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Re: MechWarrior

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From: ze... Joseph Zell
Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 04:09
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smt...@hertz.njit.edu (sylvia m tou mfen stnt) writes:

>In article <1992May14....@news.cso.uiuc.edu> egp4...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M) writes:
>>ile...@ee.ubc.ca (LEUNG ISAAC JING H) writes:
>>
>>>It came out a while ago and I loved it.
>>>Lately, I heard rumors of a follow up to it, but I've been unable to scrounge up anything?
>>>	Does anyone know anything about this? or of a similar 'mech similator game?
>>
>>
>>
>>I've heard of a game called Ultrabots (by Data East?) that looks like Mech 
>>Warrior but with smoother 256 color graphics. Also, I've also heard that this
>>game (and Mechwarrior) would be ported to the SNES. 
>>
>>I thought Ultrabots was supposed to be out months ago, but I haven't seen it
>>or heard about it for a long time (this post reminded me). Anyone know when
>>it'll be out?   
>>
>>Also, I've heard stories (probably just people idly daydreaming) of a Mech 
>>Warrior 2 that had 2 person modem capabilities.
>>
>>If you want a decent public domain Mechwarrior, try Mega255 at wuarchive.wustl.
>>edu (ftp site).  Nice graphics, not much in control or strategy. (I'm not sure
>>if this is public domain, shareware, or what).             
>>

>There's a recent games called Crescent Hawk`s Revenge which is also by
>BattleTech, who I believe also did MechWarrior.  I briefly looked at 
>it before i sent it down to by brother-in-law for his birthday (I 
>"accidentally" broke the shrink-wrap when I took the price tag off) 
>and it looks quite similar to Mechwarrior but with
>more to it (more graphics, more 'bots to choose from, etc.).  You might
>want to check that out.  My husband has played both and prefers Crescent Hawk.


Speaking of MechWarrior, how do you solve it? I am in the huge map room at the
end, but I don't know what planets to identify. I lost the map. Can anyone help
me out? thanks
Joe
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