20th Anniversary Message

[VideoGameCritic]

Comments and typos go here!

https://videogamecritic.com/extras/info ... ersary.htm

[BlasteroidAli]

An enjoyable history of VGC. I happened upon the site about may 2000 or 2001. I was living around the corner from Chelsea football club dating this horrible (one of many unfortunately) woman. So I used to go to this internet cafe in North End road, in the days before I had a dreamcast. I used to look at the Atari reviews on the Atari age and one day I saw the forums. I have been here ever since. It might have been 5 years of reading the site before I noticed the forums.

I still read the Atari stuff a lot. Plus my current console the 1. Well pretty much everything.

[Retro STrife]

Glad we all convinced you to do a little something for the anniversary! Great write-up - brought back some memories and laughs.. especially the part about your friends threatening to connect your consoles to the internet. I imagine there's no worse offense in the VGC household. Sounds like the theme of a VGC horror movie, maybe throwing in some marauding day-one patches and streaming services for good measure.

[matmico399]

Loved the 20th anniversary update. You think almost exactly like I do when it comes to reviewing games, and I agree with what you said 95% of your reviews are dead on. I wish I had the ability to write in create such a fantastic website like you do but I don't. But trust me I visit this site almost daily since 2009 or so. Great write-up Dave and congrats again! One of my all-time favorite websites. It takes me away all the bad stuff in the world. Thanks Dave!

[Gentlegamer]

I scrolled to the bottom and no announcement of Video Game Mania X.

[VideoGameCritic]

Brent seems to be intent on planning Video Game Mania X, rounding up everybody we know.
It's not out of the realm of possibility.

[VideoGameCritic]

ZetaX dug up an old version of the site dating back to 2001! Wow.
No screenshots but the reviews are pretty great.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331081 ... ritic.com/

[zetax]

Dave,

I appreciate the kind words in the write-up regarding the banners and redesign/mobile site input i was able to give. Hopefully we'll both still be doing this for another 20 years, which seems weird because we'll both be around 70... Yikes!

Keep up the good work.

- Mark (zetax)

[newmodelarmy]

ZetaX dug up an old version of the site dating back to 2001! Wow.
No screenshots but the reviews are pretty great.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331081 ... ritic.com/

That is wicked cool. I forgot you used to have the consoles listed on the side, I liked that layout. Congrats on 20 years! I hope you have 20 more. I really like the site. Heck I am not even a "retro" gamer or collector but enjoy reading the reviews nonetheless. Anyway keep up the great work as always!

[Retro STrife]

Just a few more to see the evolution of the site:

2002- https://web.archive.org/web/20021129144 ... ritic.net/

2010- https://web.archive.org/web/20100611210 ... ritic.net/

2012 redesign- https://web.archive.org/web/20121015065 ... ritic.net/