I used to post on GTPlanet a lot, when I played GT3 (before GT4) and saw a Live for Speed sub-forum. Then I downloaded the demo, and got hooked. 
On Codemasters' forum, waiting for Race Driver, or Toca World Driving Cars Driver, or World Touring Driving Drivers featuring Ryan Mckane, or Barbies Big Funhouse of Love Driving Game, or TOCA Touring Cars Two - For Dummies... or whatever the hell they called it in your region 
Loved the demo, dunno what version it was. It really was 'love at first play', it was what I wanted that silly codemasters game to be.
Loved the demo, dunno what version it was. It really was 'love at first play', it was what I wanted that silly codemasters game to be.
Joined RSC to find GPL addons and saw many people mention LFS there. I tried S1 and never looked back :up: Although GPL is still my number 1 
Just a coincidence I'm sure but RMachucaA's first post, which was more or less LFS's first exposure to the gaming world at large, was made on August 18, 2002, exactly 4 years ago.
Hank and his beloved GPL 
illepall You're living in the past, man, quit living in the past.
illepall You're living in the past, man, quit living in the past.:bhm: :bhm: :bhm: http://www.bhmotorsports.com/sim
Just looking around for somthing realistic and new to play and ran across LFS
Downloaded about 10 demos before LFS got on my computer.
Just looking around for somthing realistic and new to play and ran across LFS
Downloaded about 10 demos before LFS got on my computer. 
:chairfallahhh... it was a fellow drifter ^.^ we were playing NFSU2 (=.=; dont flame me) and i was b1tching about how bullsh1t the game was and that drift mode took NO SKILL AT ALL and he gave me a link to LFS and i fell in love with the game xD
A few weeks ago from an article in the Sunday Times listing the top 10 independent games.
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same here
I installed Suse 9.0 which had Racer and TORCS (the open racing car simulator) on it. I liked them but wanted something more. Searched on google, found live for speed and the rest is history
i was playing gt3 alot and i went online to check out drift videos and i saw a LFS drift video... I thought gt3 was the best that it got... boy was i wrong. and i think i started drifting and racing in the demo... mostly drifting the xrt once i started playing lfs i pretty much stopped playing gt3.
once i started playing lfs i pretty much stopped playing gt3.I found it on a CD in a PC Format magazine. That was the end of my gaming days and the start of my simming days.
someone on another car forum mentioned it was an awesome online game even though he only had the demo
had loads of free time at uni so downloaded the demo and within ten minutes was s2 licenced.... i thought gt4 was a 'sim' but i just never realised... this was just as patch q came out
anyway damn uni firewall ment i coudnt unlock it so i spent 2 months playing with the xrt at blackwood with a mouse! got home at christmas, unlocked and bought a dfp and played a little bit online but i was quite wary as i had never played online and wasnt too sure what i was doing
went back to uni and had to play offline again for ages although at least it was s2 with a wheel this time.... easter came and that saw my first proper online races and i've never had so much fun in a game... got through my last uni term and have been playing regurlary online since end of may but have done thousands of miles offline!
had loads of free time at uni so downloaded the demo and within ten minutes was s2 licenced.... i thought gt4 was a 'sim' but i just never realised... this was just as patch q came out
anyway damn uni firewall ment i coudnt unlock it so i spent 2 months playing with the xrt at blackwood with a mouse! got home at christmas, unlocked and bought a dfp and played a little bit online but i was quite wary as i had never played online and wasnt too sure what i was doing
went back to uni and had to play offline again for ages although at least it was s2 with a wheel this time.... easter came and that saw my first proper online races and i've never had so much fun in a game... got through my last uni term and have been playing regurlary online since end of may but have done thousands of miles offline!
M8 showed it to me..after 3 months i was s1 licensed..after 4 i was s2 and after 9 i payed for s3 :}
no social life of course..
and after 9 i payed for s3 :}no social life of course..
I was reading an estonian rally forum and came across a thread where a guy asked if playing racing games improves driving in real life. He wanted to practice for rallycross or smth and RudiTurbo(he´s a frickin alien btw ) told him to try the demo of LFS. And ofcourse I also tried it.
Now... I have dark secret which I´m gonna reveal now... When I first tried it I didnt like it.:bananadea Probably because at first I only tried single player and LFS is hard compared to other games/sims/whatever.
Anyway because LFS folder was small I left it on my harddrive. I didnt play it for two months. Then there was a rainy day(in the winter?!? damn global warming :mad and I had nothing to do. I digged out LFS from the dark and damp corner of my harddrive and for the first time tried the multyplayer. I changed my whole opinion. Have been playing it ever since. Was stuck in demo for a while but now I´m s2 licensed and it´s great.
) told him to try the demo of LFS. And ofcourse I also tried it. Now... I have dark secret which I´m gonna reveal now... When I first tried it I didnt like it.:bananadea Probably because at first I only tried single player and LFS is hard compared to other games/sims/whatever.
Anyway because LFS folder was small I left it on my harddrive. I didnt play it for two months. Then there was a rainy day(in the winter?!? damn global warming :mad and I had nothing to do. I digged out LFS from the dark and damp corner of my harddrive and for the first time tried the multyplayer. I changed my whole opinion. Have been playing it ever since. Was stuck in demo for a while but now I´m s2 licensed and it´s great.heard it on RSC, everyone comparing that certain sim to LFS...and I was like...hmmmmm, whats this "LFS" they speak of. Demo drove S1, loved it, then S2 came out, was EVEN BETTER!! And in like 2 months was licensed (had to work that summer for both the license AND Logitech MOMO)Been hooked ever since!!
WOOHOOO!!! THanks LFS!!! HAVE NO SOCIAL LIFE SINCE!!!
WOOHOOO!!! THanks LFS!!! HAVE NO SOCIAL LIFE SINCE!!!
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I cant remember how I found it, im sure it was just looking for a new racing game to play, anyways I found it, got hooked up with LamerJane and the redruM69, oh those were the good ol powermod days and 18 sec blackwood laps anyone got a screen of that?
DRIFTKING
and 18 sec blackwood laps anyone got a screen of that? DRIFTKING
cousin showed me back in the demo days, i got it tried it, didnt really like it was on kb, i was loving F1 2002 so i bought a wheel, i think cousin said try lfs again, since then i loved it, bought s1 a bit after it came out, and yeh i think its the best sim i play atm
I heard of LfS back when it still was S1, but wasn't interested (for reasons I don't know)... When S2 demo came out, I was thinking "I try it at least once." I knew nothing about cars or racing and the only racing games I had been playing so far were NfS and Colin McRae... So, I didn't liked LfS because I simply couldn't handle the cars... And then, Vykos came along... He and some other Ocrana-guys showed LfS at GIGA eSports... I tried LfS one more time (P2 just came out) and got hooked, and still am...
:static: ZOMG... The birth of LFS in the hardcore simracing world... It still exists!
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away ...
I firs tried out the S1 demo, which was on a CD of a PC magazine (either Score or Level /Czeh pc magazines) , but back than i had an AMD K6-2 500 MHz with an old Riva TNT , so LFS didn't look good on it
I didn't like the way it was controlled, it was way too real for me , as until than I only saw NFS like games . Deleted the game, went back to play small oldie games, which ran quite good on my ol' rusty PC ( X-COM FTW !! )
In August 2004 I finally got my new PC ( but it was the last day of august, just imagine how hard it was for me to go next day to school ) . In september i moved to college so I played only at weekends when I was home.
In November I moved back home, as I didn't like the college, so i decided to travel every day 2 hours to school by bus (1there,1home :P ). It was a lot better for me, because at least I could play 1-2 hours every day.
One day I found a german PC mag in the newspaper store and because it was very cheap and had a DVD enclosed, i bought it (i cannot speak German ). When I tried the DVD at home, and looked through the demo section, i found LFS. "Hmm, how could it look on my new hardware ? " I thought, and installed it. It looked a much better, and I found out that it could be controlled by mouse :O (never saw such a thing ) . But after a short while my enthusiasm fell :P as I was too noobish for the game. But than something happend, i found that little button named MULTIPLAYER . "... with my Dial up connection :S ... hell, lets try it " So i went online, downloaded patch H and connected to a server. "WOW, it works!!!" It was my first online experience, and oh God, it was so great ! I even met hungarian player, and they helped me , and since than we are friends ( some of them are even my team mates ^^ ) .
So thats how I discovered lfs
I firs tried out the S1 demo, which was on a CD of a PC magazine (either Score or Level /Czeh pc magazines) , but back than i had an AMD K6-2 500 MHz with an old Riva TNT , so LFS didn't look good on it
I didn't like the way it was controlled, it was way too real for me , as until than I only saw NFS like games . Deleted the game, went back to play small oldie games, which ran quite good on my ol' rusty PC ( X-COM FTW !! )In August 2004 I finally got my new PC ( but it was the last day of august, just imagine how hard it was for me to go next day to school
) . In september i moved to college so I played only at weekends when I was home.In November I moved back home, as I didn't like the college, so i decided to travel every day 2 hours to school by bus (1there,1home :P ). It was a lot better for me, because at least I could play 1-2 hours every day.
One day I found a german PC mag in the newspaper store and because it was very cheap and had a DVD enclosed, i bought it (i cannot speak German
). When I tried the DVD at home, and looked through the demo section, i found LFS. "Hmm, how could it look on my new hardware ? " I thought, and installed it. It looked a much better, and I found out that it could be controlled by mouse :O (never saw such a thing ) . But after a short while my enthusiasm fell :P as I was too noobish for the game. But than something happend, i found that little button named MULTIPLAYER . "... with my Dial up connection :S ... hell, lets try it " So i went online, downloaded patch H and connected to a server. "WOW, it works!!!" It was my first online experience, and oh God, it was so great ! I even met hungarian player, and they helped me , and since than we are friends ( some of them are even my team mates ^^ ) .So thats how I discovered lfs
some years ago a friend sent me a link to a "live for speed"-thread at the planetquake.de board. i read a few posts, downloaded the demo (0.2 iirc, was in late autumn or winter 2002) and got addicted.
How did you discover LFS?
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