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emmzee
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Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 1985
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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| lol oops. Well, in my defense, I never played Starcraft ... |
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Cmaza
Lord of Gaming
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 208
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:38 am
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| Mr. Worm wrote: | | Wait! There's a DOS version of Starcraft? Wowzers!! |
That's almost as old-school as the non-DOS version of Starcraft!  |
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dosraider
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
Posts: 5730
Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:37 pm
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Euuuuurrrrgh ...........................................
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Larry Laffer
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Joined: 19 Feb 2006
Posts: 3509
Location: Romania
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:15 pm
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| dosraider wrote: | Euuuuurrrrgh ...........................................
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That pretty much says it all, yea! |
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abyss
Moloral Compass
Joined: 06 Nov 2006
Posts: 762
Location: A city known for mining. sudbury
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:00 pm
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| Was Game Hippo popular? |
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Dogbreath
Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 4002
Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| abyss wrote: | | Was Game Hippo popular? |
Yeah, at one point. More popular than DGA, certainly, probably more popular than dosgames.com.
Boson (the admin there) didn't really maintain the site well, and after he sold it about a year back, the new owner threw up a bunch of banner ads and popups, and let the site go to rot.
Back around 2001-2004, though, it had a thriving community and got nicknamed DGF's "sister forum" due to the fact that a lot of DGFers were on GH, and vice versa. This started because the immensely popular Da_Goat was a moderator on both this forum and GH. We used to play Soldat together, and I still have a lot of GH peeps on my MSN list.
In the last couple years, though, their forum lost most of it's administration and got filled full of spam and crap. It'd make me cringe every time I went there to post. Hopefully the new Gamehippo will be better.
Mr. Worm, if you and other Gamehippo members want, I can start a Gamehippo Remembrance forum here. They're all welcome to start posting here until a new site goes up. |
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emmzee
Site Admin
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 1985
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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If you need hosting, I can prolly host the site for you. Unless it gets really super popular and has tons of traffic. Then you might have to get your own server  But certainly for now I should be able to host it. |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3308
Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:08 am
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| Dogbreath wrote: | | abyss wrote: | | Was Game Hippo popular? |
Back around 2001-2004, though, it had a thriving community and got nicknamed DGF's "sister forum" due to the fact that a lot of DGFers were on GH, and vice versa. This started because the immensely popular Da_Goat was a moderator on both this forum and GH. We used to play Soldat together, and I still have a lot of GH peeps on my MSN list. |
What ever happened to Goaty Boy? lol. Have you talked to him at all? |
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Wormpy
Pimpin' dem hoes
Joined: 25 May 2004
Posts: 1144
Location: Washington, DC
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Thanks for offering you guys, but the new Gamehippo is under development on my webspace. I'm working on the coding and getting a new domain name (since misterworm.net expires next month).
But the template looks pretty cool: http://misterworm.net/coding/ |
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Larry Laffer
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Joined: 19 Feb 2006
Posts: 3509
Location: Romania
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lol@last entry! 
edit: I do like the layout btw. |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3308
Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:50 pm
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| BIG GAY HIPPOS. Looks good so far, needs work still, but I guess that's why it's just a template. |
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Cmaza
Lord of Gaming
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 208
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| 'Tis nice. |
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Tomas
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Joined: 12 Nov 2008
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Hi,
I am the previous owner of Gamehippo.com. Here is the story. I decided that I wanted to spend more time with my family so I sold Gamehippo. About a year later, the new owner forgot to review the domain registration. I don't really know what his plan is now.
I still think I have most of the games stored in my old archive.
Tomas |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3308
Location: Ontario Canada
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Can't he just contact customer support on the host? I mean, surely they'll let him have the domain back if he pays to renew it... The "site" that's currently parked there is doing nothing more than ruining the host's rep...
Imagine the internet like 20 years from now? Every site is going to be trashed like that one... I also think there are some laws (in the US, possibly Canada) to prevent squatting like that... I'm not sure how much of the world has taken up the law, or even what areas it applies to... but I hope it helps get trash sites like this off the net. |
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Wormpy
Pimpin' dem hoes
Joined: 25 May 2004
Posts: 1144
Location: Washington, DC
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Are you serious?!
The transition site was also bought...http://misterworm.net is also parked, with a similar "What you want, when you need it" page. The forum looks exactly like it.
The website is now at http://gamehipporedux.com/ for those who are curious. I have a professional PHP programmer working on it, and I hope to have a grand opening at the beginning of the year. |
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