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Hello,

Welcome to Mean Screens and a little bit of history about the pages you're viewing.

In the (slightly edited) words of the original owner of this archive...

"Mean Screens first appeared in the first issue of the printed fanzine version of 'Joyshtick' back in April of 1995, but it wasn't anything like it is today. At the time, it consisted of a pair of photo-edited screenshots scrambled with various filters so the reader would have to try to guess what they really were (one was of Parodius and... I can't even recognize the other now. Maybe it was some Indiana Jones game on the Genesis?). Once 'Joyshtick' became a web site, we started a small screenshot gallery and found Mean Screens to be an appropriate title. The original on-line Mean Screens wasn't even an all-girl gallery either; we tried to put up images of gaming guys too, but no one downloaded them. :P"

"Although in retrospect, I admit most of our images are far too small. Mean Screens pictures have shown up on many popular web sites, including The CG Shrines, RPGamer, AOL's ANTagonist forum, and even anime review sites. We're very pleased that so many found our images decent enough to use on their own sites and fanzines, and we hope Game Zero is able to carry on what we started."

<> Joy <>

...on September 1st, 2000, Game Zero took on the responsiblity of hosting and maintaining the Mean Screens archive. We hope to be able to improve upon and expand the idea behind these pages and make them into one of the best pages dedicated to the subject of female characters who appear in videogames.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail us at: meanscreens@gamezero.com, and we'll do our best to get back to you.

Cheers!

-R.I.P.

...footnote added 5/27/2003... I've just noticed today that the URL for Joyshtick now resolves to a domain harvester's site. I'm not sure when the site went off-line, but it wasn't too long ago. Sadly, Joy appears to have had a "robots.txt" rules in place on the site that prevented it from being recorded by any of the internet archives.