I have become reflective in recent months...
About a lot of things actually.
But this topic is about the gaming sites you used to love and are no longer on the web.
I can break these down to 4 categories for now (I'm sure there are more).
-Company sites (like Working Designs) that had a lot of bonus content. I loved their Rpg Critic section
https://web.archive.org/web/20060207094 ... signs.com/
-Fan sites and blogs that offered unique perspectives and reviews on various gaming.
An example would be Segagagadomain (I know of no other site that attempted to catalog and mini review all Saturn imports).
https://web.archive.org/web/20170519214 ... select.htm
-Warez sites, like the old Isozone that imploded without warning. Say what you will about the fate of piracy, but that site had an insane amount of resources for so many systems. I lament it's loss with much melancholy.
Also miss Snenorama, but that had a lot to do with the fall of megaupload, imho. Most of it's links were using it to host files at the time.
Luckily, there are often alternatives, but not quite the same.
-Instructional sites like the Llamma Xbox page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051231033 ... m:80/xbox/
This site made it possible for me to build an eprom reader to save a few oxbox systems. Haven't found that info anywhere else.
There was a lot of useful info on those pages.
I guess a 5th category would be forums. But a lot of those sites had or were basically run on forums. So I'm not sure how to classify it perfectly.
At least we have archive.org to preserve some of our lost cyber spaces. But that only goes so far and really only useful if you already know the old web address; also doesn't help if the whole site is run on a forum.
Even so, I encourage posting a link if you still have it handy. Sometimes it's useful in tracking something down.