Gamer Crossfire



Gamer Crossfire, the successor to Gamers Talk Elite, was originally created as a refuge for HTLOZ forum-goers in 2001. It was founded by King-X.

GXF Era
GXF was the first acronym to represent the name 'Gamer Crossfire.' Its initial purpose was to provide a home for the HTLOZ refugee community. It was online from 2001-2004.

King-X's original vision was to provide a web site along with the community forums. The new web site would attempt to refocus the Zelda-oriented community on more general coverage of video games. This vision never manifested itself during the GXF era.

During GXF's lifetime, there were a number of problems which temporarily shut the forums down and left the community stranded - sometimes weeks at a time. There were approximately two major server black outs that hindered GXF's growth. These two black outs can separate GXF into three distinct periods: GXF 1, GXF 2, and GXF 3.

GXF 1
Out of all the versions of Gamer Crossfire, GXF 1 was the most similar to the original HTLOZ forums. GXF 1 had a huge focus on RPG threads, user activity, and rules that were very similar to HTLOZ. Toward the end of 2002, the first server black out crippled GXF 1 and stranded the forum community.

GXF 2
Weeks later, after the first black out, King-X restored the site on a new server, marking the age of GXF 2. Somehow, things weren't the same as they used to be. King-X, no doubt, wanted to stray away from being recognized as the HTLOZ alternative. He tried very hard to establish an independent identity for GXF, but the origins of the forums worked against his efforts.

New, stricter forum rules were established, and a new flash arcade was implemented - all in order to separate GXF from the HTLOZ name.

Yet again, in late-2003, the GXF community was shut down due to server issues and a great deal of forums goers fled to the Ganon's Tower forums until GXF returned.

GXF 3
Just before the turn of the new year, GXF came back. This return was the longest-living implementation of Gamer Crossfire and can be distinguished as GXF 3. The third version of Gamer Crossfire had a huge emphasis on the flash arcade. Unfortunately, this kept the forums mostly a blank slate.

King-X finally implemented a main site that focused on video games. He featured some of his MIDI and MP3 work on the site as well, and opened the forums and site up as a place that visitors could share their own music.

By the end of the year, the knowledge of the HTLOZ forums returning swept the GXF community. Inevitably, King-X shut GXF down just before the new HTLOZ II launched in 2005. The purpose of GXF as an HTLOZ fallout shelter had been fulfilled and the GXF forum-goers fled to HTLOZ II.

GCF Era
The fourth coming of Gamer Crossfire was known as GCF. It was founded by King-X in Spring 2006. The new acronym distinguished Gamer Crossfire from its old roots as a fallout shelter for the HTLOZ refugee community. King-X had a new focus of building a web site and community forums that had a broad emphasis on video games in general. The flash arcade was no longer a feature and forums rules were implied and respected, despite being less strict. A web site that reported on video games was now the main feature that led visitors to the new set of forums.

King-X successfully separated GCF from the HTLOZ II forums and proved that both could co-exist with their own intents and purposes. Unfortunately, at this point in GCF's lifetime, the forums had achieved only a 50% activity rate.

At the very end of 2006, it was the choice of the GCF staff to shut the forums down, due to poor progress and less-then-stellar forum activity. The host went offline on January 1, 2007, permanently deleting the GCF name. King-X does not intend to revive the Gamer Crossfire name.