Other video game forums, the good, the bad, and the ugly

Atari Age is great except for the troll infested Jaguar forum and the moderators who are complete tools and ban people for seemingly no reason other than they don't like them. I have seen many really good members banned from there over the years and the forum is a much worse place for it these days sadly. If you want a really good Atari discussion forum then there is Atari Proppa, only found this place recently and its a quite private forum where every member has to be approved by the admin and it has a fairly small user base but the people there are really knowledgable and there is some superb exclusive stuff. I also like the banter there, you can have a really good laugh, as well as the built in chatroom. It seems to have taken over from Jaguar Sector 2 in many repects which seems to have died a horrible death, shame as I used to love that place.

Retro Gamer Magazine forum is rather good, the actual forum its self looks like crap and gets rather cluttered because of too many things being discussed in the few seperate and badly defined rooms but there is some fantastic discussion there all the same. Especially good if you are from the UK and its the only UKcentric forum really.

I got to sestren.org every now and then. I'm shocked nobody has mentioned IGN though. I was on that site back when they were still called Secrets of Sega Sages. But IGN banned me to many times for foul language so I had to leave them behind.

Good? Sega 16. The Bad? Gamefaqs - full of morons. The Ugly? SegaAge; horrible logo and the place is aimed at trading more than discussion; not my cup of tea, that's for sure.

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Originally Posted by Crackdown

Atari Age is great except for the troll infested Jaguar forum and the moderators who are complete tools and ban people for seemingly no reason other than they don't like them. I have seen many really good members banned from there over the years and the forum is a much worse place for it these days sadly.

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Agreed. I was a member at Atari Age for the past 2+ years and was recently banned. I said nothing out of the way, in fact helping many members over there with tips, technical know-how, along with a free service repairing Atari 5200 controllers for the people. I even did a giveaway where I held a drawing and awarded new Atari games to foreign site members who could not get the games any other way. Al (the owner) has a strict "no politics, no religion" rule and plainly did not like me because of my avatar. I was talked to in bad ways by trolls (even some moderators) and I always got the warnings for simply sticking up for myself. What I saw was that Al and the site mods had a click going and they could talk to you any way they wanted and ban you for absolutely nothing. Two prominent members over there were former Atari programmers who were treated like gods. Suffice it to say that they could talk down to you like you were trash and nothing was said. Good riddance to the place.

The only other ones I frequent are Sega-16 and Nintendo Age. Sega-16 is my favorite, and Nintendo Age seems to have more than a few immature types, if you get my meaning.

I think I remember bits and pieces of that. They sure didn't take a liking to you, TZ. :|

Well, there's nothing to worry about here. We may not be able to compete with AtariAge's traffic, but at least we hold a much fairer ruling. Heck, if I had a 5200, I'd see how good you are at fixing them. :)

This is a great place to share modifications and repairs though. I wish people would show off their stuff more often, like I have the past couple of times.

Hey I remember you from AA man and always thought you were a fantastic member, sad to hear you were banned too :(

I just don't get Albert at all he is probably the biggest hypocrite on the internet and his mods are probably the biggest trolls on the forum. The only one is ok is Punisher (at a push), it was A LOT better when Chickybaby was there. Just showed how fucked up that place is when they ban their own moderator (chicky) when she was recovering from cancer simply because she didn't agree with a bunch of trolls in the Jag forum being left to run riot. Outright disgusting in fact especially as they covered it all up by making up some quite frankly disgusting stories about her sleeping with forum members when she had cervical cancer. In fact I see one of the people who created those stories has now been made a mod, guess he fits in perfectly with Sauron and the rest.

Wow, that is seriously messed up. That's all true, Crack Down? Yikes, I guess I was never in touch with AtariAge's darker side. Kinda makes me feel like I was only seeing the happy part of the Sunnyside daycare, while underneath Lotso (in this case Albert) ran a pyramid and arranged his toadies to torment the good toys of the establishment... Sorry, Toy Story 3 was a really good movie. :D

In all seriousness though, these claims make me sick. Out of principle I should no longer visit there. The crap surrounding Chickybaby is the worst though. It always felt like something stunk about the whole situation, but I never imagined it'd be that bad.

Stop posting here right now. Your post count is 777. A lucky number.

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Originally Posted by tz101

Agreed. I was a member at Atari Age for the past 2+ years and was recently banned. I said nothing out of the way, in fact helping many members over there with tips, technical know-how, along with a free service repairing Atari 5200 controllers for the people. I even did a giveaway where I held a drawing and awarded new Atari games to foreign site members who could not get the games any other way. Al (the owner) has a strict "no politics, no religion" rule and plainly did not like me because of my avatar. I was talked to in bad ways by trolls (even some moderators) and I always got the warnings for simply sticking up for myself. What I saw was that Al and the site mods had a click going and they could talk to you any way they wanted and ban you for absolutely nothing. Two prominent members over there were former Atari programmers who were treated like gods. Suffice it to say that they could talk down to you like you were trash and nothing was said. Good riddance to the place.

The only other ones I frequent are Sega-16 and Nintendo Age. Sega-16 is my favorite, and Nintendo Age seems to have more than a few immature types, if you get my meaning.

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now I'm at 778, what does that mean? :)

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In all seriousness though, these claims make me sick. Out of principle I should no longer visit there. The crap surrounding Chickybaby is the worst though. It always felt like something stunk about the whole situation, but I never imagined it'd be that bad.

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Worst thing is thats I left a lot of stuff out even with all the deleted threads and posts over there (and the ones that the mods edited) you can still find some stuff if you go looking.

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Originally Posted by Da_Shocker

I got to sestren.org every now and then. I'm shocked nobody has mentioned IGN though. I was on that site back when they were still called Secrets of Sega Sages. But IGN banned me to many times for foul language so I had to leave them behind.

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I freakin hate IGN, they perminately banned me cause I apparently was advertising in one of there threads saying that I had a youtube channel that would upload game music by request. better if you Banned me for a week and warn me but don't just perm banned someone for doing something they didn't know was wrong.

Sega 16 = I dont know I have not been here long enough. So far its a fun place to be.


Neo Geo forums = never been there. Considering how much neo I've been playing maybe I should try there next?

Gamefaqs = Great forums, very disiplined but you are allowed to fully voice your opinion

other - I also go to an art forum that is for my "real life" hobby apart from leisure videogaming

Sega-16 is the only gaming forum I visit regularly. Discussions are intelligent, everyone is nice, and there's a lot of helpful info. I've never been to Nintendo Age, is it full of Nintendo elitist retards? I've been wanting to check it out, but I'm afraid I'll get pissed off quickly.

I still stand by what I said about the official Sega Forums being full of hilarious Drama.

Some fun examples from the Phantasy Star section:

Admin/GM Clumsyorchid goes into the unofficial PSOBB IRC channel and gets banned for accusing a channel OP of hacking. Then bans some of the IRC OPs from the Forums. Needless to say the Forum went into a huge war for about a month.

A more recent one was when the lack of updates for the US version of PSU had reached an all time low, the GM Edward announced a lame rehashed event from 2-3 years ago which pissed everyone off and caused lots of complaints. By the end of it the admins banned helpful people of the community for simply asking the question of "How much of a delay will this put on the next major update?" as well as the GMs saying "If you don't like it you can quit the game."

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Originally Posted by Crackdown

Worst thing is thats I left a lot of stuff out even with all the deleted threads and posts over there (and the ones that the mods edited) you can still find some stuff if you go looking.

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For everything you need to know about my ban at Atari Age, go over and look at some posts within the past two weeks that have my name on them. I used the same name over there, tz101. Notice how my avatar has been removed. Even Chicky Baby's avatar is still on her old threads, but mine has been removed. Hmmmm....

That site is beyond ugly.