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I think Super Mario Broth will love this.
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A bunch of lost Nintendo stuffs from Camp Hyrule is now on the Internet Archives
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I think Super Mario Broth will love this.
I used to get all of my Animal Crossing GC item passwords there if I'm not confusing it with another site.
god i remember sinking a stupid amount of time into the archery game
yep!
yep!
Fun fact, I am the winner of the 2006 Koopa Award; the award given to the camper with the worst spelling.
Yes, I spent the entirety of Camp Hyrule 2006 bad-spelling-shitposting to guarantee myself the award lol.
Yes, I spent the entirety of Camp Hyrule 2006 bad-spelling-shitposting to guarantee myself the award lol.
The stuff we used to do as kids to pass the time in the summer before online multiplayer was easy and commonplace
I think Camp Hyrules hey-day was around the start of the GameCube era
I think Camp Hyrules hey-day was around the start of the GameCube era
Super nostalgic.
I remember all the role-playing at Camp Hyrule 2000 -- seemed like half of the camp was part of an ever-evolving Zelda storyline, each with their own characters. Pretty much the Zelda MMO we never got, lol.
It was also fun being able to talk directly to the NOA staff, they were hilarious.
I remember all the role-playing at Camp Hyrule 2000 -- seemed like half of the camp was part of an ever-evolving Zelda storyline, each with their own characters. Pretty much the Zelda MMO we never got, lol.
It was also fun being able to talk directly to the NOA staff, they were hilarious.
I absolutely remember this being a thing, but I never attended for whatever reason...I think I was too old by the time I heard of it.
Did you have to pay to attend?
And how did you choose what events you wanted to attend?
Did you have to pay to attend?
And how did you choose what events you wanted to attend?
It was all free. It was a flash-animated map that changed between day and night over the course of a week. You could click on various destinations like the bonfire, tennis courts, Clock Town, etc, and each was a chat room. The moderators were Treehouse staff, the same people who localize games. There were ongoing mysteries, and minigames you could play. I remember everyone was really pleasant too. Maybe we were all just more relaxed back then, lol.
Another reminder of how much cooler the internet was before everything was centralized to Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Yeah, I do vaguely recall a Luigi's Mansion destination so I think there was a 2001 edition. I know I adored 2000 so I would've been back the following year.
This is a throwback. I am already falling down a rabbit hole of looking for NSider forum and AOL Keyword: Nintendo archives.
In an alternate timeline where these continued, Summer 2019 would've made for a neat Camp Hyrule. There could be a Mario Maker 2 construction zone, Gareg Mach Monastery from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Windfish's Egg from Link's Awakening, the Last Resort from Luigi's Mansion 3, a stadium from Pokémon Sword and Shield, etc -- even a campsite looking forward to Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
I won Camp Hyrule in 2005! I still have the "Stumpy" T-Shirt they sent the winners.
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It ran from 1995-2007. We don't have flash elements for every year, but every year has an overview with image galleries and descriptions of events.
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oh fucking hell I completely forgot about Camp Hyrule.
Aaahhh the sudden nostalgia is killing me!
Aaahhh the sudden nostalgia is killing me!
Me either and I'm completely baffled. I have no idea how I completely missed this for 12 years, or at least paid so little attention that I have no memory of ever checking it out (the name Camp Hyrule sounds vaaguely familiar). It's kind of weirding me out.
Wow... I'm really surprised I never heard of this or "attended" any of the years it was open. I wasn't the biggest Nintendo kid then but I still had all the portables and Gamecube haha.
It was surprisingly immersive -- I recall the individual chatrooms in each themed area also had their own art to establish the sense of place. I remember most of the Treehouse staff would frequent the bonfire - that was the most popular gathering place and they got to know the recurring campers, form running jokes, etc. The Zelda-themed areas were awesome -- all of these superfans congregating to discuss OoT and MM lore, lol.
Oh man the Loudhouse on AOL... those were the days. I won so much stuff. Still friends with someone from those days, actually. NOA Amy and Travis were the best!
Yep, Damiani was a Mod on the old Nsider forums back in the day.
This was always so fun each year. I believe content from the events were always posted in Nintendo Power the month after.
If I'm remembering correctly, there was a year that connected to a Mario Golf on GameCube that used codes. Pretty cool!
If I'm remembering correctly, there was a year that connected to a Mario Golf on GameCube that used codes. Pretty cool!
How long before Stumpy gets his own Switch game?I won Camp Hyrule in 2005! I still have the "Stumpy" T-Shirt they sent the winners.
I've had a lot of that stuff personally archived on my old site for like a decade, lol. But yeah, it's cool to revisit that kind of stuff. Wish Nintendo had... any sort of official community.
Do you have anything we don't? If you do, PLEASE consider sharing it on the Internet Archive a lot of people would love to see it!
As far as I can tell, everything I have is there. I just never thought about anyone else really giving a shit, lol.
Edit: For some extra context, back in the early 2000's Nintendo had a private Metroid themed community that was connected to Nsider/Camp Hyrule/HTS/the short-lived Nintendogs community. When it closed most of the users moved over to a new site (though we actually bought Nintendo's old domain for that community too), and we re-used all the Camp Hyrule games for our own "Camp Zebes" events for years. I think for a long time you could find it fairly easy through Google (like, first couple results), but we never got much traffic from it. Those days are loooong gone too, and I'm not even sure that stuff is indexed anymore, lol.
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