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[Affront692]

With the Founder injection starting soon I figured lets share our favourite mechwarrior memories before we start blasting each other to smitherines

Ok so when I was a kid my family lived on a farm with the closest town being 100km away. On this particular day it was my birthday and it was pouring with rain and my dad took me to go buy my very first PC. When we got to the PC shop the guy said I could pick 1 free game and when I saw the the Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries box I immediately fell in love with it. A big robot with big weapons how can you not . When we got home and all was setup and installed I remember the goose bumps I got when the Introduction video started. Rain was pounding on my window and I was covered in a blanket holding a cup of Hot Chocolate. My eyes went all glassy as I saw robots shooting at each other and I thought too myself this is the best game ever.




Edit: added video

Edited by Affront692, 20 July 2012 - 03:14 AM.

[Leetskeet]

My brother used to make a Mad Dog with Gauss Rifles in MW2.

I hated those damn little balls that just flew out because they looked like they didn't even do anything. I was always like why are you using those they're so stupid

[Stormwolf]

I remember playing the MW2 multiplayer demo with a buddy of mine, we had a trial of possession for the last beer in the fridge.

I won

[Thaygood]

I fell in love with mechwarrior on the snes, mech 3 got me into pc gamming and it's been good times ever since.

[ORIGINAL SteelWolf]

I have a table top setup and built that i could take to friends houses. the whole thing barley fit in the back of my VW rabbit hatchback. it went from back of the drivers seat to the glass of the hatch and side to side. Me and my brother played for hours.

Also playing netmech [the solo disk version] after hours at my buddies work in 1994 over serial cable. We even played the demo of netmech as well.

Edited by ORIGINAL SteelWolf, 20 July 2012 - 02:57 AM.

[Gabopentin]

Set up a 4 army TT game with no limit armies against 3 of my sons. Took us two hours just to set up the pieces and cellotape the map sheets together. Just about to start when the oldest boy plonhked his radio controlled robot on the map and decimated the whole setup whilst I was making a drink. When asked What? He replied "Clan invasion".

[Lunchmeat]

Gabopentin, on 20 July 2012 - 03:06 AM, said:

Set up a 4 army TT game with no limit armies against 3 of my sons. Took us two hours just to set up the pieces and cellotape the map sheets together. Just about to start when the oldest boy plonhked his radio controlled robot on the map and decimated the whole setup whilst I was making a drink. When asked What? He replied "Clan invasion".

That has made my morning.

[Cepeza]

I remember one morning at school in 1993 (my 6th grade) a schoolmate came up with The Sword and the Dagger novel. I borrowed it and was hooked. One week later I went to my parents and asked for money to buy the TT game. As always they nixed it. That was the first time in my life I totally realized that I need a job. Stealing was the other option, but I was just well-bred, so I discarded that thought. It was not nearly my birthday, nor Christmas that year... and I didn't want to wait any longer. I had to have that TT game. Well, that was not so easy to get a job at the age of 13. So I began to ask in the neighborhood for mini jobs, like mow the lawn, or get some goods from the grocery. My mates called me nerd and geek, because I was not hanging out with them, but worked each day after school instead. I just didn't listen. A couple of weeks later I had the bucks together. So I went to my favorit comic store and bought the TT game. I will never forget that moment. My eyes must have glowed like 10kW projectors, because the comic store guy started to grin hard as he saw my face when he passed me the box. As I came back home I called my friends to come around. We spend the evening figuring out the rules and examining the miniatures. The next day my pals waited in front of my parent’s house for me as I came back from school and we played the TT game for the first time. From then on they never ever called me geek anymore.

[Mussie076]

I still remember the first TT game with my brother in the tutorial mechs with not internal structure heheeh

Man that was like 23 years ago lol

[River McCain]

I get nostalgic when people use terms like, Kali, Modem, NAIS, many a great battle played, how many remember going wireframe to reduce lagshot?

[Mussie076]

River McCain, on 20 July 2012 - 05:28 AM, said:

I get nostalgic when people use terms like, Kali, Modem, NAIS, many a great battle played, how many remember going wireframe to reduce lagshot?

played the whole of MW2 in wire frame made it easy to see what i had damaged LOL Loved it

[Devilsfury]

I remember having a Diashi and putting like 10 srm's on it. I could knock down any mech in one shot and destroy any light mech in 1 shot. It was so funny and people hated me!

[Kaleb Ravenborn]

The table top games were my first memories. Up to about 2 years ago I still had the original box's and manuals. Battletech, Citytech, Aerotech and of course Mechwarrior. Damn wife threw them out when we moved said I was a pack rat.

[Death Weasel]

Kaleb Ravenborn, on 20 July 2012 - 06:07 AM, said:

The table top games were my first memories. Up to about 2 years ago I still had the original box's and manuals. Battletech, Citytech, Aerotech and of course Mechwarrior. Damn wife threw them out when we moved said I was a pack rat.

Have the police found the body yet?

[rareth]

I remember Multiplayer Battletech on AOL back in the mid 90's, that was a fun game. AC/2 and taking out Atlas players with headshots. good times.

[Soviet Alex]

Favourite tabletop moment? My stock Banshee-3M runs towards a brand-spanking-new Grand Titan. The 100 tonner lights up like a Christmas tree, I lose tons of armour, & then punch him in the head. Twice. Been calling that mech Popeye ever since. Never let anyone tell you that the Banshee is rubbish.

Favourite Mechwarrior moment? Probably the moment I plugged in my Sidewinder joystick, fired up Mechwarrior 3, and torso-twisted. I'd only played the earlier games on consoles, so going from a "thumbs only" pad to a 10-button, 4-axis stick was huge.

[Fobok]

Somewhere around 15 years ago, I was just starting college. (Man, I suddenly feel old.) I was a Star Wars fan at the time and my favourite novels were the X-Wing books by Michael Stackpole.

Moving to a new town for college, I decided to check out the local used bookstore. There, I found two trilogies of books by Michael Stackpole, all in this series called Battletech, with big robots on the cover. Well, I could hardly pass that up. How little I knew I was just about to step into a universe far deeper and more interesting than Star Wars.

[Hawk7]

Yes Multiplayer Battletech on AOL was fun rareth....1v1 duels were how you increased or decreased rank....

[DireWolf307]

I had a Hellbringer I had set up perfectly for the arena games in NetMech. I wish I could remember the setup, but I called it the Pit Viper and the dang thing was pretty much unstoppable.

[Rab357]

Sad memory: I bought a copy of the Battletech TT (the one with the mechs as little pieces of cardboard that sat on little rubber stands) at a garage sale. Read the rules, got excited about playing...and then my group of friends decided they wanted to play Warhammer 40k instead. Never was able to play it...a couple times I just played by myself.