Back in late '80s I had a lot of time and was able to play a lot, flight sims included. I was playing then on an Atari computer (same Motorola processor as the famous Commodore 64, but less known than the Commodore). Even as early as that, there was still a subsim, namely Silent Service 2, loaded from cassette recorder. Only to load the game I remember I had to wait 20 minutes - if everything went right.
But I had no particular passion for subsims; they were just a kind of games, like all others I was playing.
Later on, on the PC, in '95, I discovered the masterpiece called Aces of the Deep and this sorted things out. Since then, though I still play other kinds of games (other simulations, RPGs and turn-based strategy), subsims (AOD, CAOD, Wolfpack, Das Boot, the Silent Hunter series etc.) were my main gaming target.
And since end-'90s ('97, 98 IIRC) I'm reading subsim.com on an almost daily basis.
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