Wow cool, nice reminiscing guys!
Yeah going to date myself here too LOL. I do have a bit of Lead-In to how I got to NR2003.
Yeah I got my first itch for racing games with
Pole Position and
Outrun at our Arcade/Bowling alley. I am like cool now that has evolved from
Pong and
Battlezone quite a bit! But still pretty crude to me, I said man give it another five years I wonder what they can do? There was another later called something like
California Vette, I think that one had a sit in situation, a basic cockpit, at our arcade.
-Anyway moving on
I think I had Windows 95(I had been doing more adventure/thinking games then) and had gotten My first Papy game, The first in the NASCAR series, then Indycar Racing II, Both so great for the time and much the beginning of this all. I liked NASCAR better.
Could not afford anything else for a bit.
After a bit I took and spliced into the wiring of a joystick I had and hooked up foot switches on the floor for gas and brake LOL. my thumb before would get so tired it cramped and could hardly move ha. I had the joystick for old Falcon DOS game I think LOL.
In between this and NR2003 - MCO(Motor City Online) came out. I had a better job at the time and saw this MCO racing game at CompUSA and it looked way cool, got it.
THIS is the point where I got hooked into online racing...
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Move on, I had since gotten a Wheel.. Now my memory is fuzzy on which came first(and I had no Chicken or Egg). I had gotten at different times a Thrustmaster Pro Digital II and a Logitech Wingman Wheel. Still old gameport connectors I believe. (One broke, had warranty, put it toward a better one, did that till I made it to a MOMO over years, CompUSA shut down sometime later).
Another trip to CompUSA, I see a new Papy game NASCAR Racing 2003. Wow that looks refined! was hard to afford but had to have it and glad I did get it..
I was amazed! And so it started!
Was in an online group that did MCO and we moved to NR2003 eventually most of us to keep running together. Had a league, raced against others.
By 2004? I did finally paint a car for the AeroWar mod, the green car to lower left on my Sixty Blitzed sites front page.
Had quite some fun times with the group( the site they had was called Gonegaming at some time). racing between leagues, Sierra servers were in full bloom and stocked with races to do.
Now those were good old companies, good old times... Sierra and Papyrus, they cared about making and keeping a customer happy, Sierra held its servers open to race on till the very bitter end when you then saw that it had been acquired by Activision and the servers were shut down.
Been searching for the same kind of fix since and had not really found it,
till coming back here after all the years(I had not messed with NR2003 for over ten years, maybe fired it up a few times over the span, usually always copied what I had over to next PC).
racing with the Zoom guys and hanging here is close to what I felt back then. Thank You very much Guys for all yas being so great and the hospitality and all.
Sorry if my writing is a bit chopped up, my ADHD throws things at me from all directions and times LOL.
But yeah, this and You guys is/am/are great here. I somehow lost track of this place waaaay back till I got searching again recently after finding my trackmaking stuff n all.
best to you all. happy reminiscing and keep em rolling!
Let's Go Racing!
Peace!
Blitz
