When meetles were still awesome

What am I looking at?

A hundred dusty copies of Kristen's site? BFD.

I remember that website. I would have been about 5-7when I saw it.

I don't get why we needed to go through the wayback machine to see Oddworld-Web. It's still there.

The nostalgia comes from the outdated design. I miss Depths of Oddworld and the really really early OWI site from the late 90's.

I don't really remembe the design of the early OWI site. I do miss all the content that I seem to remember but no-one else does and thus might only have existed in my head.

Like what?

I have this vague memory of a story about some guy in GT Interactive who didn't like OWI and so he set up a meeting between his boss and Lorne, with the idea that the boss would get to see how crap AO was. Sadly, the boss thought the game (to the level that it was completed at the time) was awesome and ended up increasing OWI's budget to the detriment of that other guy's.

Ahh, nostalgia. I remeber an OW site with an article about Molluck talking about his favorite cigars. The only other place I've seen that info was the OW encyclopedia.

Used: http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...ts.php#Molluck

Nate: I remember that also. But I'm probably remembering you saying you remember it. At least I'm not the only one who remembers things that can't be found.

The earliest design I remember for OWI's site had animated gifs of all the characters on their bio pages, along with soundbites. I remember the Molluck bio page contained soundbites of lines that were never in the game. This was back before Glukkons said anything intelligible, so the soundbites consisted of Molluck barking muffled gibberish and laughing. I remember this site listed the detail about his favorite cigars as well.

Did anyone save this version of the site, or does this pre-date the organized OW fanbase? Mind you, this was easily '97 or very early '98.

Also, did you guys save the voice clips for the interviews Lorne recorded in-character for IGN?

I don't remember any Oddworld site before Microsoft's MO mini-site that played sound.

I have those IGN files, though. I'll MSN them to you.

I remember OWI had another site design promoting AE with a flash-based version of the intro embedded in the browser.
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