MetroidHQ
Metroid Heaquarters (commonly abbreviated as MHQ) was created in June of 2004 by MetroidMaster1914, during what is now considered to be the heyday of Metroid fan creations. The site gained traction initially as a forum before it's website was created. It has since undergone many different looks, with 1-2 new website skins being featured every year.
History
Metroid Headquarters was created as a ProBoards forum by MetroidMaster1914 on June 10, 2004. He created a Geocities website to go with it soon after. Upon realizing that neither the website nor forum was gaining any momentum, he abandoned the Geocities site and replaced the forum with one powered by InvisionFree on July 16, 2004. The new forum slowly gained popularity over the next 1½ years, but it wasn't until late 2005/early 2006 that MetroidMaster1914 began to take a full time interest in the forum.
Throughout 2006 MHQ grew by means of affiliations, a Metroid game release, and a small but thriving community. On January 1, 2007, Metroid Headquarters launched it's current website on a free hosted server. That summer it switched over to paid hosting and acquired it's current domain, metroidheadquarters.com. Since then the website has undergone constant improvements and feature updates, as well as changed it's look many times.
Metroid Headquarters now serves as one of the most visited Metroid fan sites on the Internet, and continues to tweak and improve the quality of it's site and content.
Staff
Active
- MetroidMaster1914 - Founder and current webmaster of MHQ.
- Gendreavus - Forum administrator and website contributor.
- Shrander - Website programmer and administrator.
- Emperor - Website administrator and forum moderator.
- Dragon - Forum moderator and website contributor.
- Axion - Website contributor.
Forum Only
- Anubis - Forum moderator.
- Luffy - Forum moderator.
- Tenka - Forum moderator.
Former
- DarkFlame - Forum administrator.
- Baby Drone - Forum moderator.
- MetaSamus - Forum moderator.
Trivia
- At the time of it's creation, there was another popular Metroid fan site with the name "Metroid HQ" founded by Timothy Jones. It has since ceased operations.
- Although the first MHQ forum was created on June 10, 2004, the website traditionally holds it's anniversary on July 16th every year since that is when it's current forum was first created.
- MHQ has been known to pull an April Fool's Day prank on it's viewers every year since 2007.
- Every year on it's anniversary Metroid Headquarters typically unveils a new skin and holds poll contests for it's forum members.
- MHQ's founder once went 7 months straight without administrating the (then only) forum, and it was still active when he returned.
