#uhhh website updates are still.. sparse. oops! ill get back to it someday ahhh

[psychonautswebarchive]

Psychoportals update!

A couple weeks ago I realized the keywords I was using in the wayback machine were a bit whack, some links lead to psycho-portals.com and others to psychoportals with No Dash ,,,, and I found THIS

It's the first time I've come across a link with a working video/gif that actually loaded and played and everything!

I ALSO found the psychoportals sweepstakes registration page where you could sign up for the event.

Unfourtnatly I haven't found much information on who WON the psychoportals contest other than LA being the first state to win the first PART of the game, the only place that mentions this is the MixNMojo site

Of course, I went through wayback to see if their were any deleted posts or missed updates... but theirs not.. all talk about it just kind of... stops after the LA post that ends with reminding people to check back in on April 28th, I've yet to look up the brain tumbler sweepstakes wich was supposedly the second half of the challenge so... maybe something promising?

Some other news:

This post from mix n MOJO via the wayback machine was posted on June 7th of 2005... majescos profits are doing great!! ..... right?

Well...

Couple weeks later, June 30th, 2005... Majesco is saying they spent millions on promotion for psychonauts and their shares fell by 15%

Yikes! I'm not surprised though. Between the psychoportals sweepstakes, the psychonauts receipt program and the Golden disk sweepstakes they were practically giving those games away! Yeesh. Plus cash prizes... I really don't know how it all went wrong and how little documented it is on majescos end. Oh well.

Anyways, theirs no way to login to a defunct site through wayback, and most of the files I've found for psychoportals just... don't work... no images or corrupted files (if anyone knows how to make images and gifs work from like. A cobbled together site that was deleted in the early oughts... lemme know lol) so my work for that ends here unless I find some reuploaded assets somewhere out there! Meanwhile I'll be looking into the brain tumbler o7

(Gif via mixnmojos April 11th 2005 post about the psycjonauts demo, and yeah it's a gif file... dunno why!)