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WOw 1997 i was in college in Houston Texas studying hard. happy birthday :subsim:
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1997...
I'd been in the US Navy for four years already. Had just completed my second deployment to the 'Persian Gulf' as we called it back then. I was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan and was having the time of my life :). About the only gaming I did on the computer at the time was playing Doom 2 and Tie Fighter on a cruddy little notebook that I'd bought from a friend for $100...
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Happy 20th SubSim & Best Wishes!
For me, 1997 commenced inauspiciously when I suddenly found out that the supervisor I had for the past six years had been dismissed of her duties and rightly so. I always believed management was as much an art as it is a science. And in the case of my ex-supervisor, her skill set was so limited, especially when it came to dealing with people, it began to impact our ability to carrying out our agency’s mission. My next supervisor wasn’t much better which always lead me to believe in the adage that people do seem to rise to the level of their own incompetence!
I then needed something positive to focus my energy, to save my sanity while others in my office feuded, sniped and bucked one another for favorable positions elsewhere in the organization. It was absolute chaos! Part of my mental therapy was to sometimes escape after work to play my first ‘nautically’ themed simulation games, Broderbund’s ‘Wolfpack’ and ‘The Ancient Art of War at Sea’ as a diversion on my Tandy TX which ran on MS DOS, with slots for a 3.5 diskette and 5.25 floppy, 19.6 MB of available storage on the HD, and a ‘dot matrix’ printer with no internet. But I needed something much more physical and substantial. What I really needed a ‘major-league’ stress reliever. And qualifying for the Boston Marathon met all the requisites. The year before in 1996, the Boston Marathon had just celebrated its 100th anniversary with one of the largest field of competitors ever assembled (36,748 starters;35,868 official finishers), which stood as the record in the history of the sport until 2004 (New York City: 37,257 starters; 36,544 finishers). And ever since I first learned of the Boston Marathon from my earliest days as a schoolboy running cross country and track, I always dreamed of participating in the running world’s version of ’Wimbledon’! The only catch was it is an invitational race and you need to qualify along with some of the best runners in the world (unless you have a sponsor and are running for a charity) for a spot on the starting line in Hopkinton, Massachusetts on Patriot’s Day, which is usually the third Monday in April that commemorates the ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes in 1775. The Boston Marathon was inspired by the revival of the 1896 Olympic event in Greece that was the fabled route from the plains of Marathon to Athens run by Philippides, who told of the Greeks victory over the Persians in 490 B.C. before he collapsed! On January 12, 1997, I turned 43 and had already run eight marathons (four of which were the New York City Marathon) that included a PR of 3 hours, 6 minutes that I ran in San Diego in 1983, when I was much younger but not as wise as I had trained alone. Boston was always on my radar. This time, I came upon a training group of very talented and gifted athletes. And later that spring, we broke up into smaller training units based on our individual goals. At that time, I needed to run at least a 3 hour and 20-minute marathon to qualify for my age group and gender. So, through the rain, the heat, and humidity of the next few months, we trained and competed like a well-oiled machine, race after race in distances ranging from an 8K to a 10 miler, to a half marathon then finally our individual qualifying races, a full marathon (26 miles, 385 yards for those of you who may not be sport enthusiasts or runners). And I chose the New York City Marathon, not because it was an easy course (it's one of the toughest marathons to run to qualify for Boston due to the five bridges that separate the five boroughs and subsequent hills in Central Park) I chose it because of familiarity; I knew the course like the back of my hand. I wanted to finally conquer the beast on my own terms. Call it unfinished business. On November 2, 1997, the morning of the race began with a light drizzle then it rained the entire day. Also, there was no ‘chip' timing back then (a 'chip' is a device tied to your shoelaces that triggers an electronic sensor at specific checkpoints along the race course, especially at the start and finish so that everyone has an accurate record of their overall time) which meant I needed to get as close to the starting line as possible before the beginning of the race so I wouldn’t lose valuable time getting stuck behind 30,000 other runners in front of me, preventing a ‘clean’ and precise start. However, I found I always had to ‘pee’ right before most of my races due to nerves so this time when I lined up, I got as close to the starting line as I could, to clearly see the mayor who would start the event. And after all the many hours of effort and miles of training, I wasn’t taking anything for granted. So, I wore a plastic garbage bag holding a large plastic cup underneath, discreetly peeing in the cup as needed then I discarded the plastic garbage bag and carefully placed the cup off to the side when I began my journey. And it worked alike a charm. I was only 20 seconds behind the starting line when the starting cannon went off! After crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a span of over 2.5 miles and a height of 693 feet (the tops of the towers were not visible that day due to the low overcast and photographers usually positioned there at the start of the marathon were banned from using the perch that day), at 6.2 miles into race, deep within the borough of Brooklyn, I hit my stride as I was right on pace and it never changed for the next 20 miles! By mile 17, later in the race, I was in Harlem heading north on 1st Avenue toward the Bronx with the rain beginning to come down ‘sideways’, when I came upon a black man who was cheering us on. He kept on chanting, ‘Let’s give it up for these dudes, cause they’re all meat, no potatoes.’ At this point, I had been nursing a blister on my left foot since my socks were thoroughly soaked which felt like it was the size of Buick! After hearing the cheer repeatedly, I laughed so damn hard I never gave the rain or my foot a second throughout the rest of the race. As I rounded the corner, coming out of the south end of Central Park onto Central Park South, heading west with a little under a mile to go, it began to thunder as I passed a Japanese percussionist bashing away on a huge ceremonial Taiko drum. I then began to wonder when the ‘fat lady’ would sing as it seemed like more of a ‘Wagnerian Opera’ than a sporting event! When I hit the finish line near ‘Tavern on the Green’ in Central Park, it was mission complete, I had qualified for Boston by running 3 hours, 18 minutes, 10 seconds! I believe this to this day, the strategy of using the 'plastic garbage bag' ploy was so invaluable, it probably enabled me to conserve the energy needed throughout the race that produced my successful outcome. And it was wise advice due to the fact I had been working with three experienced coaches who were all accomplished athletes themselves, who acted as my attentive mentors. However, the sweetest moment after qualifying for Boston came when I attended my 25th high school reunion later that month, the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I bumped into an old classmate who ran with me on the cross country and track team always beating me in our races (and it seemed that he hadn’t laced up a pair of running shoes since we graduated), I couldn’t help myself from letting him know I would be running the Boston Marathon in the spring! Incidentally, when Patriots Day, April 20th, 1998 finally rolled around, I made it to Boston to compete in the 102nd Boston Marathon, finishing in 3 hours, 13 minutes, 45 seconds. I was 2,306 out of 10,289 men (the top 22 percent) and 2664 out of 20,344 overall (the top 13 percent). Personally, qualifying for the Boston Marathon was an effort never soon to be replicated but an accomplishment I will nonetheless, always treasure! William Faulkner once wrote, 'Man, will not merely endure, he will prevail . . . he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.' And so, in observance of both anniversaries (Subsim’s and mine), I offer the following toast to all the captains who are members of this ‘distinguished’ body: :Kaleun_Cheers: May the wind be always at your back, and the sea gentle on your craft, with the sun ever shining upon you, wherever your voyage may take you in the next 20 years, and beyond! Best wishes again, Rich M. (a.k.a., ‘Navelintel’) |
Yeah I wasn't born in 1997. The only interesting thing about my life was being able to visit the Whiteman Air force base in my home state and being able to see the stealth bombers, missile silos, etc.
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I started pre-k in 97 so that was pretty fun I guess.
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1997 it's long time ago. It was last year of highschool. I was playing on PC some strange games like Emperor of the fading sun, Machiaveli the prince and good old The grandest fleet.
congratulations SUBSIM :Kaleun_Cheers: |
1997 was a relatively good year for me. I was a HELL of a lot younger and and ZERO gray in either my hair or beard. I had been out of the Army for two years and was floating between jobs. I was working primarily as a night dispatcher for a towing company that ingrained within me a unique hatred for telephones that persists to this day.
I was, and still am, an avid gamer and 1997 was a hot year for gaming. It was the year I got my Playstation, along with Final Fantasy VII, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Resident Evil Director's Cut. I still have that Playstation, which still works like a champ:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:, and those games. What I really wanted was a computer, which I really could not afford. My only knowledge of any Subsims at the time was the port of Silent Service on the NES, which I only knew about because it was released under the Konami/Ultra label. I never even gave it a second thought. My interests were elsewhere at the time. Despite being happy that I was out of the military, I was still pissed at the Clinton Administration for the downsizing and all of the UN crap related to Bosnia, which I missed being deployed on back in '94 simply because my unit was told to stand down at the last minute. When I wasn't on the Playstation or raging over politics like sophomoric 20-somethings do, I was knee deep in Dungeons and Dragons. 1997 was a pivotal year for D&D because it was the year that TSR was bought out by Wizards of the Coast. I was NOT thrilled by the acquisition and expected the new owner to ass up the game. To be fair, 3rd Edition and 3.5 were great...then 4th came along in the succeeding years. Some of my trepidation from '97 was justified. I am still waiting for those clowns to make a GOOD next-gen D&D computer game. :k_confused: 1997 was a good year. While I had no idea this place existed at the time, having no computer and different interests, I certainly look back on it with some nostalgia...if for no reason than to wish to be a 22-year-old again.:Kaleun_Cheers: Going gray sucks.:wah: |
Happy Birthday :subsim:
97... :hmmm: i think i got my driving license and a at the end of the year i joined the german army for 10 years. a lot has changed since these days. i got married, have a 12 years old son now, changed my job 6 times but playing sub sims has never changed. curently im still studying for my dreamjob and i hope this site will stay forever :salute: |
Was born in 1997. :Kaleun_Wink:
So I'm as old as Subsim is. I've been a member for, oh...what...5 years-ish now? It's been the only single forum since the beginning that I have kept coming back to. Other forums come and go but this one feels like home. :subsim: |
It was a very good year
Living in Dallas Texas working at the Dallas Sound Lab.
Worked on the Movie "Titanic" won an Oscar Woked with "U2" and a bunch of other bands. :Kaleun_Cheers: |
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viribus!:Kaleun_Salute: @ filboid42: U2 too?!!...that shines!:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
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Back in 97 I was still in elementary school in Sweden - not the best time period in my life. Me and another kid where the only foreign kids in our class, him being from Chile and me from Poland. Sweden looks way different today...
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All righty! Contest is closed, I will sort and assemble the entries and post the next step here. :Kaleun_Salute:
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Here are the names of Subsimmers who entered the contest. Check this contest roster, if you feel you are not on the list and you did post a 1997 story either here or on FB Subsim, post a reply and be sure to include the link to the 1997 story post you made.
People who made a post both in this thread and on Subsim FB are allowed. The winner will be chosen on Monday, after the Dow Jones stock market closes. Beside each name is a three digit number, and the winner for the grand prize will be matched against the last three digits of the Dow close as listed here on WSJ. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=9337 If the closing number does not have a match in the contest roster, there is no winner that day and we will roll over to the next day and do it again. Once a winner is made, the next prize level will be done. So, Monday, grand prize (first place), if a number matches, we go to 2nd place on Tuesday, etc. Once a winner is announced, he must reply to this thread and PM me with information to receive his prize within 5 days. I reserve the right to make adjustments as necessary to fix any mistakes or oversights. good luck! Subsim 20th Contest Roster 100 --> _Seth_ 101 --> 3catcircus 102 --> 44m44m 103 --> Aaron Cecil 104 --> ABBAFAN 105 --> Admiral Halsey 106 --> Admiral8Q 107 --> Ajax6 108 --> Aktungbby 109 --> Akula4745 110 --> Alex N Lissette Aguila 111 --> Allan Jenkins 112 --> AllenZ1Sgt 113 --> aLowSimmer 114 --> Alstack 115 --> Anarchy 116 --> Andrakis 117 --> Andrei Agafonov 118 --> andurilmat 119 --> Angry Viking 120 --> AnimeHair 121 --> Anthony Wood 122 --> Anvar1061 123 --> APFSDS 124 --> Aries 125 --> audiopathik 126 --> AVGWarhawk 127 --> Barrie Parker 128 --> bart 129 --> blkdimnd 130 --> bracer 131 --> Bret Culpepper 132 --> Brian M. Schnell 133 --> bsachems 134 --> bstanko6 135 --> Buddyboy100 136 --> calvindmah 137 --> CapnScurvy 138 --> CaptBones 139 --> Carlos Jimenez 140 --> Castout 141 --> catbloc 142 --> Catfish 143 --> cdrsubron7 144 --> Chad McRae 145 --> Charles Aviles 146 --> Charles DeBault 147 --> charlesb6462 148 --> Chisum 149 --> Chowhound 150 --> Chris Hale 151 --> Chris Maillet 152 --> Chromatix 153 --> Chuck Thornton 154 --> Claudius Stute 155 --> codefool 156 --> Colonel Klink 157 --> Commander Wallace 158 --> connor3213 159 --> corporalspiffy 160 --> cyberangel 161 --> Cy-Fox 162 --> daft 163 --> Dan Dimitrescu 164 --> Daniel Santos 165 --> DaveMM2SS 166 --> David Stevens 167 --> De Ruyter 168 --> DemairPlane Pilot 169 --> digital_pariah 170 --> dodie23 171 --> Doggie 172 --> Dominatus 173 --> donath 174 --> donde 175 --> Dowly 176 --> dy88jr 177 --> Edward Reilly 178 --> Einhanded 179 --> Eric Baumann 180 --> ericlea 181 --> escalaris 182 --> Evans1492 183 --> Factor 184 --> Farinhir 185 --> Fernando De Cicco 186 --> FightingSteel1 187 --> filboid42 188 --> fireftr18 189 --> fitzcarraldo 190 --> Frank Mucci 191 --> Frank Taylor 192 --> frankiekam 193 --> Fubar2Niner 194 --> fumo30 195 --> G97_BoKeRoN 196 --> Gargamel 197 --> gmccabe01 198 --> granger44 199 --> GT182 200 --> Guineo 201 --> Gunthar 202 --> gutted 203 --> HamrHedZ 204 --> harag 205 --> Herman 206 --> Hinrich Schwab 207 --> Hitman 208 --> HW3 209 --> IceMike 210 --> Icewarp 211 --> J0313 212 --> Jack Frost 213 --> Jake Adryanski 214 --> Jason Jara 215 --> Jean Led 216 --> JesterV2 217 --> jimbob 218 --> Jimbuna 219 --> Joe Apostolidis 220 --> Johann Vilthomsen 221 --> John Sealey 222 --> Jon Readman 223 --> Jonathan Beck Jørgensen 224 --> Jonesy 225 --> Josh Valentine 226 --> julimrs 227 --> jwilliams 228 --> Kaye T. Bai 229 --> keltos01 230 --> Ken Henke 231 --> Kixa 232 --> kobiwaldi 233 --> Kota Fox 234 --> Krieg Francis 235 --> Kristensen 236 --> Lane 237 --> Larrywb57 238 --> Leandros 239 --> Les Robertson 240 --> Lewis Wingerter 241 --> Lialah Rose Barrer 242 --> liljoentx 243 --> limkol 244 --> LordCucumber 245 --> Lt commander lare 246 --> Lt. Staumeier 247 --> mapuc 248 --> Marcantilan 249 --> Marcel Lougheed 250 --> mark bonamer 251 --> Mark Renier 252 --> MatijaGeic 253 --> Matt Keyes 254 --> Matt Michaelson 255 --> Matthew Wagner 256 --> Miguel Gordo 257 --> Mike Abberton 258 --> Mischa 259 --> mjhjr 260 --> mookiemookie 261 --> Moz of Oz 262 --> Navelintel 263 --> Navigator857 264 --> NightFromTheWest12 265 --> nikimcbee 266 --> Nippelspanner 267 --> nosferato 268 --> Nufsed 269 --> Nuppie 270 --> Oberon 271 --> OddBallCHMC 272 --> Owen Myers 273 --> Patrick Girard 274 --> Paul-Patrick Schröder 275 --> PhantomLord 276 --> Polak 277 --> Pompiliu-Ion Popescu 278 --> propbeanie 279 --> rangingwarr 280 --> Raptor1 281 --> raymond6751 282 --> rdop 283 --> Red Devil 284 --> Red October1984 285 --> redbranchwarrior 286 --> regicide76 287 --> rHagen12 288 --> Rhodes 289 --> Richard Phillips 290 --> rickidoo 291 --> riddler1506 292 --> Rippersport 293 --> Rockin Robbins 294 --> rtp89 295 --> Ryan Lare 296 --> ryoga_77 297 --> Sailor Steve 298 --> Sapyhr 299 --> Sashbro2 300 --> Savvas Mavridis 301 --> Schöneboom 302 --> Schroeder 303 --> Scott Gregory 304 --> Sidekikd34 305 --> Silverleaf 306 --> Simon Mountford 307 --> skin-nl 308 --> Skipbo 309 --> Skreezilla 310 --> Skybird 311 --> Slammer597 312 --> slyjac 313 --> SmithN23 314 --> Specbass 315 --> STEED 316 --> Steven Sheldon 317 --> SubSimTrooper 318 --> supcapn 319 --> Tac-Addict 320 --> Te Kaha 321 --> THEBERBSTER 322 --> Theodor Christensen 323 --> thewison 324 --> Tobar 325 --> Tony McDonald 326 --> Tony Smith 327 --> torpedobait 328 --> traner2 329 --> Tuilalcaron 330 --> Tycho 331 --> u crank 332 --> U-5 333 --> Underbank 334 --> USS Lionfish 335 --> Vannevar 336 --> v-i-c- 337 --> viper1 338 --> viribus 339 --> VONHARRIS 340 --> Westbroek 341 --> White Elf 342 --> winslynn 343 --> Wolfpack345 344 --> xatharas 345 --> Xurf 346 --> zorilya |
1997
Congratulation to 20th anniversay SubSim! :)
1997 - I was a child on the school... but I dont forget, that the Tamagotchi was a world phenomenon :) :) in this year! :) :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi My PC was weak... just a Prince of Persia I played... no internet, no SubSim... Congratulation! :Kaleun_Salute:Congratulation! :Kaleun_Salute:Congratulation! :Kaleun_Salute: |
1997 huh...
I was 14, my parents had just told me over xmas that they were getting divorced and that I needed to choose which one I wanted to move in with, in different cities. Had my very first crush... girl was perfect, and we hit it off so well. But I was too shy to say anything, and she started dating another guy. Was sent away to another city, another school, lost all my friends. The one close friend I had moved away across the country. My whole family, which always met every Sunday for a barbacue over my place and slept over at my place (we had a countryside house with soccer field, horses, lots of space) for xmas/newyears/holidays never again met and was completely shattered into different directions thanks to my parents divorce and both moving away. Never again had Sunday barbacues and started hating xmas/new years. But other than that, 1997 was a beautiful year! :haha: And most people still ask me why I don't believe in marriage. I did however find my soulmate. They really exist. When she's not around I just can't function properly. She's just an extension of myself, a missing piece that I found. Been together 3 years now, still do everything together (including gaming) and we laugh 24/7. It's beautiful. Years later, I found Subsim. That was when I discovered i688 hunter/killer. Then, Silent Hunter 2. And later SH3, which was the summit of anything I have ever experienced before and ever came to experience after. It's still my favorite. For years I've worked day and night on making mods to share with these awesome guys that compose what Subsim is for me, a second home. I still carry in my heart as one of the best periods of my life. I was here on Subsim day and night, I'd breathe Subsim and SH3 18h a day. Real life came about and took me away... its unavoidable. Seems like everything in life is only temporary, and even when you think you've found a home, it won't last. It's normally for the best anyways. Thanks to real life and the lack of time, I was forced away from modding, which in turn forced me away from SH3 and Subsim. I still did check from time to time to see what was going on, always with that " itch" of coming back. And every time I planned a comeback, life would take me away again. Maybe when I get retired? XD But it was thanks to Subsim that I've learned about modding. And thanks to modding, I discovered my love for game development. And thanks to that, I eventually got a job at SmileGate as a videogame producer in charge of CrossFire, which was for many years the most played game in the world (still is top 3). Yes the game is crap but the job itself was awesome. It required creativity, which I have an abundance of. I moved to Canada when I took that job, and I lived in Canada completely alone for 5 years, away from family and friends. Got in trouble with the law and even been to jail for something I haven't done. After 2 years of court battles managed to prove my innocence and get rid of the fear of being deported, which kept me awake for months on end. All-in-all, I don't regret any of it. It was all an awesome life experience, something I wouldn't ever had experienced if it wasn't for SUBSIM! Thank you, Subsim, for the huge impact you had in my life! (But screw 1997) |
And the first prize winner is...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=9340 242 --> liljoentx :Kaleun_Applaud: Congratulations! Post a response here and send me a PM with your choice, Xbox1 or PS4 and an address where I can ship it. You have 5 days! Woot! On to second prize tomorrow! :Kaleun_Salute: |
Congrats LOL! Peculiar way to draw a winner LOL
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