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  1. TheDoofusUser

    Triple Team - A Very Different 4th & 5th Generation Timeline
    Threadmarks: Okawa's Risky Gamble

    Welcome to Triple Team, a TL where not only does the Nintendo-SONY deal happen, but SEGA works with Microsoft and Hasbro with Phillips, creating a very different 4th and later 5th Generations of Gaming. This TL takes inspiration and a similar format to @Nivek and @RySenkari 's long spanning TL...
  2. captain-wacky

    That’s Warner Bros!
    Threadmarks: The beginning…

    So uhh this is like the 4th or 5th time i did a WB timeline, but however, I’ve sorta tweaked some things here and there; anyways I hope you like it. The beginning of it all imagine this, the year was 1982, Atari was on top of the world, and then they released a very infamous title that took...
  3. KPyall

    Outside the Revolution - Pop Culture in the Indremaverse
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Outside the Revolution - Pop Culture in the Indremaverse (placeholder logo, created by @AmirGlobe) created by The Plaintown Kids and other writers (fun fact: this timeline was suggested by Wacky and former writer Max, who suggested it after a scrapped portion of AMCD [basically if “Weird Al”...
  4. THE KINGFISH

    TLIAW: The Night Owl
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Introduction Hello everyone. I am @THE KINGFISH. You may know me as the writer of the ongoing pop culture TL Man’s Best Friend: An Alternate 1990s and Beyond. But here I would like to focus on something different yet similar at the same time. A side project if you will to practice my writing...
  5. Gnomepilled

    AHC Keep Boxing the most popular sport in America

    Up until the 1980s Boxing was the most popular sport in America. The only rival it really had was Baseball which was just as important. However, in the 80s many sports started to surpass them. The biggest ones being Basketball and Football. Would Boxing just be replaced by the UFC?
  6. Reader Beware, You're In For A Scare (A Goosebumps Alternate TL)
    Threadmarks: The Lawsuit (POD)

    Giving Us Goosebumps! Post from the The Bumps Fan Site by Jack Vanguard In 1999, the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine was riding high, with Give Yourself Goosebumps nearing its 33rd release, and Series 2000 just starting to find its footing. But by February of that year, it could’ve all come...
  7. Gnomepilled

    Euronymous kills Varg Vikerness

    The murder of Euronymous is pretty infamous. The justification for it from Varg himself has changed stories as well. Sometimes it's because he was Sami, him being a communist, or Euronymous coming after him. Let's reverse the situations. Euronymous murders Varg and stabs him a bunch of times...
  8. TheDoofusUser

    Saturn's Revenge - A SEGA Victory TL
    Threadmarks: How a Helicopter Crash changed everything

    "February 27th, 1993... a date that will live in SEGA infamy...well, my infamy, but I don't speak on the behalf of others [chuckles]. It was a normal day, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was starting development and we were getting started up on our next console for SEGA, the 32X, at least in America. I...
  9. captain-wacky

    Timeline-85: REDUX | An alternate rendition of Warner Bros. and pop culture as a whole
    Threadmarks: the beginning of everything

    Timeline-85: REDUX well, some of you here are familiar with my old timeline regrading Warner Bros. but this here is a revamped version as I felt the original wasn't fundamentally good enough. if you're unfamiliar with my timeline, let's get you up to speed: - Warner Bros. here keeps MTV and...
  10. MemphisC

    A Game of Rats and Italians: an Atari Nintendo Merger TL
    Threadmarks: Intro

    in 1983; Warner Bros was at a tipping point with Atari due to the video game crash that started due to oversaturation of consoles and some terrible games like ET, the failure of the 5200, and the general culture of Atari at the time was a complete mess on how it is ran during the time was not...
  11. KPyall

    A Man Can Dream: Yet Another Indrema TL
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    A Man Can Dream: Yet Another Collaborative Timeline About Indrema from an underdog to a big dog Introduction Oh, hello. KP here. This is the third Indrema Revolution thing I’ve posted. I’ve retconned many things by this point. I’ll start from scratch, with an earlier Indrema getting some...
  12. Carpenter's Hammer: When Karen went Punk. A Hensonverse TLIAW
    Threadmarks: Chpt I: We've Only Just Begun

    [Fade In] Haunting orchestral music plays faintly over a field of black. One by one video clips fly onto the screen, take precedence up front, then fall into the background, each sequentially taking a random spot on the screen, top, bottom, left, or right, stretched out towards the back, slowly...
  13. Childhood dreams - 1 company - 2 mascots

    Hello, before we get started this is all in good fun and is meant to be my take on 'What If Nintendo bought SEGA', I'd appricate all the comments on my story and contributions I can get, just don't add anything to major since I don't want anything to get in the way of my vision for this...
  14. captain-wacky

    TL85: What if Warner didn't lose its cable networks?
    Threadmarks: mainline-events

    "ah sweet, another Warner Bros. AU, as if FoxWarner wasn't enough..." well, let me tell you something… ...this AU is completely different from that one. So... Atari just so happened to get nuked thanks to the video game crash and its licensed E.T. video game IRL. and not only did that crash...
  15. To Regain Your Lost Shadows: A Better U.S. Response To Holocaust Refugees (First Attempt)
    Threadmarks: Introduction - Freak Accident (May-June 1935)

    This is officially my first attempt at an alternate history (which I have been thinking about for quite a long time); if there’s anything I might need help with (especially with historical accuracy), feel free to collaborate and assist with editing. Excerpt from The New York Times...
  16. Types and popularity of Russian series without communism

    At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, Russian culture experienced its heyday, giving writers such as Tolostoy, Dostoyevsky, ballets such as Swan Lake and others, being defined as the best or at least one of the best in the world. but after the Bolshevik coup it declined, and to...
  17. 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...
  18. JaguarCD

    Interesting Southwestern US cultural PoDs

    I'm curious on what this site can offer in regards to this region of the United States of America. For instance, I heard on a Cine Capri documentary that the Star Wars fandom in Arizona alone was so enthusiastic, the prequels were made because of them, starting a huge action science...
  19. joeyb0ii

    Pop-culture in Fuherreich: Legacy of the Great War

    This thread is inspired by the original Kaiserreich pop-culture thread which can be linked here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/pop-culture-of-the-kaiserreich.475922/, it's also an inpiration of this here...
  20. Gnomepilled

    George Lucas gets captured or killed by VC

    Apocalypse Now was originally going to be directed George Lucas, Director of THX 1138. He would go on to use ideas from Apocalypse Now for Star Wars. He planned to film in South Vietnam in an active war zone. This is obviously a terrible idea and he could get killed. in this TL the Vietcong...
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