I just came across a video about how today, October 20th 2025, the Sega Master System turned 40 years old, it was a great video about how it hit 40 years and is still in production and sale (even as it's a emulator, it's official) here in Brazil.
It immediatly reminded me of a thread I made here nearly 10 years ago, about my top 10 favorite Master System games (with a promise to add 10 more game eventually, which I never did lol), and a bit of the story of the then 30 years+ run time it had until that time (2016).
I actually remember this thread here and there, did so too some weeks ago when talking about the subject in another thread, but this time I went looking for it and spent some time reading the replies, sadly my older posts were wipped out in one of the two big hacks this site went through some years ago, and many posts do not exist anymore, some of the posts I do remember from that thread are not there anymore, and even the OP only still exists thanks to an old friend that to reply to me quoted the whole OP, so it lives on his reply.
And now I'm freaking nostalgic, I was ridiculously active on this forums between mid 2014 and mid 2017, I remember I had the third highest post per day ratio in the entire website during that time, only behind spurgeonryan and evetually fell third to Ka-pi96. I loved this forums during that time. The vast majority of what I posted here was during this ~ 3 years timeframe, the last 8 years don't come close. Pretty sure 90%+ of my posts are from that era alone.
Reading that thread reminded me of so many people that do not come here anymore and the good times we had. Even when I started lurking here in 2013 and eventually made my account in 2014, this forums had already gone for 7 years or so, had many old friendships and fights. 2014 was the very end of the big console threads era, many of the site most notorious people were leaving or already left by then, and a second (or third even) era was starting with many new users like me, but the forums were definitely already clearly in decline from what I used to read by then.
Since late 2017 I was mostly absent from here, reading a bit here and there, not really posting that much, like many other users older than me here still do too.
But what about you? Are you one of the OGs? Do you remember 2009/2010 and the 3 consoles doing great and people butting heads on this forums? Are you from my era and loved the mid 2010s here? Are you somewhat newer and is used to the forums being a bit slower and like it like that? Or are you still fresh to this forums and excited to post a thread about something you want to talk about even and know more the other nww people around?
