PS3/360/Wii generation for me as well.
Neck and neck race with Wii suddenly saying "hold my beer" sprinting past both.
We had frequent hardware sales numbers, software sales numbers, game database, lots of leaks and rumors. Lot of rivalries (Forza vs Gran Turismo for example, paid online vs free online)
There was still the excitement for and around E3, PC was still dying, epic data breaches. (psn down for almost a month)
The height for me was exchanging levels on here for Super Mario Maker, trying to make levels that were impossible to beat.
It's all somewhere in here https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/206987/official-super-mario-maker-thread-mario-maker-for-3ds-has-been-released-ok/
(but you had to be able to beat it yourself first of course to be able to upload it)
I signed up late 2010 but was following the chartz since 2007. And since then VgChartz has remained the only forum I still regularly follow and post on.







