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McLeodGaming, often abbreviated MG, is a website/company dedicated to flash games, cartoons, and music for entertainment. It was founded by Gregory McLeod (who goes by the alias Cleod9), who also leads the site forums. The site is well known for the creation and showcasing of the Super Smash Flash series; Flash fighting games based off on the Super Smash Bros. series. It is currently in the production of Super Smash Flash 2.

Early Story
The site appeared in early 2003 as a calculator game site for the TI-83 Plus graphing calculator. During that time, Cleod9 developed a admiration to the Macromedia Flash and eventually he got his own. He learned how to make Flash cartoons so he started to upload the animations in place of the games. He also uploaded musical compositions he personal made with instruments and computer sounds.

Soon, watching his abilities with Flash Cleod9 started creating small interactive projects, led to the creation of Super Smash Flash, a flash game loosely based on the Super Smash Bros. Melee with the difference this has third party entries. Due the success of this game Cleod9 decide to make a sequel entitled Super Smash Flash 2 which is currently under development. He shows each process of it in a playable demo.

Present
In September 2008, the website received a total new and elegant gray with blue design created by Zero Insanity, this remodelation was to have under control the development of Super Smash Flash 2, the forums and other updates.

Sections
McLeodGaming has different sections with variable content:

McLeodGaming Forums
These are considered a total separated website more than a section, the forums are phpBB boards where anyone can maturely give an idea, commentary, or suggestion for Super Smash Flash 2. The developers and staff all have respective private boards here. Cleod9 also lead the forums being the only user to have the Site Admin label above his avatar.

It also includes other related themes to discuss such as General Flash, Spriter's Corners, Music, Super Smash Bros., Console Gaming, etc. Some, however, are exclusive for some special users, such as the Dev Forums, the VIP Crew, Spam Section Access, etc.

The first forums were more limited than the current ones, many users were dissatisfied, even though there was few control over them. All these problems needed to be under control so Cleod decided to upgrade the forums creating the current ones and closing the old ones in mid 2008. Anybody can still visit the old forums, however, create an a account, log in on them, make a post, etc. has been disabled.

McLeodGaming Games
This section is includes all the games showcased in McLeodGaming. Currently there are only 5 games in this section they can be played either in the web browser or well, download an EXE version to your computer so you can play it without being connected to the internet. The section includes games such as the current version of the Super Smash Flash 2 Demo, the original Super Smash Flash, the educational game The Cell, the Spanish interactive game Adivina La Película and both versions of the famous Atari's-based Pong.

McLeodGaming Cartoons
This section includes all the Flash movies made by Cleod9. There are only 11 movies to watch which includes the trilogy of the bloody-parody A Super Mario World, the flash "anime" Animus, the instructional comic-strip Munchies, the psycotic movie School, the documental movie The CCC - Young Man's Opportunity, both World of Warcraft parody adaptations movies, Awkward Situations, and Cleod9's first movie: His First Movie. Only School can be downloaded to the CP, PSP and/or iPod.

McLeodGaming Music
The largest section in the website after the forums, this includes many musical compositions made by Cleod9 himself, it includes 29 compositions to hear. This section is usually the most updated section in McLeodGaming due to the fact that making musical compositions is easier than making a game or cartoon.

Other sections
Besides the above ones there are other less important sections in the website such as the affiliates section which shows other websites affiliated to McLeodGaming. A newly added shop section to purchase utensils and accessories with the new MG logo, a search section to look for something in the forums, a contact section which only provides Cleod9's email. and the about section which provides information about the site.

Related sites
There exists many other official sites related to McLeodGaming. Contrary to popular belief, Cleod9 doesn't administrates any of these sites, with the exception of the official Newgrounds account.

McLeodGaming Wiki
The McLeodGaming Wiki is a wiki founded by the SSF2 Dev [TSON] to provide info of the actual events of McLeodGaming and the Super Smash Flash series as well. As the site updates, the wiki does too. During its first times, the McLeodGaming Wiki was considered a poor site to obtain info about McLeodGaming due the big amount of fake articles and unconfirmed features for Super Smash Flash 2 that, usually, confused new users of McLeodGaming. With the pass of the time, this was eventually fixed and was took under control to regulate the vandalism and spam so the Wiki could be accurate.

McLeodGamingOfficial


The official YouTube account of McLeodGaming is known as McLeodGamingOfficial. It is used by the SSF2 Devs to showcase videos of Super Smash Flash 2, prototype-cutscenes of the Adventure Mode: The Flash Of Shadows and characters SSF2 Mini-Trailers.

Smash Flash DOJO!!


The Smash Flash DOJO!! is the official website of Super Smash Flash 2 used to post information of the game semi-weekly about characters, stages, items, news, etc. It is based on the [http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Smash_Bros._DOJO!! Smash Bros. DOJO!!] of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It is administrated by the SSF2 Dev Neron with the help of other McLeodGaming users.

Cleod-9
Not to be confused with the person Cleod9, Cleod-9 is the official Newgrounds account of McLeodGaming. In that account, Cleod9 uploads some of the games, movies and music of McLeodGaming. Currently, the only award he has received, is a Daily Weekly award for Super Smash Flash. As stated above, it is the only related site administrated by Cleod9 himself.