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  1. A Keen Eye: A Nintendo Ultimate Timeline
    Threadmarks: Yamauchi's Vision

    Yamauchi, head Preisdent of Nintendo, has one request to those running the company: Make Nintendo the best it can ever be. To do this Yamauchi instructed his company to further expand into game development by investing profits into Nintendo itself to ensure growth. As long as profits were good...
  2. TripleToad333

    What's the worst timeline you've ever read?

    So, what do you think is the WORST timeline that you yourself have ever read? On this site or elsewhere. Personally, I have two picks for the worst timeline I've ever read myself. MOD EDIT - Insults to other members T/L Deleted.
  3. GameBawesome

    AH Holidays and Celebrations Game

    A thread in the same style as the Explain the AH Quote, the AH Title and Description Game and AH Cultural Descriptions, and my own AH Royal/Imperial/Noble Titles Game threads In the spirit of the Holidays, I've created this thread to as a game. Like other Alternate history game threads, in...
  4. eliamartin65

    WI: Eleanor Cobbham has a daughter

    After watching The Hollow Crown twice (the ones with the DELIGHTFUL Tom Sturridge as Henry VI) and doing some research about Henry VI beyond the nasty portrayals by Philippa Gregory and the like, I've been thinking: What if Eleanor Cobbam, Henry VI's aunt by marriage, had successfully been the...
  5. JOQuantaman

    Are there future Alternate Histories?

    Is it possible to write an Alternate History of the future? ___Let's assume the future depicted in "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson is what we're likely to get. I see no political will to limit the global temperature rise above 1.5 degrees. ___Suppose a private consortium obtained...
  6. Alternate History Roleplay Forum

    Some friends and I have started up an alternate history roleplay forum, based in the present day. The site is called Infinitos Mundos after the idea of there being an infinite number of worlds that are possible with alternate history. The premise of the site is that players can claim their own...
  7. Paladín Wulfen

    Un Dios, Un Imperio, Un Rey | Alternate TL.
    Threadmarks: El Nacimiento del Imperio

    “Crean vuestras Altezas que es esta tierra la mejor y más fértil, y temperada, y buena que haya en el mundo” “Your Highnesses believe that this land is the best and most fertile, and temperate, and good that there is in the world..” —Cristóbal Colón. Battle of Navas of Tolosa Throughout...
  8. How will medieval Europe and modern Europe be if Europeans stayed pagan up to modern times and never converted to all Abrahamic religions?

    So what if this is what happened? All Europeans never converted to all Abrahamic religions. They ignored all Abrahamic religions and stayed pagan up to modern times. What are the things that will happen to Europe especially medieval Europe? What will the medieval Europeans and the modern...
  9. GameBawesome

    Discussion: Dumb AH Tropes, PODs, and Assumptions (Pre-1900)

    Alternate history is more of a thought experiment and storytelling. To theorize what could've happened had certain PODs were different. In best cases, the Alternate History Timeline tries to be logical and realistic, trying to create a timeline that could theoretically happen with specific PODs...
  10. A Solution to Dissolution: If the UEFA Nations League Began in 1998
    Threadmarks: Timeline Introduction

    A SOLUTION TO DISSOLUTION If the UEFA Nations League Began in 1998 By NTF aka Seb Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, UEFA sees the need to launch another international tournament to “meet the increased demands of this expanded European national team...
  11. What if US won a war to take the whole Oregon?

    This is the history of my book, The Fifth War, which is set in an alternate 2025 with a PoD in the 1840s...
  12. What if: Gravity Falls and The Owl House debuted as video game franchises

    Hello everyone. My name is Zero_to_Hero. And today I am here to talk about a ‘what if’ scenario. What if Gravity Falls and The Owl House debuted as video game franchises in 1999 and 2000? I made those fanfics on both AO3 and Tapas. In those, I explain the full details on what those had been like...
  13. Could Napoleon II have lived longer?

    I was reading about Napoleon II and I found that while he was pursuing his military career, he ended up exercising so much that he weakened body caught Tuberculosis and he died. Would graduating earlier have allowed him to live longer? If not, how else would he have lived longer?
  14. Otakuninja2006

    OPEN DISCUSSION: The Official Alternatehistory.com Alterthink Thread.
    Threadmarks: Introduction/ Alterthink: Oh Yeah! What A Cartoon!/Disney Gets Animated!

    This thread here is the official thread to discuss my new series of alternate history scenarios and timelines. The new series is called "Alterthink". This thread is basically here to discuss this series and one of my site friend's series of alternate history scenarios. Basically, you can...
  15. Mister devilfinger

    What will happen if island of Great Britain goes the path of anglo-celtic instead anglo-normans?

    how will the British Isles, the timeline, the culture and the world be like?
  16. Paladín Wulfen

    Elysium..., a Roman America TL
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Paladin Wulfen Productions presents... Elysium..., to Roman America. A production that will try to last as long as the support it receives. Although this production uses recycled material from a previously made one, it is focused with greater dedication and exploration apart from a greater use...
  17. Explain the AH Meme!

    Another one of them, mixing two of out passions: history and memes (you know the kind) to make Historical memes! I'll go first:
  18. GameBawesome

    AH Royal/Imperial/Noble Titles Game

    A thread in the same style as the Explain the AH Quote, the AH Title and Description Game and AH Cultural Descriptions threads Here’s the game. First poster will create an alternate Royal title/imperial/noble and give it a backstory and history of that title, and then create another one for a...
  19. What if Iraq conquered the USA

    In honour of my new video, discuss down below how you think Iraq could have achieved this feat and what the world would be like. Video deleted
  20. WI Grexit Happened in 2015 and Greece reverted to the Drachma.

    In 2015 OTL there was speculation that Greece would leave the Eurozone. What if Greece left the Eurzone? How would that and Brexit affect the European Union? How would Greece reverting back to the Drachma effect the world economy? Discuss below.
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