A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.

[Sparkey98]

http://web.archive.org/web/20010302090435/www.robotarena.com/forum.asp
LOL the first RA trolls!
http://web.archive.org/web/20010331182622/www.robotarena.com/forum.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20020118170730/http://robotarena.com/
Lets play a game. Pick a thread title, build a bot based off the thread name, and name it the name!
lol thoose would be some....creative names.:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011201011106/http://robotarena.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20050405192149/www.aceuplink.com/ra2/

[Badnik96]

Hey toAst, I found OVER 9000 of your old bots (including Swampengeist)
http://z4.invisionfree.com/Radio_F_Software_HQ/index.php?showforum=3

[Virus Bomb]

some more stuff found in the gallery.

[Pwnator]

SAGE BOTS
SAGE BOTS EVERYWHERE

(and a pic of ian's bots lol)

Is that claw HS 4WD? I can't see clearly.

[Somebody]

Those custom parts... Are those Whams? I remember him talking about a Solarbotics 56:1 Motor somewhere...

[Hydro]

I see one of my old bots in there...I think...

[Badnik96]

I see one of Ineptus's bots (the DSL flamer) and an underweight version of SSG's Spearhead without the plows.

[somestrangeguy]

Yes, that indeed is Spearhead, I posted it like that on the old forums to ask for help on what to put on it, after that I rebuild the chassis with extra space for Snapper2 and gave it the plows and 2 more drive HP z-teks.

[Scrap Daddy]

Anyone remember Tankorperated or Shower Dough? They were new when I was and looked really promising. Too bad neither of their showcases are archived.

Really way too much history and members went down with that forum...

[Jack Daniels]

Really way too much history and members went down with that forum...

Agreed. It was quite a kick in the nuts too. Would have been nice if whoever pulled the plug had given us a bit of notice so we could archive what we could.  I realize that they probably didn't think anything of it because it was an old game, but damn.  Talk about having the rug pulled from under you!

[R0B0SH4RK]

I remember Tankorporated, but Shower Dough sounds only vaguley familiar. Honestly, I really only can recall Jet-Speed as a builder with tons of promise. And we didn't just lose up-and-comers either. Well established guys like Avenger and Bot-Reactor were also lost in the crash. It even did in the waning careers of some legends like eFFeeMMe.

As for the kick in the nuts, it really was, although we all kinda knew something was coming. Forum speeds were plummeting, and navigation was almost a chore so we all suspected something was up. The thing was, there was nothing we could do to stop the plug from being pulled.

Come to think of it, Scrap, JD and I all arrived at around the same time (I think).

[ianh05]

Bot-Reactor knows about this forum, i talk to him on msn.

[Sparkey98]

Bot-reactor was on a while ago.

[Jack Daniels]

Come to think of it, Scrap, JD and I all arrived at around the same time (I think).

Yeah we did. I think you were kicking around for a month or so earlier than Scrap and I.  I don't recall any of your noob bots though.

Wow, I remember Tankorperated and Shower Dough.  I guess, if anything, we should have had a running list of contact emails in case the boards were permanently Borked!

You know what though, now that some of the newer members are starting to mature up and whatnot, we got a pretty good clan going nowadays. 

[R0B0SH4RK]

Come to think of it, Scrap, JD and I all arrived at around the same time (I think).

Yeah we did. I think you were kicking around for a month or so earlier than Scrap and I.  I don't recall any of your noob bots though.

Wow, I remember Tankorperated and Shower Dough.  I guess, if anything, we should have had a running list of contact emails in case the boards were permanently Borked!

You know what though, now that some of the newer members are starting to mature up and whatnot, we got a pretty good clan going nowadays.

Well, I've dug up a ton of my earlier pics just today. I guess there's no better place to post them than here.
 
 
Amoeba and Amoeba Returns. AR took 2nd place in ianh05's Tag Team Challenge, losing to the team of Sage and Sorrow.


 
Antimatter. A later version appeared in ian's All Around Bot Builder Championship along with Cold Fusion 8 and Deus Ex, both of which you'll see later.

 
ApocalypticA 1 and 2. Inspired by one of Inf's bots.


 
Break Even More Stuff. An early VS. I can't find the two prequils though, Break Stuff and Break More Stuff.

 
I forget what this one is. FS/HS hybrid, in case you were confused.

 
Breaker. Made to go on an AI team with Cold Fusion and another HW popup. You guys probably know the one.

 
Catalyst. One of my first BW's.

 
Cold Fusion 7 and Cold Fusion 8. These were some of my "signature" bots way back when. CF8 made an appearance in ian's ARBBC.


 
Pvt. Parts (LW), Cpl. Punishment (MW) and The General (HW).



 
Deus Ex. You would have seen this in SCv4 (had it been completed) on a team with R4. It also made an appearance in ianh05's ARBBC.

 
Demi Deus. Supposed to be the MW on said team, but it was later replaced by another HS called Dysprosium (which I do not have pics of).

 
Epic (LW), Inertiatic ESP (MW) and Fireworks (HW). There's a video of Fireworks in action on my youtube channel, along with a couple of others if you want to have a look.



 
The General 2.0. I had jumped on the 36HS bandwagon early, as this was one of the first 5 or so built by someone who wasn't Inf. It wasn't invertible and it only had plastic, though.

 
Karnivore 1, 3 and 4 (for some reason, I can't find 2). One of my favourite HW's ever, it was also one of my first bots built upon arriving on the forums for the second time.



 
Deathifier. This was THE FIRST bot that I ever built using advice from ye olde members. This is also the only bot I have from my first tenure at the forums (under the alias "roboshark" - that's right. No caps ot 1337 :O). I later re-named it Naruto when I was going through my Narutard stage.

 
Nitroglycerine. I think that this might have been posted earlier in this thread already...

 
Protist: The Hero. Inspired by Childsplay and Le\/eL. One of my really early bots.

 
Reaction, and R3action. I also have Reaction 2 but it's so similar to 3 it's not worth posting. By the time I had built the fourth installment, Inf had built a "Reaction" as well. Being a much lower profile builder and not wanting to look like a name thief, I was forced to change Reaction 4 to, you guessed it, R4. So now you know: the R in R4 stands for "Reaction."


 
RAZ3RG3AR. Almost as old as Deathifier.

 
Sangre. An old chicken glitch AW. Probably my first AW.

 
Sasquatch. This was a very early HS from me (you can tell by the axes). I've been considering the possibility or ressurecting this bot and making a whole cryptid-themed team of 6.

 
Metal Simulacra. You can also see a video of this one on youtube.

 
Xenon (MW) and Technetium (HW). I had a LW to go along with these, but I've found no evidence of it anywhere.


 
War Pig 1 and 2. Another one of my more prominent bots back in the day.


 
Wild Thyng. Inspired by the SCv3 3-2-1 Blastoff!

 
 
 
Feel free to ask any questions :)

[Pwnator]

Protist: The Hero.

I lol'ed. Would've been better when used on an AW or BW, though ahahahahahahahaha


And Nitroglycerine = <3

[The Ounce]

I like War Pig and the trio of razor VSs.

I remember watching the BBEANS 5 videos, and when I saw your video of Reaction sometime afterward I immediately knew where R4 came from.

[Scrap Daddy]

Best month for new members right? :P

Cool pics r0b0.

[Gazea2]

I had builders block but I just found some inspiration. I know what I'm building next. :P

<3 the bots R0B0.

[Sparkey98]

OMG