I've been a roller coaster fan for as long as I can remember, I think. At first, I was just intrigued by the layout, and (I was like 4, or really young at the time so don't make fun of me) whenever my brother was tall enough for a coaster, and I wasn't, I would cry. My first ever coaster,I think was at Paramount's Great America, we used to go their a lot when I was little. But we stopped going there the year before they built stealth, ANd I haven't been there since, [:(] Well, now its gone, I've been complaining about that, too, because PGA is my mom's favorite park, and she wants to go there again soon, anyways, back on topic. My first ever looping coaster was a "terrain" arrow called canyon blaster, and it's located at the Adventure Dome (or something like that) in Las Vegas. That ride is cool, because there is never a line, so you just go on it over and over again. I went on it close to 20 times one day, then we went and played laser tag. heres the statistics and pictures for it. [:)]
http://www.rcdb.com/installationdetail104.htm And then, sometime later, I was looking for a roller coaster designer about a year before RCT came out. And then when I found it, I wouldn't stop asking my parents for it. And then, I eventually "stole" it from my cousin's house. He came over to play it, but I didn't let him take it back to his house to play. L8r that christmas, I got the game itself, I think my cousin was more excited than me, though because he could finally get his game back, lol. After that, about a year or to l8r, I became an non coaster enthusiest, at this time, they were just fun, but I wasn't addicted to them. (Knott's still had crap coasters at this time, I think, and I never went to SFMM, so I kinda just gave it up, cuz their was nothing exciting.) THen when RCT 2 came out, I was excited, although it was a big dissapointment, and its "expansion packs" were all crap, not worth more than $10 combined, it still got me back into be a roller coaster "enthusiest" then sometime after, I got bored with RCT 2, and wanted something more, like a FPCS (first person, coaster sim), and so I was looking, I had already known about Ultimate Ride, ect. I didn't like how it was set up, so I didn't buy it, right away. Then One day, I found this site, and I was all like, hmm, what's this no limits, I must have it. Well, then after begging my dad, I finally got it, and then I went to six flags the same week I got it, lol. But, I still wasn't really active on wws.com even though I had an account. Then I went over to CoasterDicks.com and it took me a while to find out how mean and stupid they were. Cause, well, I tried to log on at my dad's work, and it screwed up my account, and I wasn't ever able to log back on. So, I created a new one, they banned, me, I did it again, week l8r I got band, again, second l8r I got banned, waited a month, a month l8r I got a personal ban, and that's when I realized that the admins of CoasterDicks are retards, and don't listen to anybody. THen I went looking for another site, I wanted to join the site that had the really good Xcelerator ride, didn't realize that it was this site, so I kept on looking for it on Coasters2k, then about 2 weeks l8r, I found it here, and decided to become active, and because of this site, I learned a lot more about rides, and I stop hating forums, and I learned very much, I learned how to design coasters. If it wasn't for this site, I might still be looking for NL, lol. And that's so far my biography as a coaster enthusiest, lol. Sorry its so long. [:D]