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[JP Josh]

from me daddy and his friend when i was six called me master dfa because i LOVED to strip all the armer off a atlas and put jump jets on it i then proceeded to well lol jump on my dads friends when they got into urban setting brawls.

[phinja]

Back when i was 4-5, digging through boxes of my dads old model kits, came upon one of those old mechwarrior ones that barely exist, and the rest is history.

[combatplayer]

my first encounter was when MW4 came out. played both vengeance and mercs. since then i also played mech commander 1 and 2. considered trying mech warrior 1-3 but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Laserkid]

1994: Battletech 3050 for Genesis where admittedly didn't know much of what was going on, then came Mechwarrior 2 and I started reding The Remembrance, then Multi-player Battletech: Solaris, then Mercs made me a firm Battletech fan, the novels followed after, the dabled i the board game but had noone to play with in rural Illinios. Been alife long fan ever sinc,e though Mechwarrior 4 strained my fandom with its jumping assualt mech ER Large Laser sniping and the "optimum configuration".

[TWolfWD]

I was walking through a game shop 3 or so years ago, having never played a table top game before (I was looking for a sweet board game). Saw the introductory box set, and having played mechwarrior since I was old enough to power on the computer, I jumped at it. I had always wanted to play, but was never able to find anything on it.

[Waffles]

Me and a friend were trying to create our own table top game a few years ago. So, I hit the interwebs looking for rules to base our ideas off of. In my search I (re)discovered Battletech. After a bit reading i realized this was the basis the obsessions of my youth, mechwarrior games, the tv cartoon, etc. Ive been hooked/obsessed ever since.

(we never got around to making that game. Why be productive and make a game when you can be lazy and just play one?)

[Flashfyre]

I'm not too different, it seems, than most of the others around here...I didn't have a modern PC in my house (C64 didn't qualify anymore at that point) until late '95, so my main gaming platform was the SNES. I remember reading about the Mechwarrior port in Nintendo Power at some point in '93, and shortly thereafter came across ads for the TV series on FOX. I bought the game, finished it, got hooked on the show and the rest, as they say, is history.

I was so jacked about MW2 that I bought the game in July '95 for my birthday, months before we even had a computer to play it on. Luckily at the time a good friend had a relatively modern 486/66 that we used to play Wing Commander and MW2 for hours on end.

My introduction to the tabletop original came in the form of the 3rd edition box when it was re-released in '94. A couple friends enjoyed having skirmishes with me, but we really immersed ourselves in the universe when I got my hands on the MW 2nd edition rulebook. Once they saw how the two systems crossed over with one another, they were all hooked.

Edited by Flashfyre, 07 June 2012 - 10:42 AM.

[MechRaccoon]

I love telling this story.

A long time ago...on my mom's computer a few steps away from my room...there was MechWarrior 3. and it was good. I played the crap out of it. I never knew how to operate the mechlab, but I used all the variants and stuff. I also think I only played a few missions of the campaign, but it was still the greatest game I ever played. I had tons of fun blasting enemy mechs with my pulse lasers and my PPCs.

Before that, there was my brother Marty. and my Dad. My Dad owns a roofing company, but that's another story. Anyway, there was MW2 Titanium Edition. and apparently, it was good. (Even though the DOS version was better) My brother liked it, I think. My Dad also played a little, with Marty's help. Then Marty bought MechWarrior 3. and that was good. I had absurd amounts of fun and I got ensnared in BattleTech like a fly in a spiderweb.

[Uller Phrost]

Like peryl, I was in a Waldens books. Mechwarrior was my first book and then Aerotech boxset. 10 years after that I found a group of gamers willing to play and another guy who had a few dozen mechs painted up in padded cases. LAMs is what got me in. Ran demos for a few times at local comic shops.

[Astardena]

It was 1987 when a friend and i saw the box in an tableop games shop. We were faszinated by it and played it for a long time. As the first computer game came out, we started playing it too. And till the late 90s i read all BattleTech fiction Books. The boxes i still own (Battletech, Citytech, AeroTech, Mechwarrior the role playing game and the Solaris 7 maps. And my friend owned the Battlespace Expansion. We both still have the technical Book (3020 and 3050) ... Yes it was part of my youth ...

[Argon3]

Not sure if I can remeber that far back

Might have picked it up in early 80s at collage too

I had played the game at either a con or gamestore
Played heavy while in USN
Then got into the books too

Dropped out just before the clans hit
Played other WWII games

Still read books but family on online keep me busy

[Blastkowitz]

At a buddies house in the late 80's. A group of 5 of use TT gamed till the sun rose. That was some fun times. Then came Crescent and then later lan party MW style.

[aneega]

I started back when it was called by a different title (battledroids) and have a couple of the original figures. And have been playing it since, fact played a 5 hour table top game last night. It has been a game system and great literary source of science fiction reading that I have enjoyed immensely over the years and will for many years to come. Now with MWO coming out it has really stoked the game interest again for alot of old players and new players alike.

One of my prized figures is my Crescent Hawk Pheonix Hawk LAM. (one can only dream that they would consider LAM's for MWO.

[MAD3R]

Bits of the BT 3d set with plastic minis at an uncle's house. Been hooked since.

[Watchmann]

Saw it in a hobby/game shop in the mall back in about 1984. Bought it and played a lot through college. After that, I had a hard time finding people to play with.

[Tarl Cabot]

Around 1990 a friend of mine (who was moving) gave me some disks with zipped gaming programs on them. One of them was Mechwarrior (the original one) but I lacked the code to actually access the game. I hit up some bookstores, not sure what to expect. Found several of the Tech Readouts first, the sourcebooks then the novels. It was at that time I was more formally introduce to the military phonetic alphabet I figured out 3 of the codes used to get into the game before I came across the codes for the game itself.

Soon after that I learned of EGA MPBT and the meaning of credit card burn out Learned of the other BT games, played them as well as played the boardgame. I have a demo/alpha of MW2 (the marauder one). That was a pain to get running. So played the BT (own 99% printed material), enough minis (primarily lead before they changed up the materials used) to sink me to the bottom of a lake, all versions of MW, MPBT EGA/Solaris (beta-AOL-Gamestorm)/3025.

As for the MPBT, was originally Davion. When it opened up on AOL (was a beta tester) pre/post flat rate fee, most of the people associated with Davion were, hmm, goons/legion. The unit I eventually joined went to House Kurita, thus to read more about Kurita and the culture in general. Before that only thing I knew of Japanese culture was from history books and Godzilla

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 24 June 2012 - 05:08 PM.

[Darius Otsdarva]

Back in 1995, I found a few Mechwarrior miniatures while rummaging through the storage room. It turned out to be my Dad's who was planning to assemble them but were unfortunately forgotten. We started up the hobby again and the rest is history.

[Sun Tzu]

When I was in school I signed up for AOL and came across MPBT Solaris by chance. After that I never really got the "mech fever" out. Loved the great community in the game. Even though the graphic was stoneage by nowadays standard the game had a fascinating synamic and attraction. After they shut Solaris, I went to 3025 in hope that most would migrate there but alas it was not meant to be and much of the community split up.

Played MW 2 & 3 plus Mechcommander but it never quite felt the same. So now I feel thrilled that so many of the old guard will join MWO.

[Bishop Steiner]

Cutting class in 9th grade. Me and a fellow RPG loving buddy got bored and cut school. His parents were out of town, so we crashed at his place. He had Mechwarrior 1rst Edition and the Battletech Compendium....
Asked if I had ever played. Looking at the Geo-Hex map and array of hand painted miniatures, while being a long time fan of Robotech, it was intriguing. Rolled up my first character, a fresh faced Chu-i from the Sun Zhang academy... lucked out and rolled a Warhammer for my ride. My lance was left as part of a diversionary raid, and ended up getting abandoned. Had a blast and have been hooked ever since. Been devouring all things BT for the last 23 years.

Heck, this game is forcing me to buy a new computer and actually subscribe to the i9nternet again..... darn it!

[phelan]

I honestly can't pinpoint the exact moment I "discovered" what Battletech was. It's been so long, it just feels like it was always there. It was definitely sometime ~1992 though. More a fascination with the universe than any actual real gaming. I'm pretty sure we played most of the rules wrong anyway! I do still have my original boardgame boxset though. It's worn, water-damaged, and split to crap, but it has a special place of honor on my shelf.

By 1995, I had my first computer that was "state of the art" enough to play MW2 on max settings with though, and that's when I truly fell in love. The BT:CCG came out not too long after that too, and as a MTG devotee at that point already, I was solidly hooked in multiple game systems.