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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2018, 12:39:41 AM »
Fuk all yall, I found RA2 in one of those motherfuking scholastic book adverts from the late 90s-early 2000s
And it was arguably one of the greatest finds from any/all of those I have ever seen.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2018, 12:52:05 AM »
I was the only kid that seem to watch AND enjoy robot wars back when it was on TV. I always drew pictures of robot and one day I was sitting next to a classmate that I didn't had to do with until then. He told me he had this game in which you can build bots n stuff. It was a pirated copy of RA2 that he gave me the next day.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2018, 12:52:46 AM »
Was watching some old RW:ED and AoD videos while bored and on a nostalgia trip years ago and stumbled upon this: .

The physics looked like they blew the Robot Wars games out of the water so I looked the game up and found the forum. Then immediately realised that stock was nothing like what I saw.
Very similar to how I found RA2, except I found it through this video when I was looking for RW AoD videos:

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2018, 01:11:42 AM »
had to build a robot for one of them first robotic competitions so i needed a program to help build a scale model

ra2 did not help at all
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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2018, 03:12:46 AM »
Was looking at RW:ED back in 2014. Then one vid where hypnodisc fought apeared. I didnt know the game as it didnt say what game was it. In 2015. I saw a list of robot combat games, saw RA2, watched few vids on YT, then googled RA2 download. I stumbed across gtm.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2018, 03:25:06 AM »
I was looking at Wikipedia, looking up Battlebots Beyond the Battlebox. As I was looking through, one part of the article had a link to the Robot Arena 2 page. So I followed the link to the page,  then followed one of the enclosed links to the Beetle-Bros website and that's what got me into RA2.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2018, 10:15:57 AM »
I don't remember exactly but I think it came from watching videos of it on YouTube. Also some of Sonny's videos too.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2018, 10:30:21 AM »
I watched Nerdcubed's video on robot arena 2, and thought it would be an interesting game, he linked it to the old RA2 website and i thought it cost money and thought "well bugger this" and almost never played, then after watching The Barangoat start uploading Battlebots reborn episodes i went back to the nerdcubed video followed the link to the DSL mod, took me to gtm where i found the download for stock, downloaded that and DSL, made an account and never used it until banter wars was getting some heat from people... so yeah quite a story XD

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2018, 07:46:14 AM »
Very similar to how I found RA2, except I found it through this video when I was looking for RW AoD videos:



this is the video that led me here. it came up under suggested videos while i was watching old battlebots episodes on youtube.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2018, 02:06:51 PM »
Resetti's Replicas.
I knew it was Robot Wars related (obviously) but didn't understand how or what was happening so I started playing it. Then a year after I got a lot of his bots and had lots and lots of fun which is why I want to release this asap.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2018, 03:10:29 PM »
I think the first vid I saw was a bbeans 5 match. Although, stupid me didn't come here after seeing it and instead bought RA2 in the box off ebay. I played that copy on my winxp for so long and I always wondered how people got DSL and Ironforge because they looked so fun. Several years later I would find out that it was all here.
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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2018, 09:40:32 PM »




These two legendary clips.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #32 on: May 19, 2018, 12:19:17 PM »
that first video Jonzu posted and that other video with the poker with seven million pistons was probably the first thing i've found on this game, as well as a LP of it by a channel named PredictableChaos, took me months to find how to actually get the game cause 12 year old me was an idiot (rewatching that historical bots vid also kinda makes me wish i was there for the "beginning" of this game's life, just for curiosity)
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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2018, 02:26:30 PM »
I had Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction and Robot Arena (original) ..... so I was one of the first to get RA2 and ordered/paid for it a couple months before it even came out.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2018, 05:13:22 PM »
I said to my Dad back in 2005-2006 "Hey can you find any Robot Wars games that aren't the ones I've played!(which was all of them).

He found it I played and enjoyed it despite not being able to defeat EMERGENCY for another 6 years or so.....
Not the coolest story but still a story nonetheless.
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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #35 on: May 20, 2018, 06:21:15 PM »
Checked out the Team JACD facebook for luls. They posted a video called "Battlebots Reborn", and I was interested. I clicked on it, and it was everything I ever wanted. I asked him how to get the game, and after a while, I found it here. I tried to download the game onto my crappy 10-year old computer that I got on my 7th birthday and it cannot run without its charger. The first bot I made was Whirligig.
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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #36 on: May 21, 2018, 06:20:21 AM »
I found RA2 by being stuck in the Youtube wormhole a few years ago, can't remember exactly what I what looking for/ at but I thought it looked cool so downloaded a copy from GTM. Joined a few years later after watching a few tourney videos and thought it would be cool to be a part of the rest as they say is history

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #37 on: May 22, 2018, 01:15:15 PM »




These two legendary clips.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #38 on: May 22, 2018, 01:34:48 PM »
I found RA1 at full price at K-Mart after watching Battlebots and Robot Wars for a while. I remember it would always crash my old gateway desktop. I also bought RA2 for full price at K-Mart.

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Re: How did you find Ra2?
« Reply #39 on: May 22, 2018, 09:45:15 PM »
had to build a robot for one of them first robotic competitions so i needed a program to help build a scale model

ra2 did not help at all

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