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[Conradiqlous]

Yet another point for Shyndown, I'm 16.
I spent hours playing MW2 on my dad's old computer when I was four years old. You guys would be surprised by how many young'ns there are who enjoy blowing the living hell out of giant robots, that aren't Japanese, and/or wield swords.

[Gulgari]

Sorry man, I got ya beat by a couple of years. I am (recently) 19. I remember the old mechwarrior games mostly from my much older cousin way back in the day, and I remember seeing the tabletop figures in shops at the mall, but I never really tried either until I was about 13, or 14 with MW4: Mercs, and I starter kit that I bought from a local card shop. Now, the tabletop MW didn't get very far with me because about that time was when they decided to discontinue it, however I did keep playing Mercs. I thought that by playing MW4:mercs I would get that feeling of nostalgia, and although I greatly enjoyed the game, the nostalgia simply was not happening. This very minor state of confusion remained in effect until a few years later (about age 17) when a buddy of mine brought over an old copy of MW3 that his brother-in-law gave him. We installed it, tried it out, and the nostalgia hit me like a PPC. My buddy didn't really know what MW was until that day. I talked with some of my other friends in school and they all gave me the similar answers. For a long time I thought I was the only person my age who knew what MW was, let alone remember it. Honestly i've got to say it's a little sad that more people our age don't know, or recall MW. I think it's a fantastic series of games that a great majority of young people would feel comfortable getting into, given the time to practice at it.
Above all, glad i'm not alone.

[VoodooLou Kerensky]

BduSlammer, on 06 February 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

heys guys im the old fart of this ive been playing sence 1984 when it was called battledroids and ill be 60 when the game comes out

Nice BDU! I'll be 44 when it gets released and I remember when the game was called BattleDroids too!! Looking forward to playing and very hopeful for a Beta Invite since Ive Beta'd the series starting with MW2:Mercs. Prefer the MW2 & 3 style of customizing mechs and think that so far MPBT:3025 had the best Physics, too bad it never got past the Beta stage.

[Alan Grant]

I just turned 23, and remember vividly the first time I played Mechwarrior 2 on my eldest brother's computer at his house. I even remember that when my 2nd brother and I would go to his house there was a comet in the sky. The game was the ATI 3D Rage edition which came free with the graphics card he bought for my dad's computer, and he let me borrow it when he saw how much I loved it.

I was about 6/7 years old, needless to say I sucked badly at it. I didn't even know there was a campaign. I just loved the cut scenes, and mostly played the Trial of Grievence missions over and over. I tried to get friends in school into it, but they were more into console games, saga was big back then if I recall.

Then we changed the graphics card we had, and the game no longer worked. I was really upset, but I got the first Mechcommander game when it came out from my 2nd brother. Then the next mechwarrior game I played was MW4 in 2003 when we had a computer that could run it, after owning for 2 years.

Bluewolf1118, on 06 February 2012 - 03:13 PM, said:

... and Mechcommander 2 (which doesn't work on Windows 7... grrr...).

Google Mechcommander Omnitech ... its a modified version of MC2.

Edited by alan grant, 07 February 2012 - 03:09 AM.

[ScreamingSkull]

I'm also 21. I played MW2 on the PS1 and loved it. Mech of my choice was the Fire Moth

[Moncai Icaza]

I'm a little older than you @ 30 but my first foray into the mech computer games was Mech 2. Unlike most i had it on the playsation . (dont know if i played TT before then but i was into WH40K and Epic). Eather way i have hungerd for pretty much every Mech like game evermore.
Dont have LL but do have a copy of steel battalions and am having to slate my mech thurst on crome hounds till release. its just not the same .

can't wait to climb into my raven and go atlas spotting for my catapult driving brother

[Prince Ian Davion]

19 here. Remember watching my older brother play MW2 when he bought it brand new..he didn't like it so gave it to me. Been a fan ever since.

[Star Ranger]

Nice to see that a new generation is taking up the fight that that old timers have done for so long Iwas in the service of uncle sam when activion brought out mechwarrior to play on the pc which i still have

[Buda]

Yesterday, I was playing MW2 using MechVM.

Ohhh... good old days, when there wasn't a checkpoint around each corner, each level was harder than the one before, there was no stupid voice telling each thing you must do ("Megaman! Megaman!") and you didn't get "achivements" for doing dumb stuff... Kids nowdays will never know.

[Akenatum Malthus]

I'm older at 27, but my mate got the demo and i used to sleep over on friday and saturday nights and we would just stay up as long as we could with blankets and a heater running playing the game.

when he got the titaninum pack and could run it on 2 computers we would sit there playing with eachother comp stomping and going against each other. That was some of the most fun I had at that age.

[Aaron DeChavilier]

am 24 now. Bought Mw2:31st century combat for 15$ at a Media Play with a 10$ gift card and 5$ in my pocket in 1997, christmas 1998 I got the titanium trilogy and played Mw2:Mercs....the rest is history. The manual is one of my most cherished Btech possessions.

behold my 10yr old self; made notes on MW2:Mercs missions


seriously don't make sims the way they used to

[AztecD]

38 and i have been playing mechs for a long time. Its hard to describe the sensation of pinging a catapult at range with your pair of AC2's and then sending your LRM at them, i have played a lot of games but i have never loved one as much as my mech games

[Kaemon]

I was 20 years old when MW2 came out....ugh.

So in internet years I'm 247 years old!

[James Wolf]

I'm 28, and was given my uncles old computer it had MW2 and MW3 Good times .

[MuffinTop]

I just turned 40 a few days ago, and I still remember when Revell came out with the Robotech Defenders in the early 80s.When I first saw them,I was all excited about making them, and then my second sister showed up, so there went the hobby room., so I thought. Turns out my dad didn't share my enthusiasim with modeling much less fantasty robots. Besides we were poor, and I did most of my artwork on the back of old computer dot matrix printer paper. All I could do was draw pics of planes, tanks,giant robots, and naked chicks. Thats my earliest memories of giant war robots, and thats way before I heard about war of the worlds.

[PewPew]

NameTheftVictim, on 06 February 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

I also remember avoiding torso control because it confused the hell out of me.

Haha, same here.

19 here. MW2 was my first personal PC game. Since then, my Battletech cravings have come about once every year during which I read a new BT book or reinstalled MW4. Recently with the announcement of this game, however, I've been straight up geeking out playing MWLL and reading all the Stackpole books.

[GDL Havoc]

I'm 27, pushing 28 next month, so a little older than many here, but not nearly as aged wise as many of the posters in this thread.

My history with Battletech and Mechwarrior is sort of odd in a sense.

My family got a computer when I was fairly young 6 or 7 years old, and it ran DOS (not windows, DOS) which I learned how to operate enough to play a couple of the games that came installed on the machine (Wheel of Fortune sticks out in my mind). That prepared me for our first windows machine which we got later. One of the games that came with that computer was a demo of the computer game called Earthsiege. I remember vividly playing that demo over and over for hours... it was my first forray into a walking robotic combat style game and I remember it (and the subsequent Earthsiege II and Starsiege titles as well) very fondly.

Now, fast forward and my family has gotten another (better) computer and picture me, in a game store walking around looking for a new game. I happen to see something I've not ever heard of before, but that captures my attention instantly. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. I picked it up off the shelf and study the box reverently, reading every bit of text on the front, back, and sides of the box and then carefully counting the money I had saved up over the last few weeks to see if I had enough to purchase it. It was with a burst of elation that I could afford it (Barely) and I promptly purchased it without a moments hesitation. I didn't really know what the game was going to be like, but I knew it was about walking tanks with big guns and that was all I cared about. I got home and installed it, and devoured the little booklet and information contained therein as I patiently waited for the game to load. I watched the opening cinema and was instantly enthralled.

From that moment forward my sister, brother, mom and dad had to jockey with me for computer time for our families single PC for quite a while. I've since purchased every Mechwarrior title that has come out (Sans MW:LL), as well as many battletech books and miniatures. I'm also finally getting in to the table top game via the Mechwarrior tabletop RPG system that my gaming group is now running (I could find nobody willing to play tabletop games in that era of my life, sadly) and still play Mechwarrior 4: Mercs to this day via the freeware version.

This is, without a doubt, my favorite science fiction addiction of all time and it will never be supplanted by another. It's a part of my childhood, and I'm proud to see so many other mid to early 20's folks who love and appreciate Mechwarrior and Battletech and who plan to carry the torch forward for the next generations to come.

<S> To all my fellow 20-somethings and all those older and younger. I can't wait to strap into a 'mech and start blowing each other up ASAP!

See y'all soon, dirtside.

-Havoc

[Trogusaur]

18 years old here, first played that epic game when I was five! I certainly remember how cool the arcade style graphics were back then, would still play MW2 if my computer supported it. That PPC sure was the highlight of the game, watching the blue-white ball of death evaporate into pixelated explosion! I will never forget the wail of those awful crit-loss alarms, the obnoxious heat warnings, or the feeling of helplessness after being legged with no hope for rescue.

Could I be the youngest to post on this thread so far? I didn't realize BT consisted nearly exclusively of the middle age adult population.

Edited by Lord Trogus, 08 February 2012 - 12:18 AM.

[Firebrand]

Very inspiring stories! This thread reads like a history book or more like log entries of freeborns becoming a mech pilot

Needless to say, it brings back found memories.

Buda, you're so true!

[Perfecto Oviedo]

I'm 22. MW2 was one of my first videogames that I clearly remember (along with Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity). An older (by at least a decade. Family friend) friend introduced it to me. I remember how joyful I felt when my family got a Toshiba desktop, and in the software bundle was the ATI Rage edition of MW2. I still have that disk, though I unfortunately can't get it to work. Oh well, DosBox for me.

It's been a wild ride through the years with MW and BT. Everybody (read: the other geeks like me) I'd ask about it either didn't like it, or looked at me with contempt. But in recent years, I've found a good amount of people who, if they weren't into MW when they were younger, they at least played the game a bit.

EDIT:

I know there are more MW people in the world than I once thought, since that's how my current girlfriend and I bonded. (I was like, "Wait, you even KNOW WHAT THAT IS?")

Edited by Perfecto Oviedo, 09 February 2012 - 12:36 PM.