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Re: MechWarrior

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From: smt... sylvia m tou mfen stnt
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 19:15
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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.

	-- sylvia
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