It is still the most active topic in this day and age, with nearly 6,000 posts, and features prominently in forum life, including various artwork and forum stories. Niklaw's Tavern (eventually renamed Demonik's Tavern) is created, and takes off at a legendary pace.Prepare To Die, a forum game created by Blablob, is born and soon becomes arguably the most successful forum game in history, causing a craze within the forum and eventually establishing its winning contestants as well-known forum members.
Efforts of the general public are enough to have the decision reversed by New Years' In a controversial decision, TrappedTime (at the time known as TheBetterGamer) is permabanned after repeated rulebreaking and reregistering.MICrophone creates the Runouw News topic, which is the first user-made topic to be promoted to a global announcement and is still used today.
More than two years later, it places 5th in WITBLOAT. Fourinone wins the 3rd LDC (Desert Oasis) with Arid, Arid Desert.MICrophone becomes the first member of the site to release his own self-produced music in his first of two albums, Sharp Minors, which is well received by the forum.TheZunar123 creates a complete walkthrough of Super Mario 63, and it is immediately stickied.The Runouw Wiki is created by Suyo, to house user-made information about the forums.The Shadowsquid86 meme is created by fourinone, after when he is asked to tell who the next moderator would be, he picks a random member this being Shadowsquid86, who becomes the forumwide messiah.Fourinone is promoted to a moderator position.Level4 introduces revolutionary tricks and glitches, which impact level designing forevermore.It inspires a story section to be made in the forums. Brandobrawl writes the first forum story, Runouw Forums, and it becomes a runaway hit.Vandarx impresses the forum with grand ASCII masterpieces.24murph and Kraz圓21 both win the 2nd LDC (Bowser's New Castle).The SM63 Level Portal is created, for one to easily access and play levels from.Fourinone releases an extensive guide to the Super Mario 63 Star Coin locations.And of course, active members of the original freeforums register again as well, including Zunar, brandobrawl, fourinone and Volcove. Many of the site's most notable members of today register immediately after it is created, including Aznchau4ever, Ridder, MessengerOfDreams, MICrophone.