with your gamecube when revolution [wii] comes out?" Someone posted "I think I'll portablize it, like I did with my N64." Intrigued by the concept, I googled up a storm about portable N64's, eventually finding Ben's site, and later the forums. I lurked for a few months, and then registered.

I still hope to make an N64p at some point, but I've never gotten around to it.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:59 pm

wallydawg wrote:I signed up at POD before this existed but I don't remember how I found it, I think because of this http://nestable.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

Same here. I thought that guy was the first to do something like that... then I saw Ben's portable 2600 on ClassicGaming. Who here remembers the URL "www.classicgaming.com/vcsp"?

wallydawg wrote:I did see Bens first psonep in a gaming magazine a long time ago as well now that I think about it but I didn't realize that until just now haha. I think it was in the reader mail section and they showed a thumbnail pic, wouldn't be able to tell you which mag it was though.

I thought I knew what you were talking about up until the reader mail thumbnail statement. Not long after I heard of Ben, I saw his full-page article in the December 2003 issue of EGM; the very first issue I ever received... which is kinda strange, now that I think about it...

project_failure · Post by **project_failure** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:23 am

I searched google for "homemade video game consoles" It led to the old geocities site which had a link to the vcsp site. I lurked for a while and was too nervous to join the forum. When the new site was created I decided to join. Best internet decision ever.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:49 am

Electric Rain wrote: I thought I knew what you were talking about up until the reader mail thumbnail statement. Not long after I heard of Ben, I saw his full-page article in the December 2003 issue of EGM; the very first issue I ever received... which is kinda strange, now that I think about it...

I think the issue came out in springtime-ish as I want to think I remember seeing easter decorations in the next aisle (reading gaming mags/comics in the grocery while parents check out; national pastime). It definitely wasn't a full page article as it was only one photo of the psonep, and I'm sure it was in the reader mail section as someone else asked about one-handed controllers, which is kind of interesting because Ben is into that racket now as well.

This leads me to assume that Ben is taking life tips from the write-in section of an old gaming mag. I'm sure someone had a letter about making movies that month too haha.