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  1. MemphisC

    What if Nintendo Stays in the Arcades (Reboot)
    Threadmarks: Intro

    this timeline is a reboot of my first ever timeline called What if Nintendo Stayed in the Arcades (V1) and a return to form for my projects. which i kept making and trying to get bigger and bigger until i went into a project so large that i quit and reflected on what project i should do; and...
  2. Gillan1220

    Sports and Pop-Culture in a world without COVID-19?

    Inspired from the thread WI: Pop Culture in a world without 9/11 So let's say POD is COVID just never exists. Everything is just normal from late 2019 to present ATL. What changes to sports and pop-culture would happen? I can list a few: E3 2020 goes ahead as with all concerts and music...
  3. MemphisC

    "The Pure Arcadia" A Timeline of Alternate Arcades and Beyond
    Threadmarks: The Scenario

    this is a spiritual successor to my first-ever timeline What if Nintendo Stayed in the Arcades and some things from that timeline will be adapted into this one as well. but this timeline will be much more ambitious as I not just talking about one company staying in the arcades and the effects of...
  4. Jay_Maxu

    Ease on Down the Road: A Motown-MGM Timeline
    Threadmarks: Side A: The Two Lions - Track A1, Encountering the Backlots

    Berry Gordy Jr. and Suzanne de Passe. ("classic.motown.com" and "facebook.com") … How the start of Motown’s next, bold era is often simplified. Often, it’s simply put as [Berry] Gordy having always had his idea and simply done it. As it usually is, however, the truth is far more complicated...
  5. MemphisC

    ATL: What if Analogue HD Catches on? (Redux)
    Threadmarks: What would happen if Analogue HD Catches on?

    Analogue High Definition was attempted in the 1990's most known as the MUSE Encoding system was developed in Japan and lasted there till 2007. they wanted to spread it worldwide but the FCC would effectively shutdown any attempts of analogue HD ever happening in the U.S. and we had to wait till...
  6. MemphisC

    The Disney Chronicles: A shuffled and altered Disney TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter Zero: Welcome to the Disney Chronicles!

    i was inspired by British President and Joe Caricosa2491 to start my own shuffled timeline. but i want to do my twist to this timeline in that i will dig up projects from the Disney vault to bring back ITTL and there will be different acquisitions throughout Disney's lifetime and will mainly...
  7. MemphisC

    ATL: what if Nintendo stayed in the arcades?
    Threadmarks: Scenario: what if Nintendo stayed in the arcades

    Nintendo is and has been a household name in the gaming industry and in entertainment industry as an whole but they started out as an card maker in 1889 and were a toy maker for the vast majority of its life and in the late 1970's they dipped their toes as arcade developers but abandoned...
  8. VVVVVV

    The Star Wars Story: how George Lucas and Steven Spielberg held Hollywood hostage for 20 years

    A short introduction before we get started: My name is Vee, and my first attempt at a timeline was an adject failure by virtually all standards. I entered into it with little preparation and quickly felt overwhelmed and abandoned it, but I never stopped thinking about what it could have been...
  9. Duke Andrew of Dank

    The Best Video Games Never Made

    A continuation of the Top Video Games Never Made thread, which died out recently. New Super Mario (2004) Platform: Nintendo DS In a reinvention of the classic Super Mario 2D formula, we follow Mario and Princess Peach on their adventure to save Prince Cream, Peach's younger brother, from Bowser...
  10. Otakuninja2006

    TL-2K23: The Official Thread
    Threadmarks: Welcome to TL-2K23!

    ............ Greetings. Welcome to my first timeline of two-thousand and twenty-three...... The theme and focus of this TL should be obvious given the title and tags. Now, without further ado. I introduce you to my newest TL: TL-2K23! So, how about we get started on this adventure...
  11. Otakuninja2006

    A Movement Called Animerica - An Official Timeline by Otakuninja2006
    Threadmarks: WELCOME TO THE ANIMERICAN MOVEMENT

    This is my new test timeline to legitimately test out the waters and see how/what I do before going to bigger stuff. This timeline is focused on a earlier start in otaku culture in the United States of America. This will also cover the animation, broadcasting, television, gaming, children's...
  12. Dan

    AHC: Not so much snarl, Julius, not Karl

    Following this quote in Polchat I skimmed Marx's Wiki page and found this quote from Irving Berlin I do not, and will not claim to be an expert on any of the Marx's lives, although I do enjoy their films, so here's the challenge, with a POD that still includes the making of Duck Soup in it's...
  13. When you Wish Upon a Frog (Book II of the Jim Henson at Disney saga)
    Threadmarks: When you Wish Upon a Frog

    When you Wish Upon a Frog Book II of Jim Henson’s Amazing Tenure at the Walt Disney Company Image Source legolas310.deviantart.com HI-ho and welcome once again to the continuing stoooory of a Hippie who went to the Magic Kingdom. This is the continuation of the Jim Henson at Disney saga...
  14. WI: Bond crew dies in BOAC Flight 911

    According to TV Tropes, Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Ken Adam, Lewis Gilbert, and Freddie Young were in Japan finishing scouting for You Only Live Twice, when they learnt of a show they wanted to see so much they cancelled a flight. That flight was BOAC Flight 911, and it crashed near...
  15. Caravels of Portugal

    WI: Less popular superhero genre

    In the 1950s, superhero comics were in a major decline. Nobody wanted to read comic books about costumed crimefighters who had silly names and fought equally silly villains, Axis minions and gangsters at the end of World War II. Many comics companies that produced superhero comics went bankrupt...
  16. Hawkeye

    Hnefatafl as popular as Chess

    Lately I've been spending a lot of time playing a game called Hnefatafl or Viking Chess as some might call it. For those unfamiliar, Hnefatafl is an asymmetric chess like game where the goal for white to get it's king to safety and for black to capture white's king. Under the Copenhagen rules...
  17. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)
    Threadmarks: Part I; Brillstein I: the POD

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse The Incredible Story of Jim Henson’s Amazing Tenure at the Walt Disney Company Image courtesy of @Nerdman3000 Part I: Froggy Went a’ Courtin’ Chapter 8, Frog Eats Mouse? Excerpt from Where Did I Go Right? (or: You’re No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants...
  18. Disney doesn't hire Michael Eisner

    Michael Eisner changed everything. When he became CEO of Disney in 1984, he transformed the company from another family-oriented film studio to the enormous corporate media behemoth that it is today. It is due to Eisner that the studio went through its renaissance in the 1990's, and expanded its...
  19. Duke Andrew of Dank

    The best books never written

    Essentially, sort of a literary equivalent to The best movies/TV shows/video games never made threats. Only this time, it's about books ranging from novels, comic books and graphic novels, and textbooks for schools.
  20. Company 3: The History of Endgame Comics.
    Threadmarks: A Fateful Choice

    Prologue: A Fateful Choice It was impossible to pretend that Steve Ditko was anything other than one of the biggest names in the comic book world. Right alongside the likes of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Gardener Fox, he had been in the game for one hell of a long time and without a doubt, his...
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