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[JonAK]

Good GOD I feel old. I still remember "Battledroids" back in 1984. *Sigh*

[C E Dwyer]

Friends mother and father owned a craft/model/games shop, I helped work weekends.

So I was in a shop 8 hours aweek that sold the fore runners of D&D, Runequest, Games workshop had only four board game titles and hadn't yet taken over citadel,minatures, white dwarf magazine etc, and games day promoted other developers board games, roleplay games, and hadn't become this uncreative monoply, that crushes creativity.

There was this geeky guy with the social graces of a peanut, who took a shine to one of my friends, and tried to get her attention by boring the daylight out of us, taking about anime, and manga, and how robotech was just a rip off of the gundam, macros mecha.

So one day I just bought the retitled battletech box set to annoy him.
I was teased by my friends saying i'd have to play it now, and I did, and I read up on the lore and what finally really grabbed my intrest were the ral partha models as at the time I loved painting and figure painting.

I could taunt the guy, telling him Marauder was a much better name for mecha than command battle pod2 or whatever it is

Bought the first couple of novels Sword and dagger, grey death legion, The mechwarrior RPG, have the first tech manual in the house still, and they are not in the loft.

I really lost intrest in the genre when the clans arrived, working in marketing and retail as I did at the time I could see it was just away of extending the life of the title and added nothing I felt to make the game better, though nearly everyone from the old days disagrees with me.

I bought Mechwarrior 3 played it through but didn't like the mech designs there were alot of the ones introducted to fill the gaps of the unseen, and clan mech, though I did have one of the very few good pvp experiences while playing MW3, for the most part found the fps pvp crowd very imature, read C&C people, just talking about what goes on there, ensured I'd never touch that title,before the license to reuse the unseen was paid for, (WHICH IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE)

havn't touched the mech universe for years, but saw this on another forum read out of intrest, and as the mech were designs I like (for the most part) desided to support it, and see how it developes

[Alik Kerensky]

A couple of acquaintances from my sophomore year of high school in 1988 introduced me to Battetech... remember because it was the same year as the Olympics... God I freel old. lol

[Dymitry]

The first Mechwarrior was installed on the first family pc, a 386 sx back in 1994/5.

Edited by Dymitry, 16 August 2012 - 03:21 AM.

[tyrone dunkirk]

I haven't checked this in a while, but I am really happy to be able to see the pilots on this site still sharing their origins with one another.

[Razor Kotovsky]

MW3 in a LAN club somewhere in 99'. Was ten at the moment but i got that a lot more was going on than shown in the game.

[Scott Decoy Stone]

for me it all began with magic the gathering. lol. i was at a tournament when there was a demo for the battletech CCG. the girl demoing the card game was super cute. every game you played against her you would win cards. 2 boosters for a win and a single booster pack for a loss. i totally stalked her to other venues that she was demoing at and played every chance i got (mostly to chat her up lol). after that i had a butt ton of cards and figured why not actually play the game? across my BTCCG career i eventually met someone who played table top. he showed me a mini of my favorite card and i fell in love. then i learned there were novels. and a tv show. and computer games. lol. my horizons expanded exponentially once i met this dude. wish i was still in contact with him. he'd be proud of me lol.

[FERAL TIGER]

MechAssault

Haters gonna hate!

[Sal Preacher Smith]

I found out about this table top game universe after walking into a store called the Sentry Box on West Fourth Ave in Vancouver. The owner was awsome and gave discounts on large purchases of the games and figurines that were from wall to wall and floor to ceiling.

Had four of every mech figure (just in case) and then we added varients and came up with a combination of a Battelmaster and Marauder and called it the Squatter. three guass rifles and a rear firing ac20 and anti missle system and smoke discharger just for fun.

A group of people taht were into heavy called me up and invited me over for a day of gaming and had a lot of fun until grown men acted like children then it was time to move on. But for 10 years it was a lot of fun especially when the battle scape showed up and the rules of line of sight.

Blah blah blah so I will stop there.

[Magik0012]

Bought a board game called "BATTLEDROIDS" when I was a.. umm.. sophomore in highscool, I think.. been a casual player/fanactic ever since.

[Airesking]

I found Battletech while I was stationed in Germany in the Military and played it weekly for almost 5 years. When I moved back to the States I could not find it anywhere so I ordered the board game and started teaching my kids. My oldest does not care about it but my youngest he likes it and he likes to play. But do to my work over the last several years I was unable to play it do to time issues. I am glad that this has been brought back to me and my son is loving the fact that it is out on computers. I have read almost all the books while I was stationed in Germany.

[xRatas]

MechWarrior 1 long time ago. I recall that first 1-2 years a wasn't able to read english that well and only after learning more, I was able to complete the game. I think somewhere around '90. I think I played through MW2 before I was able to beat original MW. Hooked badly since then.

Edited by xRatas, 18 August 2012 - 07:50 AM.

[Aescwulf]

I am a Newbie at BT lore. I first came across it in Mech Assault but didn't know it was based off BT. Then about over a year ago ( or more ) I came across MechWarrior 4 Mercs being offered for free by MekTek and that's how I got into it.

I'm not familiar with the Houses or the wars that go on ( apart from Clan Invasion )
I got in as a Merc.

[Odanan]

Mechwarrior 2.

[Fischkopp]

Back in 1988 the first TT Store opened in the City. As a little boy, i was facinated by the BT Coverbox. I ask my parents to buy me one. After long discussions i got one. A few years later i read the first Novels and i get infected with the BT Virus for life.
Computer Games since Crescent Hawks revenge...
So, i play BT since 1988 and i´m happy about it.
sorry for my english

Edited by Fischkopp, 19 August 2012 - 01:21 AM.

[Moredhel]

I bought the book "Decision at Thunder Rift" (at least the german translation) and immediatly bought "Crescent Haks Inception" (my 2nd Computergame after "Larry Laffer") and the Tabletop Box.
After that, i read and played everything, but i stopped after reading the 10th or 15th Book of Dark Age and never touched Battletech again.
Well, let´s see, if this game can start my interest anew...

[Taleros]

I got into Battletech when it was 3rd Ed.

[BorisTheSpider]

My dad used to read the novels and following on from that he bought MW2. My first memories of BT were watching him play as an Atlas in that. I don't think I started playing until MW3, which I remembering adoring because it had the Champion in it. I started reading the novels starting with the Blood of Kerensky trilogy soon after. Haven't looked back since to be honest.

[BigD1969]

Robotech fan first then this curious game came along been hooked since

[Dark Dragoon67]

I remember as a 4 year old watching my dad play MW3 and it was always the highlight of my day, I remember first starting off buying both Mech assault and playing it on the Xbox and I loved it, although my dad didn't like them because they "paint a dull picture" I didn't really understand that until I started playing the PC variants, my first PC experience was when I used my dads old computer to play MW4, my dad kept telling me that this game was waaayyy ahead of its time and I believed him. It wasn't then until I learned that he had hordes and hordes of Battletech stuff and that his brothers and him would play the table top version and collected mini figures, when I hit my 10th birthday he bought me a set of mini figures and maps and etc. but we never got around to actually using the but they were still cool. Almost every day I read the Technical readouts working on improving my Mech skill, When I got my own PC I installed MW (1989) MW2 mercs and MW4, I couldn't get MW4 Mercs to work because it isn't compatible unless I install the MekTek version but they don't manage it anymore, I tried to install MW3 but I pretty much wrecked my computer and It took me about a week to fix. My dad always said MW3 was the best and I cant remember how he felt about Pirates moon, or Mech commander. I remember finding MW5 and getting disappointed on it being cancelled and finding MWO in beta and ive known it ever since.