OT: Who can beat me?

skrewball · Post by **skrewball** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:50 pm

I was just looking through some of the post counts of alot of the regulars here and I noticed that "Joined" date...

So I looked at mine, I remember I joined these forums way back in the day waiting for UV to be released. I can still remember when the CD showed up at my door!

So, has anyone joined before 12/10/2000? Wow, I've been a Matrix Supporter for 8.5 years now! And I was so graciously rewarded with the command USS United States! (Those of you with WITP:Plan Orange know what I'm talking about!) [:D]

Yes this can be consider a "Look at me" thread, but I am curious whose been around the longest!

anarchyintheuk · Post by **anarchyintheuk** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:58 pm

I don't remember seeing any 2000 joined dates.

stuman · Post by **stuman** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:31 pm

RevRick ( sp ? ) is late 2000 I think . I responded to a post of his the other day and noticed that his was the earliest join date I had remembered seeing.

m10bob · Post by **m10bob** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:09 pm

A few of us joined much earlier than the posted dates. Look in my profile and you will see I am on my third registry. The forum has had teething problems.
I joined maybe a half year after SPWAW was released for free in a magazine, IIRC.
(I suspect Terminus already had 17000 posts at that time?)[:D]

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:20 pm

Hi skrewball,

I don't post very often but I can beat your joining date. [:)]
I remember playing Pacific War Matrix Edition and War in Russia Matrix Edition in the first months.

Shark7 · Post by **Shark7** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:33 pm

Ah, but the true test of an artist is how much they can say without saying anyway at all. Hence my short join date and big post count. [:D]

mbatch729 · Post by **mbatch729** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:17 pm

But tis better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. Thus my early joining date and low post count. Only my PBEM opponents know for sure I'm a fool...[:D]

Hornblower · Post by **Hornblower** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:21 pm

Mogami is / was 2000. 

RevRick · Post by **RevRick** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:49 pm

I've been around a bit. I was playing PacWar back in 1994, and part of me still misses the ability to really push a game into the mid 1944 range. But that was back on the old Halisp (SP??) PacWar board where I know some of the really old gringos came from to this board... Just can't remember who all was there. Rich Dionne comes to mind, along with a guy named Bear, Jorser, and several others with whom we talked about a more advanced game about the PTO.

Hard Sarge · Post by **Hard Sarge** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:55 pm

I still around

in the old days of computer gaming, always wished there was someplace to ask questions when you had trouble with a game, once I found this place, it was pretty good at it, and I hope I have been able to help others who had questions, when I knew the answer (or at least thought I did)

John 3rd · Post by **John 3rd** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:16 pm

ORIGINAL: Marc

Hi skrewball,

I don't post very often but I can beat your joining date. [:)]
I remember playing Pacific War Matrix Edition and War in Russia Matrix Edition in the first months.

Marc--I really like your art for header and footer. Where did you get the pictures?

Terminus · Post by **Terminus** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:32 pm

ORIGINAL: m10bob

A few of us joined much earlier than the posted dates. Look in my profile and you will see I am on my third registry. The forum has had teething problems.
I joined maybe a half year after SPWAW was released for free in a magazine, IIRC.
(I suspect Terminus already had 17000 posts at that time?)[:D]

[:'(]

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:46 pm

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

ORIGINAL: Marc

Hi skrewball,

I don't post very often but I can beat your joining date. [:)]
I remember playing Pacific War Matrix Edition and War in Russia Matrix Edition in the first months.

Marc--I really like your art for header and footer. Where did you get the pictures?

Hi John,

they are from plastic model kits.
The Hiryu picture is from an old kit from Aoshima 1/700 not in production anymore.
And the Kate is from a Hasegawa kit if I remember correctly.
You can find many small pictures from kits here: http://www.hlj.com

And then there is this book with many paintings from Yuzuki Takeshi:
http://www.wohld.com/product_info.php?products_id=5070
I added a picture from Atago from the book.

I have many covers from ship kits still lying around. Among them is the Hiryu.
If you want I can scan it and send it to you.

btw. I'm reading your AARs since many weeks. They are very entertaining. Thank you for your effort.

Rainer · Post by **Rainer** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:51 pm

11/21/2000

Cheers
Rainer

Reg · Post by **Reg** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:01 am

Get some time up young feller.....

GRUMP!! [;)] [:D]

I will agree with m10bob in that we go a lot further back than that. I also lost over 460 posts in the great forum reset of 2000!! [:D] (Compare that to how many I've racked up in the next 9 years... [X(]).

If you look at the member list sorted by join date, you will see the Matrix staff were loaded into the current forum around the 27Mar00 and then the masses started to (re)create their accounts from the beginning of April 2000 onwards. To show how popular the forum was back then, I am 17 pages into the member list despite only re-joining a few weeks later. (This a bit of a nostalgia trip looking back at the membership list from the early days [:)])

I was playing sp2ww2 & spww2 when I started hearing about a new project called SPWaW which was going to be based on the SP3 engine which turned out to be the best yet. Never looked back!!

Edit: I just checked my CD rack and I still have an unpatched copy of SPWaW V1.0. [X(] Maybe a museum would be interested???? (SPWaW was up to V3.0 by the mid 2000 according to my e-mail archive).

Apollo11 · Post by **Apollo11** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:18 pm

Hi all,

2001 for me...

Leo "Apollo11"

Grotius · Post by **Grotius** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:25 pm

Wow, and I thought *I* was a longstanding, loyal customer. Just 2002 in my case -- seven years.

String · Post by **String** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:47 pm

Czert3 · Post by **Czert3** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:50 pm

Screwball - you has ben beated.

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BTW anyone know exact date in which AE start beging developed ? I know it started 2 years before, but not more info, and if you look on my join date... my firs post was about planed expansion for WITP.....and after certain time AE was anouced.

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:57 pm

ORIGINAL: Czert

BTW anyone know exact date in which AE start beging developed ? I know it started 2 years before, but not more info, and if you look on my join date... my firs post was about planed expansion for WITP.....and after certain time AE was anouced.

Depends what you mean by "beginning" ... AE is an outgrowth of CHS/RHS which have been around for years - some players decided to go with a full-blown "expansion" and formed a new development operation... the official Matrix AE announcement was late in 2007, iirc, so not quite 18 months ago... of course, it had been being worked on for some months before that.

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