[WolfEx]

10 whole years of this place. Man where to begin!?

I never would have thought this site would make it to such an enormous milestone. So many hands helped make it happen. So many memories here from Lego Master Chief, to Demon Vivi, to Corpse Pinball and a commemorative statue of Mr. Game and Watch and even a few copyright scares! And Banjo and Kazooie trolling us all.

It has been such an honor to have seen the site bloom and blossom and reach this point. The staff and all of you made it possible and helped maintain a writing haven for so many to enjoy themselves and escape into a world that is not our own. The characters, the events, and the beautiful writing and stories that have been created here have made many memories and many friendships. I hope we can continue sharing this gift for much longer to so many more. Even during a crazy pandemic, we all still come together.

Thank you all soooo much. And please share your thoughts and memories or flashbacks here OOC. This is a great thread to just chat it up.

[Sunnivale]

I really love this site, there may have been issues here and there but I just love this place and the plots that it provided from event missions to regular missions. My favourite threads are the Enter the Bulls Ring and Gang Wars event, and for missions my favourites are: The Fox Hunt, Through the Looking Glass and What Yumiko saw there and the First Expedition.

I can't wait to see more and see the site being strong moving forward!

[Mr. Game & Watch]

It’s honestly crazy for me to think this place is ten years old, like for me it feels like that date’s wrong because it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. I guess it checks out though, I was fifteen back when I first came across this site. A spry young chap looking for a creative outlet and an opportunity to flex my writing chops. When I dipped my toe into roleplaying that summer that summer of 2011, I didn’t expect to find myself in a long-standing community, nor one that was so deeply rooted in Super Smash Bros of all things.

I wouldn’t have considered myself much of a Nintendo person, honestly if we’re going by fandom labels, I was more of Transformers/Halo/Sci-Fi kind of guy, and I tried to roleplay in those types of communities, but they didn’t want me back then. I suppose that would mean I sort of fell into place here, but often times circumstance brings you to the place where you’re needed most, and I suppose for me this site was where I was needed.

Back in the day, you wouldn’t have thought this site would’ve lasted longer than a year or two because we struggled to keep activity up and a cast of active members, but somehow, we did. Through sweat and keystrokes we amassed more and more members as time went on, some would leave, others just fall off, but we did eventually come across the right people who were as passionate as we were about keeping the lights on and continuing this silly post-apocalyptic Smash Bros story.

Since then, I’ve graduated high school, fumbled through university, worked in retail for longer than I should have, published a couple books, got a degree. So many milestones of my life happened during my time here, even if I wasn’t always present.

I have way too many memories to share, roughly 3 journal docs worth, not all of them great, but the ones that are first to surface are. And you know, I think it was around the 5th year anniversary that I said something along the lines of “its been a great five years and here’s to five more” without actually thinking it would happen, yet here we are, so you know what, looking forward to when this site becomes drinking age so that we can all have a nice disgusting beer together, here, here!