This was back when I had several racing games and I guess I was looking for the latest and greatest. I looked around and found many US titles being compared (which I all had), and then a reviewer mentioned Live for Speed. I quickly tried it and fell in love with it. I can't remember which one I started off playing (S2U maybe?) but I loved the physics and it blew all my other games out of the water. I slowly stopped playing the other games and focused all my attention to LFS.

Still lovin' it.

I saw a good drifting videos by tarcal and others, i thought LFS is made just for drift. I started to play LFS little before when XRT was removed from DEMO(dont remember what version that was).

Similar story here - have been playing racing games since owning NES,where Nigel Mansell's World Championship and Ferrari Grand Prix were the favourites. Later bought PS1,started with something better,like GT2,CMR,CMR2,NFS4:HS,after some years upgraded to PS2,there again favourite games were GT4,WRC4 and (yes,oh dear) NFSU2.

Then in late 2007 I bought my first PC (actually still the only,as for the moment I have laptop),I recall seeing a race recap on Giga TV from some racing game,which name was similar to NFS a half a year or so ago,so I searched and found LFS. First impression wasn't the best - some crappy cars (demo ones),one track I didn't like and didn't even tried it online,left it alone for month or so. Then I got a licence from a friend,so I had the chance to try out the fast cars (mostly GTRs,as I had fear from BF1 at beginning ) online in latvian public servers in the very end of 2007 (29th or 30th december,don't remeber that precise,as these days flew away so fast due to online racing),got addicted and here I still am. Month or so later started to compete in local leagues,which was the thing I liked at most,currently racing mostly in leagues,joining public servers rarely.

Started with a gamepad (and left black lines from front tyres for first 2 days due to very sensitive analog sticks),learned with it to be better,but saw no potential,so I bought the first of my crap wheels after a half a year,had always problems with it until it died completely year or just more later,later had another 2 cheaper crapwheels. Now I have a job and some noticable income,so now I have DFGT,the first wheel which still works like new after half a year!

So there is my semi-random story about racing games/LFS starting.

Joined LFS with "the Finnish invasion" in year 2009.

From this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYV_4RcepFE

LFS was the second SIM which made me enjou the SIM racing games. The first one were Gran Turismo, which at that time were a SIM compared to other products. I think back in 03-04 I randomly came across a demo of the game togheter with some friends at an LAN party. The game was ridiciolus hard to play with on keyboard, so the other friends sort of left the game rather early, while I enjoyed this unforgiv'ing stone which punched my face so hard.

After some time I bought a wheel and I got even more involved into the game, which ultimately lead me to buy a license back in 04.

2007. My flatmate's classmate was having a go on LFS during a lesson which got my flatmate hooked. He came home, downloaded LFS, showed me what it was all about and the rest is history.

Played on his laptop the the first time; drove out of pits in BL1 in the XFG (using kb, mind you), past turns 2/3 and by the time I was braking down the long straight I knew this is what I was waiting for all these years...

Keyboard to Logitech Momo to G25 to G27. 130,000+ Miles and still loving LFS.

Met hundreds (if not 1000s) of great people online over the years and had countless hours of fun.

Hallelujah for the devs/lfs-ers!

My cousin played lfs demo. And it looked realistic. Played demo for 3 years. Got in to drifting. Then watched this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWei15vqQk. I was hooked... Bought S2 license and here i am

while i try to download NFS , for error i download LFS!! TADAMMM!!
the distant 22nd December 2008

By typing Race Game for PC on Google

Quote from March Hare :

The thing that irritates me in LFS is the fact that if you take a long brake you have to learn how to drive all over again. If you want to be really fast you have to drive most days. Once or twice a week and you'll keep some of the skill. But if you don't play for a month you'll have to start all over again. At least that's what happens to me.

I've found LFS to be completely opposite in that regard personally, it's like riding a bicycle. Take a year long break and it instantly feels like you drove just yesterday.

Quote from Matrixi :

I've found LFS to be completely opposite in that regard personally, it's like riding a bicycle. Take a year long break and it instantly feels like you drove just yesterday.

I share this. I haven't done any LFS for ~1 year and when I do a lap or two sometimes it all feels natural.

I got a disc from the old computer mags saw Live For Speed on there and thought oh this looks cool tried to play it on my keyboard, it was so damn hard to control mainly due to the fact i was so used to playing games like NFS.

There started my love for racing sim games (not including Gran Turismo)

the first ever PC game I bought myself was the Microsoft Flightsim 2000, so I somehow started serious PC gaming with a sim (only had a N64 before). Some time later I got the first Need for Speed Underground, and played it with a non-FFB wheel I got for free.

In 2006 I read something about OCRANA (then a big german multigaming clan) participating in the ESL in LFS, went to their site and downloaded their LFS demo (it came with some special skins). Played demo a little, then bought a S2 licence and, well, I'm still here today.

iirc I used the free wheel just as rudder pedals for the flight sim at first

i liked to play NFS series, specially NFS U1 and U2
in 2006 i was googling "Racing Sim" and the first like i visit was LFS.

i played the demo for 2 years and in 2008 i bought s2.

I played Indycar racing 2 and nascar racing games untill 2004 when someone showed me demo - was hooked up since then - made/helped with many lfs projects happen and will do so till i'm online :P

Started racing with GT1, GP3, TOCA, CMR and NASCAR
I actually demoed LFS during S1 era but for some reason was not interested enough into getting the full version at the time.
Around the time of Patch X I found LFS again somehow and this time I got S2.

I've started with OutRun, Grand Prix Circuit & Test Drive on C64. Back in the day I was spending my evenings racing Viper Racing (with and without VRGT mods :revs online with some guys from Muropaketti (MuroViper). IIRC someone posted the link to LFS on our IRC channel and I downloaded 0.04k I believe it was and enjoyed it. It's all been downhill since.

Piirakka, ZT & co, I hope you're still alive and kicking

2008

but i feel borning i want new maps

I spent about 2 years playing on single player because i thought Multiplayer was for players who bought the game.

My life was complete when i realized that i could play LFS online for free, After roughly 10 minutes of my life being complete, i was bored of Live for speed and started fapping to naked women on a Pornography website.

Then i bought Live for speed S2 in 2007 and since then, my life has consisted of playing Live for speed and fapping every night.

Quote from jordyb :

and since then, my life has consisted of playing Live for speed and fapping every night.

liek dis if u crye evrytiem

Joined March 2005, saw a demo in a Finnish gaming site. Tried it, then bought a cheap wheel for it, before you know it, I've bought an expensive wheel for it, bought my computer desk based solely on how the wheel and chair fitted with it, then bought new chair that fitted with all the new stuff better than the old one.

Strange how passionate you get about stuff

I was playing NFS before I found LFS from the net when I was trying to find something more realistic. I really liked the in-car view in LFS, which NFS didn't have.

So I started off in demo, doing both cruising and racing. I remember Blackwood being like a maze at the beginning. In the end of 2010 a friend from a demo cruise server who had S2 urged me to buy it too and I did it.

Started discovering S2 like usual - KY1, cruising with the "big" cars, drifting... Eventually got bored of that and started taking racing more seriously by starting racing at the public servers and I have played LFS continiously since then, I've never tried iRacing or any other more of a "serious" racing simulator

Read this while lurking on rec.autos.simulators back in 2002 looking for news on World Sports Car/Racing Legends. Immediately downloaded the demo, and pretty soon lost interest in the whole West Racing saga

Brings back memories...
Like the LFS section on the racesimcentral forum, before LFS had it's own forum.
Everyone was a 'demo racer'.
There was no cruise scene, and no 'teams'
Because there were only 3 cars and 1 track, you quickly got to know everyone who raced at the times you did.
Great days

- be fan of NFS, mostly NFS:U
- cousin sends link to czech lfs site
- looks weird, but it's online and it's actually difficult
- play on keyboard
- acquire wheel soon after
- 7 years later, still here

I remember end of 2002 looking for racing demo's on gamersnet.nl !

And found Live for Speed there, got directly linked to a download link and didn't actually visit the website.

Installed it and drove the demo offline with XFG at BL1R I believe. Absolutly fell in love with a racing game that actually was quite realistic.

Tried my first online racing at 16th of December 2002 and started my then called *ROCK* Clan after coming from MOH:AA.

Soon an Australian member aged 35 joined the team, and he added me on MSN. Then a Dutch guy named Pikaflex (trackah123) joined the team, and it became real fun.

I invited friends over from F1 Challenge and the team was fun on public demo racing.

Somewhere around half of 2003 (some updates further) a guy named NaWz joined the team and made us a XFG team skin.

By then I had figured out if you put the AI diffeculty to PRO or so, you would get more credits if you finish online too.

I unlocked the XRT in a race where I was in 4th position, and was begging people to let me by to unlock XRT and they did. It was a warm group of drivers by then.

I kept on playing demo untill July 2007 when myself and Gerben Bol (Bose321) received a S2 license voucher from a German guy. I started Team *ROCK* on S2 and immedialty started racing oval with FO8...

Sadly soon after our accounts got disabled and moved back to Demo. After e-mailing Victor it seemed that the guy where we received the voucher from, made fraud at 4Players, and therefor all vouchers by him used got disabled.

Gerben quickly bought S2, but my parents still did not trust Live for Speed. Luckily soon after I convinced them, and my dad bought me a S2 license with his credit card.

There my real S2 journey began.