(Note to the reader: I am not employing any organizational styles to this, so it will probably seem very rough.)

This site originally started as a meek little club, Super Mario Obsessors and Nintendo Fans (SMOANF), destined to die. I (its president and creator) had absolutely no idea what to do and the club thus withered away to nothing.

Months later, the club well dead, I decided to make a site. Using the now meaningless name I came up with for a club, I forged a site (if one can say that) on MSN. I had two friends' help on it and we had some pretty cool stuff going. However, after I learned HTML, I found MSN restricting, so after a search for free web site hosts, 100 Megs Free (then free) was decided to be the best host. I had to work alone, however.

A little over a month later, I realized what I had to do to get my site more popular. I had to share it with someone, preferably four or so. I started a topic on VGF, decided on a name that appealed to us all, put up the site, and handed out passwords. However, two of the five people never posted an update. I was cool with this. Eventually it came down to just RealGTX and me. Still cool. I was hoping that the others would feel a need to advertise and thus make the site popular, but now it wouldn't work, seeing as how it was only one other person working with me. For this I was grateful because two can do more than one.

From there, I've moved the site onto Tripod in order to use server side includes (SSI). Then, most recently, I expanded MB Gold and made it a part of a site dedicated to gaming for all systems, Nintendo Fans (the site you are on now). I hope this will solve a problem I was having ever since the site's first summer--elbow room. MB Gold had to try to pick up what other sites didn't have, or else it wouldn't have a purpose. This is going to be a lot easier when I get three or four other sites up on Nintendo Fans.

I couldn't have done it without my friends. (Heck, I shouldn't say it was me even, it was us, we needed us.) Plus, among giving me new ambitions and learning how to grow something, I made some really cool friends.

Submissions and rebuttals should be e-mailed to nintendofanssite@yahoo.com. Proper credit will be given, and please tell me if you don't want your e-mail revealed on the site.