How it Began
Way back when the crew was in the 9th grade, Matthew, Chris, and Mike shared a Social Studies class, and in that class ideas were made. Most of those ideas never reached the internet, but they live on and we intend to use them some day. We held meetings to discuss our ideas and soon came to the conclusion that our crazy cartoons must be shared. We had a free website (since removed) with some of our earlier content, using free programs that exported swf files, but not Flash. In the Spring of 9th grade, Matthew acquired Flash MX, and the ideas had somewhere to go.

The Summer
Over that summer many small games and cartoons were made. These were uploaded to the old site as well as Newgrounds.com. And in the fall, production slowed, but we kept up our efforts and continued to have meetings.

The Dirty Frenchman, and the Coming of Steve
Back in the second half of 9th grade, the school band went to Montreal. When they got back Steve attempted to tell a story, but Matthew hijacked that story (although he wasn't in band and didn't go to Montreal) and thus The Dirty Frenchman was born, and later became our unofficial mascot. The original crew immediately started writing the first episode, based largely on Matthew's story. Then the animation began... and halted. We didn't yet have the talent to create something worth looking at. But in the summer after 10th grade, the second version of the cartoon was released. After that we felt it was necessary to incorporate Steve into the group. Also because our initials spelled MCM Studios, but that name was taken. Steve joined and MCSM Studios we became.

A Real Website
In May of 11th grade we finally got a real website and domain name. We celebrated with what we called our Launch Party at Steve's house. The party featured pizza, water balloons, and a Virtual Wank Tournament. Things were slow at first, with us lucky to get 50 hits a day. We got by on word-of-mouth around our school and the few visits from Newgrounds. Things would have been better but we released A Koopa's Revenge before we had a site to link to, and it wasn't even domain locked. We didn't make that mistake again. Steve did a great job of complaining to websites that hosted AKR without our permission, and getting them to credit us with a link. We started getting more hits.

The Redesign
The following fall we started redesigning the site, as the one we had until that point was a rushed version to get us out on the net. Paul joined the team and helped maintain order at the meetings as we redesigned the site to be more aesthetically pleasing.
Eventually, around a year later, we released the new site. And to promote the new site we released most of our creations, which we had previously deemed not good enough for NG, to Newgrounds. The strategy was not very effective and in retrospect it's obvious why.
Today we get by with a little less than 2000 unique visitors a day, and the ad money finally covers the hosting fees.

The Future
We have a number of projects planned, and a lot of cartoons written but not animated. With Koopa 2 on the horizon, who knows what's next for MCSM Studios?

We will periodically add to this when more details are remembered.