http://www.retrouprising.com/ Play Nintendo and Sega games free online. en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:17:15 GMT vBulletin 60 http://retrouprising.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.retrouprising.com/ http://www.retrouprising.com/showthread.php?t=17947&goto=newpost Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:51:36 GMT Retro Uprising's History

2004-2006: We were originally EveryVideoGame.com. In 2004 it only sold physical MAME arcade cabinets, did not play games. In 2005 it was the first website to have online emulators for all games from NES, SMS, Genesis, TG-16, Game Boy and Game Gear and a dozen Arcade games. Java emulators only. It was the 45,000 most popular website in the world. I would meet strangers in public that would tell me to check it out without knowing I created it. I sold EVG in 2006 but I continued to run it and was the admin until 2012.
2006-2007: OnlineVideoGamePlayer.com and onVGP.com: Flash and NES Java games with high score tracking added plus all of the ohter Java emulators copied from EVG with some small upgrades.
2007: Rebranded to RetroUprising.com.
2009: Added ArcadeOX plugin. High Scores in all systems. Major imporvements.
2011: Added beta version of ArcadeOX which supported NetPlay. It is a better version than current default version and is still available to choose by scrolling to bottom left corner and changing style to "Beta". But development got stalled and was never fully finished.
2015: Started working on a new better version but got stalled again right at the finish line and never made public.
2017: Made https://retroup.com/ It originally had a full website and better forum than we have. It was going to be the newest best version of RU. But got stalled at the 90% mark then I took it down because it was incomplete. Left just the frontend and emulator which are still available and work pretty well but were never fully finished.
2019: Lost all source code for everything.
2020-2026: Searched for copies of the source code once or twice a year but never found any of it.

I have always had one known copy of an early nearly finished version of the source code from 2008. It contained the bulk of the hardest work. It was in a corrupted zip file that I couldn't open.

If I could open it, then I would be able to recreate most of the lost code. The most difficult code was all in that corrupted file from 2008.

This morning: I was able to uncorrupt the 2008 zip file and open it, giving access to the hardest to recreate code.
Tonight: I searched all of my RU forum posts and private messages. I found a PM that had a link to a copy of the version made in 2015. Having the original code means I can make start making progress on updates for the first time since 2017. I think I have found everything except the source code for retroup.com.
Tomorrow: Will double check that all of the 2015 code is there and clean. And will try one more time to find the code from 2017.

Links from archive.org. Archive does not fully mirror sites so there are glitches and errors in these.

Every Video Game
onVGP
Early RetroUprising
Early Retro Uprising 2
Early Retro Uprising 3
Early Retro Up
There was a more advanced version of Retro Up but archive didn't save it.


ChamPOW was a spin off that tracked all world record high scores:
ChamPOW
ChamPOW 2

2xlbot is another spin off that is still up and running. It's good for nostalgic parents with young children.
2XL Bot

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