How long have you been coming to OCR?

[Fishy]

I first saw the site when it was blue but I didn't really hang around long enough to notice it had a community. I got marched back in here by my friend in summer 2006 and joined the forum proper. I've been rejecting your bad techno since June 2008.

[KyleJCrb]

I'm fairly sure I was first made aware of the site at some point in 2001, but didn't really start getting into it until 2002, after the changeover to the much-loved blue/purple site design. I didn't really start following the forums until 2003.

[Binjovi]

I've been browsing, listening to, and downloading from OverClocked ReMix since 1999. Very nearly it's entire life. I've loved every bit of it too.

[Nabeel Ansari]

When I was twelve... which is like a year now.

[Pyrion]

1999/2000 or so. Can't really pin a specific date on something that far back, especially as the old forums are dead and gone, otherwise I would've just gone by my join date.

[liquid wind]

I've been lurking about since 2002 or so IIRC, someone linked to terra in black on another forum I visit

I miss the blue, entirely white websites are hell on your eyes when you're tired

wait OCR is trying to make me sleep more by making the internet painful for me when I should be in bed...thanks?

[Weirdboyscott]

I found out about OCR in about January of 2002, and I would have signed up for the forums earlier than June if I was more of a fan of forums in the first place. I methodically downloaded just about every remix from every game I've played, and then when I actually signed into the forums I made my way like straight to UnMod and rarely ever posted elsewhere.

[PROTO·DOME]

A year and a bit, although in that year I've bearly posted anything much 'till a few months back. It's a shame, I know not of your stories of an orange and blue OCR- oh and the fabled UnMod.

[Doulifée]

the day of release of aphrodite oceanus.

[DrumUltimA]

started in about 2003 or so, just like the join date says. Stopped going for about a year, and then started coming consistently in 2005 again when I met pixietricks at school and she told me she was a big ocr person. I've been coming ever since!

[Black Mage]

According to my join date, a few days over five years, now. Right at the release of Kong in Concert.

[Monobrow]

omg forever since like even before djp!

[Lemonectric]

Found the site in 2003, joined soon after. Apparently it was purple back then? I don't think my conscious awareness had fully developed at that age.

[ProjectSpam]

Early 2003, when I was downloading a bunch of random game music from a p2p (winmx, I believe). I kept running into files tagged with OC ReMix and really enjoyed them, so I kept downloading them... then the person I was downloading the music from sent me a message saying, "You do know you can download all this music for free from ocr, right?"

And thus, my life was changed forever...

[Kenobio]

Like a lot of people here I started coming to OCR after reading about it in the July 2002 issue of EGM.

[Cyril the Wolf]

Probably since...

oh I can't remember. I wanna say 2005, and then I left for about 6 months or so and came back under this user name

My old one got haxed. I dunno how, dunno why, but it did.

I was originally just "Cyril" as I am on a few other forums

[WillRock]

Since about march of last year... yeah I'm a little late to the party

[duskvstweak]

Like a lot of people here I started coming to OCR after reading about it in the July 2002 issue of EGM.

That's how I found the site too!

[jmr]

I first visited the site sometime between October 14 and November 20 2001, after downloading several older remixes from whatever p2p filesharing service was popular at the time. (Audiogalaxy, maybe?)

[Ray Falling]

I actually won't know how long I've been coming here untill I check my post haha

I remember it must have been around 2005/early 2006 when I signed up though. I first heard OCremixes through my best friend, altough he never actually checked this site untill I later told him "this site has more stuff like that!"

I actually signed up to comment in a thread about homemade trading card games Because I "produce" my own card games too.

One of the things I appreciate about this place is how serious/dedicated it is to doing what it does. I don't think you'll see this place go down anytime soon.

It's great to read about how OCRemixers are involved with "official" game projects and to see the site get more and more exposure and appreciation

Community wise...I don't know. It's a little hard to get appreciated here and there's the circle of people who've known eachother for a while longer.

This is probably the same on every forums though, so it's no big deal.

It all depends on what you want out of this community experience I guess.

(And granted I've not made myself very popular with certain views of mine)

I never seen the "old" design as far as I can remember. I appreciate it when I occasionally discover a design element added which just makes it all "click".

The first remixes I heard must have been Donkey Kong country 2 mixes After that I got into the Final Fantasy 6 bits.

[Gario]

I've come to this site for a few years for the music, but haven't been involved in the forums until about November of last year (I signed up January 1st of 2008 so I could submit music here, but didn't do anything with the forums until much later).

Relatively new, I guess.

[ZealPath]

Kind of a tough one, but I believe I first became aware of the site around 2002, didn't really come here all that much though, for some reason I'd tend to forget about it. Sadly I do not remember what the first mix I ever downloaded was, which surprises me. Around 2004, a friend pointed me to "Another Fair" which sort of reminded me of all the goodness I was probably missing out on, and started me on the path of checking OCR about once a month, still nowhere near as often as I do now.

Since then, between the always interesting new mixes, and the truly amazing album projects this community has put out over the years, my visits evolved from monthly to weekly to daily to just having OCR open in a tab at all times and checking multiple times a day, hitting the forums, etc.

I don't have a ton of posts, and didn't actually join the forums till 2007. I guess I mostly stick to reviews and wip feedback, but as long as OCR is here, I won't be too far away.

[Halt]

Well, I do believe I found this place, in the summer of 08, first remix downloaded was, an Album VotL. I even made a thread about it. (the thread is probably gone by now). I found this search for something related to games, and this came up, and I've visited this pretty much atleast once a day since. whether it be the IRC or the forums

[The Mutericator]

I've probably known about it since I was a freshman in high school, thanks to a friend of mine... I probably started visiting regularly myself in late 2003 or so, and actually signed up on the forums about two years later. It feels weird to see so many people here after me, like I'm one of the oldies now.

[Flare4War]

I started visiting in 2003 but I didn't join until 2004. I got more active in the forums in 2006.