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[Gorf]

I seems the ages for MWO players are across the board. I am currious to see what the generational demographic is for the MWO community.

[DocBach]

Started playing battletech at 10 in 1993, had the powerhits box with the crescent. Hawks games and mechwarrior for my 386. When mw2 came out my dad got me a pentium 75 with not enoigh ram for the moon le els.

[Tastian]

Started playing TT shortly after purchasing box set in 1985 at the age of 12. I remember my dad had a copy machine the size of a large patio grill in our garage and yes, we would beg to use it to make copies. That thing sounded like a leaf blower when you turned it on. And the replacement cartridges were not cheap so we'd shake those ink cartridges for months cause our dad was too cheap to buy a new one.

[Amber Meltdown]

I'm of the generation that I can't figure out what the heck the choices are supposed to represent for whichever "generation". I will tell you this though, for my senior programming project (which was independent study as we didn't even have a programming class in our school) my language choices were assembly and machine code, pascal, and fortran.

[Atlas3060]

I came in right during the Falcon/Wolf Trial.

[Codejack]

I used to play TT with my best friend when we were 10 or so, call it 1987.

About 10 years later, I was the local Netmech champion; the guys who ran the gaming shop were friends with some guys who owned a local PC shop, so they would set up a network and hold tournaments. I won money playing Mechwarrior!

I still have the mektek MW4 Mercenaries installed on my computer, and got really upset last year when I dug out my old MW3 disc only to find that it was all scratched up.

[AlexEss]

I did come in to the "world" of BT for real through the MW2 game. Mostly because i am from Sweden and there are not that many hobby stores (also hobby store when i grew up was usually a weird mix of fishing gear/Model planes/Some R/C stuff...) in the middle of nowhere. And even less people to play with.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

I just got MW2:Mercs to work through MechVM two weeks ago, been playing around with the clan weapons in the instant action mechlab

[Carnivoris]

I remember when the first Mechwarrior came out. I had the demo on my Packard Bell Pentium 100 with a whole 8 MB ram. Mechwarrior came out before that was available, but my Tandy 1000 286 with 640k RAM, no hard drive and 2 5.25" floppy drives wouldn't play it!

[8CH Trooper]

I'm from the generation that the installation instructions for that new game I just bought included instructions on how to manually make changes to the config and consys files so you could play it, and there was only enough room on the hard drive for DOS and one game.

[Immitem]

Since I have no idea what the hell any of the options mean I will just drop this here.

[Texas Merc]

get off my lawn was not a choice?

[Joseph Mallan]

DocBach, on 04 January 2013 - 11:08 AM, said:

Started playing battletech at 10 in 1993, had the powerhits box with the crescent. Hawks games and mechwarrior for my 386. When mw2 came out my dad got me a pentium 75 with not enoigh ram for the moon le els.

A meer child Sir. 1986 Playing TT made our own Record sheets on an Apple computer. 1994 For MW2 on Mac.

[Skinflowers]

Nexus 6.

[Roadkill]

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Who the Hell is FASA?

The Freedonian Air and Space Administration. Duh.

Started playing TT in 1987. Somehow missed the original MW, but have played every game since. Not sure that my 16 MHz 386 with 4 Mb RAM could have handled it. As I recall that computer had a 20 Mb HD, which was HUGE. Half of the RAM could only be used as a RAMdisk because the OS couldn't see past 2 Mb and programs could only use 640k.

[IIIuminaughty]

I Checked them all because I could. Im Barely before MW3 came out

[IIIuminaughty]

I love hearing stories from ppl out of their youth (40-1,000 yrs old)
Good thing I have a good imagination ^^

[Gorf]

I did forgot the option of "we need a longer serial cable so we can play head to head" or "hang up the phone! I'm playing online"

[siLve00]

"mom can you copy those sheets for me ?" ... "okay how many ?" ... "mhh how many you want.. but arround 200 would be realy nice" .... oh my how many times i did beg for it lol

[OneEyed Jack]

I guess about '86 or '87. I was in Middle School at the time. Wasn't a hobby at the time, just something I played a few times with some friends using the white box set and cardboard mechs. Then pissed off my HS GF often because her brother had a PC and the first Mechwarrior game, so I'd be in his room playing it instead of spending time with her.

Then in '90 I was re-introduced to Battletech as a TT game and spent anywhere from 6-12 hours playing every Saturday night after closing at a local game store until around the time FASA went under.

I'm sad to say that after not playing for awhile, and believing the game dead, I sold off my 100 or so miniatures (including many unseen) on eBay when they weren't being produced and some of the mechs were going for >$100, as well as the rather limited run faction dice, of which I had a complete double collection. I also played, and very much enjoyed, the Battletech CCG.