Post by Ironnerd on Jan 20, 2020 16:13:36 GMT
Not long after Battletech was introduced in table-top form, it arrived in digital form as well.
> From 1989, we have MECHWARRIOR [LINK], for MS-DOS, Sharp X68000, and PC-98. This was the first First-Person Battlemech simulator. It was actually a fun game way back when. Especially once I figured out that I could actually AIM at the HEAD.
> Mechwarrior 2 [LINK] came out in 1996 on DOS, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn. This game destroyed my already lame social life. I actually bought a computer just to play this game.
> Since then we have seen Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries (1996), Mechwarrior 3 (1999), Mechwarrior 4 (2000), and Mechwarrior 5 (2021).
> The MechCommander (1998) series provided real-time strategy play in the Battletech universe.
> Of course there were the Crescent Hawk games; The Crecsent Hawk's Inception (1988) for the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS and The Crescent Hawk's Revenge (1990) for MS-DOS.
> There were also various Battletech and Mechwarrior games for Sega and Nintendo 8- and 16-bit console systems
> Now, of course, we have BATTLETECH by Hairbrained Schemes.
There are, however some alternatives out there.
RogueMek [LINK], is an on-line interpretation of Battletech that uses ASCII symbols (thus the "ROGUE" in "RogueMek")
> From 1989, we have MECHWARRIOR [LINK], for MS-DOS, Sharp X68000, and PC-98. This was the first First-Person Battlemech simulator. It was actually a fun game way back when. Especially once I figured out that I could actually AIM at the HEAD.
> Mechwarrior 2 [LINK] came out in 1996 on DOS, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn. This game destroyed my already lame social life. I actually bought a computer just to play this game.
> Since then we have seen Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries (1996), Mechwarrior 3 (1999), Mechwarrior 4 (2000), and Mechwarrior 5 (2021).
> The MechCommander (1998) series provided real-time strategy play in the Battletech universe.
> Of course there were the Crescent Hawk games; The Crecsent Hawk's Inception (1988) for the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS and The Crescent Hawk's Revenge (1990) for MS-DOS.
> There were also various Battletech and Mechwarrior games for Sega and Nintendo 8- and 16-bit console systems
> Now, of course, we have BATTLETECH by Hairbrained Schemes.
There are, however some alternatives out there.
RogueMek [LINK], is an on-line interpretation of Battletech that uses ASCII symbols (thus the "ROGUE" in "RogueMek")