Embrace Creation - An Archive
This page is a large archive of fansites from the past, many broken, many missing pages, and many long forgotten.
With each link I will provide a description of what the site was, and some sites will get a second paragraph about what the site meant to me.
Do be cautious when scrolling through capture dates on Web Archive. Not all will work and some will take you to those spam link pages, as many urls once abandoned get picked up by spam bots and viruses.
Not all sites will be listed here. A lot of old sites have *many* affiliates and further investigation can be done on one's own via affiliate pages.
To access the webarchive page of these sites, please click the buttons at the top of each section.
Art Sites
Arguably one of the more popular types of fansites, a *lot* of people made pokemon art sites and oekakis.
Suta-Raito - Lifespan : 2010-2016
Suta-Raito was a large website, featuring tons of free art, gifs, blogs, cursors, and they had a forum and oekaki. Not only dedicated to Pokemon, Suta-Raito also featured tons of neopets art and freebies. Notably, they did not have affiliates and the owner is active on Tumblr to this day. Their art was also once stolen by Neopets staff.
This website was a huge inspiration to me when I was young and was what lead me to asking for a (then very primitive) art tablet for my 11th birthday. I remember being active on the forums, playing neopets with various people I met from there, and even using some of their free art in my first fansite's original layout.
Arkeis - Lifespan: 2006-2014(ish)
Arkeis was an art and gameplay site, with a unique project that involved one drawing of *every* existing pokemon, which in 2013 was 649, and they did it. On top of this they offered your standard pages of mechanics, game info, and free graphics. Arkeis was one of the oldest sites around, and it's old layout shows. In 2013 the site was updated and given a new layout, integration with deviantart and was abandoned not too long after. The owner's original deviantart still receives comments about Arkeis, but it appears they are inactive on that account.
Pichu's World - Lifespan: 2009-roughly 2012
Pichu's World was a cute fansite with your standard content. The biggest draw to the site was the Oekaki, spriter's resources (game-ripped sprites), art tutorials, and their generally happy demeanor.
