AvP Nostalgia - The Good Old Days

Sadogoat · 05-20-2007, 04:51 PM

The old timers among you may remember the below, plucked from my rather huge archives of AvP yesteryears.....

AvPNews Banners

The AvPNews Main Page

The AvPNews T-Shirt (That Never Was)

AvPNews Clan Advertisements

The AMP Expansion Pack Project Banner

the_demigod · 05-20-2007, 04:54 PM

good times--the community was 5-6 good websites then.

Sadogoat · 05-20-2007, 04:55 PM

Cocoon-Ed Banners

XenoWorks Advert

First Ever Custom AvP Skin

A Few Other Early Skins

'Alien 5' Mockup

I threw this image together for an AvPNews screensaver I think, but it ended up being 'borrowed' by countless people and started appearing all over the place...

Familiar Faces

Dave Stalker

Pezman & Paul Pawlicki

Froberg · 05-20-2007, 04:58 PM

The good 'ole days.

Sadogoat · 05-20-2007, 05:02 PM

I'm still proud of that AvPNews "A" logo that I designed....

Sgt. Slaughter · 05-20-2007, 07:25 PM

Yeah, thats a pretty sweet logo. Where can I get the t shirt and what did happen to all those great skins they had at AVPnews?

Herne the hunter · 05-20-2007, 07:32 PM

So many cool memories.

I love the Predators clan ad with the pile of skulls. Saved to hard drive.

Also love the pred pic in this:

Think I feel a new avatar coming on...

Sadogoat · 05-20-2007, 07:32 PM

The T-shirt was never produced, mainly due to rights issues (I remember talking to Fox about it). The skins are all archived on my CD-ROM collection.

Herne the hunter · 05-20-2007, 07:39 PM

For the life of me I can't remember how I found this place. I remember deciding to carry on my username (this was my second forum back when I was still an internet n00b), and even remember my first thread, but no matter how hard I try I can't recall how i got here.

Sadogoat · 05-20-2007, 07:44 PM

Just been browsing the old AvPNews and AvP Network pages in the Wayback Archives. So many memories there, including when Eldritch and I first took over AvPNews from Pez in 2001, and my resignation in March 2003. Great stuff.

BiomeXhanoid · 05-20-2007, 08:01 PM

The stuff hosted on AvP news inspired me to get into modding and skinning.... *sniffle*

Sadogoat · 05-21-2007, 03:40 AM

Heh, yeah but some people churned out some really crap skins. One of the reasons I stopped doing Cocoon-Ed is because alot of submissions were so blatantly rip offs of other people's work (including some of my own). Then there were the people who did fucking anime skins, or obscenely bright-glo Predator and Alien skins that looked so out of place that one wonders what possessed them to conceive such things.

Incidentally, I still have all of the original editing programs too, such as Ripley II, Texture Infector, Nelev, and the like

Shataan · 05-21-2007, 11:56 AM

Man those were THE best days of gaming for me. ;p I didn`t know anything of modding etc, and was hanging with Sado... starting to use mod skins on AVP. Had Sados Aliens vids playing on my AVP ingame monitor screens.. That mod REALLY helped to suck me into the Aliens atmosphere.

I used the Giger black Alien skin and Willis Choices Movie accurate Predator skin. And the community at that time now that I look back.... were alround pretty amazing good peeps. We had different ages etc, but most everyone was ontrack and came for the love of the franchise.

When the modding started, many peeps did churn out alotta crap, but some diamonds really stood out. I do miss those times. But, who knows? Sados still around, Eldritch can prolly be found. Swiss Pred maybe? PEZ. If we get another game, it could happen again. :0)

Gotta add that we cannot forget Arkana. It was at his forums where I met Sadogoat, Eldritch and Ventura, Android ,Swiss Pred, Camorgan etc etc etc. We had the greatest flamewars ever, and we were allowed to continue till everyone saw eye to eye. My my times have changed.

Sgt. Slaughter · 05-21-2007, 10:56 PM

Yes, I as well remember those days. I remember downloading the Black Predalien skin, the more detailed Marine skin with M3 armor, motion tracker skin, and the pulse rifle color skin. Not to mention the movie pistol sound I downloaded from IndyUKCM. Is he still here by the way?

BiomeXhanoid · 05-21-2007, 11:09 PM

Hasn't been back since the last of many fourms cave ins; about a month before then he pretty much offically threw in the towel, save for the maintaining of his site. As for Skins, I used my own personal Brown Spike Style Alien wif gold teefs, Black Predalien, Will's Photo-Realistic Predator (the second one) and Ash Marine with custom Ash taunts.

Incidentally, I still have all of the original editing programs too, such as Ripley II, Texture Infector, Nelev, and the like

Mine are still installed, rofl, even though since I own two 8800 Ultras means I can't play the game anymore unless I upgrade to Vista... Which won't be happening til it works. In five years.

the_demigod · 05-23-2007, 02:10 PM

I was into AvP creative writings then.
Good way to deal wioth creative frustration

BalTek · 05-30-2007, 06:17 PM

Howdy havn't been on here in a LONG while, but i got nostalgic and thought i'd take a lookie. It's so amazing to see you still have all those stuff Sado. I remember back in the days when you also helped out at the Network and you made that great desktop theme with the predator severed arm with dripping blood mouse icon.

It's actually quite funny talking to a lot of people who were avp fans post-film and just how much they've missed out on. To think many of them don't even know there are games prior to concrete jungle.

Anyway great to see you're doing well and a few names i recognise.

*note* Will need to see if there are any PAK members still around */note*

**Edit** WOW are those my details? will need to change them **/edit**

Sadogoat · 05-30-2007, 06:25 PM

Holy shit....good to see you again, Bal'tek! With the exception of Shataan, myself, and small handful of others, there's not many of us ancient AvP community veterans left anymore (as you may have already noticed).

BalTek · 05-31-2007, 09:45 AM

Aye i have noticed that. However it's REALLY good to see you, Pez and Shataan are still going strong

skullsplitter · 07-13-2007, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sadogoat

Holy shit....good to see you again, Bal'tek! With the exception of Shataan, myself, and small handful of others, there's not many of us ancient AvP community veterans left anymore (as you may have already noticed).

Mainly caused by AvP2 (AKA the exodus of olbies) and the constant changing of the frontpage and forums in it's wake.

Man, it's been 5 years since this place was in a vibe, media monday's, rumorcontrol, actual discussions...

Poncho · 07-20-2007, 06:24 PM

Yes, it truly is nostalgic to happen across these boards once more. I used to spend a fairly decent amount of time here.

Oddly enough, I watched part of Aliens and boy, how I still despise the character of Hudson. So flipping annoying. Thank GOD Mr. Cameron entered the character of Hicks into the fray or else the middle hour of the film would have been worthlessly dull.

Poncho

Sgt. Slaughter · 07-21-2007, 12:12 PM

Yes, I get nostalgic just hearing you guys talk about all this. Im definitly gonna save afew pics to the hard drive. I often wonder when the busy times will retun to these forums. Note I said when not if (im stayin optimistic here). I guess its up to us fans to make a decent AVP film. Keep in mind the last Star Trek movie was written by a fan. Any ideas people?

Shataan · 07-23-2007, 11:41 PM

Personally, I`d rather see a dedicated Aliens site. As apposed to an every games site.

TLE · 07-24-2007, 07:38 PM

One day we can hope there will be one like AVPNews again. I know there's PlanetAVP and others but it's not the same.

Acid Glow · 07-31-2007, 07:45 AM

I rememeber some of those banners

Evil_Crawling_eye · 08-01-2007, 11:40 AM

Massive AvP Gold Spree game anyone?

We'll play each and every map a few times or something, winner gets an E-Trophy.

Evil_Crawling_eye · 08-03-2007, 09:20 AM

"Whos THAT guy?"

Glexn · 10-12-2007, 03:24 AM

Oh, the memories... They make me want to play AvP Gold again so badly... Give it back, High Hopes! Four years is long enough!

MolBaNdA · 10-18-2007, 11:35 AM

Oh wow I missed this thread earlier. I've been in and out of here for a while now, not since the beginning but I've been around haha, definitely remember some of those sweet banners. I wish the AvP community was still as strong as it was but I'm really just glad to see that all of us are still around. I used to play Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 religiously and I talk to maybe one of two of the guys I used to play with every now and then. Maybe we can make a rebound with a new game release! That would be sick.

dedhed · 10-18-2007, 01:43 PM

molbanda...are you...the cookie dude?

05-20-2007, 04:51 PM	#1
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	AvP Nostalgia - The Good Old Days The old timers among you may remember the below, plucked from my rather huge archives of AvP yesteryears..... AvPNews Banners The AvPNews Main Page The AvPNews T-Shirt (That Never Was) AvPNews Clan Advertisements The AMP Expansion Pack Project Banner

05-20-2007, 04:54 PM	#2
the_demigod Bow to the Gospel of Aria Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: The depths of Alchemy and Gnosis. Posts: 9,411	good times--the community was 5-6 good websites then.
	"Vendi, vidi, vici, mucho denero..." "I came, I saw, I conquered, I got paid..." my mercenary motto.

05-20-2007, 04:58 PM	#4
Froberg One cannot be betrayed if one has no people. Epic Poster Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 19,390	The good 'ole days.
	Why so serious? Aliens versus Predator Online Encyclopedia.

05-20-2007, 08:01 PM	#11
BiomeXhanoid My misinformed opinion > >>your stupid facts/Mom. Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 4,158	The stuff hosted on AvP news inspired me to get into modding and skinning.... sniffle
	Bitches don't know shit 'bout cancadancin' Never mistake honesty for the truth.

05-21-2007, 11:56 AM	#13
Shataan Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 3,476	Man those were THE best days of gaming for me. ;p I didn`t know anything of modding etc, and was hanging with Sado... starting to use mod skins on AVP. Had Sados Aliens vids playing on my AVP ingame monitor screens.. That mod REALLY helped to suck me into the Aliens atmosphere. I used the Giger black Alien skin and Willis Choices Movie accurate Predator skin. And the community at that time now that I look back.... were alround pretty amazing good peeps. We had different ages etc, but most everyone was ontrack and came for the love of the franchise. When the modding started, many peeps did churn out alotta crap, but some diamonds really stood out. I do miss those times. But, who knows? Sados still around, Eldritch can prolly be found. Swiss Pred maybe? PEZ. If we get another game, it could happen again. :0) Gotta add that we cannot forget Arkana. It was at his forums where I met Sadogoat, Eldritch and Ventura, Android ,Swiss Pred, Camorgan etc etc etc. We had the greatest flamewars ever, and we were allowed to continue till everyone saw eye to eye. My my times have changed.
	Colonial Marines FTW...... 3rd POV AL()ENS FTL Last edited by Shataan; 05-21-2007 at 12:07 PM..

05-20-2007, 04:55 PM	#3
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	Cocoon-Ed Banners XenoWorks Advert First Ever Custom AvP Skin A Few Other Early Skins 'Alien 5' Mockup I threw this image together for an AvPNews screensaver I think, but it ended up being 'borrowed' by countless people and started appearing all over the place... Familiar Faces Dave Stalker Pezman & Paul Pawlicki

05-20-2007, 05:02 PM	#5
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	I'm still proud of that AvPNews "A" logo that I designed....

05-20-2007, 07:25 PM	#6
Sgt. Slaughter Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2001 Location: Middlesex VA USA Posts: 1,649	Yeah, thats a pretty sweet logo. Where can I get the t shirt and what did happen to all those great skins they had at AVPnews?
	Sgt. Slaughter

05-20-2007, 07:32 PM	#7
Herne the hunter Assemble Epic Poster Join Date: May 2001 Location: Mercia Posts: 15,415	So many cool memories. I love the Predators clan ad with the pile of skulls. Saved to hard drive. Also love the pred pic in this: Think I feel a new avatar coming on...

05-20-2007, 07:39 PM	#9
Herne the hunter Assemble Epic Poster Join Date: May 2001 Location: Mercia Posts: 15,415	For the life of me I can't remember how I found this place. I remember deciding to carry on my username (this was my second forum back when I was still an internet n00b), and even remember my first thread, but no matter how hard I try I can't recall how i got here.

05-20-2007, 07:44 PM	#10
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	Just been browsing the old AvPNews and AvP Network pages in the Wayback Archives. So many memories there, including when Eldritch and I first took over AvPNews from Pez in 2001, and my resignation in March 2003. Great stuff.

05-21-2007, 03:40 AM	#12
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	Heh, yeah but some people churned out some really crap skins. One of the reasons I stopped doing Cocoon-Ed is because alot of submissions were so blatantly rip offs of other people's work (including some of my own). Then there were the people who did fucking anime skins, or obscenely bright-glo Predator and Alien skins that looked so out of place that one wonders what possessed them to conceive such things. Incidentally, I still have all of the original editing programs too, such as Ripley II, Texture Infector, Nelev, and the like

05-21-2007, 10:56 PM	#14
Sgt. Slaughter Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2001 Location: Middlesex VA USA Posts: 1,649	Yes, I as well remember those days. I remember downloading the Black Predalien skin, the more detailed Marine skin with M3 armor, motion tracker skin, and the pulse rifle color skin. Not to mention the movie pistol sound I downloaded from IndyUKCM. Is he still here by the way?

05-21-2007, 11:09 PM	#15
BiomeXhanoid My misinformed opinion > >>your stupid facts/Mom. Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 4,158	Hasn't been back since the last of many fourms cave ins; about a month before then he pretty much offically threw in the towel, save for the maintaining of his site. As for Skins, I used my own personal Brown Spike Style Alien wif gold teefs, Black Predalien, Will's Photo-Realistic Predator (the second one) and Ash Marine with custom Ash taunts. Incidentally, I still have all of the original editing programs too, such as Ripley II, Texture Infector, Nelev, and the like Mine are still installed, rofl, even though since I own two 8800 Ultras means I can't play the game anymore unless I upgrade to Vista... Which won't be happening til it works. In five years.

05-23-2007, 02:10 PM	#16
the_demigod Bow to the Gospel of Aria Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: The depths of Alchemy and Gnosis. Posts: 9,411	I was into AvP creative writings then. Good way to deal wioth creative frustration

05-30-2007, 06:17 PM	#17
BalTek Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: London Posts: 1,024	Howdy havn't been on here in a LONG while, but i got nostalgic and thought i'd take a lookie. It's so amazing to see you still have all those stuff Sado. I remember back in the days when you also helped out at the Network and you made that great desktop theme with the predator severed arm with dripping blood mouse icon. It's actually quite funny talking to a lot of people who were avp fans post-film and just how much they've missed out on. To think many of them don't even know there are games prior to concrete jungle. Anyway great to see you're doing well and a few names i recognise. note Will need to see if there are any PAK members still around /note Edit WOW are those my details? will need to change them /edit

05-30-2007, 06:25 PM	#18
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	Holy shit....good to see you again, Bal'tek! With the exception of Shataan, myself, and small handful of others, there's not many of us ancient AvP community veterans left anymore (as you may have already noticed).

05-31-2007, 09:45 AM	#19
BalTek Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: London Posts: 1,024	Aye i have noticed that. However it's REALLY good to see you, Pez and Shataan are still going strong

07-20-2007, 06:24 PM	#21
Poncho Black as Death Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2001 Location: Chicago Posts: 2,146	Yes, it truly is nostalgic to happen across these boards once more. I used to spend a fairly decent amount of time here. Oddly enough, I watched part of Aliens and boy, how I still despise the character of Hudson. So flipping annoying. Thank GOD Mr. Cameron entered the character of Hicks into the fray or else the middle hour of the film would have been worthlessly dull. Poncho

07-21-2007, 12:12 PM	#22
Sgt. Slaughter Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2001 Location: Middlesex VA USA Posts: 1,649	Yes, I get nostalgic just hearing you guys talk about all this. Im definitly gonna save afew pics to the hard drive. I often wonder when the busy times will retun to these forums. Note I said when not if (im stayin optimistic here). I guess its up to us fans to make a decent AVP film. Keep in mind the last Star Trek movie was written by a fan. Any ideas people?

07-23-2007, 11:41 PM	#23
Shataan Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 3,476	Personally, I`d rather see a dedicated Aliens site. As apposed to an every games site.

07-24-2007, 07:38 PM	#24
TLE After the hugging Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,787	One day we can hope there will be one like AVPNews again. I know there's PlanetAVP and others but it's not the same.

07-31-2007, 07:45 AM	#25
Acid Glow Trance Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: On YouTube! Posts: 6,791	I rememeber some of those banners
	http://youtube.com/acidglow

08-01-2007, 11:40 AM	#26
Evil_Crawling_eye Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,920	Massive AvP Gold Spree game anyone? We'll play each and every map a few times or something, winner gets an E-Trophy.

08-03-2007, 09:20 AM	#27
Evil_Crawling_eye Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,920	"Whos THAT guy?"

10-12-2007, 03:24 AM	#28
Glexn Registered User Hardcore Veteran Join Date: May 2003 Location: Melbourne Posts: 5,836	Oh, the memories... They make me want to play AvP Gold again so badly... Give it back, High Hopes! Four years is long enough!

10-18-2007, 11:35 AM	#29
MolBaNdA LL Cool G Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 4,091	Oh wow I missed this thread earlier. I've been in and out of here for a while now, not since the beginning but I've been around haha, definitely remember some of those sweet banners. I wish the AvP community was still as strong as it was but I'm really just glad to see that all of us are still around. I used to play Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 religiously and I talk to maybe one of two of the guys I used to play with every now and then. Maybe we can make a rebound with a new game release! That would be sick.

10-18-2007, 01:43 PM	#30
dedhed [adjust your set] Hardcore Veteran Join Date: May 2001 Location: norn iron Posts: 7,906	molbanda...are you...the cookie dude?