ten years

[caldera]

This place is just a bunch of old geezers.   Maybe HTC can have a Geritol prize pack for anyone that stays awake past 8 pm.   

[Vulcan]

$1,800 is cheap entertainment for 10 years of abuse. 

I've had an uninterrupted sub since tour 1 (I think, the stats doesn't show any kills for me until tour 14ish, but I flew in the beta and sub'd when AH went 'live').

Hope my missus never finds out.

[The Fugitive]

I've been here strait through from Tour 21. Changed my name once from MDJOE to Fugitive at Tour 67. I remember the kids sitting on my lap watching me fly. Ones almost 30 now  Where did the time go?

[Brooke]

You are all noobs.

I started playing Air Warrior in 1988. 

[nickel5]

Started Air Warrior on Aol 1995  played NASCAR 2003 online for a while when Air Warrior died and tried Ah a couple times and finally got on until this past November . Pretty crazy all those years and this is probably my first post on the bbs. I may return playing one day if the numbers come back or the game gets updated but it's been a long 2 weeks and I finally got bored and lost interest .=<--O-O-->=

[zack1234]

What is Airwarrior?

[guncrasher]

I started in aw back in 97.  took me like 6 hours to download using AOL.  thank god it was a free download.  after it went to pay by the minute I was paying more on AW than on my mortgage.  then some squadies told me about the gamestorm.  I played until early 2k.  then I started playing AH sometimes in early 2006.  my first id was guncrasher or something like that.  it was due to my playing abilities in AW.  I was one of the best gunners around for the b17 but I would crash every single plane either on takeoff or landing.  I switched id's from guncrasher to semp once semp became available a couple of years after I joined.  that had been my id in AW.


semp

[G0ALY]

I had to check when I started, tour #19 Sept. 2001.  I played Air Warrior for a long time before that...  I should be getting my 15 year pin soon... Right?

[Brooke]

What is Airwarrior?

Air Warrior was the first multiplayer, on-line WWII air-combat sim.  It started in 1988 running on Macs on the on-line service GEnie, costing $12/hour to play.  There were people who ran up $700/month bills playing it (that's $1300/month in 2015 dollars).  It went through various improvements over time, onto other on-line services, and had various price reductions (to $6/hour, then to a flat fee per month for unlimited flying -- we were very keen on that!).  It was eventually shut down on Dec. 7th, 2001 (the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor).

There were a couple of avid players in Air Warrior with the handles "HiTech" and "Pyro" who had ideas on improvements. 

[TequilaChaser]

Should have told him about the modem speed we played at, ROFL...

300 to 900 baud

I thought I was S I H Cotton, when I got 1200 baud

TC

[guncrasher]

I started at 9600.  thought I would save a couple of bucks from a 26000.  didnt know what the heck baud was. I remember in 98 when PILES  mentioned he was getting a thing called dsl.  we all asked him what it was.  supposed to be faster than dial up, well all laughed as we didnt think it was possible.


semp

[Zacherof]

You can thank Brooke for showing me this game 9-10 years ago

[Vulcan]

I had to check when I started, tour #19 Sept. 2001.  I played Air Warrior for a long time before that...  I should be getting my 15 year pin soon... Right?

What 15 year PM?

[Thorns]

LOL...since beta....I am an old geezer!

[Scca]

November this year will be 10 years for me.  My first combat sim was Battlehawks 1942 in the late 80's.  Stepped away from games till my divorce, and I had some time to kill.  Saw the AH commercial on the Hitler channel (History Channel), and been hooked since Tour 82.