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[FLAKPANZER]

Mechwarrior 2. Played tabletop Battletech for 25 years.

[Jakk Starr]

I started playing Battletech in 1990 and have over 400 miniatures, dozens of books, and played every computer game from crescent hawk to MW4 even EA's not so great 3025 beta they canned to make more f***ing Sims. I love this game so don't screw it up.

[llxQuantaxll]

I'am a really big fan of the Gundam series and this game i feel like there piloting one.

[Hardac]

It was beat up technical book with various mechs in it. I received it when I was like 12 I think. Just something a relative gave too me because they knew I liked giant machines like tractors bulldozers and Transformers.

[light487]

My eldest brother used to play table top games and Mechwarrior was one of them. For me it was the first Mechwarrior PC game by Microprose that hooked me... and not just the mechs either but the whole story behind everything AND the classical style music.. I really hope the music in MWO is not going to be in the style of heavy metal.. while it certainly has its place in some situations, the serenity of the classical style music from the original PC games still makes me dreamy for those days of glory.

[Dispiritor]

Cresent hawks inception on my old comodore 64 in '89, and then I found the books (Decision at Thunder Rift started me off there). A few years later I found the Activision battletech Powerhits in a bargin bin (which had Cresent hawks inception, Cresent hawks Revenge, and Original Mechwarrior for the PC). Since then i've read all the books(hmm... there seem to be new novels coming out on kindle) and played all the games in the series (MC1 gold & 2, MW 1- 4 mercs) Had some TT mechs and box set for a bit too.

[deathanxiety]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3GD0UnBC

This.

Then MW2:Mercs which has always been my favourite of the series.

[Stile]

Battletech history, there's a bunch. Started with Mechwarrior on a Tandy 1000 before they started putting numbers after the name. That would have been in 1989.

Big remembrance of that game was playing it along with a friend all night long on Aug 2, 1990. We alternated missions while watching the CNN coverage of the start of the first GWB's trip into Iraq. I was home on leave at the time just waiting for the phone to ring.

1993, out of the Army, found Genie's Multiplayer Battletech. I met my wife (2000 miles away) and two close friends that I spend time with to this day in that game.

I spent as much as $300 in a month on Genie back then. Legendary founders pack is chump change relatively.

1994, went to Chicago with a group from MI and met others from MPBT there. We rented Virtual Worlds for an afternoon and beat the snot out of each other. I still have the mission reports.

I've played TT and all of the MW titles in the interim. I have read, all of the novels. I just pray we never get to using agro-mechs. I spent way too much money in Dave and Busters mech pods while they had them.

I'm really looking forward to this. It's about time a real community warfare version came back. We still talk about the time Davion had one lonely planet left to call home. We laugh about our merc runs into Davion while the Kurita house leader was forced to listen to Davion's brass whine. Then there was the nerve rod nullifiers........

[HybridTheory]

I've played every Mechwarrior game to be released on the PC. Never touched any of the console versions as they held no interest for me. Also dove into Mechcommander and Mechcommander 2.
I started playing when I was about 14 or 15 if memory serves me.... and joined a clan at 16 to play Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries as a member of the Kell Hounds under the call sign Inferno. My mech of choice then was a Summoner (Thor) and I usually ran it was jump jets and it was often loaded heavily with ER Medium Lasers. Back when a 56k modem made you the talk of town... and lag shooting was a normal thing... not like today when kid gamers chuck Xbox controllers at their TVs because of "LAG".... psh... back in my day....
But I digress... Mechwarrior for me was my first real true video game hook. I loved Mechwarrior 2, Ghost Bears Legacy, Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries.... then things changed and I started to lose some interest. Mechwarrior 3 wasn't as much fun for me, and neither was Mechwarrior 4 or Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries... however I did still enjoy them. Just didn't get into the online element as much.
After not playing any Mechwarrior games at all in the last few years though, I'm most certainly pumped for MWO. See you all on the battlefield soon!

[Seabear]

I got hooked back in 1985 when my 10 year old son found a new robot based game. Never could stand the Macross/Robotech stuff, but this was different. I really liked the game, but it was the literature that really peaked my interest. Once I started readingthe books, the universe came alive. I've played TT and various MW titles. Liked playing them all even if they did not feel in sync with the canon. Cannot wait for MWO to launch!

[Robovski]

I think it was '86 and I had the chicken pox and I was 12; and fallen into gaming 2 years before when my Aunt bought me the Red Box D&D for a Christmas gift my mother thought it would be nice if I had some of that stuff from the hobby shop I liked (Zenith Hobby Shop in Chicago - I'm sure they are gone now).

She bought me Battletech in that box and Car Wars in the old black plastic box. Holy crap I was hooked. Little cardboard standee mechs and card maps and it was all so fun to just mess with. And eventually as I got older I spent loads of time in the back room of my gaming club, playing games. Battletech was a common pick-up as was Axis and Allies and just pushing lead for whatever minifig game was going. Sadly my tabletop days ended when I moved from Chicago to Scotland 12 years ago - not many gamers local to me here and no club or shop to form around As such, never played any of the WizKids stuff that came along more recently.

But when I was 15 I worked one summer for nuns to get enough money for my first computer, a used C64 (my best friend had one) - and that was the beginning of my computer gaming. Cresent Hawks was an all-nighter, working on cracking that vault. When I got my first PC (a 486dx) I got Mechwarrior - and I have had all the commercial PC versions alone the way.

[badpanda]

Mechwarrior was the first game I ever played on PC. A friend of mine had it at his house whilst we were in Primary school, and I badgered him every day after class to play it.

Good times.

[PeptoB]

Have owned all versions since MW1. Owned all expansion packs. I never got into the board game, since I left my D&D days back in the early 80's (Yes, I said it).

Transitioned to PC games in 1994 (had a period of time where I was down my luck). Unfortunately, I cannot find any of my old disks except for all of the entire MW4 suite.

BYW, I also played EarthSeige and ES2. I still have those disks. I did try MA on original xbox, but only because my friend left it at my house when movers packed me up to go across the country (yes, it hitched a ride).

But PC all the way...WOOT..

Damn I'm old....


Pepto

Robovski, on 26 June 2012 - 06:13 PM, said:

I think it was '86 and I had the chicken pox and I was 12; and fallen into gaming 2 years before when my Aunt bought me the Red Box D&D for a Christmas gift my mother thought it would be nice if I had some of that stuff from the hobby shop I liked (Zenith Hobby Shop in Chicago - I'm sure they are gone now).

She bought me Battletech in that box and Car Wars in the old black plastic box. Holy crap I was hooked. Little cardboard standee mechs and card maps and it was all so fun to just mess with. And eventually as I got older I spent loads of time in the back room of my gaming club, playing games. Battletech was a common pick-up as was Axis and Allies and just pushing lead for whatever minifig game was going. Sadly my tabletop days ended when I moved from Chicago to Scotland 12 years ago - not many gamers local to me here and no club or shop to form around As such, never played any of the WizKids stuff that came along more recently.

But when I was 15 I worked one summer for nuns to get enough money for my first computer, a used C64 (my best friend had one) - and that was the beginning of my computer gaming. Cresent Hawks was an all-nighter, working on cracking that vault. When I got my first PC (a 486dx) I got Mechwarrior - and I have had all the commercial PC versions alone the way.

Lol, Red Box

[Thomkhat]

Back in the '80s, my weekend gaming group, who were getting a bit bored with our AD&D campaign, decided to do something different one weekend a month. Battletech was it. Before long, we were playing BT 3 weekends out of 4, and on off-days. Just recently came back, googled for resources, and voila - found this site, and my home with the Raiders. Can't wait for the release.

[Squiffy]

Another guy here who started with the tabletop game in 86... I also was a huge fan of Mechwarrior RPG and remember fondly some great RPG/wargame campaigns. I'm really looking forward to this.

[CaptFrost]

I played BattleTech on the Sega Genesis in 1994, but that didn't really get me started; just made me aware that BT existed.

What got me started was when the Mac version of MechWarrior 2 showed up a year later, right about the same time I got a brand new PowerMac. Fun times ensued!

[Mortichi]

Robotech. thats what started me on this slippery slope. old school japanamation as it was called back in the day.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

Ok, started playing the origional Battletech dice game when I was like 10ish, where I fell in love with the WarHammer, played all versions of MW on PC and playstation. Played MW in the Battlepods at my local Dave & Busters unleashing massive cans of Whoop ars untill they removed the pods, downloaded the free MW4 pack from MekTek when the announcement of MW5 happened (or didn't). Now I devote about 20+ hours a week to playing Mechwarrior Living Legends and have since it was released. AWESOME when compared to MW4, so much so that I can't even try to play MW4, it just doesn't do it for me anymore. I love getting into my Warhammers and putting the Bslap on Clan mechs. The prime is good, the Rachammer is sweet in close and for mass slaughter of Battle Armor, the Wammy E is by far my favorite as I can take just about any type of asset on with it, BA, Armor, Aerospace, Mechs, and Vtrolls! Having the combined arms in MWLL has been great, but 90% of the time I'm in a mech, the other 10% Aerospace.

[GreenTea]

First post ( been lurking for a while now)

One of my friends got me hooked on mw some years ago. Came over to my house one day and caught me playing armored core 2 ( Hangs head in shame ), told me about mw and i havent looked away since.

[ephoenix]

All started, when my dad got a new pc with that fancy ATI-Rage 3D graphics adapter. In a box shipped with the pc I found a paper envelope with the MechWarrior 2 CD in it. I installed and played it without knowing what i was doing there. Never played the whole campagin until years later xD.

What really got me hooked to 'mech sims was in fact Activision's Heavy Gear. God I played that a lot.

The next contact with Battletech was in school when I was in the same class with some guys who played Battletech every week. They also played MechWarrior 3 and they read the Novels. So I joined them and eventually got some miniatures and some TROs. After some time I had surpassed them in knowledge about Battletech. They stopped playing Battletech and moved on to Warhammer Fantasy... we're still friends but we never played the board game again.

The next hook was MechWarrior 4 Vengeance/Black Knight/Mercs. I still remember playing the demo version (!) of MechWarrior 4 while listening to Michael Mittermeier (a german comedian) ... for hours. Don't ask about the final game . I never played over the net though.

The remaining decade since Mech4 I watched a whole lot of anime series including Gundam, Macross, Full Metal Panic! and every mecha series I could get my hands on, wishing for a new mech game to be released.

Recently when I read about MechVM, I tried to get MechWarrior 2 up and running on my computer and it worked, but my screen keeps flickering during a mission, which is a surefire way for getting an awful headache .

At the moment I'm passing the time until Aug. 7th by re-reading some of the novels (atm Warrior Trilogy).