In 1988 my roommate played Air Warrior. He was Damnd sldr. I would fire up his PC when he was out and play on his account. By 93 he and I worked for Sound Blaster's biggest competition Media Vision. By that time my AW time was paid for by the company along with equipment from our partner Thrust Master to test out. Media Vision wanted me testing sound cards in the game so I could do support calls if any came in.
Around that time 999000 met my squad "The Thunder Riders" when we were checking out a report of an interesting bug. If you flew a spit9 upside down behind a B17 the gunners couldn't shoot you down. 999000 promptly shot all 6 of us down. He has been shooting me down for a very long time.......I still think he was the source of that spurious bug info just to pad his kills score.
And in AW2 I met a really hot stick named deadf. We used to go at it, him in an La5 and me in a spit9.
A shade of sldr, bstr, b_str, mduce, bustr.