I tried my hand at Red Baron when it was a DOS game, 1st try of AW was in I think 93, I could not afford it due to being maried, having 2 very young daughters, and 1 income......came back to AW in 94, came back to AW fulltime in 95..and stayed.......then 1999 I infrequently played around with Aces High...think me along with most of the Damned came in or near end of 2000/early2001......( although NB, Lonz and a few other Damned prob alphaed long before that )
during the AW3 & AW3 millienium version I was also in Fighter Ace, Warbirds.......most of the "longtimers" before me could prob say they have tried every sim ever to be multiplay online.....
others I have played are targetware TK/TR (am still CO of our squad there), Jane's multitude of different game genres, wwiionline, IL2, crimson skys.............etc.......
I remember first time I saw Tiff flying, and was thinking I was flying around with a girl, until he informed me otherwise, it was in one of the relaxed realism arenas...... remeber calling CH Products because one of my sticks was acting up, and was 1st time I meet Ack-Ack ( well met over the phone ), think that was late 95/early 96.......
seen alot come and go, also have seen alot of our friends get their heavenly wings...... 1 thing about the WW1/WW2 online gaming communitys is the closeness and the bonding..to me it is far more than anything you would find in most other multyplayer online games.......