Topic: When did you first join NL?

@Snatcher Don't think I had a past encounter with you via that name. Still glad I've met you during the Snatcher era.

Cool, that also reminds me, I need to get around to checking out A Hat In Time. Always looked like my kind of game and thought the main character was rather cute.

@Sunsy OMG you have got to play it, its around Mario OD for me in 3d platformer's, plus, its fully voice acted.

But since your doing pc gaming I would get it on steam, mines is switch but the pc version has waaay more stuff then the switch one, as it has mods.

@Snatcher Didn't know that, I just thought both versions were the same game. Making note then to go for it on PC. Thanks

@Sunsy NP, They are the same game, its just if you own a pc, you will get more content because of the mods. Also unless you like Speedrunning stuff, I wouldn't go for the Seal the deal dlc, But you can put it on easy mode, Thats what I did, because its stupid hard. (The dlc not the main game)

I joined in March of last year, kinda as the entire world melted around us. I had been a reader for at least a year before, but never checked out the forums until after I joined. Initially I posted comments but... it was really clear that forums are more relaxed in general, so it was a no-brainer.

Some people may remember my first-ever profile picture being the infamous KFC-bucket helmet.

My profile indicates 2010, but I was likely browsing the site for some time prior and - knowing me - felt compelled to butt into a conversation.

I don’t have any memories of my early days here though. It’s almost shocking that I have already been here for 11 years. If I review my comments from the very beginning, perhaps that may give me a better idea, but I’m kind of glad that I can’t (that I know of). I hate reading ramblings from a younger and unwiser me.

I’d also guess that stepping back from The Sims community may have contributed to me subconsciously looking elsewhere. I was making machinima shortly after the launch of The Sims 2 in late 2004 until early 2006. I just couldn’t compete with the ridiculous standard of work that was being produced and saw little point in churning out mediocre stuff. That, and I was in my final year of high school and had scaled back a ton. I had done a lot of voiceover work for other people since, though it’s been a long while now.

I feel like I've answered this before (who knows how long ago) but here goes. Christmas 2010. I'd been lurking for a good while but finally decided to make an account. My first forum post was about Super Mario All-Stars for Wii. A game I never picked up. I also mentioned Metroid Prime Trilogy in the same post, and how it's still widely available in my country, which is funny because I bought mine a year or two later when I saw a lone copy for half the normal price. At that point, I didn't even remember seeing them in the wild.

Nowadays, I'm not quite as active, when it comes to writing on the forums or commenting on news articles but I'm still visiting the site every day. I kind of miss the old days and the users who have long since left NL but I still feel at home here.

I took a quick look at my user profile to find the info for this reply. It's weird you can browse every forum post you've ever made but only the last 750 comments you wrote on news stories. My totals so far are 1526 comments, 1823 posts (including this one) and 13 threads.

@TheJGG So That was you!

@Late
I didn't know you could dig up your old posts. Apparently this is where I was at with my first post

Probably more like $69AU at JBs these days. There's also a post about a week after this where I speculate about the next Wii to release "around 2012-2014". Where I talk about Nintendo abandoning optical media and replacing it with ~8GB proprietery flash media. Then for backwards compatibility there's some kind of cable you connect to the Wii to use it's optical drive. Or something.

Quite literally right now at this very second.

I've known about this site for about a year, but only joined two months ago.

My account's not nearly this old, but I showed up here in 2009. I was in middle school and had just gotten a DSi and I remember being very interested in buying Electroplankton Lumiloop on the DSi Shoppe for some reason. I looked up reviews for it, and this was the only site at the time (that wasn't GameFAQs) that had a review. Then it became my go-to place for reviews and news about Nintendo, and eventually I started working here.

I joined when Official Nintendo Magazine shut down in late 2014.

Oh gracious, I can't remember if I had an account in the Virtual Console Reviews days, but I think I already had VCreviews as my homepage, which naturally change to NL when they merged. So maybe 2008? 2009?

And I've always had Nintendolife as my homepage, regardless of which console I most identified with that generation.

I guess, near the launch of the WiiU

I caved and got a login in ‘12, but I was reading the news for a few years before then in the days when James and Corbs ruled this roost

@Link-Hero I am the same way. There were alot of users that I don't see anymore and these new users just get on my nerves after awhile. Whining about the stupidest things. I don't know if they way NL has become that alot of the old users left and these new ones have come or what but yeah I am way less active here then I was say 4/5 years ago.

I also joined during the WiiU era. I remember all the articles of "X game skipping the WiiU" and all of the negativity in the comment sections but it's not really that different nowadays though. I actually enjoyed reading the comment sections to see what people bought from the weekly eshop updates back then as the games that actually made their way to the WiiU usually had a lot of positivity surrounding them.
I definitely agree that this site has one of the nicer communities. Probably because the moderators on this site atually do moderate

I have joined early days of the Switch (my first owned Nintendo console altough I played a bunch of Nintendo games at friends and on PC). First just checking the news and after a few months as an active user.

This year. I started following the YouTube channel and then came to like the general atmosphere of this site, it's a lot less hostile than some other places.