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[Ozric]

20+ years. classic BT (pen and paper, didn't have many minis), then C64, and then PC mech games. at the last i played a lot of mektek enhanced MW4. good times.

[Torment2]

20 some-odd years. All the computer games, played in the pods, tabletop you name it. I lost my taste for MW4....terrible version imho.

Looks like I'll be buying a joystick come summertime, eh?

[Artifice]

I was first introduced to Crescent Hawks Inception somewhere at the end of the 80's. Since then I've played all of the computer games, but have little knowledge of the actual universe. I didn't know there was a tabletop RPG until a few years ago. I look forward to MWO being everything that the earlier games tried to be.

[HeartoftheJaguar]

Started with MW3 at the age of 9. Been a fan of the universe ever since. I'm 21 now guess that makes me a BT fan for the majority of my life. Never played the tabletop game but I follow the lore and buy the sourcebooks and novels. I don't think anything else that interested me as a kid remained as exciting now as an adult.

[Bavak Jaguar]

I have a lot of the original battletech TROs that show all the original mechs. I remember waiting @ the game shop to find out what that cool looking mech that was on the cover of the 3055 TRO only to find out that the massive cannon on the top was a small pulse laser. Talk about disappointment!!

[Werewolf]

Been into BT ever since '89 when I was 9... Never lost track of it even though I'm far from the peeps I used to play with...

[asland]

I started on the table-top, then lost track of it until MW2 came out. Played off and on for a couple of years and then got heavily invested in the Pods in Dallas and Houston. As of 2009 invitational I was the National Deputy, and recently defended my title as Houston's regional Deputy, in Gunslinger tournaments.

[Jack BeFLippen]

heh, funny you should ask.. how many of you gents and ladies recognize my pic here?
i have played some table top, but have played every one of the Mech games since MSDOS.

Edited by Jack BeFLippen, 21 December 2011 - 12:48 PM.

[Crimson Knight]

Since I was 11. I am 34 now, so 23 years. Good times...Introduced many people to it along the way. My first box set of 4th edition Battletech is long gone and the card board minis long destroyed. I miss those days sometimes.

[saint71]

Way back when the table top game changed from Battledroids to Battletech

[Alekto Serenis]

Almost exactly 20 years, my uncle gave me the grey death trilogie for christmas, was quite hooked to the storys, then i got a gfx upgrade for my pc upgrade a couple years later, it had an oem mw2 with it.... that and system shock made me the gamer i am.. still trying to lure my bf away from its warhammer to some battletech (as he tries to get me to get me to wh:fantasy^^)

Bavak Jaguar, on 12 December 2011 - 04:13 PM, said:

I have a lot of the original battletech TROs that show all the original mechs. I remember waiting @ the game shop to find out what that cool looking mech that was on the cover of the 3055 TRO only to find out that the massive cannon on the top was a small pulse laser. Talk about disappointment!!

= reason for customizing mechs #1, gauss in torso and a spl there and call it behemoth?

Edited by Alekto Serenis, 21 December 2011 - 02:14 PM.

[kaziem]

Wow. It's been a while. For battletech the tabletop, that's new. But I've been playing Mechwarrior and reading the novels since I was little-- I actually can't remember my first introduction. But I do know it was before I started playing Starcraft, so that was quite a while ago. I think it was before Mechwarrior 3 and Mechcommander, since I distinctly remember playing Mechwarrior 2 before we had 3. Since I don't know exactly it's somewhere around 15 or so years, maybe longer. Put my chip in the 11-15 category.

[John Frye]

What, no 25 year option? I feel robbed...

[StonedDead]

ZM.Hawk, on 19 November 2011 - 11:46 AM, said:

I was playing with giant robots from maybe 1994 (anyone remember Earthsiege?) and my first experience with Battletech was the cartoon a year or so later. 16 years.

I loved Earthsiege, I still have the second one, but have trouble getting it to work right on the newer pc's. It was the "giant robot with guns" game that started it all for me. I then moved on to the snes, and MW2 on Sega Saturn, then skipped 3 and now play 4 vengeance, black knight and mercs. My friends dad had MW on pc and I did play that a few times. I want an Electron Flux cannon from Earthsiege, nothing beats the lightening bolt on a leash except maybe a Particle Beam Cannon(electromagnetic shotgun)!

So, I have played for a long time. Never the TT though regrettably, and I just managed to finagle myself a set of books as well, never knew they existed or I wouldn't be such a Star Wars fanatic now, he he.

My favorite 'herc from Earthsige was the Samson, however I liked the Razor flyer in 2 especially with paired plasma cannon or PBW on the wingtips, 2 400GW lasers under the nose, and an ECM on the tail.

Edited by Zekester81, 21 December 2011 - 06:40 PM.

[Blackfire1]

Born 1986, played my first Battletech universe game on Sega. so I only slightly missed the golden age.

[Donovan Pilgrim]

I picked up a copy of the original boxed miniatures game when it was still called "Battledroids" after playing a demo game at Gencon the year it first hit the scene.

Geez... I feel old. heh.

[John Frye]

Donovan Pilgrim, on 21 December 2011 - 07:13 PM, said:

I picked up a copy of the original boxed miniatures game when it was still called "Battledroids" after playing a demo game at Gencon the year it first hit the scene.

Geez... I feel old. heh.

Only a bit newer here. However the old feeling still hit me when Blackfire1 commented he was born in 1986 and I realized I have been playing BT for as long as he has been alive.

Did the original droids version actually have miniatures? The 2nd edition only came with the crappy foldover image cards that you had to put in these dinky plastic stands...

[Wavelength]

SilentWolff, on 22 November 2011 - 06:33 PM, said:

Well, looks like the old geezers have won this poll with almost 40% of the vote.

Awesome!
A friend showed me the game in 86 or 87. I thought it looked really cool, but never got into playing the game. A few yrs later I just started collecting and building the minis. Later MW2 and Virtual world kept me and my best friends busy! Got every PC game and tried for every novel. Got into the Wizkids set, and even used those in my class to make math fun for my 3rd graders! Haven't messed with those in a few years, but discovering this has gotten me feeling the itch, so I dusted them off to show to my 9yo girl and 4yo boy and got a simple game going!
And sometimes, I have to admit, while driving around I would pretend my car was a 'mech:-)

[Larry Headrick]

wow not the only anciant around
and i remember the cardboard mechs and punchout buildings and hovertanks LOL ben doing this since 1987
"Heck boy i remember when a movie was $5 Thats when i started playing battle tech."

Edited by Larry Headrick, 21 December 2011 - 08:39 PM.

[Mad Axe]

Started with Mechwarrior 2 on the PC waaaay back in the day. As much as I loved the game it was the fluff text between battles that intrigued me, and got me hooked on the tabletop game and then the novels. Wow I feel old sometimes!