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[Angel Eyes]

Not so much, Old, as it does bring back fond memories.

[Magik0012]

Interesting.. never saw Battlecars.. I'm going to assume, based on absolutely nothing, that it was a Car Wars rip-off?

[HighNDry]

Have all 3 of my old boxsets sitting on my game bookshelf. Dunno why, but I just have always kept every game I get.

Star Frontiers, loved it. Probably one of the best games back then. My friends and I played that over and over... fond memories.

[a rabid chihuahua]

Warmonger2600, on 01 September 2012 - 04:37 PM, said:

Some Unseen, these are not Battletech minis, but still awesome!

I still have all those exosquad mechs also . also have all the Battletoch boxes still ..beat to hell ,but complete lol.

Edited by Blane, 12 September 2012 - 09:08 PM.

[Kommunisator]

nope, because that has to be the second edition of the base game - the first one didn't have plastiMechs but just cardboard standups

[GnawTsatyr]

Harney, on 05 September 2012 - 06:07 AM, said:

I also use to play this one alot

!!!!!!!

I used to play that game with my brother as a kid. No idea what happened to it, but I never thought I'd ever see that box again.

*edit*
Ok, I just did a bunch of research and found out that's not the game I was thinking of. The game I was thinking of was Thunder Road, LoL. For some reason that Battlecars box still looks really familar though.

Edited by GnawTsatyr, 12 September 2012 - 09:57 PM.

[Warmonger2600]

I still have the CITYTECH box, the old BATTLETECH box is long gone, but this one survived. I played with those poster-board mechs to fill out tons of battles back in the day.

Edited by Warmonger2600, 15 September 2012 - 03:42 PM.

[Raven-kell]

yes.....I was playing star frontiers and battle tech then robotech and some other game with hover tanks renegaded legion? I gave all my pewter and plastic miniatures to my kids.............MISTAKE!

[Swiftfire]

I remember that on the shelves and drooling for it.

[rainwalkers]

If anyting I feel younger thinking about those items, How I spend soooo much time filling out the hit sheets, the ones with the little circles in each hit area, or making my own hit sheets. When the Dragoons source first came out I made hit sheet for each mech in the entire Wolfs Dragoons... GOD did I have time to waste

[YeOldeDM]

Citytech was the first BT material I ever got my hands on.

What makes me feel old was that there was a time when there were actually stores dedicated to selling these glued-together piles of paper we called 'books'.

[Curon Hifor]

Ah, man. Good times old CityTech xD Miss all the old Unseen Artwork. Wolverine, ShadowHawk, and Griffin were my favorite 'Mechs!

[von Pilsner]

We must have been poor, our mechs were made from paper back in the 80's...

[Steinar Bergstol]

Yep. Those are the "Plastech" mechs, as I believe the box was called. They were made of a kinda crappy plastic. The same kind used on most of the mechs in the new 25th anniversary set actually. Softer than the hard plastic used on most minis today, and it didn't really hold details as well as better plastic does. There was also a set of plastic mechs made of harder plastic. Those could have had better details in theory, but the ones made of the crappy plastic were actually the better sculpts.

Man, that picture brings me back. I had those mechs and books myself.

[MadMarauder]

what ? wait its not 1985 ...... damn i got old and fat WTF happened!!!!!!!!...oh well back to painting my unseen

[Draxes Darkstrider]

Kommunisator, on 12 September 2012 - 09:21 PM, said:

nope, because that has to be the second edition of the base game - the first one didn't have plastiMechs but just cardboard standups

Nah thats the 1st Edition. Looks like he picked up the pewter minis the same time he got the game. i did the same thing when I bought my box set. 1984, Robotech on the tv, battletech on the table, life was good. My profile name is from those days. A dear friend, passed away now 20 years, used it and we played this religiously. Just seemed fitting to use his old call sign here.

[Flannagan]

I miss my set. Had every book ever put out by BT universe and -many- of the original unseen pewters (mechs, Aerotech and Tanks/infantry units). Like a dope, I sold them all thinking I wouldnt find anyone to play it anymore before I was stationed in Japan. Was looking to cut weight, and I damn sure wasn't going to trust them to be in Military sponsored storage. *sigh* depressing.

When I say 'everything', I mean...all of it >.< *crai* T.T

[Oda Shaidammoto]

yes indeed an i been playing the game from then to now.. as for that modle that the shadowhawk i built that one when i was 17 lol good mech but gods i hope to see my battlemaster it was not in robotech so there should be no legal issuse in bringing it to the game so i hope they do i had 106 atlas kills in mine i want to repeat that here XD

[Steinar Bergstol]

DaveKell, on 15 September 2012 - 04:04 PM, said:

yes.....I was playing star frontiers and battle tech then robotech and some other game with hover tanks renegaded legion? I gave all my pewter and plastic miniatures to my kids.............MISTAKE!

The FASA hovertank game would be Renegade Legion, yeah. There was also a space combat game in that series, Interceptor, and an RPG. Another awesome FASA setting, really, and it's a shame it was never anywhere near as well known as the Battletech universe. I'd love to see someone bring it back.

[Daetrin Voltari]

Ah City Tech. Nothing like blowing a pilot roll, crashing through a building, landing in a basement, and dropping the building on top of yourself. Wait a minute, I do that in Solaris right now.

GuyverBlue, on 01 September 2012 - 05:07 PM, said:

Exosquad? I have several of those still in boxes.

Warmonger2600, on 01 September 2012 - 05:28 PM, said:

Honestly I don't remember, the Copyright on the foot is 1994 HGUSA / Tatsunoko Playmates Toys for both.

Yeah, those are the Exosquad toys. They are actually one of the triggers of the whole unseen issue.

Fasa tried to get Playmates interested in doing a Battletech toy line and Playmates declined. Then they turned around and made Exosquad and even released Macross toys under the Exosquad label. Fasa sued Playmates. Unfortunately for FASA, not only did they fail to gain an injunction against Playmates, but they pissed off Playmates' business partner of the time, Harmony Gold (the HGUSA in the copyright). While FASA had leased what they thought were visual rights from a third party, Harmony Gold had licensed the Macross property directly from Tatsunoko Productions. Under Japanese law this gave Harmony Gold co-ownership of the original Macross designs and all derivative works in North America. As near as anyone can tell, the people that FASA got their licence from only ever had the right to import models, not any form of visual rights.

FASA and Harmony Gold settled out of court, and FASA decided to remove all images not wholly owned (and originally created) by FASA. This included not only the Macross designs, but those from Crusher Joe, Fang of Sun Dougram, and those designed by VMI for the 3055 tech readout.

Hence.....the Unseen.

For those who are interested, the court documents are available at http://terrania.us/hg-fasa/

Edited by Daetrin Voltari, 16 November 2012 - 09:42 PM.