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[Brother Justin Isadore Seville]

In my case, I was about four or five I think when my dad got me the first Mechwarrior and the first Earthseige PC games. This was back in the day when it was still uncommon for everybody to have a home computer and the PC game industry was still pretty small. But from then on, anytime I would see something from the Battletech universe I would instanly recognoize it and go nuts.

I've always wanted to collect Mechwarrior/Battletech stuff but unfortunatly, for most of my 24 years anything Battletech has always been too unreasonably expensive for me to collect and they've never really made any toys as such. Also I'm ashamed to say I was ignorant that there were novels for the Battletech series until about 2002, they just don't have that much science fiction stuff at the bookstores around here.

The Boardgame has also been too prohibitivly expensive for me until relativly recently. It was easy enought for me to get my hands on a reprint of the classic style Battletech starter set with cardboard minis and the old unrevised rule set. But now I'm looking at getting a current starter set and additional add ons, and my eyes pop out every time I look at the prices of this stuff. I still think the boardgame stuff is still pretty expensive for what it is. But then thats how they get ya, they have you sample the little stuff to get you familiar with the taste and then your hooked, a Battlemach fanatic with a fix! Fortuneatly boardgames are a lot more intellectectual than zombie shooter games.

[Xantars]

this question has probably been asked 20+ times on this form already

[Seabear]

I got hooked when my son bought the first boxed setover 25 years ago. While it was interesting, the real culprit wass the fiction. I read one of the novels he got because I did not have anything to read at the time. The depth and continuity of the storylines did it! I have a fairly complete collection of the early novels which, with the source material on the Nook, give a fairly complete redition of the early literature. I have been playing the game for almost 3 decades.

[LogicalTightRope]

I started out with MechWarrior when I was about 10 or 11 (don't know exactly) on a visit to Boston. At one point, I visited an arcade, which had a 3-game machine including MechWarrior 4: Vengeance. I couldn't get enough. I played it as much as possible and got my parents to take me to that arcade a second time to play it more. Not too long after I got back from the trip, I ordered a copy of MW4: Mercs, and still couldn't get enough. Over time, I got bored of it however. A few years later, I rediscovered it, along with MekTek and the production of the new MechWarrior game (not yet announced as MWO). I researched more and found MW: Living Legends, with which I'm keeping busy until Online comes out.

[Ishtar]

For me it's simple, fandom of anime the to Macross then to robotech (which is
A rip off Macross) the to battletech which we all know where they got their influences. But during the 80's my first reason would be, because of DnD pencil and paper games.

Also lacking video games a found it very annoying typing a 80 page script on my Texas insturment just to play frogger for a few hours and get bored.

[Chet Manley]

It all started with Battledrome


From there it became: Macross, Mechwarrior, Robot Jox(movie), Earthsiege, Star Siege(<3 dem hercs), SS Tribes, Tribes II, Gundam 8th MS series, Mechwarrior 3&4, Chrome Hounds, ect.. ect...

[Iron Horse]

I still remember the first time I saw the Warhammer ExocutionerX box art in the window of a local game store. I don't even usually play tabletops, but that image got me hooked.

Besides this, the poster with, "In the 31st Century life is cheap, 'Mechs aren't," already had my attention. Go big or go home!

Edited by Iron Horse, 15 June 2012 - 10:10 AM.

[Kenaris]

I was about 12 or 13 and started geting in to the TT Battletech with my Dad... and also a cool little game called Crescent Hawks Inception for the Amega

I have been hooked ever since

[StonedVet]

Watched the TV cartoon ages ago and the tabletop card game after that. Once I got a computer it was the MW PC games and so on.

[PixelPixie]

was kinda liking the anime oh about 7 years ago...was at a summer camp, some of the less athletic boys were playing. looked rather interesting and one night i learned and played if i remeber right ..did ok nothing but it made camp abit easier.

been hit or miss over the years though last bf was a total gamer and got me back interested..now if he applied hlaf the amount of time that he played into looking for steady work/and abit of social skills to boot i might have stuck around. still i did take his laptop as well compensation for lousy relationship skills..but thats another story totally.

pixie.

[DarkNova045]

I learned of Battletech way back in the day when MW4 came out. I loved the game ed Black Knight (which sucked horribly) and I played Mech Commander 2. I had no idea of the larger universe until I found a local gameshop that stocked classic Battletech minatures and now I own a mixed lance along with the basic rules.

[FLAKPANZER]

Battletech tabletop game when I was in 6th grade....25 years ago.

[Wo0m3rA]

Got hooked on Battletech through tabletop gaming friends circa 1985. Collected a lot of FASA stuff back then, from Renegade Legion to Star Trek the RPG, but the cardboard mechs of BT are where Mechwarrior began for me. Played a few of the PC titles during the 90s and enjoyed the virtual world simulators.

Used to enjoy painting miniatures and had a case full of various Ral Partha figurines and even tried my hand at one of the large 1/35th scale vinyl mechs - very rare now days.

Looking forward to MWO as I'm sure many other "tabletop" BT players are, and hope that style of gamesmanship translates across to an online title.

[Brother Justin Isadore Seville]

Xantars, on 15 June 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

this question has probably been asked 20+ times on this form already

Yeah. but I just got here and I'm too lazy to dig the forums.

[Brother Justin Isadore Seville]

Ishtar, on 15 June 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

For me it's simple, fandom of anime the to Macross then to robotech (which is
A rip off Macross) the to battletech which we all know where they got their influences. But during the 80's my first reason would be, because of DnD pencil and paper games.

Also lacking video games a found it very annoying typing a 80 page script on my Texas insturment just to play frogger for a few hours and get bored.

I love anime and I've been exposed to computers my whole life! My dad was a programmer for DuPont and I remember he wrote some code that allowed my sister and I to run games on an OS that normally would not allow it. I remember haveing to type in a start code for the Earthseige Game plus some other early games. You had to type in the drive path and the source executable to run it.



Gee there sure seems to be more old style gamers hee than at the HALO websites, at lot more people I identify with!

Edited by Brother Justin Isadore Seville, 15 June 2012 - 02:04 PM.

[MightyRando]

I got hooked when I was 12, at first playing the Original Mechwarrior, then the tabletop when I was 14. I loved playing smaller battles (1 lance each or less), but hated huge company battles.
Loved reading up on the back stories of the game too. Loved to try and get my hands on my friend's sourcebooks and read all I could. Sadly, I didn't have enough money at the time to really get any sourcebooks of my own. I was lucky to get my hands on a copy of 3rd edition when it came out at the local On Cue store, but that was about it.
Now I'm starting to get some of the new sourcebooks that are out there, but unfortunately, the gang I use to play this game with are either no longer around, or have lost interest. Downside to living in a small town. Hopefully sometime I can get my Magic the Gathering buddies to play instead.

[Shane W]

I got hooked when I was about 15 and a friend had the rules. We had no minatures at the time and so only played with graph papper. When I went to AIT in the army in 1990 I found two boxes of lance mechs(still lead at the time) the assualt lance and pursuit lance. started painting them and played often with the TT until about 2008. Played the computer versions and had a friend with 8 Xbox and TVs hooked up in his attic to play some awsome system link games.

[Tetatae Squawkins]

My brother had a third edition box set in the early 90s. I loved it. And so began the spending of thousands of dollars.

Edited by crabcakes66, 29 June 2012 - 08:38 AM.

[CL_Kodiak]

The year was 1990... My friend came over and said hey check this game out, we can play this instead of D&D for a change. So our little group learned the rules and started making our mechs on paper and played it day after day after day! D&D started collect dust and the rest is history haha.

We got deep into the miniatures too painting them and building the foam terrain maps and painting on the hex grids Good times! then we upgraded to playing battletech at Virtual World in Chicago and spent WAY too much money over the years.

After that it was released to PC and mechwarrior 2 netmech was the first one I played, then 3 and 4 and I even tried to dabble in Living legends.

Been waiting for this day a LONG time

[Nikohki]

a friend turned me on to MW2:merc (new at the time) when I was in middle school. It was all downhill from there...