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The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn't survive either :/
How long was it there? Some years, i think
That game came out in 94 or 95. I use to play it on a 486 DX2 50
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How long has it been since you've cleaned your car, kimosabe? ๐คฃ
With TURBO MODE ON babyyyy
#BringBackTurboButtons, but now so we can underclock our PCs to save power and heat
And keys. Physical keys.
Yeah! And power supplies that could power our monitors too!
I never turned Turbo off on mine.
When you press that button, everyone knows you mean business.
When I was in my teens I played Mechwarrior, a LOT, with my friend Dan. I don't remember what version it was at the time, but it was early on. One of us would build a Flea and try to take down the other in an ultra-heavy mech.
Dan died about 2 years ago. I just went on an emotional roller coaster for a few minutes. Hug your friends.
I hope those memories are great. Dan might no longer be with you or his family, but the memory lives on, cherish that. Be someone else's Dan, too, there is always time :)
Sorry to hear about your friend, it sounds like you meant a lot to each other. I second that our friends all deserve to know how much we love them.
One of my favorite gaming memories is playing MW4: Mercenaries with roommates circa 2002, where I won the grand championship piloting a Cougar.
EDIT: Just remembered my "Daishi Pepperbox": assault-class Daishi fitted with nothing but machine guns and as much frontal armor as it could carry. My strat was to charge straight at opponents, let the armor soak up incoming fire, then drop an alpha strike as soon as I got into machine gun range. Watching their mech turn from green to red to black on my HUD in just a handful of seconds was glorious.
This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:
...a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:
... Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:
...and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)
Woah, whhaaa?! That game came out in like 1995. I played it and thought it was great but had no idea it had all the hardware compatibility you're pointing out!
Yeah, me either. I just played it with a keyboard.
Seriously?? How is THIS the first I'm hearing about all this??
Fuck me, I want to experience the game with all that hardware!
I remember begging my mom for this game when it was in a large box at Costco when I was a kid. That giant stompy robot was just too cool.
I remember it being right next to Wheel of Time. Didn't get to play that one though. :)
This game along with StarSiege was a huge part of my childhood.
Gotta say though, once you've felt the sheer ridiculous power of an OmniMech, playing Succession Wars era games took a bit of getting used to.
MechWarrior 2 and 3 allowed for some ridiculous cheese builds that were so fun(ny). :)
The thing I Rembert most about this game is picking a light mech jumping and immediately destroying both of my legs when landing on the ground. 10/10 would love to play again.
Pop that disc into a CD player and listen to all the level background music!
the CD didnโt survive either :/
I think you could do that with Quake too.
An awful lot of early CD games would let you do that. Track 1 was the data and tracks 2-whatever were individual songs from the ST, because that's how the game played the soundtrack audio, by treating it like an audio CD. That really only changed once audio compression got better and other assets got larger so there was a better way to use the space.
But when CDs first landed your storage media moved from 1.44MB disks (PC) or <= 6MB cartridges (SNES) to 640-700 MB it took a while before code and graphical assets started using a lot of that and well, you are paying for the whole CD either way, may as well use all the space.
Monkey Island too!
This and Descent are the reasons I play with an inverted Y axis to this day.
Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
Reactor online...
Sensors online...
Weapons online...
...
All systems nominal.
This came bundled with our IBM Aptiva PC in the 90s. Too complex for me at the time but it was a great game.
did it clean it good? the bots ive seen tend to glitch out too often
Monster3D... I was so freaking amazed when I got one... Nothing like the monitor flashing as that pass through switched the active graphics card....
E R P P C
Everybody must at least once try the loadout that racks your heat up to near-detonation but dumps enough PPC into an enemy to nuke them in one shot.
My exact strat. It's fine if your mech shuts down after each shot, so long as you don't miss... Just gotta pick em off one by one
Oh shit, I've been getting calls about your car's expired warranty.
Thanks for taking them o7
Mine came with a sidewinder joystick. Thank you Tiger Express. Had to spend $200+ for 4mb more of ram(8 total) just to run it.