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[MR DE KAY]

been playin since i was a child

[Jervinator]

MR DE KAY, on 24 November 2011 - 07:15 PM, said:

been playin since i was a child

Many here have, but for some, that means, "About a week".

[Kargush]

10 years of gaming, 11 of actually having an interest and sourcebooks.

Put in 6-10 on the votes.

[Hangfire]

Never played the tabletop, My intro to Battletech/Mechwarrior was MW2, didn't start playin' online till MW4.

[Sitting Lyra]

1987 on paper & dies...Then start playing the original PC Mechwarrior game (when a locust actually have a good chances of killing a battlemaster with just the machine guns and kamikaze charge.)

The rest... I am still waiting if Star adder got tired of patrolling the Colleen system and let the Blood Spirit recovered.

[Warfare]

I've been in the BT Universe since '86 with breaks in the mid 90's and 00's. Picked it back up again in '09 and loving every minute of it.

[Pointman1]

Mechwarrior 2 was i think the first ever computer game i played when i was 4ish i think. Since then i have always been a MechWarrior fan, but i've only recently been following battletech as a story. 3 or so years ago i discovered the battletech novels and since, i have been a keen follower doing catch up.

[Type ZERO]

First Mech game I played was Mech 3050... been at it since. =)


Time flies when you're having fun. =P

[alVolVloLy]

Played Cresent Hawks on my Dad's pc, but didn't count it toward my years.

Played the heck out of the MW2 ATI Rage Edition that came with a video card I wanted for another game. First started getting online with MW3, kept on playing since, expansions, etc...pc only, roughly 16 years.

[Dougram]

i think it must have been in the middle of the 90´s.

Started with tabletop and the Books.


I even still have the contract, i and a friend made to buy MW2 and who may use it when :-)
Think i got the Matrox Mystique edition.

Played MW 3 only briefly, cause i never made it beyond one early Mission.
I gave to someone and never saw it again.

i still play MW4 Mercs on my desktop (xp) and will try to get MW4 Vengance on my Laptop (Vista).

I´m 32 now and will try to get a shot at this game but between working shifts,my wife and a Baby and goin to the gym will be not that much time :-(

[Franklin Hallis]

launch day purchaser in 1985...
been a blast...
did not play from early 96 till 2005ish as I felt the addition of the clans unbalanced the game to much.. still do

[ferrain]

Started when I was 3 With mechwarrior 3.
First game I've ever played, and was introduced to it through my dad. I've been playing for nearly 12 years already.

[Anastasius]

Since the mid 80's. I love the BT universe.

[PropWash]

Hmm, I'll have to think hard about this.

I was first exposed to BattleTech around 1988 or 1989 by an old friend who was really into D&D (Shoutout to Jason Randall)

In 1989 I played the original MechWarrior PC game until I was blue in the face...On a friends PC no less (Again, 'sup Jason)

1991-1992 or so I finally visited the BattleTech Center in Chicago and played in system 2.5

In 1999 I acquired my first set of BattleTech VR Cockpits (4 3.0 cockpits from California). Was the first person to purchase cockpits for use at home.

Somewhere in there I got my hands on an old but functional FASA Interactive alpha build of the PC BattleTech game and got permission to give it away for free (distributed with the help of MekTek).

At one point in time I even owned and possessed the entire FASA development library (That is a truckload of a story in its own right)

In 2005 I purchased majority ownership of Virtual World Entertainment (The guys who make the BattleTech pods) and have been heavily vested into the promotion of the franchise as a whole since.


Somewhere in there I bought BattleTech.Com and partnered with Catalyst Games to turn it into the master BattleTech portal under the leadership of Randall Bills.


In the mean time, I have participated in some fashion in the marketing or development of MechWarrior 4, MechAssault 1 and 2, VirtualWorld Tesla 4 and Firestorm, Classic BattleTech, Dark Age, MechWarrior 4 Free Release, MechWarrior TC, and other products I cant mention here at this time.

I really like BattleTech, and if I'm lucky, I get to play 1-2 games in some form or another every year

Edited by PropWash, 10 December 2011 - 02:58 PM.

[Atlas3060]

Sitting Lyra, on 07 December 2011 - 10:50 PM, said:

The rest... I am still waiting if Star adder got tired of patrolling the Colleen system and let the Blood Spirit recovered.

After reading the recent publications, I doubt that. If the Spirits pop their heads up it wouldn't be pretty.

[Todd O Connor]

26 years first picked it up in 1985 leafing though those original house books is what did it.

[Deathjester]

Damn, 23 years for me, didn't realise it had been so long. Started with the original 1989 Mechwarrior for PC, played every Mech game on the PC since and read as many of the novels as I could get my hands on.

[Huntsman]

16 years

[Slepnir]

1987 for me..still got some of the original posters on my walls, still play prettty much evry weekend.
here is my log.... with pics even-


http://www.warseer.c...ad.php?t=267230

[Pvt Dancer]

Crecent Hawks Inception on my Commador 64 was my first experience with Battletech in 88...I started playing table top in 89-91 range.

Never liked the Clan or IS stuff, so pretty much stopped playing after they droped the 'unseen' mechs. Still have a /ton/ of actual mechs and vehicles for the table top game though.