MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: 20 years of Mametesters and MW (soon)

>That was my favorite Internet era

Forum-wise....yep those were when the hilarious fights and arguments would take place. And the photoshop wars were awesome such as infamous Fazeo's yoga photo and the skateboard shoes photoedited to Fazeo with one pointed in wrong direction was freaking funny. I was probably laughing for a minute or so when seeing that image for first time. The other photo that made me laugh was one of Fazeo's beach vacation photos where he standing on a pier next to a railing and was wearing shoes that looked like Hush Puppy brand shoes. I fell off chair laughing when looking at the vacation photo. I don't remember who it was, but they posted an amusing dig at Fazeo about those shoes. It could have been twisty or maybe it was ArcadeEd.

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I was just discovering non-commercial emulation in spring 2000 and only visited old MAME.net or JoseQ's Emuviews and also Retrogames.net I remember I was visiting another site, not Arcade@Home, but it was a site that was eventually taken over by Arcade@Home site owner (Tim Eckel) iirc.
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I wish I could remember which web site it was, but it had to have been linked from Timmy's Arcade@Home web site. I don't recall if the linked web site was part of Lev's ztnet network web sites he ran. The thing that made the particular site useful was the web site had lots of already emulated game snaps and I emailed links to my cousin and within a day or two later he eventually found out these images were created and he was already running MAME a day or two before I did. He explained it over the telephone and following day I then discovered MAME and was able to run Gremlin's Frogs and Sega/Gremlin Carnival in a short time thanks to JoseQ's Emuviews web site.

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I had made audio recordings of playing Sprint 2 at a downstairs arcade (no longer there) at the Manitou Springs, Co Cave of the Winds tourist attraction.
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The manager 'Sean' iirc was a fan of MAME. Once I explained to him why I was asking if I can make audio recordings for external samples for Sprint 2, he was saying "Let's do this!" and handed me $10 worth of tokens just to make certain all Sprint 2 audio sounds were recorded. The bummer part was telling the manager of not sure if the Sprint 2 audio sounds could be supported aside from the crash sound effect.

The arcade room with all of the various cabs was eventually replaced with some other attraction.