How did you end up playing aces high

[forHIM]

In early 2001 one of my co-workers introduced me to the flight sim community and AH in particular.  A number of us IT "professionals" got online, played, got hooked.  Eventually forming a squadron called the FWOS (flying whirlpool of suck after our then sr executive manager's company wide briefing phrase )  When they mostly decided to move on I stayed for a long number of years.  Now I don't fly, but view the boards often and help where I can.

[SEraider]

Saw it on a commercial on the now military channel.

[Wiley]

In the days of the 8088 computer, my uncle gave us a copy of a program called 'jet.exe'.  Wireframe models, made Air Warrior look like IL2 graphically.  Very little flight model to speak of, played the heck out of that game when I was a kid.  When I was a college student in the early 90s, I discovered a game named Red Baron (not Red Baron 3D, 3D cards hadn't really come about yet).

Played it a lot, loved it.  When I started to get into the internet, I looked up online flight sims because I assumed something like AH would have to exist.  It did, but at the time it was Warbirds, pay by the hour.  Being a student, I knew what would wind up happening and my pocketbook couldn't support it at the time, so I kind of forgot about online simming.

Around Christmas 2006, I'd become disenchanted with the MMOs I'd been playing, and it occurred to me that perhaps online flight sims had moved to a monthly fee.  Sure enough, I found WBs, and was hooked.

Played the heck out of it for 3 years until a bunch of people jumped ship for various reasons.  I got my reason to jump ship, so I came over here.  Been here ever since, loving every minute of it.

Wiley.

[FBDragon]

I started playing aces high when I broke my foot. My wife found it on the internet and thought it would help pass the time, she never thoght it would last this long. 3 1/2 yrs and counting. Now she really hates to a degree (wife ack from hell)
 

[Pand]

1.  River Raid - Atari 5200 - Proud owner of the "River Raiders" Activision Patch
2.  Sopwith
3.  JET
4.  Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator
5.  Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter (Before they knew what it was and what it looked like!)
6.  Microprose F-117 Stealth Fighter
7.  Aces of the Pacific
8.  Aces over Europe
9.  Dawn Patrol
10. F-15 Strike Eagle III
11. Strike Commander
12. A-10 Tank Killer II
13. US Navy Fighters
14. Lock ON: Modern Air Combat
15.  Falcon 3.0
16.  All the Microsoft Flight Sims
17.  Falcon 4.0
18. Air Warrior on AOL
19. Warbirds
20. Aces High/Aces High II.  We left warbirds for the amazing graphics/FM of Aces High in 2000.  Became a P-51 picker and a runner ever since.

Think I got most of 'em in there

[Zoney]

1.  River Raid - Atari 5200 - Proud owner of the "River Raiders" Activision Patch
2.  Sopwith
3.  JET
4.  Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator
5.  Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter (Before they knew what it was and what it looked like!)
6.  Microprose F-117 Stealth Fighter
7.  Aces of the Pacific
8.  Aces over Europe
9.  Dawn Patrol
10. F-15 Strike Eagle III
11. Strike Commander
12. A-10 Tank Killer II
13. US Navy Fighters
14. Lock ON: Modern Air Combat
15.  Falcon 3.0
16.  All the Microsoft Flight Sims
17.  Falcon 4.0
18. Air Warrior on AOL
19. Warbirds
20. Aces High/Aces High II.  We left warbirds for the amazing graphics/FM of Aces High in 2000.  Became a P-51 picker and a runner ever since.

Think I got most of 'em in there

Sheesh!

For all you tragically illiterate types lemme condense this for ya:

Pand, addict 

[homersipes]

I had fsx on my computer, but hated it because I didnt have a joystick, so I was always looking for flight sims online and found aces high.  well, that was back when I was scared to put any credit card info or anything online so I passed it up. so a year later, as I had been purchasing stuff online, I found aces high again and watch lapape's jug film, after that I was hooked

[megadud]

Superdud told me to try it, i did and loved it.

 Became a P-51 picker and a runner ever since.

Reason i stopped playing (no more dogfights), that and most of my squad left. Oh the glory days of furball island in the old MA. 

[stealth]

Saw it on a commercial on the now military channel.

Same for me, I'm gonna start playing that ultra real A-10 Combat simulator. The manual for the game is like a 1,000 pages, anybody wanna bet if I can take off in the first 5 minutes. Gonna be doing some Neil jumping to other building in Matrix stuff right here. 

[Masherbrum]

I used to work with Boxboy28 and noticed a Tour 26 screenshot of a Hog on his work PC.   Tour 27 I signed up.   

[Fud]

I saw the advert on the History Channel many moons ago...

[Banshee7]

Saw a commercial on either the History Channel or the Military Channel when I was really young.  Decided to try it my freshman year of high school.  March 07, I did my two weeks, actually got invited into a squad on my first day online!  I talked my parents into letting me at least play one month.  One month turned into two, then six, then a year.  March 2013 will mark my sixth year in this community.  I've tried to get away from it, but I always find myself coming back.  Now, I only get to fly on the weekends and after work during my breaks.  

#S#



Josh

[fbEagle]

Commercial on the Military Channel. Only commercial i actually ever bought anything from

[Plawranc]

when I was 2 years old my dad would put on movies, I was just learning the basics at that time, when I sat down on dads knee one afternoon the the strains of "Aces High", the theme of the Luftwaffe in the film "The Battle of Britain".

After being riveted by this amazing film at such a young age, my third word was, no lie, "Spitfire".

I wore out my tape of The Battle of Britain TWICE, demanding it be replaced when the first copy broke. I then proceeded to rent, hire, record, and buy every WW2 movie I could. Which still happens today.

But when I was 3 and my dad bought a new computer, with revolutionary technology for the time (1997). He bought a flight simulator with it, called "battle of britain, their finest hour" by Lucasarts Entertainment. And the original combat flight simulator, with a toy joystick.

So here I was, 3 years old, flying a Spitfire over england shooting down messerschmitts and heinkels in glorious 2d and did so for many years.

After 3D simulators  became available we upgraded and I switched to a WW1 and WW2 simulator, being Rowans Flying Corps and Rowans Battle of Britain. Yet again at a young age, I flew Spitfires and Sopwith Camels against the dastardly german menace, taking them down with blazing machineguns and a good cup of tea and a love of all things BRITISH


By the time I was 13, I had gotten over all these simulators. IL2 Sturmovik had since taken over as my favorite simulator, but the advent of highspeed broadband and decent graphics had since whetted my appetite for a greater challenge. So I trolled about on youtube. Looking for a new flight simulator. And I came across a video called "Aces High - Another One Bites the Dust". By Niros1.

I was entranced, all these planes, flown by real people? impossible, so I looked it up, and so it was true. All these aeroplanes, and such fun. Eventually however I decided, right, Im gonna have a free trial and see for myself. And here I was, flying with a mouse, chasing after a FW190 in a Spitfire 16, on my own in the early morning, I shot him down... my first PROPER, one man bests the other, Air to Air kill. I never remembered feeling so accomplished. I landed, bumpily and decided.

THIS. IS IT!.

so in mid 2007 I subscribed as B67891.  And after Several years floating around known only as B6, I eventually switched over entirely and became DaPacman, and have been that ever since.

[gpwurzel]

Completely by accident. My brother in law was talking about some game where he flew online against other people, but as usual, I was tuning him out. I'd always wanted a game like this, interacting and killing other virtual pilots, but never had the gumption to do a quick google search for one (its cos I'm daft see!!).

Got back from vacation, finally remembered the conversation I'd tuned out, and did a google search. This was the first game that came up - so I d/l'd it, installed, and hopped right in. Been giving away easy kills ever since. Think I started around May 2007 or so - time lines are not my speciality.

Love the game, but its the people who keep me coming back - yes, that means you lot on the boards, and those ingame who dont use the boards but who I interact with every time I get time to fly.

Wurz