It's really hard to create an active message board if you don't already have a group of interested people or friends.

I might try using Facebook. Make an account, join active related gaming pages and become friends with game related people. Encourage (don't spam) people to visit and participate on your board.

I've never had luck starting a message board with 0 members and no strategy.

Good luck.

I am in the same process as you. Starting a new phpBB3 Discussion Board.

You can advertise your 'Gaming Forum' at our SEO Forums (We have a section for advertising your websites)

I have actually started a DoFollow Forum where you can dicuss SEO and Internet Marketing and I post lots of DoFollow Backlink Lists, like DoFollow Blog Lists and DoFollow Forum lists.

PS. You can also get free DoFollow Backlinks from our forums by adding your links to the signature.

sorry but I really don't understand your question...if there was any?

Doesn't make sense, but it sounds cool.

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If you are looking for instant traffic

Try

Sharing in facebook , Myspace ,

And bookmark your posts.

And you can try ppc campaigns ( if you can invest some income) .