Adventure Gamers started as a humble fan site in 1998 but grew into the biggest online magazine of its kind. Here you will find a brief history of the site and the different designs it's had.

August 11, 1998 - September 20, 1998
The site's history begins on the servers of a free web hosting company, where Marek Bronstring establishes a place for fans to reminisce about their favorite adventure games. Even though Adventure Fan claims to be the "Ultimate Adventure Gaming Source In The Net," the first incarnation of the site is destined to last little over a month.

September 20, 1998 - February 10, 1999
Marek joins forces with Lasse Ojanen, renaming the site to Adventure Central. Now under the wing of game site hosting network Gamer's Alliance, the site has a small but encouraging reader base. A forum is added to the site, and Marek begins a regularly updated news page. New writers are brought into the fold, such as Heidi Fournier, who would go on to write over fifty articles.

March 31, 1999 - March, 2001
The site's coming of age. Everything hits second gear: we create a professional-looking design, move to our own domain at adventuregamer.com and launch a network of hosted sites, quickly establishing the site as an important community hub. An outpouring of new articles has the webmasters scrambling to convert them to web pages. Evan Dickens joins the team one week before the grand opening, and later that year writes his first Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time, which instantly becomes the site's most popular feature. Fame and adoration abound for the team. At the height of dotcom frenzy, Marek buys his own Caribbean island.

March, 2001 - April, 2002
Just as a new version of the site is being prepared, our domain name gets hacked. After months of legal wrestling, hope of recovering the site is lost. Relocating to adventuregamers.com doesn't end the problems: Lasse leaves the site, and construction on the new site halts as the programmer goes AWOL. The site is left with little more than a discussion board. As the economy bottoms out, Marek's island sinks beneath the heartless waves of the ocean.

May 20, 2002 - January 20, 2005
How remains a mystery, but we somehow manage to relaunch the site just before we fly off to E3 2002. The addition of a content management system heralds a technological leap for the site, no longer requiring raw content to be manually processed. Evan Dickens, now the senior editor, leads the writing team to produce new content of consistent high quality, causing visitor numbers to quadruple in just six months.

Evan's updated Top 20 feature proves as successful as the last one, while Marek pours his heart into a way too long editorial titled The Future of Adventure Games. After a brief time of sharing server space with LucasArts fan site Mixnmojo.com, Adventure Gamers purchases its own server, finally making downtime a thing of the past. Doug Tabacco is now the site's resident programmer and server administrator.

January 21, 2005
Marek creates a fresh look for the site, incorporating different elements from the previous two designs. With Jack Allin as the new Editor-In-Chief, Adventure Gamers continues to have the best news, reviews and articles on adventure games. In what becomes a new site tradition, Jack Allin and members of the staff and AG community design and produce an adventure game released for free, called Christmas Quest. Adventure Gamers' server moves up from one to two processing cores, increasing the total number of processing cores by 100%. It's a significant jump, beating year over year estimates and pleasing many in the investment community.

September 14, 2007
A new version is launched with a different design and a lot of new functionality. Adventure Gamers now lists release dates per territory, the game info pages are expanded dramatically, there's a new blog area where staff members can leave more casual posts and last but not least, it's now possible to leave comments directly on the site. Following the discontinuation of the E3 trade show in Los Angeles, Adventure Gamers covers the Games Convention in Leipzig for the first time, concluding that Germany has become a hotbed for adventure game development.

November 16, 2007
Adventure Gamers announces a partnership with Adventure Shop, a new online portal for purchasing and downloading adventure games. Adventure Gamers adds affiliate links to the site, while also consulting Adventure Shop regularly on which titles (both old and new) it should add to its catalog. Adventure Shop is operated by Lezard Electronic in association with Metaboli.