It's my great pleasure to announce that GBAtemp has surpassed 500,000 members! I want to give a personal thank you to every member that has joined our community, whether you're an active member, a lurker or just a dormant account from years gone by - thank you for being a part of GBAtemp.

This is a fantastic milestone in the history of our website and is yet another reason to celebrate our success as we approach the 20th anniversary of GBAtemp.

Congratulations to @switchboi69 who is likely the 500,000th true member (more details below), although if we're going by ID then that would be @Leo1006

Our database actually accounts for 588,212 members total at the time of this message which means our hard-working moderator team have nuked over 88,000 spambots, trolls and other time wasters!

To put it into perspective, what exactly does 500,000 people look like? Well, that number of people could fill Wembley Stadium 5 times over and is 80% the entire population of Macau. As a collective, the entire GBAtemp community would weigh over 35,000 metric tonnes, though given the nature of our hobby perhaps we could bump that number up a bit.

Now we begin counting down the days until our 20th anniversary of the forums which will take place on the 24th October. We have big plans to celebrate our 20th so be sure to join us!

Thanks once again to each and every one of you!

 

[peteruk]

I love this site, love it... here's the thing, I hear negative talk about the site from various people and I get some minor stick for my positive outlook. But this site is by far my favourite 'gaming' type forum about..... It just makes me annoyed that I didn't actually create an account until 2015 because I was browsing for years before doing so, damn it !!


To Shaun, Costello and all the other Admins, staff and members that make this such an enjoyable site to visit I wish you a massive Thank You and here's to the next 500,000 members

 

[ZeroFX]

Congrats, don't become a resetera.

 

[Takokeshi]

I noticed it at 500,001 the other day, was going to mention it but I didn't think it would be that big of a deal.

 

[DinohScene]

Thank you GBAtemp community for being what you are.
This wouldn't be possible without you people.

 

[HellGhast]

Congrats to all members and staff for making GbaTemp such an awesome gaming community.

 

[AmandaRose]

Yep like a few before me I just want to say a huge thank you to all the site staff for all their awesome work and for all the help they have gave me over the years.

Extra special thanks to @shaunj66 @relauby @p1ngpong for going the extra distance to help me out with the 3 official temp reviews I was lucky enough to be allowed to do.

And to @Chary I just want to give a mega huge humongous thank you for absolutely every piece of help and advice you have gave me over my time on the temp. And for the laughs reading the adventurers of her dad through modern life.

Happy half a million everyone

 

[Zkajavier]

I had the impression there were millions here. lol
I guess it´s the same old faces all the time

Congrats on the milestone, I hope it keeps growing for a long time, I love it here.

 

[MarkDarkness]

I came for the GBA ROMs back when I was a teenager, then stayed for the community.

 

[The Catboy]

As stated, we actually have over 588,212 members in the database but have only just recently recognised 500,000 genuine accounts. Over 88k have been removed for being fraudulent.

I suppose technically @switchboi69 is likely the true 500,000th member. So congrats to him, too!

That’s a lot of fraudulent accounts, yo. And yet The Catboy still stands! Please withhold your tears before the real owner of the Temp! ;O;

 

[TomRiddle]

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It's my great pleasure to announce that GBAtemp has surpassed 500,000 members! I want to give a personal thank you to every member that has joined our community, whether you're an active member, a lurker or just a dormant account from years gone by - thank you for being a part of GBAtemp.

This is a fantastic milestone in the history of our website and is yet another reason to celebrate our success as we approach the 20th anniversary of GBAtemp.

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Congratulations to @switchboi69 who is likely the 500,000th true member (more details below), although if we're going by ID then that would be @Leo1006

Our database actually accounts for 588,212 members total at the time of this message which means our hard-working moderator team have nuked over 88,000 spambots, trolls and other time wasters!

To put it into perspective, what exactly does 500,000 people look like? Well, that number of people could fill Wembley Stadium 5 times over and is 80% the entire population of Macau. As a collective, the entire GBAtemp community would weigh over 35,000 metric tonnes, though given the nature of our hobby perhaps we could bump that number up a bit.

Now we begin counting down the days until our 20th anniversary of the forums which will take place on the 24th October. We have big plans to celebrate our 20th so be sure to join us!

Thanks once again to each and every one of you!

Oh that's really great, kudos!

For the amount of time I've been on GBAtemp it's has great gaming/homebrew discussions and really nice people.

So yes, here is to the next 500K, although don't let the mainstream view corrupt GBAtemp at that.

 

[CompSciOrBust]

Congratz GBATemp staff. For all the trash tier "why don't haxors just hack my Switch light with web brwsor plox??" threads there is a lot off high quality stuff on here and we can only find it because you're willing to stick your hands in a box full of hypodermic needles to pull out the chocolate bars for the rest of us to enjoy.

 

[Frankbel]

Evviva!

 

[SG854]

All of them quality members

 

[Chary]

Hooray! Happy 500k to the best website in the world, and all of its users <3

 

[Hells Malice]

50% are Vipera alts

 

[Stealphie]

All of them quality members

that's a funny joke

 

[ChaoticPumpkin]

Congratulations!

How many of those people are active on GBAtemp?

Well, judging by the online user account averages over the past 6 months, I’d guess at least 3

 

[BitMasterPlus]

please shut the fuck up

That right here should be the banner to tell new people how nice the people on this site are.

 

[Stealphie]

That right here should be the banner to tell new people how nice the people on this site are.

Like you're one to talk, bud.

 

[Catastrophic]

I came here often during the Wii hacking boom when every other post was someone asking something stupid that had already been answered a million times. Glad to see that absolutely nothing has changed.