Author Topic: How many here are "long-timers". (Read 23026 times)

moot · « **Reply #150 on:** August 26, 2007, 08:06:19 AM »

341 Alsace must have been it.. There was another one with german-like nomenclature, I dunno if it was before or after Alsace.

VAQ · « **Reply #151 on:** August 26, 2007, 08:25:55 AM »

Tour 11

straffo · « **Reply #152 on:** August 26, 2007, 02:56:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Brooke
That was a great game for its day! Each player had a book of views, with maneuvers at the bottom and corresponding page numbers. You'd pick a maneuver, tell your opponent a page number, and he would tell you a page number. You'd go to that page, pick your maneuver and go to a result page number, as would your opponent to see how that move worked out. It was called "Ace of Aces" in the US.

That's it !

I pissed my father to get one during weeks (I was 12 in 1982) and buying oversea cryptic product was not easy as today

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Originally posted by moot
341 Alsace must have been it.. There was another one with german-like nomenclature, I dunno if it was before or after Alsace.

JG26 Abbeville kids ? but it was later

Fruda · « **Reply #153 on:** August 26, 2007, 04:28:27 PM »

I've been playing since AHI on and off since around 2002... I'd say five years is pretty long.

38ruk · « **Reply #154 on:** August 27, 2007, 12:26:56 AM »

Started in AW2(95-96?) , then to Aw3 on gamestorm . Left aw3 when net connection went down the crapper (99ish?) . Then came over here in 2000 . I forgot the name i originally registered with so i can't find the first tour i flew . There was first 2 weeker i forgot ( maybe rukee) then 38ruk(tour 13 ) then 38MAW now back to rukee lol.

Raven3353 · « **Reply #155 on:** August 29, 2007, 03:02:13 PM »

Hey BigJim (BoxBoy). I remember you, as well. Usually trading shots, but espcially a short period of time just before I went IAF. I bounced over to CLand to fly with Rasta - that boy could fly - and ran a few missions with you and some others. I remember WildThing as well. Good times...even as fun as some of the current sims are, none of it really compares to those early days.

I think part of it was because at $6 an hour, we were all doing our best to make every second count - flying and comaraderie.

Skyfoxx · « **Reply #156 on:** August 29, 2007, 03:18:57 PM »

Started with Warbirds 1.xx in 97 and switched over to AH in 2001 or 2002.
To bad my skill level doesn't reflect this.

Laurie · « **Reply #157 on:** August 29, 2007, 04:25:51 PM »

My dad used to play MS flightsim wiht me when i was younger, Aces high was when i first played online.

Boxboy · « **Reply #158 on:** August 29, 2007, 10:15:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Raven3353
Hey BigJim (BoxBoy). I remember you, as well. Usually trading shots, but espcially a short period of time just before I went IAF. I bounced over to CLand to fly with Rasta - that boy could fly - and ran a few missions with you and some others. I remember WildThing as well. Good times...even as fun as some of the current sims are, none of it really compares to those early days.

I think part of it was because at $6 an hour, we were all doing our best to make every second count - flying and comaraderie.

HEHEH yep I remember you and those 6 bucks an hour (ouch), used to get lots of wife ack back then.

Do you remember RangerBob? He is my best friend and we started flying these things together he is still around in WWIIOL I think. I remember him and I having a big argument over wheather or not Confirmed Kill would be vapoware when it was just a BB anouncement

Mak333 · « **Reply #159 on:** August 30, 2007, 12:11:14 AM »

2002 with Aces High.

Started flight sims on Sega Genesis with F22 Interceptor, that game was bad ass.

Since then I've been flying flight sims, but AH was my first online flight sim.

EDIT: Just looked back at my first tour and I logged 115 flight hours within a month. That's an average of 3.83 hours a day - God Aces High was so cool back then.

SOLAS · « **Reply #160 on:** August 30, 2007, 02:53:18 AM »

..first sim was TFX in around 1993-1994.

started with aces high in 2000. and still enjoying it, just the only game i never lost interest in it over this long of time..

VERTEX · « **Reply #161 on:** August 30, 2007, 03:34:50 PM »

Started playing in tour 43, sept 2003.

Was lousy in the beginning, Been mediocre ever since.

Murdr · « **Reply #162 on:** August 30, 2007, 03:36:43 PM »

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Originally posted by VERTEX
Started playing in tour 43, sept 2003.

Was lousy in the beginning, Been mediocre ever since.

Funny, all this time and Ive not seen a player named mediocre on the roster?

VERTEX · « **Reply #163 on:** August 30, 2007, 03:43:41 PM »

Thats funny Mrdr, cracked me up.

Looked up my score during my first tour, flew 211 sorties and got 29 kills, ouch.

I was even worse than I remembered.

I do recall my first sortie. I flew a p51d towards a cv furball. even though I came in high I died within a few seconds once I got near the furball.

Vulcan · « **Reply #164 on:** August 30, 2007, 04:43:30 PM »

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Originally posted by SOLAS
..first sim was TFX in around 1993-1994.

started with aces high in 2000. and still enjoying it, just the only game i never lost interest in it over this long of time..

Ahhh sweet memories. I used to play EF2000 (the sequel to TFX) a lot on a VFX-1 VR Headset Those were sweet times.