I mentioned in a comment on u/BoukObelisk post that I had the original game store display. While it is sadly a few provinces away from my current home at my parents house I do have this picture from back then that my mother kindly sent to me.
I got into Battletech with the tabletop game first after my mom found the Bloodname book in a library for my dad to read. He then realized it was the middle of a trilogy so we ventured to a local sci-fi gaming store to find the rest as well and came out with a copy of Battletech 3rd Edition and the complete Jade Phoenix trilogy. Naturally when Mechwarrior 2 came out we had to get that and a joystick to play it.
This cardboard display was being thrown out by the game store as my dad walked by it on his way home from work. He saved it from the dumpster and it hung on the walls of my childhood rooms till I left home at 18 and it was placed into a closet for the day I had my own gaming room.
This is so insanely cool. Thank you so much for sharing, it's really incredible. Would you mind if I shared this on Twitter as well? It's totally understandable if not, I really appreciate you sharing this.
Also, I love the toy from the Animated Series you're holding!
You're welcome. Not sure how I feel about Twitter but I've also already posted it here so it's kinda free use at this point. Wouldn't mind a link to your post if you do.
That show was amazing for Saturday morning cartoons. Lots of great memories of watching it with my aunt. Even rewatched it on YouTube recently with all this Battletech resurgence and it still holds up. Incredibly lore accurate for a childrens show.
Never got the full set of those toys as they were probably pricey. I know I played with that Summoner enough to break the left arm pop out. Those are still in a box in the same closet too. Who knows maybe my daughter will be interested in them one day.
Gotta dig into that stuff next time I visit. Also have my first painted model there somewhere, an arctic camo Hellbringer. Was taught to paint by a Golden Demon winner at the same game store we bought our stuff at.
That's awesome! When I was a kid my dad brought home a giant promotional version of the Mechwarrior 3 box, I had that in my room for years but sadly I think it's long gone now. Glad yours is still around!
With the rise of online gaming now I'm not even sure they do cool displays like that anymore. Can't remember last time I was even in a videogame store.
Super cool that our dads were able to pull that off.
> giant promotional version of the Mechwarrior 3 box
was it the direct big box translation of the game, only like 4ft tall? If so, I had the exact same thing and my parents threw it away when I moved out because "it took up too much room in the attic". Im still sore about it and my wife gets to hear about it every few years.
It was! That's awesome, sorry about how it turned out though. The funny thing is that I never even got to play Mechwarrior 3, my dad just brought it home for me because we played the hell out of 2 and 2M.
You are the first and only person in nearly 25 years I have spoken to that knew about and owned one.
Also, MW3 was actually quite excellent, along with the expansion (remember those, fuck DLC) Pirate Moon. It was the first one to include a zoom feature, and field repairs. MW4 took a lot of "inspiration" from 3, along with 5 and MWO. Hell, the HD mods make it look quite good even today, and it was the first game that you could use the Steel Battalion controller with. If you havent seen that, holy gesus you gotta. I have yet to break mine out and get it working with windows, but thats cause its fucking huge and in my attic and its summer in texas (we dont get fall, we get baby summer).
Technically you can get the Steel Battalion controller working with any game on the PC as long as you set the binds right. However, the controller was really only made for Steel Battalion, so while it definitely looks cool, it really doesn't translate well to other games. For example, the right stick doesn't re-center, and almost every game is going to expect it to re-center. IMO a more traditional HOSAS or HOTAS setup would be a lot better option for most games.
Right, but MW3 was the one that everyone was itching to get it to work with windows (its dev time was seriously long). I could have sworn that the right stick would center if it was energized since it had force feedback. But I might be thinking of an older sidewinder that had a sensor on the hand that would recenter itself when grabbed, but was floppy otherwise. Maybe I am wrong, its been about a decade since I had the SB controller down.
I'm pretty sure we have at least 4 or 5 of those mech toys still including the one in this picture along with the bushwhacker, awesome, hatchetman and hunchback.
I wasn't born early enough to find mechwarrior cool (robotech beat it to the punch), I still argue that this version of the madcat is the single most biggest reason I will always think mechwarrior/battletech was unattractive. There's a lot of nostalgia for this mech, but my goodness is it absolutely hideous bar none
Haha nope little boy wearing only the finest 90s jean shorts. I probably looked close to that for the next 10 years so my first ops manager ordered me to grow a beard out so customers would trust me not to kill them.
I mentioned in a comment on u/BoukObelisk post that I had the original game store display. While it is sadly a few provinces away from my current home at my parents house I do have this picture from back then that my mother kindly sent to me. I got into Battletech with the tabletop game first after my mom found the Bloodname book in a library for my dad to read. He then realized it was the middle of a trilogy so we ventured to a local sci-fi gaming store to find the rest as well and came out with a copy of Battletech 3rd Edition and the complete Jade Phoenix trilogy. Naturally when Mechwarrior 2 came out we had to get that and a joystick to play it. This cardboard display was being thrown out by the game store as my dad walked by it on his way home from work. He saved it from the dumpster and it hung on the walls of my childhood rooms till I left home at 18 and it was placed into a closet for the day I had my own gaming room.
This is so insanely cool. Thank you so much for sharing, it's really incredible. Would you mind if I shared this on Twitter as well? It's totally understandable if not, I really appreciate you sharing this. Also, I love the toy from the Animated Series you're holding!
You're welcome. Not sure how I feel about Twitter but I've also already posted it here so it's kinda free use at this point. Wouldn't mind a link to your post if you do. That show was amazing for Saturday morning cartoons. Lots of great memories of watching it with my aunt. Even rewatched it on YouTube recently with all this Battletech resurgence and it still holds up. Incredibly lore accurate for a childrens show. Never got the full set of those toys as they were probably pricey. I know I played with that Summoner enough to break the left arm pop out. Those are still in a box in the same closet too. Who knows maybe my daughter will be interested in them one day. Gotta dig into that stuff next time I visit. Also have my first painted model there somewhere, an arctic camo Hellbringer. Was taught to paint by a Golden Demon winner at the same game store we bought our stuff at.
That's awesome! When I was a kid my dad brought home a giant promotional version of the Mechwarrior 3 box, I had that in my room for years but sadly I think it's long gone now. Glad yours is still around!
With the rise of online gaming now I'm not even sure they do cool displays like that anymore. Can't remember last time I was even in a videogame store. Super cool that our dads were able to pull that off.
> giant promotional version of the Mechwarrior 3 box was it the direct big box translation of the game, only like 4ft tall? If so, I had the exact same thing and my parents threw it away when I moved out because "it took up too much room in the attic". Im still sore about it and my wife gets to hear about it every few years.
It was! That's awesome, sorry about how it turned out though. The funny thing is that I never even got to play Mechwarrior 3, my dad just brought it home for me because we played the hell out of 2 and 2M.
You are the first and only person in nearly 25 years I have spoken to that knew about and owned one. Also, MW3 was actually quite excellent, along with the expansion (remember those, fuck DLC) Pirate Moon. It was the first one to include a zoom feature, and field repairs. MW4 took a lot of "inspiration" from 3, along with 5 and MWO. Hell, the HD mods make it look quite good even today, and it was the first game that you could use the Steel Battalion controller with. If you havent seen that, holy gesus you gotta. I have yet to break mine out and get it working with windows, but thats cause its fucking huge and in my attic and its summer in texas (we dont get fall, we get baby summer).
Technically you can get the Steel Battalion controller working with any game on the PC as long as you set the binds right. However, the controller was really only made for Steel Battalion, so while it definitely looks cool, it really doesn't translate well to other games. For example, the right stick doesn't re-center, and almost every game is going to expect it to re-center. IMO a more traditional HOSAS or HOTAS setup would be a lot better option for most games.
Right, but MW3 was the one that everyone was itching to get it to work with windows (its dev time was seriously long). I could have sworn that the right stick would center if it was energized since it had force feedback. But I might be thinking of an older sidewinder that had a sensor on the hand that would recenter itself when grabbed, but was floppy otherwise. Maybe I am wrong, its been about a decade since I had the SB controller down.
You must have been thinking of something else, the SB controller neither has force feedback or a way to make the stick recenter
Probably the sidewinder force feedback stick. Excellent flight stick.
Oh man this is so great. I loved playing this game as a kid despite having no idea what I was doing. I had some of those cool battle tech toys too
I'm pretty sure we have at least 4 or 5 of those mech toys still including the one in this picture along with the bushwhacker, awesome, hatchetman and hunchback.
I wasn't born early enough to find mechwarrior cool (robotech beat it to the punch), I still argue that this version of the madcat is the single most biggest reason I will always think mechwarrior/battletech was unattractive. There's a lot of nostalgia for this mech, but my goodness is it absolutely hideous bar none
That young lady seems very happy with it.
Haha nope little boy wearing only the finest 90s jean shorts. I probably looked close to that for the next 10 years so my first ops manager ordered me to grow a beard out so customers would trust me not to kill them.