Editorials

Why was this place started?

The reason I started this Nintendo page, and a bit of history too.

By Corey

So you may be asking yourself, why did I start this site? Ok, so you're not asking that. But still, it's not like Nintenews is popular or anything yet. Heck, 43% of the people on a recent poll hate it. Obviously it can't be because I wanted it to become the best on the net. So, why did I start it?

Back on February 4th of this year I started taking a computer class that started out teaching us basic HTML. I really didn't get a whole lot out of it, but it did start me with the site. I wanted to have fun with the project so I made the site about something I liked. That ended up being Nintendo. February 10th was when I had a few pages up, and then a week later I launched a page. It is mostly taken down, but you can take a look at the crappy site here (though it did look a bit better thanks to the one named DaCrazyBoy). I expected to have maybe a hit or two a week. I was mostly doing this for fun, because I didn't care whether people thought it was a great site or not. And I still don't, to an extent. It was practically guaranteed that the page would get an A+ for my computer class because I was the first one to put frames on the page (not there anymore) and was having to help the rest of the class get them on their sites. So I wasn't working on the page for the grade either. Like I said earlier, it was just for fun.

Eventually the site ended up growing with the help of Daniel and Jorden (and a little later SDB_Freak) and people actually visited the site. Hairball of Super Mario 64 Central gave me tips, and pointed me to his friend Smiley who was re-opening the Nintendo Network. He hosted Nintenews and ended up giving me a new design too. I think the date the site officially moved there was March 24th, but I'm too lazy to check. Even though we had moved up in the world a little bit and gained some more hits a day, the site was still being run for fun and not popularity.

Soon, problems occurred. The server would always go down and take the site with it. It seemed everyday the site would be down and I wouldn't be able to update when I wanted so eventually the updates got shorter and shorter. This started to take the fun out of it and now was becoming a hassle. I didn't let it bother me too much though, and just waited for things to get better.

A little over a month ago it was said Smiley was giving up Nintendo Network because he didn't have the time to update (as seen since almost a month went by between updates once) and Hairball said I should ask for it. Eventually I did and a couple weeks later it was said to be mine. I ended up keeping it Nintenews so I knew it was still my site. When the move ended up being completed, I realized that the same goal was still intact even though we were at our own domain now (though we don't really own it), that I was still in this for fun as is everyone else. The site hasn't gone down since then and hits have increased. Do I care? Not yet. Maybe in the future I will, but I'm not ready to care yet. I do have one major goal for this site though. That is to get all of us staff members to E3. I've seen other independant sites make it so why can't we? Of course it may be a couple years but I still plan to be running the site then.

While we are having fun running the site, if we happen to keep your informed, or help you in anyway with your decision on a game, or give you something to read for a while, that helps us too.