Summer of 2003. Back when Ziff-Davis was still using Gamers.com. Good deals and free demos and stuff kept popping up on their forums so I went to the source of these good deals. Been a CAG ever since.
I heard about CAG during the Circuit City $5 deal. I heard about it at a few forums along with the Circuit City store itself. I decided to check out the site myself, and that's how I got here. Started out as mostly a lurker (only posted in a few threads), then became a regular over a year ago.
EGM had mentioned the site in their magazine a while back and I thought about checking the site out but never did. Then about a month after I had been listening to the destructoid podcast, the CAGcast and CheapyD came up on the website and the podcast so I thought I would check it out and see what it was all about. I started listening to the CAGcast and about a month and a half of listening to the CAGcast, I finally registered to the forums and became a member.
[quote name='hero101']I was search for videogame sales on google and I found it. I typed in "cheap games". I though I found a pron site before I went in.[/quote]
It was often mentioned on the (now defunct) website ByteSizeDeals.com. I was actually a member there in 2004, I believe. I don't know why I didn't come here sooner. I think I did, and the front page frightened me, with its awful layout.
Same here with that article. I remember getting the mag back in early '04 I think. I also remember the awful layout CAG had in the front page. Since then I visited the site every time for deals and I became a lurker. It wasn't until sometime in '06 that I decided to join. .
I used to check www.thefrugalgamer.com all the time but got frustrated by their lack of updates. So I Googled "cheap videogames" and it brought me here.
Joystiq mentioned Cheapy and CAG in a bunch of podcasts, one of which Cheapy actually made an appearance, and I finally wound up joining in October 2007. However, at the time, I had no interest in becoming a part of the community and chose a ridiculous name. I came to really like CAG and rejoined on January 1, 2008, and the rest is history.
Same. I checked it out for a couple of months, never joined, and then forgot about it. It wasn't until last summer I just happen to remember it when looking for a video game deal. I lurked for a few months and finally joined. Now it never leaves my firefox tabs.