Does anyone knows what happened to Heidir ?
He was the nr 1 in the prediction league.

fkusumot said: TWRoO said: Who is Rosebud? (I remember Rosebud is a cheat on the old Sims game) Rosebud was the last word uttered by Charles Foster Kane before he died. It was a mystery to everyone that knew him what it meant and he took the secret of it's meaning to the grave.

Rosebud is painted on his old sled (which is burned at the end of the movie). Kane points to the sled when he dies. The sled is an allegory for Kane's youth, but this is only revealed to the viewer. Well chosen allegory for this thread, fkusumot

So, basically the site took the Famitsu numbers for Japan and NPD for North America, and presented it in an easier way? How far it has grown...

ArtofAngels said: I remember those days, also if you type in your user name in google search you can get a time capsule of your profile, I can see mine when I had a coloured background and it displays my recent post history and post count etc etc of the date they all froze.

Wow, I did that, and it's pretty awesome. There are a few occurences where "Grey Acumen" refers to someone else, but just about everything where you get to an actual post or something by Grey Acumen, or someplace where Grey Acumen is mentioned, it's referring to me. What makes it even cooler for me is that I've come across a few people that are putting up their mod list for Baldur's Gate and my mods are showing up on their list. That's actually kinda trippy for me.

 

Heidir never posted much here on VGC forums....I was just about one of the few top-10 predicters to ever really post alot.

When the old league died, he kinda......vanished.

I remember Komodo, and the 'old crew' for predicters - Square007, Zsidane, Komodo, and a few others.

As for me being one of the older mods.....Definately not true. There were about 3-4 mods before I got the modship badge - namely because I helped start, and work, and tabulate the first very few American Monthly Prediction Leagues we had in the forums....All 7-8 users ;) ioi eventually granted me Administrator acess to create/edit the leagues...and the rest was/is history.

I want to say Shams, and BenKenobi were 2 of the earliest mods.

Good classic thread: December 06 NPD thread of joy:
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=182

Actually, the list of Mods and when they came is this:

http://www.vgchartz.com/profiles/index.php?name=&gender=&keyword=&country=&mod=1&order=Last+created

Roadkillers
Mrstickball
ioi
TalonMan
TheSource
BenKenobi
Shams
Stof
Y-Koron
Dkii
SsJ
FishyJoe
Bodhestva
Nasnatips
Tvestern
MontanaHanna

The very old layouts brings back some memories.

@mrjuju- I completely forgot about monty! haha. That guy refused to accept that the Vgchartz 360 numbers were correct.

Aj_habfan said: So, basically the site took the Famitsu numbers for Japan and NPD for North America, and presented it in an easier way? How far it has grown...

 

Well, in a way... ioi always used his own numbers but in the beginning he had to figure out how to extrapolate them properly and the only realistic sources to use were NPD and Famitsu/Media Create. I think he has all but stopped using those three as a guide now though.

 

@Oyvoyvoyv. That is just a list of when each current mod joined... Twesterm (or Tvestern if you like) and Bod are the newest mods, even if they joined before Naz/Montana  

Wow. crazy stuff, the site is much better now.

Here are the old pages for vgchartz.com as well
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.vgchartz.com

unfortunately it doesn't seem to have one from just before the re-design, the latest is August and it doesn't seem to load properly for me (the tabs at the top only appear for "Home" "World" and "America".