Editing Smasher:Gideon

From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
Warning You aren't logged in. While it's not a requirement to create an account, doing so makes it a lot easier to keep track of your edits and a lot harder to confuse you with someone else. If you edit without being logged in, your IP address will be recorded in the page's edit history.
SmashBrosSymbol.svg Log in SmashBrosSymbol.svg Create account

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 11: Line 11:
| country            =United States
| country            =United States
}}
}}
'''Gideon''' is the founder of [[SmashBoards]] and [[SmashWiki:About|this wiki]]. Gideon's involvement with ''Smash'' began in June 1999 when he founded Smash World, a website devoted entirely to ''Smash 64''. In 2000, he founded Smash World Forums, later renamed to SmashBoards, which eventually became the world's largest ''Smash'' forum. In response to the growing scope of the forums, he officially opened SmashWiki in March 2007, alongside a number of other websites over the years.


In March 2008, Gideon sold Smash World Forums to [[Major League Gaming]] for an undisclosed sum, which led to the shutdown of the various fansites he had founded. The money earned through the sale of the website would help Gideon pay for college and medical school. Since then, Gideon has had no known active involvement with the ''Smash'' community.  
'''Ricky Tilton''' (also known as '''Gideon''') is the founder of [[Smash World]], [[Smashboards]], and [[SmashWiki:About|this wiki]]. In March 2008, Gideon sold his websites. Since then Gideon has not been involved with the Smash community in any sort of capacity.


==Trivia==
== Smash World ==
*Gideon was one of the few Smashers interviewed in Nintendo Power Issue 195's section on the ''Melee'' community, with the article also mentioning Smashboards.
Smash World was founded in June 1999, when Tilton was 13 years old. Since then, the site's forums, [[SmashBoards]] has become the most prominent competitive Smash Bros. community, with over 100,000 registered users and 6 million posts. The site was mentioned in a ''Nintendo Power'' interview in the September 2005 issue.


{{smasher-stub}}
Major League Gaming acquired SmashBoards in 2008 for an undisclosed sum.


[[Category:VIP contributors]]
[[Category:VIP contributors]]
[[Category:Tournament organizers]]
[[Category:Tournament directors]]
[[Category:Retired players]]
[[Category:Retired players]]
[[Category:Smashboards moderators]]
[[Category:Smashboards moderators]]
[[Category:Back Room members]]
[[Category:Back Room members]]
[[Category:Pennsylvania smashers]]
[[Category:Pennsylvania smashers]]

Please note that all contributions to SmashWiki are considered to be released under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (see SmashWiki:Copyrights for details). Your changes will be visible immediately. Please enter a summary of your changes above.

Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page:

This page is a member of 1 meta category:

Retrieved from "https://www.ssbwiki.com/Smasher:Gideon"