My first memory from LFS is from circa 2003 T1 at Blackwood with mouse steering and a very yellowish tint


I remember finding it the strangest feeling (mouse steering), however rewarding enough to continue trying to perfect the craft. Also remember showing it to my older brother and both trying to figure out how to do a clean lap with mouse (offline).

I was maybe too young (<20 years old) to truly enjoy the game and therefore my brother was the one who kept playing (in the times of one computer per household), and later online racing.

Few years pass by and when S2 came along that's when I joined online racing... I still can't remember the name of my first account, neither the email, unfortunately.

My brother was the first to buy S2, but I was the first to upgrade to S3, so I guess we are even.

Not entirely on topic but, I remember, maybe in 2008, me and my father (kart mechanic in the 80's) sitting at the computer while he was explaining me what to change in the setup to make it faster around Blackwood. Specifically to perform better at the corner before the underpass (before the last turn) only to realize that once we improved that corner another corner, that wasn't an issue, suddenly became harder to take it as fast as before...fun times!

Oh wow i've never seen this topic.

My first LFS memories, after I discovered the game through the french community of pixel cars called "mangacars.fr" in 2005 thanks to EESA who also teached me a lot about racing, I have finally been able to install it in 2007, where I was joining my friends from this site and the french TMR community (the mangacars reality), we were mostly doing some cruises until we ended up doing races where 99% of the times it was taking a wrong turn and we were ending up doing some stunts all around Blackwood in demo.

I always loved any car related video game related, but what made me fall in love on LFS was the realism of the steering using a mouse, while most the games, even on the PS2 with a joystick i always felt the steering was a "all or nothing". Oh boy the amount of time i've been doing niche parking in reverse, admirating the smooth steering LOL.

First memory would be joining the Falken Drift server in 2009. Very friendly and helpful people.

22 years of lfs wow... grew up on it leaned to drive with it skills saved me a few times in real life learned to drift on it

I have no memories.

The earliest thing I can remember is back at old old blackwood spending hours with someone (whose name escapes me) just trying to teach me how to drive a decent lap and chase a time. I was probably like 14 or so at the time. Kinda miss the old old blackwood aesthetic though.