The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn’t survive either :/
How long was it there? Some years, i think
Reactor online…
Sensors online…
Weapons online…
…
All systems nominal.
Autopilot: Engaged.
Autopilot: dIsAbLeD.
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!)
This game was the shit when it came out. All the force feedback controls were just perfect.
How was this all possible in 1995 but we had to wait for modders to make the latest MW have those features?
Because PGI are an absolute cumstain of a company that broke their promises of what they were going to do with the franchise right at the get go.
They watered down the flagship product (MW:Online) of them taking over the franchise to “appeal to a wider audience”, while cramming in greedy pay-to-win micro-transactions and alienated and pissed off all the long time fans that paid into the crowdfunding.
When revenue tanked, everything after that was progressively more “minimum viable product that has to work on an Xbox pad held by a five year old with one eye”.
Edit: If they ever do anything else with the franchise, I fully expect it to be 100% AI slop development and artwork.
Fuck me, I want to experience the game with all that hardware!
Intro video upscaled: https://youtu.be/o1a18jETT-g
Yep, I still remember it like yesterday.
Watched this so many times back in the day, it was sooo cool
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 :)
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.
I bought a “Force Feedback Pro” joystick that came with Interstate '76 and MDK
i76 was great. I remember playing MW2, MW Mercenaries, and i76 all around the same era.
