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Offline bkbandit

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« on: September 10, 2006, 07:38:16 AM »
U first learn about aces high. I have heard from some of the older guys that aces high has been around for years. But i never heard about it since i saw the military channel, and there a new network that started not even 2 years ago. I never played flight sims before this one, i guess all those docs about mustang,spitfire,etc give me more of an interest for this stuff.


How did u find aces high????

Offline croduh

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« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 07:45:56 AM »
Found ah 2.0 on a pc magazine cd.I could only play offline because of my internet connection but i was hooked anyway.

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« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 07:46:25 AM »
i was bored, was searching through some demos to play on gamerevolution.com and found it. i played offline for a few weeks first, then i discovered that online was where all the action is, and never looked back :D

that was in december 2004, first ever sim :)

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« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2006, 08:17:30 AM »
I saw an ad for it in one of my flight magazines, finally decided to check it out a month or so ago, and I really like it. This game rocks!!:aok

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« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2006, 08:34:42 AM »
I blame it on my man. What else :).
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« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2006, 09:17:58 AM »
I heard of a mystical kingdom offering relief for EA victims and Air Warrior refugees.

I think the first person to mention AH was our primary rival squad leader 40MAW of the MAW.  We'd give them a healthy butt kicking every week on squad night (which was also theirs) and he'd talk about playing Aces High.  This may or may not be a slightly skewed version of the story but it sure is a happy one :)

This was toward the end of AW probably around 2000.  I remember seeing the website way back then and not paying interest because AW was still alive and I was still in high school with somewhat limited funds, many other interests and not needing a second game.

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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2006, 09:40:13 AM »
I was recuperating from an injury, my son in law bought me a puter for home use and downloaded it for me.  one week later I owned an X45 and a headset for vox

Offline Dichotomy

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« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2006, 09:43:49 AM »
Military channel..
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« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2006, 09:53:19 AM »
I started flying in Air Warrior with a dos version I found in a "bargin bin". When the writing was on the wall at "gamestorm" a friend and I started hunting for a replacment fix  :) We tried a number of on-line flight sims, and they all had their problems. The only thing I didn't like about Aces High was the $30 monthly fee, but I was in the process of talking the wife into letting me spend it when HTC lowered its price, and I've been here ever since.

Been flying flight sims for 12 years..... talk about a slow learner, I still suck !  LOL!

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« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2006, 09:56:42 AM »
IBID ... The Military Channel.  Saw the AH spot but didn't catch the name.
So I went to the Military Channel website to search for it ... could find nothing
after an hour.  Finally found a reference to A2A on a gamer's site ...

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« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2006, 10:25:49 AM »
Was at Flayd's house watching him play AH1, then I burned up a lot of his perks on Tempests without really knowing what I was doing.:D
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« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2006, 10:30:26 AM »
I was sitting in my living room watchin TV (and waitin for the lottry numbers). When it was time i tuned to channel 16 and waited for the powerball numbers. First number 3, I had that number! next two were 16 and 18, I had those too!! last numbers were 28, 33, and 40....I had all 5 numbers!! I watched for the power ball and it was 16.....I HAD 16!!! I had won 26 MILLION dollars. Then i woke up and saw AH2 on the military and went to download it.

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« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2006, 10:45:50 AM »
Well....god called me on the phone and told me about it. :)
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« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2006, 10:47:29 AM »
was google-ing airwarrior to see if it had been resurrected and ran across a BBS that referenced the airwarrior thread on this board.

in it i saw some CPID's i remebered from the old squad !

downloaded ah, emailed my old CO and haven't done any yard work since!:D

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« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2006, 10:54:41 AM »
Around 1999 - 2000 Red Baron 3D was dead. I went searching for another WW1 air combat sim and found Aces High.
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