What Got You Here ???

[Octavius]

SWEET.

This was my first modern combat sim.  USNF Gold (with MF included).  Played that for years.

[United]

I still have USNF '97 on my old PC.  I do believe that was my first flight sim. Got it in a pack of 6 for $20.  I believe that all of those games together was worth about 5 though.

[Goner]

always loved WWII planes ...
then ran into AirWarrior on Compu$erve. was hooked ...
played AW with Compuserve and Gamestorm until EA dumped it ... came here to play AH but never really liked it.
am thinking of coming back next year tho ... not for the arenas, but I really miss the scenarios.

[Delirium]

When I was updating my ancient machine to a less ancient one I ran into someone who was doing the same. We got to talking, turns out he was a controller for one of the first Navy 'awacs'.

He ended up showing me AW at his house and I've been hooked on the flight sim and the period ever since.

[mechanic]

2 things:

1:love of all aviation, especially WW1/ww2.

2: free download from dodgy demo site of AH1.

funniest thing was i flew around offline for 2 hours trying to find planes to kill first. if you remember, the AH1 drones were friendly.

[TexMurphy]

Ive always loved airplanes in all shapes and forms.

When I was a kid my favo books where airplane fact books. I built alot of models, even though they always ended up lookin like crap I loved to build em.

When I got my first computer I started playing anything I could fly in. Ofcourse I played other games but was lookin for flight sims all the time.

I then somehow got away from flight sims for quite a few years. I guess this mostly was due to the mainstreamin of the gamin industry and there beeing fewer and fewer flight sims made. Also I was disapointed in quite alot of flight sims I had bought as they where too shallow.

Well I then found AH in like 2001 or 2002 and tried it out. I loved to fly again. I had been flying and was still flying, but space ships with Aubrey in Jumpgate. But I just couldnt deal with the "all nations have all planes" setup of AH. So I went back and flew Jumpgate.

I came back a year later to try AH again. Still loved the flying but still couldnt stand the all nations have all planes deal. My mind couldnt cope with seeing 109s winged with P51s killing P38s and 190s.

Then as Jumpgate started dieing I just had to fly. I had to fly my favo era planes. I had to fly WW2 planes. So I came back here and this time I really forced my self to ignore what I didnt like on my previous two trials. I did try FA and WB as well to compare the games. But AH is just the best flight experience out there so I gave it a shot with a much more open mind this time out and now Im hooked.

So after a quite bumpy start Im now here and with lot of old gameing friends which is just awsome and Im enjoying it alot.

Tex

[LYNX]

I actually had a weekend off work for the first time in years but my wife had to work so I decided to trawl the net.  Anyways, bored to death with errr porn I checked out AOL's front page link to games.  Thought i might find a pin ball or Astroids type thing.

There was a link to a game called Fighter Ops.  Four colours (sides) with 4 bases each.  After checking out the sceenies I DL'ed it and 5 years later I'm here after following FO to FO warbirds.  FO expanded got cheaper got better with nearly 500 players at the weekend.  Then the powers to be made WB 2.  Half the guys went WB2 half the guys like me hadn't the PC power to run WB2.

Needless to say FO went tits up when it was announced there would be no more upgrades for it.  I moved to AH in November of 2003.  AH got cheaper still.  Was Stevex in FO warlox in AH 2003 and then LYNX after I upgraded my PC and sorted out my financial woes.

I believe WB isn't doing so well now.  When you check out the who's playing link you don't see more than 60 players.

[Snork]

In '97 I hooked up with "Fantasy Flight", a group led by Whitey Wannamacher flying RL WW2 planes to airshows. While flying about in AAF uniforms having fun he recruited several of us and some other locals to join him on-line in Warbirds as the "Buccaneers". I flew as GronK. In pre-vox days we all got second phone lines and had real time com on squad nights. We came to AH in early beta. Whitey passed on a few years ago and without his enthusiastic leadership the squad gradually lost interest and left the game. I quit for a couple of years and recently came back as Snork. I was getting almost up to speed in AH1 when 2 came out. I'm struggling with the learning curve again with a marginal machine. Out of all the Buccaneers the only ones I see online now are Eskimo and Sabre.

Snork (GronK)

[Slash27]

I wandered into SIMCADE at the mall in Denton,Tx in the spring of '01. A guy named "DaCuda" would hook me up with hour plus sim time for the price of 20 minutes. Been hooked since.

[BUG_EAF322]

My father was a ground mechanic .
So when i was about 1/2 years my dad already took me for a ride in a cessna.

Planes brainwashed my head since than.

My first ever simulation was on a sinclair.
Than there was a big period not able to buy a puter and when i did make some money (i was about 19 years) i bought a c64. I flew everything that was available at that time.

I got a great kick trying to chase wire framed planes. With no FM so it was impossible to stay behind it.

Than there was the Amiga.
F18 hornet that sim was smooth and u could fly under the bridge in san fransisco.

Offcourse there was sublogic flight simulator  that got me through alot of basics

The Battle of Brittain was another great sim a half 3d world with sprites.

But it gave bigger formations of planes
and wasn't seen yet like that.

my Amiga went broke at some time and there was a whole period of non computing until the first pentiums came out.

ATF, Apache longbow,F18 ,F18 korea,

And than finaly there was a good ww2 sim.

European Air War and there was internet 2.  So my first online fights where in this sim. I also began doing laddering with it to hone my ACM skills.

This all in the dweeby spit.

I joined a virtual squad EAF and some friends pointed me to AH and  i came in my trial period it was 1.02 or so.

After that i got in love with the P38 i decided that was the plane to fly until i got my creditcard and could conscript i flew and practised in H2H.

Than i got my creditcard and stepped in 1.03 and payed even 30 dollar and that costed me alot more guilder than it cost me in euros now

There is also Falcon and flanker and lomac but to many buttons.

It makes me understand that it is somewhat more demandin on a pilot these days as u got to be smart with ur plane systems and fast thinkin with it..

other kind of stuff  than it was in WO2
the whole ww2 period dough is much more interesting and attractive.

So that's sticks me forever with this kind of sim.

[Paul]

Originally posted by 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".

Same way I found Aces High except I was specifically looking for a flight sim.

The 2 week free trial helped me get hooked, but the damn nicotine in this game kept me here.

[paulieb]

I got here after playing Jane's WW2 Fighters for about a year, and discovering that I wanted to fly against people, not AI.