Aces High scenarios are still my main hobby, and have been for two decades.
And I have gotten the following people into flying every scenario with me: my Dad, my two daughters, three nephews, two college buddies, one former co-worker, one former neighbor.
That's how much I love this game.
Brooke, you have been part of our world since early AW to now in AH. Your name was always there, along with others. IIRR, your name was in credits for AW?
I kept passing flight sim CDs in the store, not being able to decide which my 286 could run. None. Kept putting it off. After my new GF was killed in 87 I decided life was too short to not enjoy my interest that makes me happy. In 88 I went back to the store to pick out a sim. Grabbed AW, raced home, installed it. First run, when I saw other humans flying around in a 3D world was eye candy I almost wet my pants over. But I could only get 12 fps. For 2 yrs I tried every hot rod idea to get it to be playable. It wouldn’t so I sat and just watched. I got it up to 20 fps. Still no joy. So I built a 386 which was just enough, I was off and running in 92-ish. Built a 486 and never left the game. We know, later Vet got me interested in tech support, Vet Culero, Tequila Chaser (TV) and Mage brought me into tech support for Kesmia/AW, I got the key to the car and stayed until the last day at EA.com.
I took deep resentment with HT and Pyro (who ere players) skimming players for AH beta, while we struggled to keep AW alive. I choked on my tongue and beta tested anyway, might as well, I predicted AW’s end day. It was so raw , such an embryo and so much nose bounce I lost interest and buried AW. A lot if use was the second wave from AW to AH.
I thought, these guys are really going to do this. When I saw it was so much like AW I didn’t leave until 2010-ish, when I lost wife and son. I lost interest in everything. I shut down for years, but would still stop in now and then to see if it was still running. It was, but lightning hit my gaming rig and here I was again, trying to get a new rig. I was returning to AH for the same reason I picked up AW, life is too short to not.
Finally in 2020 I came back, after losing my brother and parents, but no time to play, work crushed that. Last yr I checked in, saw names like Brooke, TC and others from AW still here. Saw other names I recognized like Fugitive and others, I had to jump back in. So here I am, being hated for fighting the good fight. I’ll never get it, but here I am anyway. 4 mos ago my GF who I knew since 6 yrs old passed away from brain cancer. You”re all stuck with me.
Like AW, I’m confident we’ll be here to the games’s last day or ours. It really is like family and home here for me. 30+ years. Some will just have to forgive me if my passion is deeper. Intil someone is willing to volunteer for my place in my coffin, I’ll be who I am.
Brooke, always the quiet one.
What a strange trip its been.
We need should do diner sometime.
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