I know when I joined here a couple of years ago the forum was really active, but for the last 6 months - 1 year it has been really really quiet. I do check in every so often but not much seems to change.  Do you reckon we were going through a little 'phase' where retro collecting was 'cool' for a lot of people but they got bored? It makes me sad to see things slow.

Strange that they all disappeared so quickly! What happened to Stan? He was admin here for a long time and had a ridiculously high post count. I know him from over at the sega8bit boards, but never found out why he left here... I really should drop him a PM and ask what he's up to in terms of the NES scene.

Martin wrote on 09. Aug 2008 at 20:45:




I Saw this change and i must say that you handeld the situation quit well martin.   You didn't loose your cool and updated the site very well.

It was very strange.
Nesworld was the first nes forum i joined and it was very active here.
But then NA came and it died here.

I admit i also joined NA .... BUT   (and i talked about this on dutch nes site palrocks.nl)

There is something that makes me dislike NA... i can't say what it is...
its a feeling... its too big now and some members are too much in the picture(spotlight)
NA is putting small nes sites (and there are a lot of them)in a big shadow and i dont like that

But about nesworld.com
I don't now what the problem is..
The only difference with NA is the hugh database thats it.. the chat of NA is gone i think

about changes.........

maybe nesworld has to focus more on the european nes collectors/gamers    PAL
because most NA members are usa/ntsc

another thing i thought of is the nesworld chat....
there are 0 chatters that has to change

so my suggestion... set a time for chat
exsample...1 november 14.00 chat time at nesworld .
at that time you can chat with Martin or another member.

Somebody talked about that ninja nes game that he's playing contact him Martin for a spotlight,team up people.

Im a lot more active here the last couple of weeks and im here to stay now

I've got the same story as above. Joined this forum first and saw it fade overnight, because of NA. I'll admit that FW -- my site -- may have had a bit to do with it as well because there was no need to come here for answers about Famicom stuff. But, the Famicom boards weren't all that active here, iirc.

I think the reason NA has attracted so much attention is the database. It's great for collecting, because you've got all the answers right at your fingertips. It's much easier to use than the data here. I don't post there very often, but I sell there since that's where all the collectors are.

I'm afraid of what NA might do to FW in the coming months as they launch their collecting tool, which includes a Famicom database of some sort. The only way for a site/forum to survive is to be unique, so that's how we'll compete with NA: keep a more comprehensive game list and have interesting tidbits and reviews, something NA doesn't do.

I think NA will remain an NES haven, though. Either that or get to big to be useful, like DP.

Martin wrote on 11. Aug 2008 at 10:30:


I know exactly what you mean about those sort of people, though I can't comment about any of the members at NintendoAge as I'm not a member there so don't know what they're like. Those same people tend to be 'fly-by-night' collectors who just like the thrill of the chase in getting a set, but with no knowledge or emotional ties (such as having had or played the system as a child), they get bored after getting everything, eventually leave the scene altogether and usually sell everything they took so long to get! 

I've seen plenty of them over the years!

This type of thread was what I was hoping to not see.  We never wanted to compete with or steal members from other sites, we wanted everyone to co-exist peacefully and go about doing what they have been doing for years. 

NA has grown fast, maybe to fast but only time will tell on that.  But saying that only "fly by night" collectors are there is a bit silly IMO.  Most of the established people there are people who have jumped ship from here, DP, AtariAge and a few others.  Now some of the newer people may be just that, but the foundation of the site is full of older members with appreciate the NES and have a vast knowledge of it.  I understand what you mean about saying it is said that people just want it all and don't care about the history, but that is society in general, you can't just pin that on NA.  Soceity as a whole seems to care less and just get what they want.  The history of it is what is so important to me, as well as the friendships I have forged over the years.

I visit here at NESworld everyday, usually several times a day in fact.  But as Hakan said life has caught up to me and I have more important stuff going on that NES at this point in my life with romance, work, and just life in general. 

I don't think you can totally blame NA for NESworld being so quiet though. Sure NA has hurt the user logins here, but until recently Martin hadn't really made many updates at all. So in a since NA has almost forced Martin to get back on the ball, which is good for the NES community as a whole.  It just gets more info and data out there for everyone, so we all win in the end when more work gets done.

I also think that there comes a point on almost any gaming forum where you've talked about or know just about everything there is to know about the system(s). At that point, the forum dries up. It turns into the "experts" answering noob questions and little more.

I'm seeing that a bit at FW's forum. We've had it up for three years. Most of the best members, who were there at the start and loved to delve into Famicom info, are gone. We've got a lot of new and active members who just don't care about the Famicom as something to discover, learn about, explore, research. I've tried to bring it back to that, but my efforts haven't worked.

So, I know where kungfukid is coming from when he says what he said. It becomes collecting for the sake of having, not for the sake of discovering. The random discoveries of early on made it worth it -- perhaps there's not much left to discover. I tend to think there is a lot left to discover about the Famicom (largely because of the language barrier); the mentality of current members doesn't support continuing such an enterprise. Things like "collecting tools" and checklists suppress the spirit of discovery, as gamers become more concerned with finding what they know exists instead of searching out things they've never seen or heard about. Both may be equally exciting, but the latter is personally renewing, maintaining your long-term interest. Almost makes me want to shut down Famicom World altogether.

Now FW's forum is mostly the "experts" answering noob questions, mostly about how to get the Famicom working properly in the US. There seems to be little left to discover...at least for some. The early collaborative exercises -- the general gathering of info -- which seemed to be the most exciting part early on, is mostly ignored, though not nearly finished.

I sense at the core of NA is something a bit more than collecting for the sake of having. There are examples of it in some of NA's members and in some of the site's products, like their newsletter. I do, however, fear the coming checklists.

You can't blame new sites for what happens to old sites, it's just the ppl who have other interests when time passes, also exploring new sites and signing up at different forums. Nothing bad there, i myself visit quite some other forums also, NESWorld will not die.