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[blood4blood]

It may seem off-topic, but it's what led me to play MW2 in the 90's...

Edited by blood4blood, 11 March 2015 - 09:55 AM.

[Vandul]

blood4blood, on 11 March 2015 - 09:54 AM, said:

It may seem off-topic, but it's what led me to play MW2 in the 90's...

Close enough

[Metus regem]

blood4blood, on 11 March 2015 - 09:54 AM, said:

It may seem off-topic, but it's what led me to play MW2 in the 90's...

Still has those magic 4 letters on it.

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[DasSibby]

Definitely the Mechwarrior 2 Intro for me... "Bandits are hostile. Repeat. Bandits are hostile." So good...

[DaZur]

blood4blood, on 11 March 2015 - 09:54 AM, said:

It may seem off-topic, but it's what led me to play MW2 in the 90's...

You know your in a rough neighborhood when you need two armed friends to over-watch while you hit the ATM.

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DaZur, on 11 March 2015 - 10:11 AM, said:

You know your in a rough neighborhood when you need two armed friends to over-watch while you hit the ATM.

So Vancouver?

I joke, I joke... still compared to where I live, with in a few hundred KM of Vancouver, it sure is a rough place by comparison....

[LT. HARDCASE]

Chadamir Fitzkrieg, on 11 March 2015 - 08:08 AM, said:

Mechcommander 1 intro. Still impresses me.

Edit:

YES! I came to post exactly this.

Me being a black guy, I always laugh at the thought of being Hardcase, whenever I get to cocky and die early in a match.

Now that there's VOIP, everyone on the team can hear me say "Ejecting, ejecting ejectiiiiing!!!!!"

I still watch this intro all the time. Mechcommander was such an amazing experience when I was a kid.

Edited by Kevjack, 11 March 2015 - 10:15 AM.

[Lexx]

For me it's this,...



Finding that game on sale for $5 at an Electronics Boutique in the mall back in 1988 is how I found out about Battletech.

Edited by Lexx, 11 March 2015 - 10:21 AM.

[trtw]

Hyper99, on 11 March 2015 - 08:27 AM, said:

Best game evar! Why can't someone just buck up and re-create?!

I agree totally. Whenever i hear the "look on the brightside kid..." line from the intro I grin for hours. I loved that game

[KraftySOT]

And of course the alternate cover:



I was always one of those nerds who just has to have the original pressing, the import, the one on blue vinyl, the misprint, etc.

CityTech was the first one I got simply for collectors sake. Fun too tho.

Shoot Victors in the Mech ****.

Edited by KraftySOT, 11 March 2015 - 10:39 AM.

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KraftySOT, on 11 March 2015 - 10:37 AM, said:

That's the cover for Citytech I remember... taught my to fear SRM carriers in a city... along with:

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Annihilator
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hunchback
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/UrbanMech -- The UM-R60L to be precise

[KraftySOT]

Yeah thats the one that hit in the 90s that most people remember, the Archer cover was the first edition, that got whacked by the lawsuit in the 90s.

So you got the cool painting of the elementals fighting a Victor with an old Awesome in the background.

And it came with cheap plastic clam mechs, which when painted, looked just like the Ral Parthas. No one ever new until you picked it up.




It was a ***** to cut them off the plastic tree cleanly tho.

But at the time there was no other way I was gonna get a Kit Fox and a Nova.

Edited by KraftySOT, 11 March 2015 - 10:45 AM.

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KraftySOT, on 11 March 2015 - 10:44 AM, said:

Yeah thats the one that hit in the 90s that most people remember, the Archer cover was the first edition, that got whacked by the lawsuit in the 90s.

So you got the cool painting of the elementals fighting a Victor with an old Awesome in the background.

And it came with cheap plastic clam mechs, which when painted, looked just like the Ral Parthas. No one ever new until you picked it up.




It was a ***** to cut them off the plastic tree cleanly tho.

But at the time there was no other way I was gonna get a Kit Fox and a Nova.

Years of WH40k has taught me tricks for that, along with decades of plastic modeling....

[Vandul]

That Victor is awful looking though. /bleh

[Novakaine]

Kevjack, on 11 March 2015 - 10:14 AM, said:

YES! I came to post exactly this.

Me being a black guy, I always laugh at the thought of being Hardcase, whenever I get to cocky and die early in a match.

Now that there's VOIP, everyone on the team can hear me say "Ejecting, ejecting ejectiiiiing!!!!!"

I still watch this intro all the time. Mechcommander was such an amazing experience when I was a kid.

And I thought I was the only the one here.
Silly me lol.

Edited by Novakaine, 11 March 2015 - 12:40 PM.

[Bhael Fire]

Lexx, on 11 March 2015 - 10:20 AM, said:

For me it's this,...



Finding that game on sale for $5 at an Electronics Boutique in the mall back in 1988 is how I found out about Battletech.

This is my exact same origins story. Only my copy of the game was for C-64 not PC.

[Fate 6]

Anything MW2, especially the intro cinematic. Dat 2v2 Summoners vs Timber Wolves, i crie evry tiem

[Lexx]

Bhael Fire, on 11 March 2015 - 12:43 PM, said:

This is my exact same origins story. Only my copy of the game was for C-64 not PC.

Mine was for the Apple 2. EB had all the Apple 2 games on sale real cheap. They were closing them out, since everyone had switched over to the Macintosh.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

Vandul, on 11 March 2015 - 08:00 AM, said:

What symbol, piece of art, image or music is iconic for you in the BT universe?
MW2 soundtrack? MadCat? One of the unseen?
What one item takes you 'there'?
For me it was the Warhammer on the original artwork of the boxed edition.


What about you?

That, and this

[LordMelvin]

This song. Installing Mechwarrior 4 and listening to this while reading the backstory provided in the installer window. Easily one of the best installations I've ever seen. Not only did it get me hyped as **** for the game, but it also taught me about I was about to enter.