Quitting? No, just coming back!

Hello everyone!

There are a lot of messages about people quitting and selling their
stuff, so I thought I'd mix it up... My timeline may be a bix mixed
up, but I think NASCAR Racing 3 was still the top sim around the time
I quit playing racing games/sims, I was bored with it at that point
and didn't even buy it. The last racing sim I played was the first
beta of Live For Speed, and I believe my last sim related purchase was
the original (red body) MOMO force.

I took a major detour and got into MAME and arcade machines. Yea, real
room hogging full sized stuff. There are 2 sitting here in the room.
My buddy and I had been playing multiplayer games on weekends, pretty
much all FPS. Unreal Tournament 3 and 4, Halo, Quake 4, etc. He got
tired of it and suggested we find something else to do, maybe a racing
game.

I immediately thought of Live For Speed, downloaded the new 2 Alpha,
and dusted off the MOMO. What a blast! Just ran laps and played
against the AI for 2 consecutive nights. It was kind of helpful that
the new demo track is the same as the old one! I came here and read
about rFactor, and I've d/l'd the demo of that. It completely blew me
away! The viseral sound, the way the car moves around, I mean it
completely turned me around and had me wondering what ever could have
happened to make me get bored with racing sims. I'm now purchasing the
full versions of both games, though Live For Speed seems rather
spartan after rFactor, it runs nicely on a lower spec machine and I
have a general fondness for it.
Oh, and you know I'm also looking at that Logi G25! Wow.

I generally use the nickname TOK online, so if you're online and see
someone driving around 10 seconds off the pace at the bottom of the
track, don't shoot me the bird. I'm just trying to get my racing
reflexes back without causing a pile up!

Tim

Welcome back! Hope to see you online soon.

Pat Dotson


Tim O wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> There are a lot of messages about people quitting and selling their
> stuff, so I thought I'd mix it up... My timeline may be a bix mixed
> up, but I think NASCAR Racing 3 was still the top sim around the time
> I quit playing racing games/sims, I was bored with it at that point
> and didn't even buy it. The last racing sim I played was the first
> beta of Live For Speed, and I believe my last sim related purchase was
> the original (red body) MOMO force.
>
> I took a major detour and got into MAME and arcade machines. Yea, real
> room hogging full sized stuff. There are 2 sitting here in the room.
> My buddy and I had been playing multiplayer games on weekends, pretty
> much all FPS. Unreal Tournament 3 and 4, Halo, Quake 4, etc. He got
> tired of it and suggested we find something else to do, maybe a racing
> game.
>
> I immediately thought of Live For Speed, downloaded the new 2 Alpha,
> and dusted off the MOMO. What a blast! Just ran laps and played
> against the AI for 2 consecutive nights. It was kind of helpful that
> the new demo track is the same as the old one! I came here and read
> about rFactor, and I've d/l'd the demo of that. It completely blew me
> away! The viseral sound, the way the car moves around, I mean it
> completely turned me around and had me wondering what ever could have
> happened to make me get bored with racing sims. I'm now purchasing the
> full versions of both games, though Live For Speed seems rather
> spartan after rFactor, it runs nicely on a lower spec machine and I
> have a general fondness for it.
> Oh, and you know I'm also looking at that Logi G25! Wow.
>
> I generally use the nickname TOK online, so if you're online and see
> someone driving around 10 seconds off the pace at the bottom of the
> track, don't shoot me the bird. I'm just trying to get my racing
> reflexes back without causing a pile up!
>
> Tim

Pinball! I love it! I have played some of the greatest silver ball machines
known to mankind. In fact some years ago I downloaded this pinball program
and was able to get some of the classic tables and even toyed with my own
designs. Hours of fun here. Check out the link. http://irpinball.ztnet.com/





"Tim O" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> There are a lot of messages about people quitting and selling their
> stuff, so I thought I'd mix it up... My timeline may be a bix mixed
> up, but I think NASCAR Racing 3 was still the top sim around the time
> I quit playing racing games/sims, I was bored with it at that point
> and didn't even buy it. The last racing sim I played was the first
> beta of Live For Speed, and I believe my last sim related purchase was
> the original (red body) MOMO force.
>
> I took a major detour and got into MAME and arcade machines. Yea, real
> room hogging full sized stuff. There are 2 sitting here in the room.
> My buddy and I had been playing multiplayer games on weekends, pretty
> much all FPS. Unreal Tournament 3 and 4, Halo, Quake 4, etc. He got
> tired of it and suggested we find something else to do, maybe a racing
> game.
>
> I immediately thought of Live For Speed, downloaded the new 2 Alpha,
> and dusted off the MOMO. What a blast! Just ran laps and played
> against the AI for 2 consecutive nights. It was kind of helpful that
> the new demo track is the same as the old one! I came here and read
> about rFactor, and I've d/l'd the demo of that. It completely blew me
> away! The viseral sound, the way the car moves around, I mean it
> completely turned me around and had me wondering what ever could have
> happened to make me get bored with racing sims. I'm now purchasing the
> full versions of both games, though Live For Speed seems rather
> spartan after rFactor, it runs nicely on a lower spec machine and I
> have a general fondness for it.
> Oh, and you know I'm also looking at that Logi G25! Wow.
>
> I generally use the nickname TOK online, so if you're online and see
> someone driving around 10 seconds off the pace at the bottom of the
> track, don't shoot me the bird. I'm just trying to get my racing
> reflexes back without causing a pile up!
>
> Tim