[Aardwolf]

I got the demo for FS2 on the FS:ST CD. I think.

I also have the demo of Descent !!!

[asyikarea51]

I started out with D2, bought it at a wholesale bookstore. Played the Terminal Velocity demo, but couldn't find the full game, so I made do with the similar offering. Since my computer sucked at the time (games were moving on to 3D acceleration and I didn't have a 3D card back then), I couldn't play D3 when it came out. Interstate '76 and HL:TFC over a 33.6k modem, playing on servers across the globe were my alternatives. Co-op gaming in TFC was more friendly back then...

Then PCG stuck the D1 demo on a CD, but you know, less features than D2, so I didn't play it. Somewhere along the line when I finally had the system to play D3, I found it bundled with FS1 and ST. Obviously I bought it.

On the rare occasions when I play D3, it's just to play Pyromania. I'm not the type who plays online, point to note...

In the land of Dota, WoW, Maple, CS and Ragnarok, I fly solo in a Pyro-GX... May the ubership survive the heat of popularity's sun...

[Admiral Edivad]

You have Descent?

I HAD Descent. And also the Mercenary expansion. Now i have it installed on my old pc, but the CD1 is broken, so i don't know how to move it to the new one. HELP!

[Qwer]

FreeSpace 2 Demo -> FreeSpace 1 -> FreeSpace 2 -> HLP

[Black Wolf]

My brother got a bunch of demos on this disc from work for, I beleive, 10 cents. One of them was Descent: Freespace, and, as an avid descent player (at the time) I thought it would be cool. Unfortunately, nobody in the house had a compy good enough to run it properly, so it got forgotten a bit. Then, maybe a year or two later, my parents got a new computer with the OEM version of Freespace 2 bundled with it. Both of us (me and my brother) Absolutely fell in  love with FS2, so he bought FS1, ST and FS2's full version off the net. He wouldn't let me play FS2 all the way through for ages, the wanker, but he did send me a copy of FRED2, which worked fine with the OEM version, and thus I was introduced to FRD before I'd even finished the game.

[Ryx]

I learned about [Descent:] Freespace from previews in magazines back in the day. Played the demo, bought the game.

[Slime]

I've been ordering a games magazine for many years now, and it had Freespace 2 reviewed to the top, and fortunately the magazine's website had the demo, which I wanted to try out. You can guess what happened after...  Amusingly, I found SCP and HLP by Wikipedia. I wanted to see what kind of info the Wiki entry on Freespace 2 had, and it mentioned something about a major source code modification. "What on earth is this Freespace Open? And how the hell does it look that good?!" was my first thought. Through many and many links I finally found myself registering here. Good times..

[G0atmaster]

lol I got FS1 as a Christmas gift in.. 96 or 97 I think? maybe 98.  Anyway, I thought it'd be some crappy space game I'd get bored of in 10 minutes (since i was in the process of playing through WC Prophecy).  Oh man was I wrong.  I must have played through it about 5 times, including ALL The Silent Threat fan-made missions.  then, I somehow heard about Freespace 2, hunted for it on Ebay, noticed most on there were fakes, burned copies or some other garbage.  Then, I found the HotU version through a friend, but wasn't satisfied because of how much it had been stripped down, and I got rid of it fairly quickly.  Then, another friend of mine gave me the ISOs.  And there was much joy.

[CaptJosh]

Found a copy of FS1 at the local goodwill, minus disc 2. Had a friend online send me a copy of disc 2 so I could see the rest of the movies. Had a blast with that and went after FS2 like duck on a junebug when I found a copy. From there, I went to FS2 Open Source and I love it, especially on my machine, which for the purposes of the original game requirements is incredibly high end. Always played using a joystick because I never could play any kind of flight sim game with just keyboard controls or keyboard and mouse.

[TrenchardsLoveSock]

A couple of months ago on another forum somebody posted a link to the new Wing Commander.  Had a look at their site and then played 'follow the link' until I found myself here.

I wanted this game sooo much when it came out but a P200 with 32Mb of ram and no 3D card was never going to handle it.  It was only the echoes of the original longing that made me persevere through all of the 'tech-speak' and download it.  Still, I've leaned a lot about ISOs and the like.

All of the FREDders mean that I'll probably never get around to playing the games I bought in the Christmas sales!

[Snail]

The OEM version (first missions up to the one where you capture the Taranis) came with my Dell, when I was 8 years old. I played it with my dad (who's a real fighter pilot) and finished the first 2 training missions. After a while we forgot about it. Then 1 year later I played FS again, and I finished the last training mission. I thought it would be another training mission, but I was thrown into a skirmish with Vasudan wings, and I fell in love with it. I finished it up to the Taranis mission and I felt sick. I had to have more. I bugged my dad until when I was 12 years old he got me the full version of FS. I played it and finished it. Then, my dad was a PC World where he found FS2: Colossus. I played it and fell in love again. We got the white tag release of FreeSpace and I finished it. A few years later, I found HLP and played loads of released mods. I was blown away by Inferno, and signed on for an account and began annoying you guys here at Hard-Light ever since.

[Apathy]

I got if from my mum for Birthday, she has no idea how much I love her for it.

[Gortef]

played FS1 with my friend and that's how it began

[castor]

Noticed a review in a gaming mag when fs1 came out (had been scanning those for years, looking for it...).