I don't know why, but as a kid, I dreamed of flying and wished I could have been a WWII fighter pilot. Maybe it was the freedom flying represented along with WWII fighter combat being, to me, the pinnacle of air-to-air combat. I read books about WWII air combat, which were great, got into building models, flying control-line gas airplanes, and flying private planes -- but none of them were WWII fighter combat. To me, compared to my dream, even flying private planes eventually felt like a Sunday drive in a station wagon compared to a dream of off-road racing or like ice skating at the mall compared to playing ice hockey.
There were many years before there were such things as on-line games. Then, in 1987-88, Air Warrior came along, and it was a dream come true. THAT is what I really wanted: flying in air-to-air combat against other human beings, and not just one on one, but the whole range. Aces High makes all of that better, because the simulation is more realistic still.
Now, I have Aces High, and I still continue to be an enthusiast about WWII aviation history and about the aircraft. I like other on-line games, but Aces High is by far my favorite and the most important to me. I like the history AND I like the flying.
