Those who’ve checked the ‘Maniacs blog over the course of the day will have found it increasing dramatically than what was once in the past updates section. Since the blog is very new it’s also very empty. What better way to quickly fill it up than with updates past? While most of these updates are ho-hum, there are a few nostalgic gems.

On February of 02 I debued the old Epilogues Characters Quiz with Iceman and Ben. It was a pretty big hit at the time and was great to plan. The epilogues were pretty fresh back at those times and these sort of projects just seemed like a natural step.

On December 12 of the same year longtime foe XT Gemini hacked the Sinister Six by guessing Iceman’s secret answer. Ice let too many details out and that’s deadly for Geocities pages. I subsequently got him back, but not before securing a place for Iceman on Classic Gaming under UMMXZW.

Which ended rather badly on October 8, 05. Which led to us moving to our current server in almost exactly one year later. On the PMM note,I feel it bears mentioning that the domain is close to expiration. Due to the financial crisis ZXP is looking for $10 in aid to help keep the domain his for another year.

One very good, lasting effect that the XT hacking the sinister Six all those years ago was that I became second-in-command of webmastering it. I didn’t want to XT Gem to kill the S6 so I scoured Archive.org and google cache for recent remnants of his page. I spent a long time cleaning it up and, although it was lost for a long time due to PMM’s frequent server crashes, my old computer still has some in-progress backups which I used to restore his site to it’s full glory on January 13, 07. But the site still received a few more updates in the meantime.

The forums are something that spring up a lot. They are never ever stable. The earliest still-existing record of forum trouble is from August 25 of 02. The Ultimate Megaman Forums had suffered so much trouble that my forum (then merged with several other team’s forums to make Megaman United) was merged with it. But it didn’t last long at at after that.

My favorite update has to be our grad reopening from May 13 of 02. 02 was a good year … so was 04. It’s when we moved to Classic Gaming. It has a few ironic bits in there now that I’ve re-read it after all this time, but it was a definite high point in the site’s history.