I played the FS1 demo, liked it. A friend of mine had freespace2, playing it on his 550mhz PC.. i was in awe, I had to have the game.
Unfortunately my lowly p166 was only good enough for Freespace1, So i bought FS1 with Silent Threat included, and finished them both. When i upgraded my PC eventually to 1Ghz, i borrowed FS2 and played it out.
Then i didnt play again about the game until i stumbled upon this site. not to say i didnt remember it, whenever people mentioned the "best games" or "space sims" i was always right there with freespace. and guess what, NOONE had ever heard of it.. i was shocked, and somewhat appalled.