Chris Person on Aftermath (a site that, to warn you, sometimes blocks articles behind paywalls) gives us a big list of web forums that still exist, and are even popular, today. There’s many categories there, but indeed gaming is one of them. We have a vested interest in the survival of as many non-social-media sites as possible, so here is the whole list of gaming boards from the article:
- Shumps (non-FPS shooters)
- Arcades-Projects (arcade cabinet work)
- ResetERA (gaming news and general topics)
- Arcade Controls
- GBAtemp (hacking & homebrew)
- Bitbuilt (modding consoles into handhelds)
- IGN, Giant Bomb (gaming media)
- RIIMuk (um, retro gaming?)
- GameFAQs (venerable walkthrough and info site)
- Insert Credit
- Select Button
- Gamers With Jobs
- Vogons (general gaming, with a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy theme)
- MixnMojo (Lucasarts)
- The Visual Novel Database
- rpg.net (TTRPGs)
- BoardGameGeek
- Romhacking.net (on its last legs though)
- Zeldix (Legend of Zelda hacking)
- SMW Central (Super Mario World in specific, Mario in general, lots of romhacks)
- Sonic Research (similar, but Sonic)
- Retro Gamng Boards
- Pinside (pinball)
- modthesims.info is info about modding The Sims
- Civfanatics (Civilization)
- HTLV (Counter-Strike)
- Doomworld (DOOM)
- Warthunder (Chris notes that military documents keep getting leaked there, WTF?)
- Overtake (racing sims)
- and Trainsim (train sims)
That’s a lot! There’s a lo more links there too, including a big list of technology and compute forums. By all means, click through, to the article, for more!
