He decided it was time for Newground Atomix to get its own domain name, so that when it appeared on the TV screen it was easy for viewers to remember the URL. He got very excited and quickly got back on the ball. In late September 1995, Tom received a call from Inside Edition, a popular News program from CBS. Still on a roll, he produced Cat Dynamics and Beep Me Jesus. He decided he needed a new place to house these games, and therefore created New Ground Atomix on his Drexel webspace. During the winter of sophomore year, he created Club a Seal II and Assassin II. A small New Ground Remix cult began to form.Īs a student of Drexel University, Tom could no longer access the New Ground Remix FTP server. It was in this time that he created Club A Seal and Assassin, the games that finally brought meaning to the name New Ground. New Ground Remix had somewhat lacked content, until the last few weeks of the summer of 1996, when Tom's friends had all left for college. On July 6, 1995, when Tom Fulp first obtained space to create his own web page, he immediately took on the New Ground name.
Tom Fulp published New Ground from his parents' basement in Perkasie, PA, sending sporadic issues to around 100 members of a club on Prodigy, an early online service. In 1991, Newgrounds was not originally intended for the web, but rather was a fanzine for the console Neo Geo by the name "New Ground." "Neo" being a synonym for "New", and "Geo" being a synonym for "Ground".
New Ground was Tom Fulp's Neo Geo Fanzine.