What Got You Here ???

[TBolt A-10]

back in mid/late 1990's, was bored on AOL and clicked on the Games Channel.  found & installed Air Warrior.  flew it, and AW2 & AW3 until it was obvious that the game & Gamestorm were about to die.

...switched to AH when open beta came out along with the rest of the crowd.

wow...I actually have something to thank AOHell for.     Thanks, AOL!

[DieAz]

Originally posted by Flyboy
A. its a joke (a lousy one i guess)
B. technicly israel didnt exist untill 1948 (not talking on biblical times)

A. ok

B. well, that would depend on what viewpoint, one looks at it from.

[Nefarious]

I've always loved Military Aviation, but it was mostly Jets for the longest time.

Then Janes released WW2F, and I was donwloading some skins for the game when I saw a link for Aces High.

Clicked on it, and been here ever since.

[jetb123]

Originally posted by WilldCrd
Was surfing porn and accidently got to this site:cool:

 ROFL!

[rshubert]

was seeing the commercial on Wings channel.  What I was doing watching Wings Channel has everything to do with my lifelong interest in military aviation.  I started buying books, building models and dreaming at about age 5.  45 years ago, and I still buy books, build models and dream.  And play AH, where I get to fly, see, and engage WW2 planes, and interact with a community of genuinely great people (well, most of you anyway).

Merry Christmas, dweebs, lamers, and experten!



shubie

[Golfer]

Got our first computer with the 'internet' and AOL way back when.  It was a Dell somethin or another with a whole 10ishMB hard drive.

Downloaded Air Warrior free with AOL and have been playing Air Warrior or Aces High ever since.

[Jackal1]

I was drawn by the sheep .

[Simaril]

Mee too. Lifelong love of military aviation yada yada yada yada.

Tried offline fight sims, but never got past bfm to acm, and with no one to teach became very easy to "game" the sims to the linit of my "skill". Then I'd hit the wall, and never get better -- so I'd move on to something else.

High cost kept me away from earlier online games. My brother hooked me in February last year, and I've hung out in AH ever since. Someday imight learn how to fly well enough to even have some fun (LOL, mostly).

[vorticon]

umm...it is a long drawn out tale of mystery and suspense. you see, it all started back in the old days when men were men and women were green things that hung from the...zzzzz

[detch01]

EA got me here.

Cheers,
asw

[WMLute]

I would be sitting in the smokin' section at work (America Online) and kept seeing these guys enthusiasticly talking and wagin' their hands, and found out (small ish smokin' section) that they were talking about a WW2 flight sim game called AirWarrior.  Turns out that being an empoyee I got to play all the AOL Premium games for free (vs. 2.99/hour IIRC) so after many nights listening to these guys go on and on and on about their fights from the prev. night, myself and a friend went home and d/l AW and logged on.

The other pilot was the mighty Blaze and I ended up  (was an error) with Lute (I was going for something else, and AOL spit it out, so I said heck w/ it and wanted to hurry up and fly and it kinda stuck) and we started flying.  Ugh....  this was tougher than I thought.  

After our 1st tour on AW, and having hit 100,000 points (the requirment for membership) he and I joined the WidowMakers as +WM80 (him) and +WM81 (me), probably the best wingman combo that the virtual skies has seen.  (no foolin'  we would look at 4-6 pilot otw to attack us and pity them)

Flew AW for a couple years, and EA came in and ruined my fun.  Took a short break, tried AH, didn't like it.  Took a longer break, felt the urge again, tried it again, liked it a bit more, and that was a little over 2yrs ago.

Found some fellow WM's flying, and rejoined.  Best thing I coulda done.

HT for the many hours of addictive fun.

[streetstang]

Boredom on a rainy day about 3 years ago. Searching around on cnet.com for latest downloads of cool stuff and happened across this game called Aces High. I heard about this game a year or more earlier when it was still in beta. I can't quite remember how.

My education based on computers always kept me up to date with most things so it was probably word of mouth. But cnet.com is where I found my first dosage of what I would come to know as "The Ultimate on line Drug".

[DREDIOCK]

Started with Atari and this


Then this



Then I got a Commodore 64 and moved onto this
.

And this


Al the while using my state of the art controler which looked
 like this



Then I got an Amiga  and started playing this

Their finest hour

Continued...

[DREDIOCK]

And this


and this



Then got my first IBM compatable and started playing things like

This


And  this



then finally this


Followed by this


Until I came here

[Heretik]

I've always been a fan of ww2 air combat, played boxed sims for a while, yadda yadda yadda.  Then I saw the commercial for AH on discovery wings and I thought "people actually pay for crappy graphics like that?" and I swore I'd never bother with it.  a few months later I was bored so I downloaded and did the free trial.  Haven't gotten the hook out of my gills since.