2002 - 2,316 Total Visitors:
WAG's initial year of publication. Officially launched April 7th, the site was a sad, sad display of jumbled ideas that were poorly implemented. The Old School Sega Section was nothing but a gallery for my crappy box scans, PowerSlave was just getting started and (attempting)Mac Classic Gaming was still in progress. The House of Renders was just starting out and had, maybe, 2 or 3 pages done. It was a sad beginning, and got the amount of attention it deserved.

2003 - 84,544 Total Visitors:
Things do change though, don't they? Late in 2002 WAG got a complete overhaul, graphically and design-wise. Almost every section saw a huge amount of new content: The Old School Sega Section had turned from a gallery of scans to an actual decent amount of reviews, the House of Renders jumped from 3 pages to a whopping 10 and we saw the addition of the Big, Heavy-ass Xbox section. My Tribute to the Women of VideoGaming was finished and posted to high praise, which was much appreciated. Unfortunately, we also saw the retirement of three sections of the site(DVD Reviews, A Day in the Life... and Commercial Hate); these can still be visited via the "Old Dead Sections" link on every page. Though it's not done, the new Neo Geo: Hardcore section was started in late 2003, and should be up in early 2004.

2004 - 775,001 Total Visitors:
Wow, almost a million hits for the year! The new Neo Geo section had started strong with five game reviews, a hardware review and the start of my Load Times FAQ, but sadly, died off pretty quickly due to the selling off of my Neo Geo CD; hopefully I can get a CDZ sometime soon and get back to it. In the meantime, I had started two new sections up: PSX Classics and Dirt-Cheap PC Gaming. Though I didn't get nearly the amount of content into them that I had hoped, they are still coming along. The fan-favorite House of Renders saw the addition of another 6 whopping pages, bringing the total amount of pieces displayed to 2,400. This year also saw an incredible number of artists, from all over the world, sending in new pieces to be shown; thanks guys! (attempting)Mac Classic Gaming saw a decent amount of work this year, and I've continued to build on that. The Old School Sega Section didn't see quite as much work as in 2003, but this was mainly due to another project I had briefly worked on. Don't worry, it'll be back in full force in 2005. Speaking of coming back, we also saw the return of the WAG Forums, complete with a new server and a lot of returning members. Finally, in late 2004(around Nov) the actual location of the site moved. Though it was a long and tedious process, in the end it was worth it. Gradually, more and more of the viewers we lost during the move are finding their way back...

2005 - 539,279 Total Visitors:
A year filled with a lot of positive exposure for the site, and also a lot of downtime due to constant hosting issues. The biggest news of the year had to be when G4TV featured my Sega Logo Fun! Project on their program "Attack of the Show". It was quite a kick to see WAG talked about on TV! Speaking of exposure, the blogs managed to find the House of Renders(again), so a flurry of hits came out of that...of course, the sex sites followed suit shortly there after(again). To their credit, there was much to look at as the House gained another 4 pages throughout the year. To that end, I decided to add a Google Search to the site, to help people find their favorite pieces in that section, as well as various other info across the site. A new section, Sound{e}Scapes, was opened this year to house my personal videogame music collection, which was something I had been wanting to do for a long, long time. The Dirt-Cheap PC Gaming section saw a lot of work this year, due to my switching over from the Mac to the PC as my primary computer. In the Forums, we've managed to jump up to a whopping 45 members...even seeing a few various cats joining in(including WAG's new kitty, Sister). Finally, I added a Credits section to the site due to the amount of emails I was getting asking how I'm doing some of the stuff featured in the various sections.

Now, unfortunately, with the good comes the bad; here’s a quick rundown of what wasn’t so great for WAG in 2005. (attempting)Mac Classic Gaming caught a heavy loss with my selling off of the iBook...past that, a lot of Mac games I had were traded in for their PC counterparts. There are still quite a few Mac games left though, so not all hope is lost! The Xbox and PSX review sections didn’t see a lot of work this year either, something I regret; I’m hoping to ramp both of them up in 2006. The shortlived Cubed Gaming section was launched, then taken down due to my disgust with the machine...we did manage to get one review out of it though. Neo Geo: Hardcore is just hanging on by a thread, will most likely be pitched into "Old Dead Sections" when I start up the new SNES review section. The Old School Sega Section saw only a moderate amount of reviews, but this was due to the various Sega related projects I had been working on(Sega Logo Fun, the MK Fatality Demos, Eternal Champions CD demo, etc)....and I will finish the damn Action 52 review this year!!!

2006 - 1,603,959 Total Visitors:
1.6 *million* hits for the year! That beats 2004 and more than doubles 2005! Not a lot happened this year with the site, despite the huge amount of hits it was receiving. I mostly just plugged more content into the sections I already had built: The Sega, PSX and PC sections saw a decent amount of new quick reviews...the House of Renders kept going strong. Sound{e}Scapes saw the most work, with three more "Tapes" and whopping 62 new pieces. The Old School Sega Section also saw the opening of what I called "Special Sega Projects" which was built to house all the...well, special Sega-related things I had done. One big feature of that was the new Game Genie section for both the Genesis and Game Gear systems....my hands still hurt from all the work that went into both of those. Towards the end of the year I was almost done with a few projects that will launch in early 2007, stuff like the Prometheus and Bob section(another thing I'd been wanting to add to the site for a long, long time). Past that...well, that's about all I can remember...2006 just sort of flew by me. Oh yeah, I still haven't finished that damn Action 52 review....man that game sucks...

2007 - 924,320 Total Visitors:
The fifth year of WAG started off pretty strong with the site hitting its three millionth unique visitor just five days in to it. Shortly after, I started up the "The Big, Heavy-Ass Xbox Game Library Documentation Project" which was an effort to catalog the specs of virtually any and every Xbox game I could get my hands on. Sadly, I had bitten off *way* more than I could chew and the project didn't get very far(only forty titles were documented). Speaking of failed attempts, I finally got around to dropping all of my Prometheus and Bob VHS recordings to the PC, I then converted them to the Divx format and started up a section so that everyone could see these hilarious pieces of work. Unfortunately, as soon as it went up, it went right back down when Viacom swung the hammer and sued YouTube for every episode they had on their server(as well as any other Viacom properties). Sufficed to say, if YouTube couldn't manage to get away with hosting the videos, I didn't have a chance in fuck. I didn't, however, give up on videos all together and actually hit it hard with a whopping 73 recordings from Mortal Kombat Gold. After pumping out quite a few more assorted videos, I figured that a new section was warranted to house these puppies...thus "Whip Ass Videos" was born(and bumped Neo Geo: Hardcore in to the "Old Dead Sections" part of the site). In an effort to share these videos with more than just the site's visitors, I started up an account with both Divx Stage 6 and YouTube, both hosting every video on the site as well as Stage 6 housing my HD DVD channel. Right about this time(October) I started getting really burnt out on the site, just had less than no interest in doing anything, and the few things I had wanted to do, the drive just wasn't there. Thankfully, WAG Forum member "Drkstlkr7" picked up some of the slack by contributing three reviews to the Old School Sega Section, which actually helped me get back in to the groove of it all in late December. I did more work on the site at the end of the year(literally, like the last two weeks of Dec) than I did in previous two months. WAG finished the year just short of hitting four million visitors(by only around 100,000).

2008 - 354,519 Total Visitors:
With the AC adapter for my laptop dying around the first of the year, things didn't get off to a great start...and virtually nothing got done in January due to that little issue. Whip Ass Videos saw most of the work this year with over 100 new videos posted, mostly from the Xbox and Saturn. In fact, it was so many videos that even after the site hit a total size of 8 gigs in April, it ended up at 15 gigs by the end of the year. Though internally everything was going well with the videos, offsite one of WAG’s main mirrors, Divx Stage 6, was scheduled to be shut down at the end of February. Not only did I have to find a new, secondary place for WAG’s videos but I also had to say goodbye to my HD DVD Channel, which was the *number one channel on the site*(I beat porn!). I thought I had found a suitable replacement in Vimeo, a site that provided extremely high quality Flash-based video. Unfortunately, just six months after I had started uploading videos to the site these assholes decided that they were not only going to stop accepting "gaming videos", but would actively be going back and deleting all existing gaming videos and channels. This lead to the third mirror for WAG’s Videos: Yahoo! Video. I managed to get everything uploaded(over 400 videos) by the very end of the year...and I do mean the *very* end, the final upload took place on the night of December 31st.

As for the other sections, some work was put in to them but not nearly as much as had been done in previous years(something I still regret). I did manage, however, to launch a new section dedicated to my trek through the wild world of MAME, "Whip Ass MAMEing". Officially posted on July 2nd, it launched with my quick review for Marvel Super Heroes...(attempting)Mac Classic Gaming was shut down that same day, in order to make room. Finally, in terms of exposure, the site hit four million visitors on the morning of May 1st.

2009 - 447,765 Total Visitors:
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2010 - 543,956 Total Visitors:
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2011 - 309,543 Total Visitors:
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2012 - 199,863 Total Visitors:
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2013 - 132,766 Total Visitors:
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2014 - 94,596 Total Visitors:
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2015 - 56,679 Total Visitors:
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2016 - 42,326 Total Visitors:
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2017 - 33,920 Total Visitors:
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2018 - 34,521 Total Visitors:
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2019 - 16,428 Total Visitors:
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2020 - 15,565 Total Visitors:
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2021 - 11,357 Total Visitors:
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2022 - 11,249Total Visitors:
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