Initial D made me enjoy arcade games and have experience that I can't get with normal computer games. and. EUROBEAT. Also my unconditional love for the Trueno
Well it all started when i was just grade 6 (12 years old)2005 in a backwater town in Malaysia where my mall had D3(Arcade Stage). that time D4 wasn't even out yet. So i went there every weekend.. listening to the pros who'd come and play there and trying to imitate them. I had no internet and no what so ever source to learn D3 from. so I learned all the advanced stuff from the pros there.. and then, the story of me a young kid just beating local rookie driver began.. lol.. so as every other usual initial d arcade player. I have my friends. I wasn't the best around.. I always had someone in my team which was better than me.. and of course.. younger than me.. lol.. imagine a smaller kid than a kid which is better.. damn.. so we had fun.. I traded cards back then.. selling my old cars and buying new ones... so i had a fair amount of experiences with all D3 cars.. lol then the end of grade 6 came.. it was the holidays...my dad awarded me with a ps2 for getting good results that time.. and then I discovered SPECIAL STAGE. That was when I just stayed away from the arcade and practice at home.. surprisingly the game physics of Special Stage(D2) was similar to (D3) so i had a huge performance increase while i was gone. The usual continued, practicing at home and going to the arcade to port my console skills to the wheel.
-somewhere in between 12-15-
I often go to the "big city" of my country where my brother works and stays during the holiday. That was when I watched all stage 1-4 on DVD at home. It was fun and I made my D4 card while staying there. it made me had interest in eurobeat alot.
-end of somewhere between 12-15-
Then I left, when i was form 3(highschool 15 years old) from the a northern backwater place to the south of Malaysia. A less "backwater" place than the north because it was modernizing. So my local mall there had D4. I played D4 without knowing the techniques and all (I can say that D4 was my shittiest gameplay ever)I had no friends here back then when I was a new transfer student. so I normally hang around at home and play D4 on weekends. and then (16 years old) I found no more interest in this. I stopped for nearly 2 years. Since I discovered, yes this is stupid. THE INTERNET. I finally have a PC with internet at home when i was 15 so I spent more of my time on the internet rather than playing Initial D.
-1 year later-
at the end of Form 5 (17 years old)2010,After my final year of highschool with my exams, a week later. While freely strolling around the mall, bored, looking for something to do, I saw D5. I quickly made a card and played a few rounds. (I had alot of cash stocked up in my wallet back then because I was spending on nothing for 2 years while living on the freedom of the internet lol). Then I went home and researched a ton of videos on YouTube about D5.. and then i discovered this forum! although i joined later in 2011.. So while on holiday break for months. I went to the arcade and practice occasionally. My skills were still below average back then. I only hit like 3'16-3'17 on Akina DH Dry instead of 3'08'xxx now. and that I consider as still below average.
YEAR 2011!
I had some months before my results for my exam come out and then I can go off into college. So while waiting. I wasted my days continuing D5 without improvement..
and then off i went to college when results came out.I joined the forum. met alot of players.. asked alot of questions.. gain more knowledge about arcade stage series.. but I didn't know actual racing knowledge could be applied to a game. well with all that racing line and braking point and all that. D6 was awesome to play while living in the big city during college. But I kinda hated it at first.I came back during december and I trained my ass off in D5 to get into the records. and well.. I succeeded! Not to mention having alot of in-store battles with players there. Thus, the legend of the young old me deceiving players into thinking a kid can't be this good was reborn again..
(no bragging just saying)2012
and well i still go back to that place i shifted too when i was 15 and still play D5 and continue to train there every holiday. Its a great thing because I get to disappear and come back once in awhile again. So people tend to forget who I am
