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[Burktross]

Being a (relatively) new peasant to BT, I started with Mechassault and Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. I love tabletop, but considering many people in my generation literally scoff at the prospect of a non-flashy game, I've no other options in terms of TT but playing Megamek.

[Sylonce]

When I was a kid, I used to watch the transformers TV show. One day, they stopped airing transformers, and the Battletech series aired in it's place. I was hooked.

I was further hooked when I went to a computer store, and saw a big box with a Timberwolf on it. That was Mechwarrior 2, and that is a game I played continuously to this date.

[Mech42Ace]

I was introduced to battletech by mechassault at a young age, I soon found out about the MechWarrior games, then about battletech as a whole.

[Michael Howell]

Mechwarrior 2 and Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris. I miss MPBT; had a great community on both AOL and Gamestorm

[Rush Maguin]

I was introduced to the game by my gaming friends my Sophomore year in high school, back in late 1989. I was lukewarm about it at best the first few times, but my friends knew me well enough to give me the House Books and the newly minted novels to read. That got me hooked hard. Retrospectively, they weren't the best written pieces of fiction in the universe, but at 15 at the dawn of the 1990s, it was more than enough for me.

25 years later, I'm the only one who still plays. My shining moment with the game is in my signature below. AFFS since 1989, or 3028, if you go by in-game year.

[Faith McCarron]

I was actually introduced to it through a gaming club when I went to college. I was never much of a gamer, video or tabletop before that, but it kind of grabbed me with the melding of the various genres of the game.

[TheArisen]

My folks bought me MW3 due to my early love for robots, I got this from Gundam. I played all of the MW4 stories and I started following NGNG back in closed beta. A few months ago I got a good computer and here I am.

[Joshua McEvedy]

About 1988, a high school buddy loaned me Decision at Thunder Rift and introduced me to the table top/pen and pencil game. I was hooked and never looked back.

Edited by Joshua McEvedy, 21 May 2015 - 09:31 AM.

[Bill Bullet]

I remember a family friend let me watch him play MW3. A bit later I watched a few of the BT tv series episodes. I only really jumped into BattleTech when I found the book Flight of the Falcon one day in a used book bin. After devouring that, had to find out more. When I found out that the fierce and bloody engagements of the Dark Age were small potatoes compared to the earlier battles of the 4th Succession War, Clan Invasion, FedCom Civil War, and Jihad....I was hooked.

[Mosadoff]

More than 20 years ago I bought a book. It was Robert Thurston's "Way of the Clans", translated to russian.



Liked it very much, had to buy more of this series...

Same years, while looking to buy new Sega Megadrive 16 bit game, I spotted this:



Needless to say, every time I login into MWO mechlab and see my Dire Whale and Timbers, that brings some good childhood memories...

[Scout Derek]

Dad asked me one day to try this game out. Still remember it, MW3.

"Hey son, wanna try this game?"

"OK!"

From there he taught me the basics, and I took off into the wonderful world of non-cannon mechwarrior games

[Nightmare1]

"How Did You Come To Know Battletech?"

Tent Revival.

[kosmos1214]

well the first time i heard of battletech was when pixelships covered it in an epsoide of ancent dos games he did mw1 then mw2 like a year later i think and eventuly found my way here and thats when i finaly got it to battletech

[bad arcade kitty]

well, i'm an avid reader, i read all kind of stuff from 'highbrow' (i especially like poetry) to sci-fi and fantasy and i happened to read some bt books
honestly, as a literature they are terrible... but giants robots somehow touched me and i liked them since

[Nebfer]

For me it was Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, then 3, and then Mechcommander 1, around this time IIRC an uncle of mine who played introduced me to the table top game. Then played MW 4 and MC2.