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Title: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 06, 2006, 10:50:42 AM
Seven?  Are you kidding?  That's about 120 in Internet-years!

Update: A little birdie told me that we actually started on March 7th, not the 6th...oops.  So this article is getting post-dated.  So much for quality control!  ;-)  Or maybe we're just becoming forgetful in our old age.    


Planet GameCube began its tumultuous life as N2000HQ on March 7, 1999.  That's seven years ago, today.  As the oldest existing GameCube-centric website, PGC is so old that it existed two months before "Project Dolphin" was announced as the GameCube's codename.  We've survived the dot-com bubble, hackers, and skeptical game publishers.    


Today, Planet GameCube looks much the same as it has for years, but things have changed.  The site is running on a lean and powerful new database to give you easier access to our huge archive of information.  We have hired a large staff of amazing volunteers who bring you all the latest Nintendo news and reviews, every day.  We have developed some of the tightest quality control and editing standards in the gaming press.  And we have built up the finest group of Nintendo fans in the world...in fact, our readers span the entire world!    


We have big plans for PGC in 2006, to go along with Nintendo's new console and the advent of online gaming with the DS.  Stay tuned, because it's getting better all the time.    


As in years past, we invite you to participate in the site's birthday celebration with a huge new contest -- details will be coming soon, so look out!

Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Caliban on March 06, 2006, 11:29:36 AM
YA-HA! PGC Birthday Get!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Zach on March 06, 2006, 11:29:57 AM
Hey, I get to be the first reply.  I just wanna say congrats to PGC, and all of the great people who work for it.  I have been coming here for a long time (I was an IGN refugee) and ever since I discovered the planet, it has been my favorite place for nintendo news, and forums.  Congrats for the 7 years, and may PGC last untill armaggeddon finally puts nintendo out of business.

Edit: Damn!!! Caliban beat me to it.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on March 06, 2006, 11:32:58 AM
Technically neither of you are first since I commented in the actual news article way before either of you.

Bow down, suckas.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: UncleBob on March 06, 2006, 11:33:03 AM
Congrats!  Now where's the strippers?  Wait... should there be strippers at a 7 year old's b-day party?
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Smash_Brother on March 06, 2006, 11:37:00 AM
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Originally posted by: UncleBob
Congrats!  Now where's the strippers?  Wait... should there be strippers at a 7 year old's b-day party?


From what I hear, Macaulay Culkin had them at his 7th. Why not PGC?
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Zach on March 06, 2006, 11:37:07 AM
well, as the article says, its 120 in internet years, so the strippers might give PGC a heart attack!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Caliban on March 06, 2006, 11:40:01 AM
What we need is a REV stripper, that would please me alot!

PS: Don't really care who posted first.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Zach on March 06, 2006, 11:42:30 AM
Hey, maybe thats what the holes in the back of the rev are for!!!
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Dunnymeister on March 06, 2006, 12:18:27 PM
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Originally posted by: Zach
Hey, maybe thats what the holes in the back of the rev are for!!!

... No ... Just no.

Here's to many more years of PGC, and louie too! *raises glass in RL*
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on March 06, 2006, 12:42:30 PM
Wow, seven years! Quite a milestone.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: King of Twitch on March 06, 2006, 12:44:36 PM
Congrats and happy birthday to the most respected videogame site on the planet.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: nickmitch on March 06, 2006, 12:53:58 PM
double-u, zero, zero, seven, exclamtion point.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Termin8Anakin on March 06, 2006, 12:58:06 PM
Holy crap. congrats to everyone at PGC for 7 years of lolling across the internets!

I even made a rare trip back to the forums just to say this!
I havent been in here since forever lolol.
I still check out the news though, so thats gotta count for something.
And the original Pietriots gang from 2003 back in the EZBoard days is still alive and kicking!

Congrats, PGC!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Infernal Monkey on March 06, 2006, 01:13:52 PM
That's it, where's my Pokeball.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: KnowsNothing on March 06, 2006, 01:26:54 PM
You used your only Master Ball on Articuno HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CATCH IT.
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: KnowsNothing on March 06, 2006, 01:28:09 PM
oh happy birthday too
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 06, 2006, 01:34:10 PM
Will the site be renamed to PlanetDeadSystem.com now? =D
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: IceCold on March 06, 2006, 01:35:03 PM
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WHOOOO!!  The Nature Boy and the Horsemen are joining in the celebration.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Ian Sane on March 06, 2006, 01:36:26 PM
Seven years.  Seven years ago I was trying to find a date to the prom.  Considering that PGC has only been a part of my adult life it's really crazy to imagine it being that old.  Actually it's really crazy to imagine myself being that old.

Happy birthday, PGC!





Oh and before someone gets in a snide comment I did find a prom date.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Bill Aurion on March 06, 2006, 01:41:11 PM
How about the snide comment about you being an old fogey?

Happy Birthday, PGC!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on March 06, 2006, 01:43:24 PM
Don't worry, Ian; take comfort in knowing that people who write for PGC are much, much younger than you.

http://planetgamecube.com/staff.cfm?action=display&id=103

Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Dasmos on March 06, 2006, 02:15:05 PM
Happy 7th BDAY PGC. It's as if I was saying this to an actual child, a child which at about the age of 3,  caught my eye. I sorta liked this child, so I started looking at it. I continued to look at that child until it was about 5 then I started talking to the wonderful child. At first I wasn't really sure how to talk to it, but I slowly got more confidence into showing myself to the child. But now, I feel I have fully exposed my self to the child.

Happy 7th Birthday, kiddo!  
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Renny on March 06, 2006, 02:32:15 PM
Happy B-day all ya'll at PGC. This is the best Nintendo site and community by a country mile. I hope you guys keep it up through the Rev and beyond. I'll toast a glass of this craptacular Beaujolais in your honor.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: KnowsNothing on March 06, 2006, 02:57:00 PM
<Dasmos> a child which at about the age of 3, caught my eye. I sorta liked this child, so I started looking at it.
<Dasmos> I slowly got more confidence into showing myself to the child. But now, I feel I have fully exposed my self to the child.

<Bloodworth> bring on the 9 year olds!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: PIAC on March 06, 2006, 02:57:26 PM
I hope you get a new forum script for your birthday :]
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: stevey on March 06, 2006, 03:05:50 PM
Happy PGC birthday!
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Arbok on March 06, 2006, 03:57:13 PM
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Originally posted by: ViewtifulGamer
Don't worry, Ian; take comfort in knowing that people who write for PGC are much, much younger than you.

http://planetgamecube.com/staff.cfm?action=display&id=103



Yeah, so you were, what, ten when the site first started out? Scary how fast time flies when something is put into perspective like that, and, like Ian, it makes me feel a lot older than I am... Anyway, congrats PGC.
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: animecyberrat on March 06, 2006, 04:02:34 PM
well I only discovered the site this last summer but its my favorite place to be and is my homepage so ill chip ina  happy birthday too i guess.  
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Bill Aurion on March 06, 2006, 04:04:10 PM
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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
<Bloodworth> bring on the 8 year olds!

Come on, KN, get with the program!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Berto2K on March 06, 2006, 04:05:31 PM
Wow man.  7 years.  I still remember the 3 and 4 years pics that some of the staff took back then.  Congrats staff.  I been coming since just before the url change.  Happy B-Day PGC!

I'll see some of you at E3 once again this year .
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: NWR_Lindy on March 06, 2006, 05:06:40 PM
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Originally posted by: ViewtifulGamer
Don't worry, Ian; take comfort in knowing that people who write for PGC are much, much younger than you.

http://planetgamecube.com/staff.cfm?action=display&id=103



Or, possibly, much older:

http://planetgamecube.com/staff.cfm?action=display&id=46
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Sarail on March 06, 2006, 05:48:12 PM
Happy birthday, PGC!  Here's to many more years under the internet sun.

Cheers!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: WuTangTurtle on March 06, 2006, 06:15:08 PM
been on here since sometime in 2001 and i still think it is the best community online.  We got the ever so loved and hated lan and the super sarcastic Mario to make everyone here talk smack, etc.  It's always fun just to see what some have to say.

Happy Bday PGC, ah and my sister's bday was today too!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on March 06, 2006, 06:21:13 PM
What about GDC, Berto2K.  Anyway, I've been here at PGC for a large portion of that time, and I've seen a lot of staffers come and go.  It has been an outlet for me to write my opinions on games, host crazy trivia games and meet new friends.  Heck, I'm even the freaking technical lead of the site, now--who would have thought I'd be filling Rick and Justin's shoes?  If that can happen, I suppose anything is possible.
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Robageejammin on March 06, 2006, 06:22:08 PM
PGC is unstoppable. This site has been my homepage since the day I heard about it, and that was a very long time ago. grats guys for keeping the spirit alive for 7 frickin years! Happy Birthday!
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Djunknown on March 06, 2006, 06:35:08 PM
7 years. Now that's some staying power here in the interweb. Thanks for still keeping it strong and keeping it right all this time. Can't wait for the surprises that will come in near future.

cheers
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 06, 2006, 06:51:24 PM
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Oh and before someone gets in a snide comment I did find a prom date.
Cousins don't count
j/k, we'll make an exception for you

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY PGC!!!

 
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: BigJim on March 06, 2006, 07:04:03 PM
In honor of your Birthday, a tree has been planted in Israel.


Actually just last night I was reading a bunch of the editorials from 2001-2003. Things were so exciting in GameCube land at that time. Anticipation, expectation, people recounting their memories of when the N64 came out. It'd be nice to see some more of that to get the mood going. Maybe after E3.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: wandering on March 06, 2006, 08:37:22 PM
Happy birthday PGC!

Here's to another 7 years.
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: IceCold on March 06, 2006, 08:42:19 PM
Of bad luck, that is..
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: MysticGohan on March 06, 2006, 08:43:07 PM
Happy Friggin Birthday PGC, Ah I knew ye well. Quite sometime actually, and as I fellow IGN Refugee, but I was a frequent visitor even before that.

hmmm... what ever became of my ole friend Rick Powers?
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Bloodworth on March 06, 2006, 08:47:11 PM
School
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: MysticGohan on March 06, 2006, 09:35:57 PM
long time to be away? is he siming on being a doctor? while using Trauma Center DS as a learners guide heh
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Toruresu on March 07, 2006, 02:06:17 AM
Wow. 7 years already? Wow. I've been a reader since the 'Dolphin' was announced, forum member like 2 years later. Thanks to everyone at PGC for everything they've done for us, Nintendo fans.

Thank you and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!


P.S. I too miss Rick and his comments on the forum.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 07, 2006, 02:58:52 AM
Rick has school and a job and is pretty much retired from PGC.  But if you see him, tell him we do need his help on a couple of things!
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Ian Sane on March 07, 2006, 06:51:45 AM
"Don't worry, Ian; take comfort in knowing that people who write for PGC are much, much younger than you."

Hell that was the norm when I first found the site and I was only like 18 at the time so that's old hat.
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: vudu on March 07, 2006, 08:19:07 AM
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Originally posted by: ViewtifulGamer
Don't worry, Ian; take comfort in knowing that people who write for PGC are much, much younger than you.

http://planetgamecube.com/staff.cfm?action=display&id=103

Karl doesn't have an Super Nintendo.  He doesn't deserve to be a staff member.

Happy Berfday, PGC.
Title: RE: PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on March 07, 2006, 09:12:13 AM
My Super Nintendo is in heaven with Jimi Hendrix and that guy who told you not to squeeze the Charmin.
Title: RE:PGC Turns Seven Years Old
Post by: Berto2K on March 07, 2006, 08:37:02 PM
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Originally posted by: TheYoungerPlumber
What about GDC, Berto2K.

D'oh thats right.  I'll see ya in a couple weks!!