Epic's Memorial — Pokemon Online Fan Community (May 2001)

Epic's Memorial — during May 2001, skepticism began to emerge that POL would actually release and a user named "Epic" caused significant drama by denying its existence. This is a "memorial" created by "Gamer(freak)" in response to Epic's denial of POL's existence and his subsequent ban from the POL forums. Built with The Games Factory (precursor to Clickteam's Multimedia Fusion), the application still runs perfectly on Windows 11 (2026). A rare surviving artifact of early fan community drama and the informal creative culture that surrounded the Pokemon Online project. It has also been rebuilt as an in-browser recreation on the Doors 98 desktop — a clean-room reimplementation whose art and text come out of the original Epic.gam, whose Main and Music menus were read off the running Epic.exe, and which keeps the original's quirks, down to the Controls screen advertising a right-click that does nothing.