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If this sort of thing makes you happy please browse around in the archives on Mixnmojo.com and throw them a few bucks on Patreon www.patreon.com/mixnmojo
Or if you care about old forum preservation, they also maintain a complete archive of the 00s megaforum LucasForums forums.mixnmojo.com/forum/778-lu...
(Everyone really should read that self-labeled tome of an article linked above. It covers the cancelation of 2003’s Sam & Max Freelance Police, and the final nail in the coffin of adventure games’ lineage in LucasArts, at a level of detail only possible by people who have cared for far too long.)
Also the current iteration of Mixnmojo is great. It started off as a LucasArts fansite in the late 90s and after three decades of staying alive, has shifted focus to preservation of LucasArts history and early online fansites, and extensive long-form reporting like this mixnmojo.com/tomes/sam-an...
News from Mojo: Adventure Gamers forum archive lives – on Mojo
The archives are live up through 2012, with the rest coming someday: agforums.mojodb.com
Last summer, without any warning Adventure Gamers wiped its decades-old forum overnight and flipped to a site promoting gambling content. (kotaku.com/adventure-ga...) Fortunately the guys at Mixnmojo were sent a forum archive by the site’s prior owner and are preserving it:
