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[Ghostrider0067]

I was in high school when I was introduced to table top, so I'd say somewhere between '89-'90 or so. A few of my friends and I used to try and squeeze in a game while on our lunch break. Some times it worked, most times it did not. Lots of good times were had way back then. I've still got a number of mechs I drew out and customized (with full bubble sheets) that utilized both Inner Sphere and Clan tech once it became available.

[Gorf]

OneEyed, in honor of your lost minatures check out the link below (Hilter lost his mechs)

http://www.fearthebo...hp/archives/898

[8RoundsRapid]

I still remember the day back in '86 or '87 when I first laid eyes on Battletech: Techinical Readout: 3025 with that picture of the marauder on the front with a cut away view so you could see its myomer musculature and other internal machinery. It was truly love at first sight.

Not realizing at the time there was a box set with the rules to the game in it, I purchased the TRO, sans rules, and pored over every page, memorizing all the mechs and letting my imagination run wild. Pure, childlike joy is the best way to describe it. My friend bought the 1st edition box set a few months later, and we used to beg his mom, who worked in an accounting office, to make copies of the record sheets we got somewhere while she was at work. She was very religuous (Jehovahs Witness) and only very rarely would copy them as she thought that any game w/ dice was related to DnD and therefore inherently evil and 'demonistic.' LOL. The irony is that the only place we could find ultimately to make copies when we wanted them was at the small little church down the road from my parents house.

We devoted entire summers to playing elaborate scenarios of our own making and then - later - to playing out all the published scenarios, complete w/ double blind rules. We never really got into designing our own mechs as we thought that the mechs we could design were just too cheesy and detracted from the overall experience rather than enhanced it.

I went on to win a few local TT tournaments at the gaming stores in my hometown in the early 90's, including one memorable one where my partner stood me up cuz he met a girl and was too embarassed to admit to her that he and I were 2 of the best TT players in our town. I ended up teaming up with some guy who I didnt know and winning the tournament anyway. Although I didn't like his custom mechs he used thru a loophole in the tourney rules - clan mechs w/ pulse lasers and targeting computers (this was when my distaste for custom mechs really solidified, fwiw). For the record, I didn't use any custom mechs, just a Summoner and a Vulture, both in prime config, if I remember correctly.

Ah, the good old days.

[The Jove]

Amber Meltdown, on 04 January 2013 - 11:17 AM, said:

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.

Now you have to specify which Fortran.

[N Danger]

I remember in the early 90's calling up the FASA rep and asking for 4 cases of BattleTech, 2 cases of AeroTech, 12 of all of all the novels and for my customers any promotional material about the next new releases coming out.
And then would I have to put in a Ral Partha order for mini's and paint.
Ahh the good old days as a warehouse manager for a hobby and game distributor. (The employee discount was 40% off too!)

[Red squirrel]

Amber Meltdown, on 04 January 2013 - 11:17 AM, said:

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.

Which generation are you?
FORTRAN77 or FORTRAN95

I am a member of the F95 generation.
(free source form rulez)

Edited by Red squirrel, 04 January 2013 - 02:36 PM.

[a rabid chihuahua]

The poll confused me so couldnt' answer all! KDN' I been a FASA fan since the 80's.played all the games ,just not the online aspect of legends a lot of people played.Have all the original box sets of Battletech(so 2nd edition is what it was) (not the Battledroids box though).

[Critical Rocket]

Played when I was 4 with my older brother using the folding card counters. Ever since I have played the tabletop roleplaying and wargaming system.

[Amber Meltdown]

The Jove, on 04 January 2013 - 01:52 PM, said:

Now you have to specify which Fortran.

Red squirrel, on 04 January 2013 - 02:33 PM, said:

Which generation are you?
FORTRAN77 or FORTRAN95

I am a member of the F95 generation.
(free source form rulez)

77 all the way baby!

My very first program was written on a timex-sinclair 1000. My next was on a TRS-80 before they had model numbers. No storage on either. =)

[kragmoor]

grew up watching my dad play 3 and 4 on the pc, have been playing mechassault since 2004 when we got our xbox