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GAME OVER - July 13, '01 by JoseQ

Well guys, I think this is it. As you may have noted, this week has been incredibly slow for news postings here, and not because of lack of time, but rather because of lack of interest. It seems my time in emulation has passed. There's probably not a single game I played, or even saw, that isn't emulated already, and those that are not emulated, I still have available for me to play. For that reason, there's not much excitement in the emulation scene for me these days. This in no way means that the emulation scene is dying, but probably the oppossite. Of the years that I spent following the emulation scene, I think the emulation scene is strongest now. It's a rare time when you see this many projects going on at the same time. My emulation bookmarks list is longer than ever, and I believe it will continue to grow, albeit more into a console gaming oriented scene, rather than arcade.

During the time that I ran EmuViews, I had the great pleasure of meeting some of the coolest people, and I intend to thank them all, but as I'm human, I'm bound to forget a few people, so if I do, please forgive me, I'm still appreciative to anyone that ever contributed a grain of sand to the emulation scene. So here are my 'Thank You's in no particular order:

OrG and araCorn - for ROMLIST, one of the greatest ROM dumping sites, if not the greatest, for a long time.

Thierry Lescot - for System16 and numerous other contributions, mostly related to Sega, my favorite software company.

Li Jih Wah - For M72, another great emulator at the time when it came out.

Nicola Salmoria - For his awesome dedication to the greatest emulation project in history, and having a cool understanding of the emulation scene.

MAMEDEV - For MAME, need I say more? In particular, I'd like to thank Frank Palazzolo, Alex Pasadyn, Paul Leaman, Phil Stroffolino, Bryan McPhail, Mirko Buffoni, Mike Balfour and Ernesto Corvi, all of which I had the pleasure of InterViewing.

Neil Bradley - For Retrocade, MZ80 and numerous long/enjoyable ICQ/IRC/e-mail conversations.

Retrocade Dev - For Retrocade, the neatest arcade emulator in my opinion.

Larry Bank - For CAGE, HiVE, Arcade Pack and also very cool conversations over AIM, and at E3.

Dave - Obviously for Final Burn, which brought to life the last few games I wanted to see emulated, "After Burner" and "Power Drift". Also DTMNT and DGen!

Antiriad (Richard Bush) - For Raine, one of the greatest emulators ever to exist. And for cool conversations over ICQ. Thanks to Emmanuel , for keeping it alive.

Dan Boris - For v7800 and his work on MESS among many other projects. Also very interesting conversations over e-mail and IRC.

Atila of Retrogames - For his funny attitude always, keeping his cool, and teaching me how to get your own domain name ;).

Lev of Emulation World - For Emulation World of course, which allowed emulation sites to exist freely. Without it, I'm not sure if the emulation scene would have that many websites.

MESSDEV - For MESS, the biggest console/computer emulator in existence.

Ben of MESSDEV - For reviving MESS and taking on the hard task of administering it.

Norbert Kehrer - For JAE and ONE, very cool Java emulators that run in your browser.

Kyle Davis - For Bliss, the best Intellivision emulator out there.

Janne and Anders - For RAGE & NeoRAGE, incredible emulators of their time.

Stef - For GENS, one of the best, if not the best, Genesis emulator out there.

Sardu - For Nesticle, which some consider the best NES emulator after all these years.

JROK - For JAS emulator, which triggered one of the very first news postings I ever made to this site.

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt - For the Dead Serious clan, Shark, and Toaplan.com, an extensive description of Toaplan games. Thanks to Magnus Danielson as well.

Fx3 - For RockNES, my currently favorite NES emulator.

TNSe - For NESten, my favorite NES emulator for a while.

Jamsponge - For HU6280, a very cool PC Engine emulator.

Bart Trzynadlowski- For Genital and Genital68K.

John Saeger - For Z26, the coolest Atari2600 emulator.

Barry Rodewald - For QPlayer and GalEmu.

Atani - For his numerous cool projects and cool chats.

Richard Bannister - For an infinite number of Macintosh ports of every emulator he could get his hands on.

Rasky - For PSyKe, and very funny conversations on IRC and over e-mail.

Duddie & Tratax - For PSEmu and cool times over ICQ/IRC.

Matt Conte - For Nofrendo.

Charles Bilyue - For SNEeSe.

Jerremy Koot and Gary - For SNES9x.

zsKnight & _Demo_ - For ZSNES.

Quinntesson - For AGES.

RealityMan & Epsilon- - For UltraHLE.

Shane Monroe - For Insert Coin, Monroe World, and his Amiga sites, and being a cool friend.

Zoop - for MEKA, SMS Power and numerous funny conversations over IRC and e-mail.

Dirk Stevens - For RetroFX, even though the project never made it out, I did enjoy being part of the team for some time, and trying to contribute. Also thanks for the Eagle engine.

TmB - For EmuVerse and cool chats on IRC.

GuruChoc - For Arcade Heaven and numerous chats on IRC.

Conway Ho & Richard Ragon - For HanaHo's Hot Rod.

Mike Beaver - For Mimic.

Jim Pragit - For EmuNews.

Spike - For Handy.

The Fox - For Emulators Unlimited and a few nice fewds when bleem! was first announced.

Randy - For bleem! and interesting and funny conversations over e-mail.

rcp - For KIAME/U64 Emulator.

John den Hartog - For Atmospherical Heights.

Mike Green - For EmuDX.

Zeograd - For Hu-Go and other PC Engine related projects.

Charles MacDonald - For numerous contributions to the scene, and continuing to do so. His site.

Peter Dalton and bwb - For Emulation HQ.

The ReView Staff @ EmuViews- For the 250+ ReViews found on this site. This includes Womp, EazyCheeze, Bman2, Jellodyne, Nightbird, Maddog, Mr.T, Snoopy, Shadow Lord, Finn, ArticCat, TwinBee, Sungam, Jon, Mr. Morden, Max Diablo, Dirk Stevens, Bifordus Maximus, Dorsola, CupCakus, SkiBum, Ice Knight, Personan, Haze, D@Z, Jet Set Radio DJ, WinZippy, -^Cro§Bow^- and Kurgan. Thanks much you guys!

To my Spy Birds - Thanks for all the rumors! Without you, the Rumor Mill would have never existed. You know who you are!

I'd also like to thank some people I got the pleasure of meeting thanks to being part of the emulation scene: Paul101, KidHype, TheKorn, DJJeremy, Xta-C, paranoid, EDGAR, Chrono, comatose, otaking, anticupid, D@Z, kotatsuneko, -^Cro§Bow^-, Dorsola, SAV2880, Bman2, personan, neill, whacker, Opi, Dave (c0njurer), Ron Corcoran, Walter Day, metallik, Cowering, TonyD, jandaman, Zophar, PTS, Logiqx, x68k, Daemon, Dark Mazda, Sharon, Trojan, and Lance_MC. Although I'm sure I'm forgetting some people, I hope I covered the majority of them. One I can't seem to remember is the site where I found MAME ROMs for the first time and got me into emulation. I bet I'll remember as soon as I post this.

Anyhow, that is it. Thank you all for visiting for the past three years, you made the site what it was, and still is, my dream come true. As promised, I'll leave the site online for those interested in the game ReViews, author InterViews, game ratings, profiles and the such. There's also a good archive of old emulators in the Emulator Download section, and that will stay online. And there's also the EmuViews Chat, which I will frequent as usual. I may have to take the site offline from time to time, but it'll always be back up eventually. Once again, thanks for visiting, and thanks for reading!

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