Q:  What is "classic plastic" exactly?
A:  The name of my site, naa.. actually "classic plastic" is a term that came about in a chat room around 2000 or so when discussing NES games with a few friends.  I liked the phrase and filed it away in the back of my mind until eventually deciding upon using it as the name of my site.  Basically classic plastic is classic video game cartridges, most usually the NES, SNES, and Sega Master System.  Technically everything from the Atari 2600 up until the N64 could be referred to as "classic plastic" but for the most part it's reserved for the 8 bit systems, especially the NES since the cartridges are more plastic than parts.  (open one up sometime if that doesn't make sense)  Additionally with how digital distribution is starting to become less "the way of the future" and more "the way of the now" classic plastic may one day come to represent nearly all physical media.  Right now however we try to keep it mainly about video gaming with a classic edge, animation (drawn on plastic cels), film and a little bit of my other projects.  Classic gaming is primarily what's on tap here though.

Q:  When was ClassicPlastic.net established?
A:  Technically July 10th, 2004 was the official date that something was up here.  However ClassicPlastic.net is actually the continuation of a site I had been running for over three years, David's Video Game Insanity!! (DVGI)  I had multiple web projects and when it came time to pick a URL I decided that I would go the route of having a central hub and then simply have DVGI be the largest part of it.

Q:  Then what is ClassicPlastic.net?
A:  For the most part, just what I said above, a central hub for my other stuff all hosted in the same place.  Currently it is made up of David's Video Game Insanity, Davy's Anime Archives, Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, Star Tours Info, and Jupiter Games Ltd.  I also have a few other small things located here.  I may add more features over time, which is why having everything localized at ClassicPlastic.net makes things a lot easier than having multiple URL's.  However mostly everything you find here will have something to do with video games and pop culture.  You can also find the link to my blog on commentary on the video game industry from my perspective as well as general things that interest me.  In other words, just remember ClassicPlastic.net for all your gaming culture needs!

Q:  I noticed that your site news hasn't changed for awhile, is your site dead already?
A:  No no no, I simply only update the ClassicPlastic.net site news when there's something new that effects the entire site or the site's core.  I continuously update David's Video Game Insanity as well as the other parts of the site as needed.  David's Video Game Insanity gets the most attention and it has its own information update area.  There is also an individual FAQ file for David's Video Game Insanity as well.

Q:  Did you do any other large scale web sites prior to ClassicPlastic.net?
A:  Really only one...  The original Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, a massive archive of the uber popular Sailormoon anime franchise I began way back in the spring of 1999.  At its height it contained over 430MB of quality data - images, video, video games, image scans, toy information and pictures, a Sailormoon items online classified ads section, music, reviews, Sailormoon news, translations, a weekly updated audio program, and more.  This site was made possible back when hosting solutions such as Xoom.com (which became NBCi.com) offered unlimited webspace for free.  Of course we all knew it wouldn't last and eventually when the hosting went away so did SSS.  (as well as a lot of other great sites and data archives, especially the majority of console emulation sites that were hosted under Xoom)

After multiple attempts to restart Sailor Senshi Sanctuary using the limited space and advertisement heavy hosting that remained, I finally pulled the plug on a site I simply loved creating and maintaining.  Even though I could have easily moved and rebuilt SSS, the bandwidth cost was where the big problem would come into play.  I had a LOT of downloadable content and my weekly streaming audio program "77 Seconds of Sailor Senshi Sanctuary" so I really didn't see it coming back in its original form.

In December of 2004 I attempted to relaunch a truncated version of Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, however the rush of users to the returning site caused my monthly bandwidth allocation to be exhausted in less than a week.  This in turn caused ClassicPlastic.net to be suspended until the next month rolled around.  When I finally did gain access to the site again I had no choice but to once more remove Sailor Senshi Sanctuary.  Nearly all the original content was archived offsite (in its last limited incarnation, however all the content was still there and could be amended eventually) in hopes of eventually having it return at the level it once was.

I was aiming for July 18th of 2006, which would have also been the seven year anniversary of Sailor Senshi Sanctuary, as the relaunch date.  However this also did not pan out.  After upgrading my hosting package to support the extra strain on the site, I finally began an almost year long project in restoring SSS to how it was when it was originally lost.  Sadly the years of different rebuild attempts had taken their toll on the original archive.  Many of the media files were of formats that had long since became non-standard or were lost all together.  However most of the core was still there and could be resurrected to how it was back in 2001.

Finally, on November 8th, 2009 Sailor Senshi Sanctuary returned, just in time for its ten year anniversary.  The site can be accessed from the main page here and it is designed to look and function exactly as it did back in 2001.  In fact, it's almost as if the current SSS simply picked up where the site was when the original hosting went offline back on July 15th, 2001.  There is quite a bit of information over at SSS that should explain everything in more detail.  It took a long time to piece back together and clean up years of neglect but for the most part, the heart of SSS is back, alive and well.

Here are two of my favorite link banners I did years ago when SSS was at its height...

Q:  How long do you plan on maintaining ClassicPlastic.net?
A:  Indefinitely.  Features may come and go but I plan on having ClassicPlastic.net around for a long, long, long time.  Additionally David's Video Game Insanity will probably stick around as well.  David's Video Game Insanity is actually the natural progression of a number of small sites/pages from over the past eleven or so years.  I suppose one could say I had been leading up to this for quite some time.
 

If you have any other questions or just want more information in general, please e-mail me at insanedavid@classicplastic.net and I'll be sure to get back to you!