I started playing with Flight Simulator 3 or 4 - not really sure which. During the summer I'd stay at my aunt's for a few weeks at a time, which was mind-numbi

I started playing with Flight Simulator 3 or 4 - not really sure which. During the summer I'd stay at my aunt's for a few weeks at a time, which was mind-numbing since it was in the suburbs away from all my friends. My cousin had left his screaming fast Packard Bell in his room after he went away to college and since I clearly had decades to kill until my mom came to get me, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out Flight Simulator. I had no idea what I was doing, but I successfully flew from New York to Meigs Field at least once, and always loved to fly around the Chicago skyline since I missed home - and didn't know much else at the time. I never really played the game much, away from that old Packard Bell, but the game's a big part of my personal journey into computers - at a time when nobody else in my world knew much about them.