The sunny summer day of 21 June is extremely special for our community. It's that time again when we must celebrate Abandonia's birthday and think about the years we passed together. Eleven years is a beautiful age for a website, especially in Abandonia's case, since the prospect for retrogaming looks so bright.
In the past years, I've seen the industry offering a lot of spotlight to old titles. We must give credit especially to GOG.com in what concerns our beloved PCs, but we can't forget the impressive retro libraries made available through the consoles' online stores, such as XBLA and WiiWare. The interest remains live in other directions as well. The new Alien Breed from Team17, the new X-Com FPS from 2K Games, or even the simple fact Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic is largely inspired by Master of Magic are good examples.
In short, Abandonia can become so much more than it is today and you can show us in which direction. We've made the first step and established a close contact with our technical team at Studentis. There were many bugfixes and improvements made. From now on, there's nothing stopping us in becoming a better site.
I also think it's imperative for me to say a collective Thank You to our contributors and staff members, because as I said before Abandonia is community-driven and besides this newspost and some Pieces of Eight, I can find no other way to express all the people's gratitude for all your dedication. Of course, there's no way to mention all the geeks... and normal people that took up residence in our forums, so I'm going to focus on exceptional contributors, a Murray the Talking Skull PoE Awards of sorts:
Geezer 
The number one extras source for Abandonia. If I counted right, there were roughly 200 extras files added from him in the last year, that is not counting boxshots independently. He's currently ranked number 2 by PoEs and it doesn't look like it will take that long to surpass Sebatianos at this pace.
Marko river Our most ardent reviewer with 18 retrospects written since Abandonia's last birthday, and many more to come. He's number 3 in our worldwide PoE standings and obviously aims for more.
Ermuli He's also an avid extras contributor, but people are most grateful towards him for keeping the ISO Cellar alive with constant new additions. At the moment Ermuli takes the 6th place with over 11000 PoEs.
Poker Crow Not much has passed since we finally fixed the translation bug - a bit over an year, and we still have problems with it. However, in such a short time, Poker Crow managed to translate 127 reviews into Spanish. Thanks to this he's about to step into the Top 10. For more on contributions, PoEs and Top Tens check our memberlist and history page.
Happy Birthday Abandonia!
