What's up everybody welcome to IGN Gamescoop. I'm your host Damon Hathil. We have very

special show for you this week. I am joined by Fran Maribela, so I'm Dan.

Parrish Nider, Brian Altano, we are here to celebrate an IGN anniversary.

Ooh, IGN's 18th today. I've been thinking about that all day.

Yeah, you pulled it off well. IGN's 18th launched in 1996 alongside five websites,

a family website, n64.com, PSX Power, Saturn World, nextgeneration.com and ultra-game players

online and it was to coincide with the launch of the Nintendo 64, so we share the same

birthday. Yeah, so the on this date n64.com was the only one that launched and then the other

websites followed like one by one. So before the end of the year we had, well I say,

I wasn't actually there when the site launched, but IGN had three websites by the end of

the year and then the others kind of followed. Who was there, just the originals that people

might remember that were here a long time. So I think on this day Doug Perry got hired

and he ran n64.com at the time and then later on he brought on Matt Casamacine, he brought

me on as well and a bunch of people like Eric McCullier, I think Johnny Simpson bin

to now is over it, which was there. Chris Anderson ran the company back then, it was called

Imagine Media, which is, you know, changed its name to future of course. Sure.

Which is where the original IGN comes from, Imagine Games Network. Yeah, it's for back then.

And that name actually wasn't used until 97. So 96 was all n64.com, it was one of the

Imagine websites, you know. I've been here for almost six years and I still forget that

IGN means Imagine Games Network, just to me. That's not like...

It did mean, right? It did. To me IGN is like, so good people are saying this, what does

it stand for? I get asked all the time. People make up their own. Internet gaming news,

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