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#1 Willy Wally

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Posted 31 October 2011 - 08:08 PM

Anyone remember when GENIE had an online balttletech game in the early 90's?

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Posted 31 October 2011 - 08:11 PM

$6.00 an Hour Genic Battletech, You know How Many lawns I had to cut to pay for that game, I had to stop playing due the $300.00 bill my Dad got on his account. (I did pay him off and got to play some more)

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Posted 31 October 2011 - 08:26 PM

One of the reasons I quit was for the same thing ... At first it was $30.00 for a month ... 6 months later (i paid faithfully) they then changed it to $6.00 and hour and did not tell us... a bunch of us left LOL.

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Posted 01 November 2011 - 09:38 AM

One time my bill hit $300 for a month

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Posted 01 November 2011 - 12:50 PM

Ah...GEnie.

Love and hate all rolled up into one beautiful memory.

BattleTech was the reason I signed up for GEnie in the first place. I miss it dearly.

It was a great, tightly knit community. Unfortunatly, GE never really meant to compete with the likes of AOL or CS. They were just looking for a way to make extra money during the evening downtime of their corporate servers.

I still have screen shots of BattleTech. I'll have to dig up the floppys and see ifI can post some.

-Blackwidow

#6 Paladin Brewer

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Posted 01 November 2011 - 12:56 PM

Are you the Liao Blackwidow? :)

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Posted 01 November 2011 - 08:23 PM

Would run Planetary missions but loved hanging out on Solaris.

Swarms on Solaris of Locust vs A lone Assault .

The different bars to hang out in

2am planetary assaults

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 03:38 AM

View PostPaladin Brewer, on 01 November 2011 - 12:56 PM, said:

Are you the Liao Blackwidow? :)


No, unfortunately he isnt. Roger emailed me to let me know someone had taken his name, so you will find him under BW-IB

Good to see ya Brewer.

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 10:12 AM

Konichi-wa Kuritans! Good to see some o the people I remember about anyone know if RR is still around?

Ahh well heres to some glorious battles!

Kyll Long
*yada yada* all that matters is...
Liao :)

#10 Paladin Brewer

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 10:26 AM

RR pops up on my buddy list sometimes. I'll send him an email and tell him to check in.

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 06:19 PM

View PostPaladin Brewer, on 01 November 2011 - 12:56 PM, said:

Are you the Liao Blackwidow? :)


No Brew I am the Blackwidow from Liao that has been since Genie and every other online BT game there has been. I so wish Icefire was here to see this :D

#12 Paladin Brewer

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 06:31 PM

Hello Bwib! :)

#13 BW IB

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:08 PM

Hiya Brew :) nice to see you!!

#14 Paladin Brewer

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:11 PM

You too, sorry your name sucks :) And I miss Icefire too. With every reincarnation the original MPBT community gets more and more dwindled.
Do you know what happened to BMH? I got back on the forums, then like a week later they were gone. I feel like bad luck, maybe I should leave these ones.

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:14 PM

naaa you ain't bad luck bro. Ah well most people just called me BW anyway so no biggie :) *** I did have blackwidow for what like 10-12 years? Not sure what is up with BMH, site could just be down.

#16 Paladin Brewer

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:17 PM

It's been down for weeks *shrugs* Oh well, eventually people will congregate here, hopefully the people I can't seem to track down.

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Posted 02 November 2011 - 09:34 PM

View PostKyll Long, on 02 November 2011 - 10:12 AM, said:

Konichi-wa Kuritans! Good to see some o the people I remember about anyone know if RR is still around?

Ahh well heres to some glorious battles!

Kyll Long
*yada yada* all that matters is...
Liao :)


Boo :D

Good to see you guys are still dedicated to the B-Tech universe. Ahh the good old days, late nights and early mornings.

I hope this turns out well for all involved.

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Posted 03 November 2011 - 07:22 AM

I spent soo much money on Genie MW. talk about CC burnout...

#19 TC DragonMaw

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Posted 03 November 2011 - 09:04 AM

View PostBW-IB, on 02 November 2011 - 06:19 PM, said:


No Brew I am the Blackwidow from Liao that has been since Genie and every other online BT game there has been. I so wish Icefire was here to see this :)


K-wa Blackwidow-san <VDB>

Glad to see ya.

TC

#20 TC DragonMaw

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Posted 03 November 2011 - 09:06 AM

View PostBurai Yutaka, on 02 November 2011 - 09:34 PM, said:


Boo :)

Good to see you guys are still dedicated to the B-Tech universe. Ahh the good old days, late nights and early mornings.

I hope this turns out well for all involved.


K-wa Tono <VDB>

Very glad to see you here!

TC





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