08-21-2012, 11:04 AM
(08-20-2012, 11:58 PM)Koopaul Wrote: Hm I was there back in 2001 when Pixeltendo was still working on a name.
Bacon was the owner of Ninsprites and he ran these boards with his buddies Tonberry2K (who is still around so say hi), JonEX, Rogultgot... and uh... some other people. And those were great times! Then Pixeltendo went to shit, new people took it over and eventually Ninsprites (now called the Spriter's Resource) split and gained it's own community we see today.
Jetter's you have no idea how dark and crazy the history of this place is.
JonEX... he was the guy with the "Stop Posting" avatar right? Rogultgot's avatar was a black hedgehog I believe. I remember Bacon and Bad-Ass-Bill... man my brain hurts thinking that far back...
Basically Pixeltendo became some kind of internet bullying group, lots of angry kids thinking they were awesome kind of thing. Nintendo was worshipped and most people were angry fanboys. A small group of regulars (many who are great people now... I think?) kind of took it over, tore into people's work so bad it was enough to make sure that person never posted again (the custom work was crap but it was still uncalled for) and filled the forum with inside jokes. You had to have a tough skin to enjoy it basically.
There was a huge split (I think it was when the site was handed to Dazz but my memory sucks and I didn't really like tSR back then) and tSR got it's own independent forum. I think Bacon or someone tried keeping Pixeltendo going but it was basically just filled with hate (or unicorns or something) and it died. Well I think Tyvon had it for a bit (probably wrong) but he changed it to Pixel-X-Core (if that actually happened at all). The forum we know now matured, the site started dividing things by console instead of by company, and everything was good.
It's one of those stories that means very little to most people and only really holds value to those who were there - and thus already now it. Many people liked Pixeltendo but in all honesty it just seemed to be filled with angry kids and hate. And bad sprite comics. Thankfully sprite comics seemed to have mostly died (and this is coming from someone who used to make them...) but when they were all the rage the sprite world was a scary place.
(Disclaimer: Most details in this post are probably wrong)