Oddball_E8 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Just noticed today that it's almost fourteen years since I first discovered combat mission It's pretty incredible that I keep coming back to this place over the years. And how far the game has come! Back when CM:BO was released, it was not exactly the peak of graphics, but the mechanics under the hood more than made up for that. And with CMx2, we have both the graphics and a better engine under the hood I just have to say, I love you guys at BFC! Thank you for 14 great years of torment and joy metered out in 60 second doses And thank you for imprinting on the naive 23 year old me how much can happen in the span of a single minute. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Hear, hear! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Sjeesj, you're right. 14 years! I remember downloading the beta demo (back in late 1999, was it?). After looking at it for a bit I thought, 'you've got to be kidding me,' and promptly deleted it. Tried a second time a few months later. and the rest is history. Remember the original 'night of the refreshing monkeys?' Didn't we crash the board's server back then? Ah, good times... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaws Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 This means we are 14 years older too :eek: Started in 1999 too but couldn’t remember my account name a few months later. But I was hooked up enough to create a new one after a year. CMBO, CMBB and CMAK, after that we had to wait for years to get a follow up. And now we have more than we ever could dream of. My secret dream is still to see the Operation mode back, and my favourite battleground.... the Eastfront. Who knows 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Wow, that image certainly brings back fond memories. Praying that I would live long enough to see the graphics in the game look that good, and now I am very nearly there. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerMike Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Sjeesh, 14 years. Ever since CMBO my board games have not been touched. Thanks a lot BFC... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedorf81 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Imagine what the next fourteen years will bring us.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZPB II Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Time does fly...I was 13 when I first played Combat Mission and had no idea what being jaded and cynical meant. Now I know. Thanks BFC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 So you're saying BFC taught you what it means to be jaded and cynical? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuser Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Bigger,...better, happy birthday! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Combat Mission is one of my longest running game series. No matter what system I have had since I discovered CMBO all those years ago I have always had some iteration of CM installed and ready to play. Really awesome and impressive! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuser Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Sorry for the Off topic...Long live the Rock n Roll Rest in Peace 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedorf81 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Sorry for the Off topic...Long live the Rock n Roll Rest in Peace Elvis Presley? Dead? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 BFC, welcome to Adolescence! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 T-shirt and bumper sticker to follow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 CMBO made my approx. 1,000 cardboard games obsolete "collector's items". Congrats on an amazing 14 years BF! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 Years of psychotherapy await you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenris Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 I started with BF when they were BTS playing Actung Spitfire and Over the Reich. I still have and very occasionally play them. Put much more time into CM titles though, been installed on every system I've owned since release. I have in fact managed to keep the exact same install/setup for each game from PC to PC over the years (touch wood that continues) so I still have some ancient screens of things like the 232 clown car (or was it 223?? I can't remember). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 BFC has been around for more than 14 years. This thread is really a celebration of Oddball_E8 posting on the forum for 14 years 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobo Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I think I am at 14 years as well. Need to post to check join date. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobo Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 O well, just 13 years next month. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I go well back more than 14 years. Like Fenris, I started out with OtR and AS. I even played the demo for Flight Commander, if that is what it was called. I'm not certain, but I think that may have been 16 years ago. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 BFC has been around for more than 14 years. This thread is really a celebration of Oddball_E8 posting on the forum for 14 years Heh, not much to celebrate there And just for fun, I looked up the first post by me I could find in the archives: this may be a stupid question but here goes. i once had a ricochet that went at an absolute 90 degree angle. ie strait into the air. will it ever come down or does it just dissapear? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Grats to everyone who's had the good fortune to ride the CM train all these years. As was said earlier in the thread, imagine how cool it will be in another 14 years when you'll plug directly into the cerebral cortex and experience it first hand, with real world graphics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Remember the Alpha scenario in the snow and frozen river. How cool was that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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