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Tomb Raider was a success of the 1990's in terms of giving gamers worldwide their first notable experience in the new genre of 3-dimensional environments to explore in the vastly developing gaming world.

[edit] About

Creator Toby Gard's scribblings of the female heroine Lara Croft was to prove a money spinner for gaming company Eidos, even though at that time, Gard left the company prior to production, although he was brought back into the fold for the (currently at the time of writing) penultimate Tomb Raider game known as Tomb Raider: Legend.

Lara Croft, a well educated, ex-Gordonstone pupil, has graduated from finishing school and, the sole survivor of an airplane crash, she finds inner strengths and resourcefulness in order to survive. Thereafter, she desires to take on bigger challenges, and becomes almost iconic in her continual search for lost artifacts.

Lara Croft's adventures take us to all corners of the globe - giving the gamer a real feel for the various locations from London's Thames Wharf to the Nevada desert.

[edit] Terminology

Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan fiction community.

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[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan fiction community.

[edit] 1996

On November 8, 1996, the Tomb Raider video game was released in the United States. [1][2]

[edit] 1997

On October 17, 1997, the video game Tomb Raider II was released in the United States. [3]
On November 1, 1997, the video game Tomb Raider II was released in the United Kingdom. [4]

[edit] 1998

On November 20, 1998, the video game Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft was released in the United States. [5]

[edit] 1999

On November 24, 1999, the video game Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation was released in the United States. [6]

[edit] 2000

On October 2, 2000, the first Tomb Raider fan fiction appeared on FanFiction.Net. These stories were by Tim Radley. [7]
On July 10, 2001, tombraidergirl.com was created. [8]
On November 14, 2000, the video game Tomb Raider: Chronicles was released in the United States. [9]
On December 2, 2000, the mailing list Tomb_Raider_Movie was created. [10] Since 2005, most of the content was spam.

[edit] 2001

On April 17, 2001, the mailing list TombRaider_OnlineTeam was created. [11] No one has posted since 2002.
On June 11, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider premiered in the United States. [12]
On June 14, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was released in theaters in Singapore. [13]
On June 15, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was released in theaters in the United States. [14]
On June 21, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was released in theaters in Australia and Israel. [15]
On June 22, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was released in theaters in Portgual and Spain. [16]
On June 27, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was released in theaters in Belgium, Sweden, Norway and France. [17]
On June 28, 2001, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was released in theaters in Germany, Malaysia, and Switzerland. [18]
On July 12, 2001, the mailing list laracroftscelebration was created. [19] As of 2007, most content was spam.
On November 30, 2001, the Italian language mailing list gruppoufficiale_tombraider was created. [20] As of August 13, 2007, it had 922 members.

[edit] 2002

On June 26, 2002, the LiveJournal community tombraiders was created. [21] As of August 13, 2007, it is watched by 225 people.
On August 31, 2002, the mailing list tombraider-no1 was created. [22] As of August 13, 2007, it had 40 members.
On December 4, 2002, the first Lara and Kurtis romance-centric story "One Shot For Nothing" was published. In 2006 it was deleted from FanFiction.net

[edit] 2003

On July 21, 2003, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life premiered in the United States. [23]
On July 24, 2003, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was released in theaters in Russia and the Philippines. [24]
On July 25, 2003, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was released in theaters in Singapore, South Korea and the United States. [25]
On July 31, 2003, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was released in theaters in Hong Kong. [26]
On August 3, 2003, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was released in theaters in Indonesia. [27]

[edit] 2004

On December 8, 2004, the MySpace group TombRaiderLaraCroft was created. [28] As of August 13, 2007, it has 926 members.

[edit] 2005

On January 26, 2005, the MySpace group laracrofty was created. [29] As of August 13, 2007, it has 60 members.
On February 1, 2005, the FanFiction.Net Tomb Raider community Lara and Kurtis Fan Fiction was created. [30] This is a community devoted to the best Lara and Kurtis fan fiction!
On April 15, 2005, the MySpace group trlegend was created. [31] As of August 13, 2007, it has 499 members.
On June 15, 2005, the MySpace group laracrofttombraider was created. [32] As of August 13, 2007, it has 366 members.
On August 30, 2005, the Russian Tomb Raiders LiveJournal community ru_tomb_raider was created. [33] As of August 13, 2007, it is watched by 15 people.

[edit] 2006

On April 5, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in Germany. [34]
On April 7, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United Kingdom. [35]
On April 11, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United States. [36]
On April 25, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United States for the X-Box 360. [37]
On June 7, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in Germany for the PSP. [38]
On June 9, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United Kingdom for the PSP. [39]
On June 20, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United States for the PSP. [40]
On July 7, 2006, the LiveJournal Tomb Raider icon community tr_icons was created. [41] As of August 13, 2007, it is watched by 65 people.
On November 14, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United States for the GameCube. [42]
In December 2006, the Kurtis Trent Estrogen Brigade (KTEB) website was launched at http://www.kteb.net/. [43]
On December 5, 2006, the video game Tomb Raider: Legend was released in the United Kingdom for the GameCube. [44]

[edit] 2007

On February 18, 2007, the FanFiction.Net Tomb Raider community After AoD was created. [45] This community is for romantic pieces from after angel of darkness!
On February 26, 2007, the FanFiction.Net Tomb Raider community Love Stinks was created. [46] This community is a collection of well written Tomb Raider stories authored by people who believe that this game was not meant to be centered around romance.
In May 2007, the Kurtis Trent Estrogen Brigade (KTEB) started working on a fan-fiction library. [47]
In late May 2007/early June 2007, the Eidos Forums discussed if "the portrayal of the world of TR fanfiction by Gametap in their latest webcast (episode 7) balanced, fair and accurate?" [48] This conversation was started by Ostercy.
In June 2007, the Kurtis Trent Estrogen Brigade (KTEB) had to rebuild their image gallery after it had been "wiped out." [49]
On June 1, 2007, the video game Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary was released in the United States. [50]
On June 5, 2007, the video game Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary was released in the United Kingdom. [51]
On June 14, 2007, the GreatestJournal community gamefic was created for video game fic. [52] As of August 13, 2007, it had four members.
In July 2007, the Kurtis Trent Estrogen Brigade (KTEB)'s image gallery went down again. [53]
On August 10, 2007, the LiveJournal community tr_awards was created. As of August 13, 2007, it had only one member. [54]

[edit] Kerfluffles

Katiegate [55],[56]

[edit] Influential Stories

Many of the more influential stories used to be archived at the Croft Codex, which no longer exists. Although the definition of what constitutes an influential Tomb Raider story is problematic and contentious, a number of examples can be found at fanfiction.net.

[edit] Fandom Members

Some of the authors writing fan fiction in this fandom include:

[edit] Fandom Size

As of August 13, 2007, there were 9 Tomb Raider stories on Quizilla and 596 stories on FanFiction.Net. As of August 13, 2007, there were 19 entries on FanWorksFinder for Tomb Raider. [82] As of August 13, 2007, 17 people list Tomb Raider as an interest on InsaneJournal [83] and 330 people listed it as an interest on DeadJournal. [84] On August 13, 2007, tombraidergirl.com had 27 English language and 23 German language stories archived on the site. [85]

[edit] External Links

Kurtis Trent Estrogen Brigade (KTEB)

[edit] See also

Tomb Raider fanzines

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