03-31-2020, 04:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2020, 04:26 AM by Vitiman.
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A very long-running humour-based Mega Man fan site that I obsessively checked/read when I was younger, The Mechanical Maniacs, has a page dedicated to what their older layouts used to look like. The earliest of them appears to be in the vein of what you've shared, in fact. With that said, that's not how I remember the website looking back when I found it, that'd be this.
The Mechanical Maniacs was just one of many fan sites devoted to "teams" mimicking the Robot Master lineups from the various MM games. At one point or another, I believe there was a team for every single classic game at that time (this was a pre-9 world, mind you). I remember as a young, naive idiot child at the time emailing the webmaster of Mechanical Maniacs asking so desperately to be included as the dreaded Doc Robot from their game of choice, Mega Man 3. Of course, given that by the time I asked the whole team scene had largely fallen apart and that I was a dumb kid, I was very politely declined on my offer.
That whole thing was wild... I remember reading about how the founder of the Sinister Six (the Mega Man 1 team and basically who started the whole thing in the MM community) actually died due to an accident. I wasn't as intertwined with the other teams as I was TMM - probably because their site had tons of trinkets and amusing anecdotes to comb through - but it was still heartbreaking to know that someone who made a big impact on a fan community like that could just... pass away, and all due to misfortune. I know we've had a handful of members pass away here on MFGG, but I know this is meant to be a more lighthearted thread, so pardon my 3 AM rambling.
This was just one of many sites I used to prowl as a younge childe. I admit that while I just barely missed the era of Web 1.0 sites by the time I started joining websites and being active online, I find myself looking back at the more '90s web designs as a more aesthetically amusing/pleasing era. Hell, people still made GeoCities and Angel Fires in 2006, right? So I suppose I still saw some of that growing up, then.
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The Mechanical Maniacs was just one of many fan sites devoted to "teams" mimicking the Robot Master lineups from the various MM games. At one point or another, I believe there was a team for every single classic game at that time (this was a pre-9 world, mind you). I remember as a young, naive idiot child at the time emailing the webmaster of Mechanical Maniacs asking so desperately to be included as the dreaded Doc Robot from their game of choice, Mega Man 3. Of course, given that by the time I asked the whole team scene had largely fallen apart and that I was a dumb kid, I was very politely declined on my offer.
That whole thing was wild... I remember reading about how the founder of the Sinister Six (the Mega Man 1 team and basically who started the whole thing in the MM community) actually died due to an accident. I wasn't as intertwined with the other teams as I was TMM - probably because their site had tons of trinkets and amusing anecdotes to comb through - but it was still heartbreaking to know that someone who made a big impact on a fan community like that could just... pass away, and all due to misfortune. I know we've had a handful of members pass away here on MFGG, but I know this is meant to be a more lighthearted thread, so pardon my 3 AM rambling.
This was just one of many sites I used to prowl as a younge childe. I admit that while I just barely missed the era of Web 1.0 sites by the time I started joining websites and being active online, I find myself looking back at the more '90s web designs as a more aesthetically amusing/pleasing era. Hell, people still made GeoCities and Angel Fires in 2006, right? So I suppose I still saw some of that growing up, then.
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