Comments on: MechWarriors…Mount Up!

By: MechCorps

MechCorps — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:34:42 +0000

If any of you are in the Lafayette, Louisianna area on July 24-26th, 2009, come to MechaCon to experience the BattleTech Cockpit Simulator Pods. Read more information at MechaCon.com

By: cljohnston108

cljohnston108 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:58:42 +0000

I used to go to Virtual World in Pasadena all the time in the mid-90s, but they went out of business before they got the new Tesla pods that we’d been hearing about!
And here they are!

I still have my VW hat and all the nice little cloisonne pins and (I think) all my post-game printouts! (And I agree, BlackTiger: Red Planet ROCKED!)

I was always so impressed by all the detail they put into Virtual World, especially the whole backstory of the “Virtual Geographic League”. I always felt like I was at a real adventurers club! No wonder, since Roy Disney was one of the main people behind it.

By: orangeisthenewiloveyou

orangeisthenewiloveyou — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:05:34 +0000

oh man, these seem wonderful. i want one to keep forever.

By: BlackTiger

BlackTiger — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:15:35 +0000

So THAT is where these were hiding!!

OMG I miss Virtual World, I used to play down at Hazard Center in San Diego. And why all the Mechwarrior love? Red Planet was the coolest game. Martian Football was absolutely the coolest thing ever…

Two teams of hovercraft sliding around in martian mining canals, trying to smash one another into tiny bits / run laps for points…

I *really* miss the pods :\

By: ggodo

ggodo — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:20:25 +0000

THE WORD OF BLAKE WILL PREVAIL!

By: The BullLifter

The BullLifter — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:43:27 +0000

Haha! That WoBbie ggodo has failed! Ed’s HPG transmission was successful. It sounds so much fun. I would probably lose hours and hours on this if I went. It seems like the closest place to LA that runs Pods are Modesto, CA (300 miles / 5 hours away) or Colorado or New Mexico. Damn.

By: mordicai

mordicai — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:46:13 +0000

My most memorable convention MechWarrior/BattleTech memory is winning an impromptu award at GenCon for “Most Terrain Destroyed.” I guess other people didn’t think to blow up the Ammo Depots & Clan-module Swapping Depots? I sure as hell did! & the guys running the mod had 3-d terrain, so they just built craters in the space where they used to be. Fun.

By: darkminstrel

darkminstrel — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:15:34 +0000

There was a group of these in Memphis in the late 90’s. There was also a league formed that had tournaments. They even went so far as to have their own uniforms and faction insignias made. It was so awesome.

By: mordicai

mordicai — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:45:40 +0000

But how much does one cost!