How did you discover online flight sims?

[Tracerfi]

Well I had the old COMODORE 64!!! Play was on Microsofts F-15 Strike Eagle. Wish I had a penny for all the minutes I played that game,I would be loaded. I always loved any sort of flight sim. Does anyone remember the ARCADE flight sims? The ones that moved during flight and cost about buck a game?  Think that was why I got my first job. Then Top gun came out. Man those were the days!!!  Ofcourse with wife and kids I had to let my commodore go, but now that kids are grown up, I have reverted back to video games. Only thing different is no zits as at times I do still fly in my undies. Well those are different also!
Saw Aces High during an war planes episode on military channel or history channel. Wish I new about it sooner, missed a lot of time.
Thanks for that post, it brought back some mighty fine memories

whats your gamer tag?

[eeyore]

I started flight sims on the Commadore 64 with Solo Flight, then F-15 Strike Eagle. When we upgraded to Windows PC I found the Microsoft Flight Sim game and still play FS9 from time to time. I found Aces High when looking for a decent B-17 flight sim. Google lead me to AHII back in 2007 and I have been playing horribly ever since.

[Nefarious]

The first online flight sim I flew against another human opponent was Janes Fighters Anthology. The next one was Aces High.

[USRanger]

This is the only flight sim I've ever played.  10 years next month.

[1stpar3]

whats your gamer tag?

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quote]1stpar3 Usually  a bish.

[Vraciu]

Purchased the "Warbirds: Battle of Britain" CD for my then seven-year old son's birthday.  He figured out how to play it in no time.  Buffs and all.  Bombardier positions, gunners, all of it.  I was amazed.

Any how, he was having so much fun I decided to try it.  Before long I subscribed.  Nine years later (non-continuous in-game, mind you) I am still at it...

[DR7]

16 years ago, my brother-in-law Dennis, decided to ruined my life.  You would know him better Wiser.  Thanks buddy!

dr7

[sparow]

I was a regular reader of Computer Gaming World. One month the cover featured a beautiful Spitfire and announced "Confirmed Kill". I didn't had a computer yet and internet was a geek thing.

Confirmed Kill became Warbirds. I got a loan to buy a PC and thrustmaster gear. Had my kicks with 1942 PAW. One day a frien gave me a CD for internet access. I used dial-up on the phone line. You had the phone or internet, could not have both.

Heard about Warbirds, got myself a credit card and set up my connection. Searched around and applied to a brit squad, 249 Sqn RAF. They accepted me. A couple of years later we started to split. Some moved to a new online game, Aces High. I had to upgrade, what took me a year to do. Finally, did the switch. A couple of years later, I'm still here. Holding the squadron's flag high.

Funny, I'm doing this for more than 15 years... now I realize...

[Stresser]

Saw Aces High commercial on the Military Channel.

So did I. I believe it was 2006 or 2007.

[Pudgie]

Got my 1st computer in '93 & found a copy of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat in a bargain bin in Wal-Mart started it all.
After playing all the boxed sims I bought a boxed vers of Air Warrior II in '96 but couldn't talk myself into paying hourly charges for online access.
Finally got the nerve to sign up for online access when AW3 came out but didn't last long.
Saw an ad in a flight mag about a new online flight sim called Confirmed Kill but didn't take the plunge.
Saw ad in a flight mag about CK turning into a sim named Warbirds due to a dude named Dale Addink who had a visionary direction of what a good flight sim should be & so, after much consternation about paying hourly charges on my phone bill for online access & tiring of flying WB's offline against AI I jumped off the pier in 8-98 & signed up for WB's after buying a better computer to play it on.

Read in '00 or '01 where this dude Dale Addink along w/ other WB knowns left WB's & started a new sim named Aces High but I stayed w/ WB's at that time......................... ....

Was torn between the 2 sims as both were written by this dude named Dale Addink but I stayed w/ WB's until '05 when I tried AH for the 1st time for a short stint & really liked the gameplay but was still hooked in WB's so WB's got the brunt of my playing time but I had made the decision at that time to support these 2 sims so I kept a paid account in both sims to help fund development in both as I had decided that these 2 sims was what I wanted to play & stopped buying boxed games, FPS's & RPG's completely.

When WB's started having issues running on Nvidia vid cards a while back, around '08 I believe & AH had come out w/ the new graphics (which didn't have issues running on Nvidia cards) & the WB's staff seemed too slow to address the issue for me is when I began the shift to playing AHII more than WB's.

Once I played AHII long enough to get familiar w/ the AH FM's is when I really saw the game in a new light & committed to AHII almost completely since.

I still carry a paid subscription to both games but spend 99.5% of my flying time in AHII.