Anyone want to start a retro gaming site with me?

Post by **benheck** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:25 am

Hey guys what if I gave you the Classicgaming.com/vcsp site? Or set you up a new one there?

Apparently they're planning a relaunch of Classicgaming.com and the IGN guy emailed me and asked if I wanted to keep /vcsp, since it hasn't been maintained in a few years. Right now it looks like it might go bye-bye, but the guy doesn't want to delete sites if he doesn't have to.

SO what if I set it up so you guys could use it as your retro site? We could make it a sister site, give it some Ben-branding to increase hits, and I'd even be willing to setup the style (probably Wordpress). It'd be cool to make it look like it already does. Then we could make FTP accounts for whomever wants in, so you all could take it from there.

What do you say?

dj-spuddy · Post by **dj-spuddy** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:58 am

Wow Ben, That sounds awesome!

Offcourse it's dudex's idea but i'm sure that would work perfectly.

Thanks allot!!!

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:17 pm

i didnt rip that off anoter site i use the defult template in mircosoft web devolpor i could get a new template.

thats a good offer ben.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:28 pm

Don't use MS Web Developer! You need active server pages plugins (and possibly a MS IIS server) to use that! Go with something based around actual standards like PHP and SQL. (Wordpress, Joombla, and PHP-Nuke all come to mind...)

If you guys need designs, there are some nice free ones here:
http://www.oswd.org/

(They're all standard HTML with CSS files.)

If you want I can come up with a quick design but if you want actual code it won't be free. (Free time is limited lately.) At most the fee would be a Mr. Accessory in Kingdom of Loathing...

DK · Post by DK » Wed May 16, 2007 12:30 pm

What an off, I'd help if it had the official BenHeck Seal of Approval

If any pics need doing, I'm an ace at photoshop and general camera work.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:52 pm

SWEET! Im totally for this 100%.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:09 pm

Yea, I'll review games. I'm pretty good at it, as I have a lot of old game systems. 110% for this

dj-spuddy · Post by **dj-spuddy** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:22 pm

So would it just be reviews of retro consoles/games or would we do other things like submit articles about views on newer games, current affairs in the gaming world, Guides to games etc? Or like we could have special group articles were we all comment on certain topic like "Most annoying boss battle" or "Worst games of all time".

Just kicking ideas arround here.

ValiantVenality · Post by **ValiantVenality** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:19 pm

This sounds totally kick ass! I would love to join! I call reviewing, and what ever else I can do for all the Sega systems!

I can see it now....... Genesis vs the SNES.....

VV

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:55 pm

dj-spuddy wrote:So would it just be reviews of retro consoles/games or would we do other things like submit articles about views on newer games, current affairs in the gaming world, Guides to games etc? Or like we could have special group articles were we all comment on certain topic like "Most annoying boss battle" or "Worst games of all time".

Just kicking ideas arround here.

im liking that. kinda like an editors opinion section

Post by **benheck** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:15 am

OK get your ideas together and I'll get the site ready.

Do you want me to make a Wordpress install for you?

-Ben

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:24 am

benheck wrote:OK get your ideas together and I'll get the site ready.

Do you want me to make a Wordpress install for you?

-Ben

sure sounds good. Ill have to write up a new first article since my comp i wrote it on went stupid. It'll be why i like retro gaming unless anyone has a better idea for a first article

dj-spuddy · Post by **dj-spuddy** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:41 am

Hmmmm that sounds like a good first article. Just thinking will this be a place we can share our knowledge with the readers for example we could write articles on modding old consoles, building arcade machines and stuff of that sort. I mean offcourse the stuff has to be retro/videogame related somehow. Rather than the site just be a review site. It could be a site filled with a wealth of information, reviews, consoles.

Another idea (As these are just ideas) is we could perhaps have a gallery of retro games and the like owned by us lot.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:16 am

yeah of course this wont just be a review site or a "my favorite games site" otherwise we would be filled with with reviews of chronno trigger and people saying its there favorite game ever. For example my friend fernando is going to write an article about why he hates final fantasy 7 and why the the previous one were better. Well hopefully have a modding section or have an article about "breathing life into an old console" or whatever. The gallery idea sounds dumb, but elaborate on it Im probably wrong. What I think would be really cool to have later on is to format old articles to be read on an iPod through notes or through something of the sort, for those times when you want something to read but all you have is your iPod. Im thinking we wont cover any of the current gen games wether theyre 2d or not, just for the sake of being different. Im thinking the farthest well go up to, in terms of consoles, is the dreamcast and a game wont be covered unless its 2d or uses a superfx chip or whatever the genesis equivelant is. So ill get typing on my "why retro gaming article"

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:28 am

Wow! thanks Ben. That would be awesome!

(and if you make something popular again we'll be flooded! yay! (actually positive not negative, I hate not having voice tones on the internet))