So these are just a few images I have saved:
http://imgur.com/a/BjDDG/
http://imgur.com/a/BjDDG/
The history of Teamxbox. Share your stories.
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I can't remember how I first found Teamxbox but once I found it I stayed. When I first arrived I was in the video games section for a very long time. I did a lot of pissing and moaning about Xbox Live being pushed back six months. I was always bumping heads with TXF and his Xbox Defense Initiative. Man, when Xbox Live came out I was super hooked on video games again. There were hours upon hours of Re-Volt playing. That game was simple but awesome. My most fond online gaming memories are from that single game. I'm still friends with gamers I first met during the Xbox Live beta.
As the years moved on I decided to venture to the OTL. I had visited it a year prior to becoming a regular. I had stayed away from it for the most part because I saw this clique that was going on there. Most of the mods had this 'holier than thou' ego about them and I wasn't a fan. I guess it was that that made me stay. I always like to push back against authority and they were people to push back against. Eventually I spent most of my time in the OTL and it eventually became all of my time was spent in the OTL.
Probably the biggest, and saddest, memory of Teamxbox was when Nby had it out for me. We were butting heads left and right. He was very emotionally out of control back then. One day he posted a picture himself, and, in true Nike fashion, I took his picture, photoshopped off all his limbs, put sticks in their place and began to call him "Stickboy." Prior to that we would nudge each other and we would laugh. This one sent him into chaos. Flip'd joined in and went nuclear on him. Thankfully, it eventually died down. And even though I had mod powers for years I didn't ban Nby out of spite even though there were a lot of false accusations thrown at me.
The first time I was banned was by kofi. My girlfriend at the time had seen Teamxbox open on my computer while I was in the shower. She decided to have some fun and post photos non-stop in any and every thread. It was out of control. I got out of the shower and she was laughing. An hour or so later I tried logging on and I was banned, lol.
I became a mod along with Aqua Snake a little after the first big exodus. The first thing I did, like everybody else does when the first become a mod, I checked my user notes and searched for myself in the mod forums. Man, TFX really had it out for me. I wish there was a way I could have saved some of the threads in there for everyone to see.
Teamxbox was the place I was at the longest. I was on there everyday all day. I had an appreciation for the community and that's why I worked so hard when I was modding to keep everything running as best as I could. I never really visited the front page so it's the community that had me. I think most would echo that. While UnionVGF is our new home, the memories of Teamxbox can't be touched. I guess it's time to make some new memories here?
As the years moved on I decided to venture to the OTL. I had visited it a year prior to becoming a regular. I had stayed away from it for the most part because I saw this clique that was going on there. Most of the mods had this 'holier than thou' ego about them and I wasn't a fan. I guess it was that that made me stay. I always like to push back against authority and they were people to push back against. Eventually I spent most of my time in the OTL and it eventually became all of my time was spent in the OTL.
Probably the biggest, and saddest, memory of Teamxbox was when Nby had it out for me. We were butting heads left and right. He was very emotionally out of control back then. One day he posted a picture himself, and, in true Nike fashion, I took his picture, photoshopped off all his limbs, put sticks in their place and began to call him "Stickboy." Prior to that we would nudge each other and we would laugh. This one sent him into chaos. Flip'd joined in and went nuclear on him. Thankfully, it eventually died down. And even though I had mod powers for years I didn't ban Nby out of spite even though there were a lot of false accusations thrown at me.
The first time I was banned was by kofi. My girlfriend at the time had seen Teamxbox open on my computer while I was in the shower. She decided to have some fun and post photos non-stop in any and every thread. It was out of control. I got out of the shower and she was laughing. An hour or so later I tried logging on and I was banned, lol.
I became a mod along with Aqua Snake a little after the first big exodus. The first thing I did, like everybody else does when the first become a mod, I checked my user notes and searched for myself in the mod forums. Man, TFX really had it out for me. I wish there was a way I could have saved some of the threads in there for everyone to see.
Teamxbox was the place I was at the longest. I was on there everyday all day. I had an appreciation for the community and that's why I worked so hard when I was modding to keep everything running as best as I could. I never really visited the front page so it's the community that had me. I think most would echo that. While UnionVGF is our new home, the memories of Teamxbox can't be touched. I guess it's time to make some new memories here?
I said this multiple times but TXB was one of those things that just flat out made me what I am. It is not a common thing for a Korean middle school student to 1) talk about video games (in a market that is saturated with PC online games) and 3)talk about movies at the same time 3)in English. There was one guy I met in Korean community who was very smart and well established in all of those things, and he recommended me to go to TXB which offered pretty good articles back then. I learned all the English I needed to write and talk in TXB, got to know video games and some gamers maybe too well, went deep into movies as well, ended up studying English literature in college, decided to keep studying, with an aim to expand into movies and video games, and here I am, an English literature graduate who is one of the very few early adoptor of Xbox One in the country. Can't say I was in active communication with most of the members, but it taught me a lot about relationship and community between people as well. Things keep going on with UVGF and stuff, but I will still miss TXB.
Hmmm, I guess I'll chime in with a few.
First I'll start with how TeamXbox came to be. It was late 2000 and I was working as a web designer at the University of Pittsburgh. Steve Barton also worked there in my department as a tech engineer. He and I shared an enthusiasm for video games and we were both quite intrigued by Microsoft's announcement they were working on creating a video game console. At the time this was a pretty strange concept being that everyone had associated Microsoft with Windows and software. We started following things but found it difficult to really get any decent information since most of the media wasn't really paying them much attention. Sony and Nintendo ruled the gaming world at the time so Microsoft wasn't really thought of as a serious contender to shake things up. This was also the time when people were out there scooping up URLs as if they were gold deposits waiting to be discovered. Steve suggested that we go ahead and buy a URL related to the Xbox and we started thinking of a name to register. Xbox.com was taken obviously and so was MSXbox.com. I can't even remember some of the ideas we had before we landed on TeamXbox.com. However I do remember that we thought XboxTeam would be a cool name and we actually tried to register that one first. But it was taken. Then we thought, hey flip it around. Soon as we said "TeamXbox" outloud, we knew that had a nice ring to it, even better than XboxTeam. Soon as we looked it up and saw it was available it was ours.
At that point Steve asked if I would create a landing page for it. Rather than just having a blank URL and hoping it would amount to anything, we thought if we created a landing page, we could get some attention toward it. Honestly we had no grand scheme of creating a mega site or anything like that. We really just wanted to park the domain and see what happened. I wish I could tell you we sat around and hatched some plan, masterminding what would become of TeamXbox but we didn't. We simply thought it would be a good idea to get a decent domain related to Xbox and we thought since we had it, we might as well put a landing page up for it. So I got started on a simple, yet attractive landing page. At the time the only available artwork promoting Xbox was of Raven and the giant robot from the very early concept demo along with the 3D Xbox logo.
Once we had a landing page up, we realized that it actually looked pretty good and as we searched the web for any bits of info we could find, we started posting it to the landing page. No database or CMS or anything like that. Straight up notepad and HTML coding. We'd type in the news we could find and really had no rhyme or reason to our process. You have to remember this was before blogs took over and people were used to spitting everything they thought on websites, so we were pretty new to the idea of "managing" a website. The big site for info at the time was MSXbox.com. They were really the only other ones out there doing anything, even Xbox.com was devoid of content and frankly it wasn't very impressive looking at all. MSXbox had some news flowing on their homepage, but they also had the forum started. I can't remember how many people it had at the time, but it was growing.
I think since we didn't really have a gameplan, Steve and I just started having fun with TeamXbox.com and we more or less used it to goof around and pass time while at work. We started writing some silly articles and rather than just posting news like every other site out there, we would put our own spin on things and wrote with our personalities instead. Posting what we thought about whatever rumors or tidbits of info were floating around. We also got a very basic forum going. And by basic, I mean a very, very basic tree structure type thing. Neither Steve or I were programmers and while I knew HTML and Flash, it took a lot of effort to do the most simple things. But this was a time when just making a button effect was considering pretty cutting edge on the web.
So a couple months passed and we got an email from Microsoft. At first we were like, oh crap, they're on to us and they are going to make us take our site down. But after we talked to them they told us that they really liked the overall look of our site and they appreciated our enthusiasm for the Xbox. They asked what our plans were and we pretty much told them we didn't really have any, we were just having fun along the way. Our basic approach was as we found any news or information, we would post it along with our own thoughts and any other random silliness we felt like contributing to the site. Microsoft was thrilled we were so energetic about things and they asked if we wanted to be put on their official Press Release list. Hell yes we did. So that enabled us to be on the fast track to getting direct information from the source as soon as it was made available. We also continued to communicate with the PR people from Microsoft to keep lines of communication open.
We added a chatroom to the site soon after this and while the forum was slow to grow, the chatroom took off quickly. MSXbox had the larger forum and we really weren't trying to compete with that. But we felt that adding a chatroom would add a more direct way to communicate since forum software at the time was pretty sluggish and much more like a message board than the forums we've come to understand today. Once the chatroom started picking up steam we noticed some people popping in and out that appeared to be with Microsoft. These people turned out to be J Allard and Jeff Henshaw, two of the main people at Microsoft who were responsible for putting the Xbox in motion. They liked sticking their heads in to see what the buzz was and to participate as well. The thing that always struck me about the Microsoft guys was they were not the uptight suits that we associated Microsoft execs with. They really were these rebel type guys who worked there who had an idea way out of left field and they wanted to have fun while treading in new territory. As we started talking more and more with J and Jeff, we gained their respect and more importantly we established a friendly relationship with them and started talking on personal levels rather than just Xbox or business related. They were cool guys who were excited about their work as well as the fact that these guys were out there equally as excited about what they were doing. So this mutual appreciation for each other helped us do things I don't think the other sites were capable of.
This is why we were the first site in the world to "leak" images of the prototype Xbox. It was all part of an April Fools' joke we hatched up with J and Jeff. The idea was to make it appear as though Jeff was bootlegging Xboxes from the back of his car late at night after the Microsoft offices closed. We even went so far as do a fake interview with J the day after Jeff was supposedly busted and locked out of headquarters. They provided us with phoney security cam images of Jeff "selling" Xboxes and they showed us a photo of a room of Xbox hardware that was taken apart. When we posted these images, they were the first images of the hardware anyone had seen in the public and it caused a pretty big stir. The only problem was the PR at Microsoft wasn't informed by J or Jeff and it caused a bit of a s*** storm. We had to take things down and come out and announce it was a prank, but J and Jeff were totally cool since it was mostly their idea. We thought we were screwed and would be blacklisted by MS but they took care of things and made sure there was no ill will from the company towards us. So it worked out.
Skip foward to our first E3 a month later. We had no idea what to expect but we knew we had to be there. We went and got these really cheesy TeamXbox soccer jersey type shirts made up and packed for LA. We made some press kit type packs to pass out and other than just showing up and seeing what all the hype was about, we didn't have much of a plan. Serenity, my wife then, was all about marketing TeamXbox and she wanted to have all these meetings with people, but nobody in the industry knew who we were. She couldn't really get through to anyone who mattered at the big development and publishing companies. While were pretty tight with MS, nobody else knew or cared who we were in the industry itself. They only cared about IGN and Gamespot. Everyone else was considered some kind of Geocities fansite not worth noticing.
When we told the MS guys we were making the trip to E3 they were super happy. They were impressed we were going to put forth the effort and funds to get ourselves out there, being this small site who believed in themselves and their goal of making waves in the gaming industry. We met up with J and Jeff at their hotel the night after their press conference and they were at the bar with other MS execs celebrating the events. While were all sitting at the bar, the bartender came over the J and handed him a GIANT bottle of champagne. Attached to it was a note from SEGA. It simply said, "Welcome to the game!" The MS guys were pumped up and everyone shared a toast. It was pretty surreal for me to be part of that, sitting there with these people who were responsible for making the Xbox at a moment when they were being welcomed to the industry by a company like SEGA. I knew right then and there, that TeamXbox was something special that things had come to be in a place and time that was right. This is what I was meant to do. From that moment on TeamXbox wasn't just a website Steve and I created to have some fun with, it became my passion. I knew I would stop at nothing to keep it going and these events cemented my drive.
They invited us to a giant dinner with them and a bunch of other MS and industry people to sort of celebrate their first major E3 leading up to the release in Nov 2001. This dinner was amazing. We arrived at some super exclusive restaurant in LA, somewhere around Santa Monica and we rode with J and Jeff and some other people. When we got inside, someone had messed something up with reservations and they didn't have an opening for the 12 or so people we had with us. I think it was J who whispered something to the hostess while slipping her a rather large chunk of cash. She immediately went to the back and pulled out a couple of tables, rearranged an area in the middle of the dinning room and sat us down. Wow. Just wow was all I could think to myself. I sat down and we started introducing ourselves to the other people around the table. When the guy sitting across from me shook my hand and said his name, it sounded familiar but I couldn't place it. Before long, shots were being passed around the table and we had a blast talking, joking and generally just having a hell of a good time.
Many tequila shots later, the guy across the table from me I sorta recognized but couldn't place told me that I had to finish his shot. I grabbed it, threw it down and as soon as I finished the shot, it hit me. I was sitting across the table and getting drunk with Howard Phillips, the guy who was the editor of Nintendo Power. This was the guy who had the cartoon version of himself in the magazine wearing the bowtie! Holy s***! I couldn't believe it. This was probably the first and one of the few times during my time with TeamXbox I was star struck. It was a special moment for me.
And with that, that quickly sums up the first 6-7 months of TeamXbox and the long way we came in such a short time. And to think we went from all this to having our own booth at E3 the following year...well, that's another story all its own.
First I'll start with how TeamXbox came to be. It was late 2000 and I was working as a web designer at the University of Pittsburgh. Steve Barton also worked there in my department as a tech engineer. He and I shared an enthusiasm for video games and we were both quite intrigued by Microsoft's announcement they were working on creating a video game console. At the time this was a pretty strange concept being that everyone had associated Microsoft with Windows and software. We started following things but found it difficult to really get any decent information since most of the media wasn't really paying them much attention. Sony and Nintendo ruled the gaming world at the time so Microsoft wasn't really thought of as a serious contender to shake things up. This was also the time when people were out there scooping up URLs as if they were gold deposits waiting to be discovered. Steve suggested that we go ahead and buy a URL related to the Xbox and we started thinking of a name to register. Xbox.com was taken obviously and so was MSXbox.com. I can't even remember some of the ideas we had before we landed on TeamXbox.com. However I do remember that we thought XboxTeam would be a cool name and we actually tried to register that one first. But it was taken. Then we thought, hey flip it around. Soon as we said "TeamXbox" outloud, we knew that had a nice ring to it, even better than XboxTeam. Soon as we looked it up and saw it was available it was ours.
At that point Steve asked if I would create a landing page for it. Rather than just having a blank URL and hoping it would amount to anything, we thought if we created a landing page, we could get some attention toward it. Honestly we had no grand scheme of creating a mega site or anything like that. We really just wanted to park the domain and see what happened. I wish I could tell you we sat around and hatched some plan, masterminding what would become of TeamXbox but we didn't. We simply thought it would be a good idea to get a decent domain related to Xbox and we thought since we had it, we might as well put a landing page up for it. So I got started on a simple, yet attractive landing page. At the time the only available artwork promoting Xbox was of Raven and the giant robot from the very early concept demo along with the 3D Xbox logo.
Once we had a landing page up, we realized that it actually looked pretty good and as we searched the web for any bits of info we could find, we started posting it to the landing page. No database or CMS or anything like that. Straight up notepad and HTML coding. We'd type in the news we could find and really had no rhyme or reason to our process. You have to remember this was before blogs took over and people were used to spitting everything they thought on websites, so we were pretty new to the idea of "managing" a website. The big site for info at the time was MSXbox.com. They were really the only other ones out there doing anything, even Xbox.com was devoid of content and frankly it wasn't very impressive looking at all. MSXbox had some news flowing on their homepage, but they also had the forum started. I can't remember how many people it had at the time, but it was growing.
I think since we didn't really have a gameplan, Steve and I just started having fun with TeamXbox.com and we more or less used it to goof around and pass time while at work. We started writing some silly articles and rather than just posting news like every other site out there, we would put our own spin on things and wrote with our personalities instead. Posting what we thought about whatever rumors or tidbits of info were floating around. We also got a very basic forum going. And by basic, I mean a very, very basic tree structure type thing. Neither Steve or I were programmers and while I knew HTML and Flash, it took a lot of effort to do the most simple things. But this was a time when just making a button effect was considering pretty cutting edge on the web.
So a couple months passed and we got an email from Microsoft. At first we were like, oh crap, they're on to us and they are going to make us take our site down. But after we talked to them they told us that they really liked the overall look of our site and they appreciated our enthusiasm for the Xbox. They asked what our plans were and we pretty much told them we didn't really have any, we were just having fun along the way. Our basic approach was as we found any news or information, we would post it along with our own thoughts and any other random silliness we felt like contributing to the site. Microsoft was thrilled we were so energetic about things and they asked if we wanted to be put on their official Press Release list. Hell yes we did. So that enabled us to be on the fast track to getting direct information from the source as soon as it was made available. We also continued to communicate with the PR people from Microsoft to keep lines of communication open.
We added a chatroom to the site soon after this and while the forum was slow to grow, the chatroom took off quickly. MSXbox had the larger forum and we really weren't trying to compete with that. But we felt that adding a chatroom would add a more direct way to communicate since forum software at the time was pretty sluggish and much more like a message board than the forums we've come to understand today. Once the chatroom started picking up steam we noticed some people popping in and out that appeared to be with Microsoft. These people turned out to be J Allard and Jeff Henshaw, two of the main people at Microsoft who were responsible for putting the Xbox in motion. They liked sticking their heads in to see what the buzz was and to participate as well. The thing that always struck me about the Microsoft guys was they were not the uptight suits that we associated Microsoft execs with. They really were these rebel type guys who worked there who had an idea way out of left field and they wanted to have fun while treading in new territory. As we started talking more and more with J and Jeff, we gained their respect and more importantly we established a friendly relationship with them and started talking on personal levels rather than just Xbox or business related. They were cool guys who were excited about their work as well as the fact that these guys were out there equally as excited about what they were doing. So this mutual appreciation for each other helped us do things I don't think the other sites were capable of.
This is why we were the first site in the world to "leak" images of the prototype Xbox. It was all part of an April Fools' joke we hatched up with J and Jeff. The idea was to make it appear as though Jeff was bootlegging Xboxes from the back of his car late at night after the Microsoft offices closed. We even went so far as do a fake interview with J the day after Jeff was supposedly busted and locked out of headquarters. They provided us with phoney security cam images of Jeff "selling" Xboxes and they showed us a photo of a room of Xbox hardware that was taken apart. When we posted these images, they were the first images of the hardware anyone had seen in the public and it caused a pretty big stir. The only problem was the PR at Microsoft wasn't informed by J or Jeff and it caused a bit of a s*** storm. We had to take things down and come out and announce it was a prank, but J and Jeff were totally cool since it was mostly their idea. We thought we were screwed and would be blacklisted by MS but they took care of things and made sure there was no ill will from the company towards us. So it worked out.
Skip foward to our first E3 a month later. We had no idea what to expect but we knew we had to be there. We went and got these really cheesy TeamXbox soccer jersey type shirts made up and packed for LA. We made some press kit type packs to pass out and other than just showing up and seeing what all the hype was about, we didn't have much of a plan. Serenity, my wife then, was all about marketing TeamXbox and she wanted to have all these meetings with people, but nobody in the industry knew who we were. She couldn't really get through to anyone who mattered at the big development and publishing companies. While were pretty tight with MS, nobody else knew or cared who we were in the industry itself. They only cared about IGN and Gamespot. Everyone else was considered some kind of Geocities fansite not worth noticing.
When we told the MS guys we were making the trip to E3 they were super happy. They were impressed we were going to put forth the effort and funds to get ourselves out there, being this small site who believed in themselves and their goal of making waves in the gaming industry. We met up with J and Jeff at their hotel the night after their press conference and they were at the bar with other MS execs celebrating the events. While were all sitting at the bar, the bartender came over the J and handed him a GIANT bottle of champagne. Attached to it was a note from SEGA. It simply said, "Welcome to the game!" The MS guys were pumped up and everyone shared a toast. It was pretty surreal for me to be part of that, sitting there with these people who were responsible for making the Xbox at a moment when they were being welcomed to the industry by a company like SEGA. I knew right then and there, that TeamXbox was something special that things had come to be in a place and time that was right. This is what I was meant to do. From that moment on TeamXbox wasn't just a website Steve and I created to have some fun with, it became my passion. I knew I would stop at nothing to keep it going and these events cemented my drive.
They invited us to a giant dinner with them and a bunch of other MS and industry people to sort of celebrate their first major E3 leading up to the release in Nov 2001. This dinner was amazing. We arrived at some super exclusive restaurant in LA, somewhere around Santa Monica and we rode with J and Jeff and some other people. When we got inside, someone had messed something up with reservations and they didn't have an opening for the 12 or so people we had with us. I think it was J who whispered something to the hostess while slipping her a rather large chunk of cash. She immediately went to the back and pulled out a couple of tables, rearranged an area in the middle of the dinning room and sat us down. Wow. Just wow was all I could think to myself. I sat down and we started introducing ourselves to the other people around the table. When the guy sitting across from me shook my hand and said his name, it sounded familiar but I couldn't place it. Before long, shots were being passed around the table and we had a blast talking, joking and generally just having a hell of a good time.
Many tequila shots later, the guy across the table from me I sorta recognized but couldn't place told me that I had to finish his shot. I grabbed it, threw it down and as soon as I finished the shot, it hit me. I was sitting across the table and getting drunk with Howard Phillips, the guy who was the editor of Nintendo Power. This was the guy who had the cartoon version of himself in the magazine wearing the bowtie! Holy s***! I couldn't believe it. This was probably the first and one of the few times during my time with TeamXbox I was star struck. It was a special moment for me.
And with that, that quickly sums up the first 6-7 months of TeamXbox and the long way we came in such a short time. And to think we went from all this to having our own booth at E3 the following year...well, that's another story all its own.
I feel like I was part of a different TeamXbox.. the underbelly or something.
None of those images from the OP's gave me any feels.. just memories of stuff I didn't find funny or entertaining when it happened. Like I'm hanging around with a group of friends who tell inside jokes I'm not a part of.. only.. I was around for the inside jokes.. know what they are.. but don't "get it."
None of those images from the OP's gave me any feels.. just memories of stuff I didn't find funny or entertaining when it happened. Like I'm hanging around with a group of friends who tell inside jokes I'm not a part of.. only.. I was around for the inside jokes.. know what they are.. but don't "get it."
Awesome man, some of those images REALLY take me back, such good times! TXB 4 Life (in the form of Union)! SALUTE!
I think TXB was just the coolest and most relaxed forum to hang around in. I've been around other forums, but there was something about TXB that just clicked for me. I took a long time of absence and eventuality came back, don't remember why, maybe it was college or something, but I found myself reading articles more and more. Simply got sucked back in. Community was rock solid and I'm just glad the last of us Mohicans were able to stay banded together and take the brojump to UGF. I don't know if this place will have the longevity TXB had, or if it could capture that same lightning in a bottle, but man, the times, they are good.
What really sucks about TXB closing down is that the little memorial threads meant to pay tribute for guys who actually died in real life go down with it. RIP to the fallen brothers indeed.
lol at the IGN "welcome" thread. Like anyone is going to go to that hell hole. But you get a free period of IGN Prime!!!!
Hey Shockwave, I wanted to thank you for starting the site as I joined February 2002 and had a blast talking with all the people in the forums. Those were some good times.
My favorite posts were that of the LAN parties people would set up in the early days of the original XBOX
To me J Allard is the face of XBOX this gen we are missing he contributions.
My favorite posts were that of the LAN parties people would set up in the early days of the original XBOX
To me J Allard is the face of XBOX this gen we are missing he contributions.
Thank you for being a part of it! And I totally agree with you. J was the driving force behind Xbox. He is the one who spearheaded it within Microsoft and he is the one who wanted to make it something special. Something more creative and exciting than any other console. And he was a cool guy. Since he's been in the dark, Microsoft and Xbox hasn't been the same. I think MS saw his potential in what he did with Xbox and that's why they pulled him away from it and wanted him to focus on Zune and Kin. But his heart wasn't in those things as it was the Xbox. Xbox was his baby and I don't think he was totally for stepping back from it and working on those other projects. And eventually when he left MS in 2010 along with Robbie Bach, I think that was just the sign he had enough.
In fact...wow, I just had a revelation. Much like TeamXbox was my passion, but when IGN saw what I could do with it, they pulled me and several others into other projects...such as me working on design stuff for GameSpy, Voodoo, Vaults, Planets, etc, and Tony completely pulled within IGN to program, etc...it just didn't work the same. For me at least, my heart was TXB, and while I tried hard to do good work for the other properties, I felt like TXB was being neglected and it took a toll. The IGN powers that be felt TXB reached a point where it was doing well and could withstand. The other properties needed a spark and they wanted me to help with that. But while doing that, TXB fell short and I just didn't have the same spark inside me.
I think J had the same thing happen to him.
I remember this awesome time at TXB when I made a post replying to someone's comment and I think they commented back or something.
When us Mods trick the OTL beliveing that Revit was banned.
Yea , that was very convincing.
I don't have any particular threads or experiences that I can recall specifically but the OTL got so busy for a while (at least for me in 04-07) that it was almost like a rapid fire discussion. Call and response. I loved that and miss it from time to time.
I felt as if was just waiting for someone to write something ridiculous (which happened often) so i could be there with a witty punchline and read others.
Lots of good comedy was had.
Getting into it with Dad and Dutch in the PP was always fun.
wish PE was around here too.
I joined through the oxm board, became a model member and never offended anyone. Good memories.
s***... we need that to get our hands on that material and make the worlds first ever forum reality show.
I rememeber Superduds last day(one of the worst threads I ever had the misfortune to enter)...I remember when Kofijama(msp?) left cause he was my favorite mod(no offense)
The first few months on teamxbox I only lurked cause I didn't want to get bashed for saying something stupid. I only had 2k posts in 11 years at that place but it was a great place to find news and I loved reading people debate back and forth.It's the only site that I ever cared that it closed down.
The first few months on teamxbox I only lurked cause I didn't want to get bashed for saying something stupid. I only had 2k posts in 11 years at that place but it was a great place to find news and I loved reading people debate back and forth.It's the only site that I ever cared that it closed down.
Did you use the same avy Cody32599? I'm curious because it seemed like you posted a bit more during the dying days of TXB.
I remember Giant Crab getting pissed every NPD that Wii was outselling everything and how every month was the month that sales would slow to a crawl for the wii. Good times.
lol, that's really funny, but it also kind of speaks for me, because I don't have all these goofy OTL or admin/mod-based memories, just memories of a LOT of interesting, contentious, and funny conversations about various videogames and systems. I was always a GXD boy, and my main interest has always been discussing games and sharing an enjoyment of them. Conversations at TXB were always pretty interesting, and I don't think any forum has ever made me laugh as hard and as often as TXB did.
I joined in 2002 but was a pretty infrequent poster until I had some health issues in 2005 that left me unemployed for a few years. I ended up being made a mod and then ending up modding the OCD where it became more of a job and quit being fun. Once Shockwave got the boot, I quit modding in solidarity and told the place to get f***ed and quit posting as often.
TXB saw me through my marriage, the death of my father, my divorce, and the start of a promising career. I also met many friends there that I still talk to regularly. I'll always remember Damien aka Lister2020 as a friend and I still miss him.
These days I'm too busy at work to post anywhere but I'm glad I can still see some friendly faces/names here.
TXB saw me through my marriage, the death of my father, my divorce, and the start of a promising career. I also met many friends there that I still talk to regularly. I'll always remember Damien aka Lister2020 as a friend and I still miss him.
These days I'm too busy at work to post anywhere but I'm glad I can still see some friendly faces/names here.
