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[hammerreborn]

I first started with the giant robot blows other giant robots up games with the Earthseiges. Then my friend introduced me to the novels with the warrior trilogy (my favorite books by far). Then I located mechwarrior 2 or 3 and have been playing them ever since.

[Sporklift]

I read the novel Operation Excalibur and then later read the Blood of Kerensky trilogy then I bought MW2: Titanium Edition.

[Xantars]

hmm i would have to say i started with the table top game some time in the early 80's when i was in high school. I still play the table top game with the same group when we have the time. I have a massive collection of the wizkids clickies and i even have a dropship so yea im a Mech Warrior Fan

[Koopak]

When i was 13, im now 19, so yes im a youngin. I spent years 8-13 seeing mech warrior titles in best buy and wantign to get them but never did.

Finaly i got Mech Assault 2, which while no where near a good representation of theb attle tech universe, it was amazingly fun, since then iv played every mech title and even played megamek, a java client that simulates original battletech rules.

Battletech is an obsession of mine now.

[Toothman]

Right after they renamed Battledoids Battletech. Yeah I'm old enough to fart dust.

[mbt201188]

I've been into it since I was 6 or so. Mechwarrior 2 Mercs and beyond including Mechcommander and even Mechassault (even tho I complained the whole time lol.)

[Isho]

I've pretty much have played MW since i was born praticaly, I have to admit this is my one of my favorite game series and I'm exited for this reboot of the game. Can't wait to pilot a Madcat in HD!

[Haakon Valravn]

MechWarrior2. It came with the Aptiva computer my mother brought home from Costco. Figured out how to install it and everything. Didn't play MW3 much, as I didn't care for it. Didn't spend much time with MechCommander, either. Probably have the most trigger time on MW4, simply because I haven't been able to play MW2 in... Over a decade, now. Even picked up a PlayStation and MW2 for it, in the hopes of being able to play once more... Which didn't happen, because they dumbed it down a lot. Got into the TT a little bit, but by then no one here was playing it Also enjoyed MechCommander 2 and parts of MechAssault. Hated MechAssault 2. Introduced my friends to MechWarrior: Dark Age and served as BattleMaster for a time before I decided that I hated the mechanics of the game. We played a bit of Sol7 using rules that have since been C&D into non-existence. Probably the most fun I ever had with those stupid clicky-things, though. Still love the scale.

[lolshevik]

I was 6 years old at the time my parents bought our family's first real computer in 1996 (Windows 95 pentium 200 mhz processor lol). About a week later I discovered the CD-ROM case of Mechwarrior 2 within my dad's CD collection. Seeing that the cover looked absolutely badass, I confronted my dad about it. He said that it had came with the new computer but he and my mom had decided to hide it from me, feeling that the cover graphic suggested that it was potentially too violent of a computer game to be appropriate for me to play. At the behest of my endless pretty pleases, my dad caved in and installed it. I remember being absolutely blown away by the graphics and sinister tone of the opening cinematic, (although the skulls getting crushed by the Timberwolf sequence didn't eactly help my case to win over my parents initially). It was like nothing I had ever seen before.

That night I did my first 'call to trial' in MW2 and the rest is history. Mechwarrior has been my favorite game series ever since. When I was older I also began reading up on the actual Battletech universe lore and over time became even more attached the universe and games. Needless to say, I'm looking very forward to this latest installment.

[Lightfoot]

I had been pondering the Battletech stuff at the comic shop. I knew they had made a MechWarrior PC game. Then I saw MechWarrior 2 and got a PC a few years later really just to play MW2.

[THELONGSHANKS]

I started with the table top game, with the warhammer on the front and the plastic, 'unseen', figures. I put Crescent Hawks and Mechwarrior on my parents computer, then all the following mechwarriors after that. Played every console iterance and promptly nerdraged. Read all the Succession Wars and Clan Invasion fictions, but started to lose it with Protomechs (***?). I have been waiting for a game like MWO for a long time. Too long. but it's coming.....

[BlueMeeney]

I can remembr dabbling in the TT game just a little bit but then I got the ATI 3D computer version and the game Wipeout. I've seen others on here had that too. I was Absolutely hooked, I couldnt wait to get more. I Have all the PC versions still including that ATI 3D. When Mech 3 came out I was sooo Excited I took It home And played it begging to end non stop. Took me about 8 hours. Love this stuff

[Gozer]

It had to be in the early 90's as I don't think I had a job yet. I remember going to a small used book store and seeing this odd game on the shelf. It was called "Battletech." It was the 2nd printing I believe (had a Warhammer) on the cover. I ended up buying Renegade Legion Centurion instead of Battletech THAT day, but I'd remember the game a few months later when my friend got it. I've played every PC/Console version of the game I can think of since.

I remember the Mechwarrior 2 ad I had taped to my bedroom door that showed a Madcat stomping through some dude's house as he played. Ah memories...

[empath]

1986, when a classmate introduced me to the 1st Edition BattleTech board game; I spent a couple of days studying the manual closer than the school texts.

Already big on computer games, I jumped on Infocom/Westwood Studio's Crescent Hawks' Inception, and then had a nerdgasm when Activision released Dynamix's first-person simulator (if in 320x200x16 EGA)

Played everything released on a computer except maybe MechForce for the Amiga, and the MW3: Pirate's Moon expansion. Some of that got played out-of-order, MW3 I only got hold of AFTER I'd finished MW4's Vengence & Black Knight, and I played the MechCommander games backwards.

[Mage man202]

started playing when my dad got it when i was four. he got MW3 and the "offical" joystick to go with it.
played off and on for a few years but being an ***** kid and not putting the disc away caused it to get scratched to hell.
plus even if wasnt scratached, my machine probably cant run it any more =(

joystick still works though

Edited by Mage man202, 06 May 2012 - 02:22 PM.

[Ambartanen]

Must have been around1990\91 on a gas station in a freeway, my parents stoped and i was going thru the pocket books on display there and found Mercenaries Star there and fell in love with the Marauder on the cover, on that same year at a friends house i saw him playing Crescent Hawk Revenge and had to get a copy for me!

[Zelekin]

I played Mechwarrior 2 and 3 when I was a wee lad. Barely remember them.

Although I have found my Mechwarrior 2 Titanium edition CD recently. Took a lot of work to get it working on windows 7.

[StrataDragoon]

my dad introduced mechwarrior 3 to me when i was probably like 6-9 years old been a mechwarrior fan ever since!

[Voridan Atreides]

I watched my older brother play MW2 and MW3 when I was little and I played too.

[JP Josh]

i am now 20 years old but grew up playing mech warrior two with my father. sadly we havnt been able to figure out how to get it to run yet on window seven but we have brought two more members to the universe. my two younger brothers (im the oldest) please make a person that has these fallowing names your priority to kill when on enimy team

Taco- my dad crackerthejack/speedy- middle brother

rabid donught- youngest and most feircest fighter of the family where every one else turns tail and runs he trys to ram bite and jump ontop of the enimy mechs to kill em.

ps hes not afriad to turnhimself into a mobile bomb.

probly our falt because we threw sticky granades on him in fear and used him to clear rooms if friendly fire was off.