Revolutionary TRUTH: What Once Was

i started reading gr in 97 or 98, im 23 too. Back then i used to come here to download demos mostly, and to choose what games i wanted for my birthday... This page was like a huge catalog with grades.

I started reading back in '00/'01, I'm 24 now. The reviews made me laugh (the Survivor one is still my favorite) and every time I played a game after reading a GR review I thought "Yeah those guys were right about pretty much everything." And the mailbag, the poorly spelled rants of people with rage issues cracked me up. You should bring them back. Or just start making fun of people.

*Well, make fun of people more often. And let us edit comments.

I love this website. I started in about '97 and I'm 21 now, still loving it. I know what you mean about the funny reviews. Survivor is my favourite as well. This website is awesome.

a yea, nice find on the mailbag, my personal favorite is the 2006 zelda vs jesus hate mail, i recomend it to all newcomers chek it out so you get a taste of the old GR feel.

yup i remember first coming to this site back in 97 and 98 looking for cheat codes because IGN sucked (and still does). Your reviews have always been honest and none of them have been far off. This is by far the best gaming site on the web.

(UPDATE THE COMICS SECTION ONCE IN A WHILE)

I remember checking out reviews and demos around 97 98 and then latter checking out the goodies and watching that first xiao xiao stick figure fight and the thundercats bloopers. Had a 56.6K and two phone lines at the house. The ****ing coolest thing ever

also I remember when chocolate cost a nickle and I had to walk to school barefoot

The junkyard picture needs to return.

I always remember me and my neighbour scouring the GR pages for cheats. The password for unlocking Vice City in the very first GTA. The password to unlock everything in Turok2, "something about Oblivion" I think it was. Beautiful days they were!

I discovered GR in 1998, when I was ten years old and just got an N64 for my birthday. I needed to find cheats on Goldeneye, Zelda, and Diddy Kong Racing, and a kid I knew on the bus directed me here. I've been a loyal reader ever since.

I remember pouring through Marshmallow's Ocarina of Time walkthrough, as though it were my bible. I'd read it on here, whenever I was allowed on the internet. I learned how to turn my melee slap in Goldeneye into a paintbrush.

I'm 22 now, and Game Revolution has been my favorite gaming site for over twelve years.

When I first started reading I was like: :)
Then I saw my name mentioned and I was like: :D

I love this site so much that one period between 2001-2004, when I did not had internet at home, and only my brother had access to it, I asked him to download the entire site to a PDF file with a program that I don't remember the name now, but way back then worked very well. I kept reading that file every day, and asking him to update it every month or so, and I kept going thru every mailbag, and the classic reviews, like the Crow, or Survivor The interactive game, or that masterful showdown between Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament for the PC, also I remember the rise and fall of the Saturn and the Dreamcast, the fallout from the review of FF7, all the Counter-strike love that gushed from every writer every time it got mentioned anywhere on the site, finding out that Rainbow Six kicked ass, instead of the very boring game that seemed to me the first time I saw it, and generally knowing that I was (and still am) getting the best and truly honest information about video games.

Oh I forgot about something, you guys also ran from several episodes, don't remember exactly until which one, Yu-Gi-Oh the abridged series, and I found out about that thru here, thanks for that as a well.

i also first started reading this wayyyy back when in 97 or 98 when i was 14 ish. i still miss the junkyard picture. i too switched over from cheatcodecentral when finding codes became too much of a pain. every game i've ever purchased has had to receive the GR stamp of approval. even games that i wouldn't normally play have been given a chance simply for the fact that GR rated them as A's.
now that i'm older and have kids my game time has been cut down significantly and i count on GR to help me make the most of it!! love the site, keep it up guys, you're the best on the internets!!

Started downloading games here in 99 ...so many mods and demos...could have sworn you guys also had some full game downloads too...I'm 19 now and all I know is I'd rather read you guys then a game magazine

I wrote a bunch of silly mailbag emails in middle school and now when my full name is googled everyone can see what a nerd I was/am.

I'm in the same boat there Sammo... I think I wrote in correcting something Duke said about chemistry.

The Crow reviews and the hate mail it spawned. Then the replies to the emo/goth kids. Serious fits of laughter.

I've been here for at least a decade.

I was 19 in 1996...

I visited this site all the time, just never made an account. I'll never, ever forget the Duke Nukem 64 review. Read it now if you haven't before! It showed me that this site had the balls to say things that the other sites don't.

I remember using Lycos search to find cheats for Tomb Raider and it led me to Game Revolution. I have never strayed from them being my go to site for reviews and base all my video game purchases off their critiques.

I used to download demos all the time back in the day from this site and look up cheat codes. Also the reviews on here have always spoken to me and I have made very few buying errors on games ever since (the only mistakes I seem to make are nowadays when I preorder **** because I'm a sucker for exclusive stuff that not everyone has...like a flaming helmet armor effect in halo reach...haha) I can't place a year on it. but it was when I was in middle school so roughly 1998-1999 is when I'd guess I first encountered this site.

I used to do the same thing with the cheat codes at the library before I or my family ever had a computer too when I was still in Junior High lol. But GR is also what first introduced me to Penny Arcade back then... hah nostalgia. After reading the GR review for Fallout 1 and 2, they were the first "adult" games I owned and I remember learning what blackmail was for the first time after repeatedly swindling an NPC in New Reno, good times. I still like a lot of story off the first two games more than the newer ones. Always gone back to GR though, I used to go to gamespot for gameboy reviews but they just suck more and more as time goes on

I found PA through GR as well. I would come home from school, hop on GR, check for game reviews, and then go to the comics page and read PA M/W/F, 8-Bit Theater T/Th, Little Gamers every day, and VG Cats every solstice.

I don't remember how I first came to use the site. My first game download was some third-person dragon demo--I was amazed that 137MB only took me an hour and a half.

Ultimately, it was the reviews that kept me coming back. Everything was cleverly written and just plain entertaining. Nowadays, I probably come for the news and manifestos more than anything else. I can't believe how much content GR is putting out--I absolutely love it.

Fuck gamespot and all them other sites....sometimes I wish you guys were a. Magazine I'd have a monthly subscription and collect your issues as it they were gold

When I start my break I have a habit of websites. I hit CNN first to make sure the world hasn't exploded. I hit IGN to get a giggle over European video game reviews and read movie reviews. Then I head over to GameSpot for video reviews ( computer at work will only play those ) and finally rest on gamerevolution. This site has always been dead truthful about reviews and even when some of the rants kinda miss the subject I love reading what's on someone's mind when other comes to games and developers. This site is absolutely amazing.

When I start my break I have a habit of websites. I hit CNN first to make sure the world hasn't exploded. I hit IGN to get a giggle over European video game reviews and read movie reviews. Then I head over to GameSpot for video reviews ( computer at work will only play those ) and finally rest on gamerevolution. This site has always been dead truthful about reviews and even when some of the rants kinda miss the subject I love reading what's on someone's mind when other comes to games and developers. This site is absolutely amazing.

I think I have a shot at nerdiest story of following GR here.

Back in 1996, I was 9 and my house did not have the Internet. HOWEVER, my Dad had the Internet at his work, and he would print out reviews for me and bring them home. I would take these reviews, three hole punch them, and keep them in a binder under the coffee table. By the time we finally got the Internet, I had a collection of reviews, cheats and god knows what else large enough to be called a dictionary. First day the Internet got turned on at my house, after dialing up, the first 2 things I did was make a Hotmail account, and bookmark GR. Been bookmarked ever since.

I joined GR as a member back in 05. I think this is probably the first time I've posted. But I too have been visiting here for a long time; since the mid to late 90s. At first I came for the hints and cheats but as I grew up and stopped cheating I kept coming back for the reviews. GR is still the only place I trust for an unbiased and honest opinion. I've bought games based on a good grade and I've ignored the bad. For that I say thank you and hope you keep it up for another 15 years!

I originally started coming around to Gamerevolution around 1999 or 2000, I believe, I had stumbled across the website when I was looking for cheats for my n64 games on the computers in my school's. I didn't really start reading around the site more thoroughly about around 2002-3, which was around the time that I found the game reviews. Specifically the bad game reviews, which were hilarious and I loved coming to read them. I didn't actually sign up for the site until a few months, due to lethargy, but now that I have signed on I wish I had done so sooner.

*I didn't really start reading around the site more thoroughly about around 2002-3* should read: I didn't really start reading around the sight thoroughly until around 2002-3.

Curse my proof-reading!

When I had my interview right around the same time, I told the truth - I hadn't heard of GR (at least not that I can remember), but Duke and Blake still saw something in me - who knows what - and sent me home that very day with a copy of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon to review.

I think Daniel and I were the only candidates to have answered the Konami code question correctly, which leads me to believe that that was the only criteria that mattered in the interview process...

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