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[Kilroy]

Mechwarrior 2.

It was both my first video game and my first look at Science Fiction in any capacity. It was so much fun mashing the space bar until my mech shut down or exploded from heat build up. I called Mechs "Stomper Guys" because of the loud boom they made with each step.
Also I was two years old at the time and had to play with my dad manning the controls while I gunned with the mouse and space bar.
I had the game mastered by the time I was 4.

I still play it to this day with my good old Firemoth. Though now i have to play it on hard with armour stripped and a single small laser mounted for it to be a challenge any more.

[CGB Magnus]

I started with the table top game in 1984/1985 and have picked up every book and computer game out there for it

I still have all my stuff for it, But the video games were lost when the wife need to make room for an office space at home and she took my gaming room. I loved this game from the start.

[Jonas]

I was 13 or 14 teen and I was at a flee market, there was a game shop that had a used box set & about 10 Mechs in packages and both the 3050 and the 3055 TRO i bought them all for 25 bucks. Thinking back it was a steal since the TRO where about $25 when I decided to get the 3025, 2750, & 3057. With in weeks I had friends over and we where playing every weekend for hours when my brothers got a little older they started playing played till i was in my mid twenties, still have a lot of my stuff. Would still be playing if I had friends that lived closer.

[nad2357]

The arcade game 7 years ago got me hooked.
Been playing mw4 mercs with mek-pak for about a year

[Ross486]

How i got involved was by reading some of the Battletech novels like (By Blood Betrayed) i think that was the first one i read. I have always like sci-fi like Star Wars or Mass Effect so this came pretty easy for me to like. When i started reading the books i became hooked instantly i also played the Mech Assault games for the original xbox i wish they would make more for consoles that would have been awesome. I also like to look at the websites like Mechground or Battletech Wiki to look up information on Mechs or about the Great Houses or the Clans and famous Mercenary units. All in All i am very excited about this game and hope that if it is a success that maybe they will do console versions of the game to get people on there involved.

Edited by Ross486, 25 April 2012 - 06:38 PM.

[Dakkaface]

Mechwarrior 3 hooked me.  I remember flipping through the manual and marveling at the descriptions of the mechs, and the in-universe tone of the booklet.  That's the game that got me loving clan-tech, with Cauldron Born, Blackhawk, and Shadow Cat being longtime favorites of mine.  I continued to play other games - MW4 and it's expansions, and I got into the Dark Age clicky game in a big way with a large force of Spirit Cats (Nova Cats for the purists), and always played as faction pure as possible.  I still have most of my SC's in a case in the closet, though they don't ever see the light of day, and some of the figs have begun to be cannibalized for conversions for other wargames.
I have the 25th anniversary box, as well as an older starter for CBT, but I never seem to be able to muster the time and/or effort to learn the system.

Edited by Dakkaface, 27 April 2012 - 05:59 PM.

[Tyrell Biggs]

Person was playing the original MechWarrior one day, and I asked about it. It went from there.

Just wish I could get a copy of MechWarrior 2 to work on a newer computer.

[Evernigh]

Round at a mates house he was playing MW3 i think randomly picked up mechanical commander gold for ny pc one day saw bits now and then played MW4at another mates house then not much till i met up with Phill and the guys from NGNG and was introduced to MWLL by them and then all the books which i love way to much about a year and a bit ago and have never looked back never played proper table top but love playing megamek with anyone.

[John Clavell]

I learned about Battletech when I picked up MechWarrior: Vengeance in 2000.

[Lord Kenji]

My Best Mate Dangerous Brian introduced me to BT, we were plying Rolemaster / Spacemaster and one day the mechs came out. Played the tabletop for years, loved it. Even went onto create our own expansion for out of mech scenarios with modern weapons, tactics, power armour etc.

Cannot wait to see this playing, it is a childhood dream in the making!.***

[T C Baxter]

It was 1989, my senior year of HS and my friend had the table top version sitting on a shelf with lead miniatures in the process of being painted on his desk. He handed me the first book of the Grey Death Legion and said I should read it before I started to play the game. I was hooked right after that and have been reading almost every BT book I can find as well as play the game every chance I get.

[BobO369]

I’m going to date myself but I got hooked back in 1987 playing the Battletech board game. I still have well over 500 miniatures and most of the old game manuals, some from before the lawsuit that removed the Macross Mechs from the game. Then when the PC games started coming out I played all of them and still play MW4 every now and then.

For anyone that still likes to collect and paint the miniatures Camo Specs Online is a great website.

Edited by BobO369, 01 May 2012 - 09:34 AM.

[John Talbert]

table top when it came out. stopped playing it when Fasa closed.

[Cobweb]

TRO 3075 came out shorty after I started collecting the miniatures, so compared to some I am very new to Battletech, I have also never played a MW game in my life, but I absolutely love the BT universe so Im optimistic.

[Sigmund Sandoval]

I was a big Robotech fan back in the 80's. I remember buying a Japanese board game based on the Dougram anime and loved it. I went to a local game store with the game and found the original Battletech game and on the cover of the rule book was the Dougram or Griffin as it was called in BT. The game played almost exactly the same, but had bigger models and a variety of paper game boards. Sice then I have been hooked. Later on I fell in with a group that played mechwarrior the rpg and explored one of the richest game universes ever developed. I of course played crescent hawks on my commodore and the compuserve game as well as all the mechwarrior incarnations and still play in an active Solaris 7 game of MW RPG. Still have the rulebook with the Grif on it.

[Edwin Kain]

I was born into it in '85 and grew up on it. My Dad was hooked on the tabletop and most of my fondest childhood memories are filled with painting ral partha pewter minitures, and learning to first play tech around 6-7 years old with my dad. while other kids were drooling in colouring books and digging holes with sticks, I was reading technical readouts and sourcebooks. I've read most of the novels, played aerotech, battledriods, battletroops, mechwarrior the tabletop compainion, battlespace, even the card game, think still have my decks too. If it's related to battle tech you name I've done it, though I wasn't a big fan of the clix darkage. I remember coming home for lunch in public school and watching the cartoon, still have a few of the toys by tyco out on diplay. My first battletech electronic experince was with cresent hawk and mechwarrior back in the dos days. I've play every other battletech and mechwarrior game to date, spaning across whatever platforms they've been on, everything from Mechcommader to mpbt3025, even mechassault and currently MWLL. I love Battletech, if only it could sustain me lol. I know mechs, people, planets, and, eras in mechwarrior better then I do most real world history lol. (Not that I don't know quite abit just more about about bt.) In 2009 My Dad pasted away which was tough for me, for anyone really. Shortly there after Mech4 Mercs was free re-released and Mech 5 was annouced.

So for me the first time I strap in and power up my mech, Is going to be tearful, joy filled glee of remeberance, as I blast some of you fine people with my ppc's.

[Donner]

I was a little boy, and my dad bought me Mechassualt as a surprise. I started playing it, and then I went on my computer and read about this "Battletech Universe" and how Mechassualt was based off of that universe, and I then started playing Mechwarrior, and buying crap from a website you may have heard of called Battlecorps. But Battlecorps really is severely understocked now and they do not have quite the selection anymore. Oh, and being a little kid at the time, I liked toys. So I bought a forestry mech action figure and a whole big box of those collectible Mechwarrior table top game pieces, and played with my friends and we had wars with the Mechwarrior pieces as if they were action figures. Hahah, I loved my childhood.

Edited by Donner, 02 May 2012 - 04:12 PM.

[Alex Wildstar]

I was hooked on the old Shogun Warriors anime from the late 70's, and then came across a Battle Master (Dougram anime series) action figure at Toys-r-Us when I was 14, from there it was on to Star Frontiers, and table top BattleMech, and then a combination of the two for some pretty cool adventurers. From there it was on to Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior 2, Mech Commander, Mech Commander 2, Mechwarrior 4, and now this. Cant wait! I can smell the ozone coming off the over heated PPC's and hear the shreeks of the SRM's going by.

[Nasty9]

When I was younger I went to the store looking for a game to play. After finding MW4 Vengeance, I was hooked. After that I tracked down a copy of MW3 and played that as well, then it was pretty much downhill from there.

[Maurice]

A old friend got me into reading about the GDL then showed me TT game been hooked from then on right now i 've got a full battlemech Regment in metal miniatures and no one to play with also 1 air wing 3 companys of tanks some artillery7 drop ships afleet of war ships thats 5battleships 3cruisers 2frigates 2destroyers one day .DEXS DOTS will see the light