TITLE
Search and Destroy
AUTHOR
John Shirley
PUBLICATION
Wired
YEAR
1995
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
You’re a thirtysomething guy, you’re in the garage untangling the Weber from the fishing gear and your kid’s obsolete roller skates, preparing for another in an endless series of backyard barbecues. You’re gonna baste; you’re gonna spread red sauce on meat.Suddenly your nostrils flare as you hear the drone of an Air Force jet in the distance. You gaze past your ’93 Ford Taurus, out the garage window at a tiny segment of horizon hidden away in the blunt suburban skyline.
The enemy is out there; the kill is waiting.
And you want to be out in the sky, hunting, searching, destroying. You want to bring the meat home dripping red in your grimy, calloused fingers.
Hormones secrete; your eyes dilate; your nostrils flare; the hair on the back of your neck stands up. The Weber drops from your manicured hands with a clang, and you run inside to your PC and your flight-sim software.
There’s just time for a kill.
GAMES MENTIONED
Air Warrior
Falcon 3.0
Fightertown
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Jonathan Baron
DiRicco
Neil Johnston
Martin Morris
Bryce Whitlock
ALTERNATE LINK
Archived Copy @ Internet Archive
PRINT AVAILABILITY
January 1995 (Volume 3, Issue 1)