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Old 08-15-2002, 07:57 PM
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So, what brought you here to APi? And maybe more importantly the Forum? What I mean is what was your very first post about? Or what made you decide to join (and keep returning to) the Forum?

My first visit to Absolute Playstation was for codes for Star Wars: Dark Forces for the Playstation. I got my codes and it brought back some life to an old game that I played very rarely. And I believe my first visit to the Forum was about my Playstation freezing and I was looking for some solutions. As a newbie I was a little shy in my posts and just posted my question and left it at that, I didn't really look at the rest of the site. Then one day I ventured into The Stage and took a stab at a trivia question. I have no idea if I got it right or not but my post was a little like this...

"I hope you don't mind if I jump into your game but I believe the answer is...

Much to my surprise the next reply very polite. It was shortly after that I was visiting the Forum on a daily basis.
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Old 08-15-2002, 08:23 PM
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Lets see, i was actually looking for cheats on Winback....man was that game hard...but pretty fun for such an early PS2 title. Anyway, i ended up not finding them here but I hadn't joined any forums before so i figured why not. I jumped right in, just like i do with most things in life and after getting over my problems, yeah i had some....I used to link to other websites but a few chats with Mr. Jim and i was straight and i haven't looked back since. Well, i hope that you all enjoy posting and have fun gaming.


Was just looking back and it seems that i was one of the members who contributed to your Freezing thread back in June of last year....imagine that.
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Old 08-15-2002, 09:11 PM
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I have never joined any forums before. This was my very first forum. I came in here asking questions about the next US release of the PS2. The next month (february) i got my little black box I was inspired to help people and mainly posted in the PSone help for codes...which i still do. Then i started mingling with the others and I became good friends with everyone...and a son-in-law. Lolas daughter is beautiful and Lola said I could marry her :lol: So she calls me Son. Tiff calls me Son to.(hey dad).

-Yea so like i said. We came acroos this place ofr one reason and joined for many. Thats my theory.
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Old 08-15-2002, 10:03 PM
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I was looking for info on the PS2 (which I recieved by the truckload) and seen some folks had questions that I happend to know the answer to........so I joined.

I was kidded about being Lu's "son" for awhile, hum Devilchild....Lucifer....I just don't see the connection. :lol:
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Old 08-15-2002, 11:19 PM
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It wasn't until a few weeks ago I finally remembered what got me here, the DOA2 'Spot The Difference' competition. The only reason I joined the forum was because you had to be a member to enter. After the comp, I guess I just checked out the forums while I was waiting for the next one (and i'm still waiting! ), or I needed help with something - most likely the latter.
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Old 08-16-2002, 12:07 AM
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[SIZE=2]Hummmmmmmmmmmmm, I have to think about this... Well what got me here was the fact that I was looking for more info about my playstation 2 and stuff like that!
I did a search engine on game sites and walla.... this is where it brought me.
I took a peek inside and liked what I saw here so I joined the forums!
The first few months I was only just reading whatever everyone else had posted.....
After I got over being shy....... I started a thread asking for some help with SSX Snowboard. Everyone was so helpful and pretty cool so I felt at home here and over time made a lot of friends!
This is one great game site, and I am here to stay! :lol:


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Old 08-16-2002, 12:47 AM
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well hmmm I was looking for final fantasy help nad came across here from a search engine.... my first post was in the front door then I figured id stay in the final fantasy forums....I stayed in there for a month not realizing i can post in other places to heh heh well thats me!
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Old 08-16-2002, 01:00 AM
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I was looking for answers or cheats. I honestly don't recall the game, but I do remember that I hadn't been coming here long when I started my first RPG (FF7) and I found an endless fount of advice here for that. What's kept me coming back is the interaction with the other members. Now I'm conditioned to it, and I have friends here I wouldn't know if I was standing next to.
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Old 08-16-2002, 04:13 AM
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OHMYGOD, I can't handle the pressure of such hard questions so early in the morning!! I think I was looking for help/hints for FFIX and found this site purly by accident...... I really liked the look of it, and actually found some info that I had needed, so I just kept coming back for more!!! What I came to find out is that this is not only a site for gaming, but for friend-making also, and as I seem to have done that, I can't seem to leave!!! As Robert Plant would say "I can't quit you baby"!! hehehehee

WB, you'd know me if I were standing next to you...... I'd be that chubby little woman wearing that tray of cookies on my head á la Carmen Miranda!!
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Old 08-16-2002, 04:29 AM
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My tale is not a glamerous one, I got kicked off the offical playstation site for using my own logo, which was copyrighted by (guess who? Thats right...) me! Then my brother hacked my password and started spamming, so bye bye Spike666 on that site. He now can not use the net as I have password the computer, the net and all the programs so he can't use it! I found this site by luck! Its much better than the offical one!!
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Old 08-16-2002, 04:40 AM
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I’d been checking out the site for quite a while (tips and reviews etc). In Nov 2000 there was a bit of an upgrade and I suddenly noticed a link to the ‘forums’. I thought I’d check it out. At first there was only a handful of people with more than a couple of posts, so it was all very new.

The thing that impressed me was that there were actually people who knew stuff and who were up for a good laugh – people like Tiff and Maj, so things were always good fun. It’s just snowballed from there really. Its been nice to see the site grow and evolve.

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Old 08-16-2002, 10:00 AM
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I think I brought this up in my very first post,but I was talking with DL(at school) and when he gave me his sn, he asked if I wanted to visit his forum. I didn't know what a forum was but I figured it wasn't too hard to get used to. So,I came to DL's forum and then figured this whole thing out. Although at the time, I didn't have a Playstation,but I was saving up for one....so I've just lingered around here ever since.

Ah....the power of the brain in reminesing
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Old 08-16-2002, 11:08 AM
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I too had been looking for reviews/previews/tips, etc., about PS games, and also noticed a link to the forums. Having been to some real sh!t forums in the past, I wasn't in too much of a hurry to check this one out, to be honest.

BUT I noticed that on a particular visit, there was a "last posted in" type message, and the thread in particular had to do with politics or something of that sort; which aroused my curiosity. I thought I'd take a chance and see what this forum was like.

To my surprise, not only were there forums relating to games & gaming, but also general interest & joke threads as well. Even more impressive were the responses I read.........mostly well written and showing some actual thought behind them! (and if you've seen some other forums, you know how rare that is!)

After just a few posts, I was greeted (via PM) by tiff, Lyndon, madhtr, Gideon & ER..........

To make a long story short, I found API's forums by chance, and have not seen reason to visit other gaming forums on a regular basis since.
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Old 08-16-2002, 02:24 PM
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I found API in a search engine aboutr 4-5 years ago when looking for Tomb Raider Cheats. I used the site ever since. When I noticed about the members section I joined. My first post was in the front door just saying hello and a little about me.
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Old 08-16-2002, 03:35 PM
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Originally posted by madhtr@Aug 15 2002, 10:23 PM
Was just looking back and it seems that i was one of the members who contributed to your Freezing thread back in June of last year....imagine that.
Well smack my a** and call me Sally!!! I just looked and I can't believe that thread is still kicking around! To bad my old membership/username was removed I was a little interested in what I posted. Thought for sure that that thread would have been long gone.
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Old 08-16-2002, 08:23 PM
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Believe it or not I stumbled upon this site by total mistake.I thought this site was interesting and I liked it I was looking for codes for something I don't even remember.I found them and I liked the site so much I just joined it and now you see me here today.My first post was introdusing myself to all the members here.
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Old 08-18-2002, 11:06 AM
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When I first experienced disk read errors on my PS2 I did an internet search to see if other people were having the same problem. This was the first place that popped up in my search. Myself I had never found a forum I liked (and was well monitered not TOO full of worthless posts) but I found that API has a nice community and have hung around the fringe of this forum ever since. I'm not as social as many of the members here cause I spend very little time on the internet and any free time in my life I spend reading books or gaming.
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Old 08-18-2002, 11:13 AM
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i rember a page like this,and this is what i told them...
I was looking for some codes for one of my games in ask.(you know the rest)and this sited was alawys on the top and it kepet bugging me so i joined and now i'm here for ever
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Old 08-18-2002, 11:40 AM
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I was looking for information on a PS1 game and I saw there was a forum so I decided to join. And this is the first forum I went to.
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Old 08-22-2002, 03:56 AM
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Well...me best mate spike brought me here he told me to check this site out so guess what i did lol and i think this site rocks it is a gr8 help and chat site i love it even though im only a newbie. well.... thats all
I would be that mate, I brought the lamb to the slaughter! Who want some (lamb) chops? ummmmmmmmmmmm lamb!! Why the does it say unregistered next to his name for, he had registered, I saw him do it and even help him pick his advark (advator)!

So can anyone help?

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I was going to make something just like this topic so I decided to search and look what I found! Well, I was looking for some tips on Harvest Moon Back to Nature and I visited the members section so I just joined for the h*ll of it and I was hooked on this great site ever since. I done some wrong things but I know all the rules now(I think)
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