Author Topic: When Did You First Hear About RA2? (Read 3508 times)

ACAMS · « **Reply #20 on:** August 17, 2009, 10:03:32 PM »

It is Awsomebot1.....not Awesomebot1

I will start a showcase as soon as I have a few good bots.

goose · « **Reply #21 on:** August 17, 2009, 10:43:34 PM »

wow, you have made quite an improvement with your bots ACAMS. impressive.

I heard about RA2 when I still sounded like peewee.

trumpetguy · « **Reply #22 on:** August 17, 2009, 11:28:16 PM »

I got into Robotic Combat, searched for a game, found RA2.

Sage · « **Reply #23 on:** August 17, 2009, 11:31:44 PM »

bargain bin.

kill343gs · « **Reply #24 on:** August 18, 2009, 12:15:06 AM »

By chance. I chose this over some saturday night racing game at the toy store my mom worked at. I hadn't watched Robot Wars since I was a little kid but I had thought about a game a little. I think it was a last second decision as I was headed out the door to get RA2 instead of the other game (I paid $14.99 for the game too, at this point I can say money well spent.) I barely found the official forums back in '06 and worked my way up from there. In that time period I've grown up with RA2 and this community.

One of these days I'm going to recreate my first ever bot to showcase here. Maybe try to replicate some of my old bots from before I joined the forums...

takatsukiyayoi · « **Reply #25 on:** August 18, 2009, 01:26:42 AM »

Found an RA2 'time-limit' demo on Trygames (it's no longer there I think), played it, wanted more, sucked at it, found the GTM forums a few months back, and here I am now. I still suck, by the way.

The Ounce · « **Reply #26 on:** August 18, 2009, 01:41:46 AM »

You're not that bad, Yayoi. In fact, you're getting much better, especially at DSL.

As for me, last year, in late October, I was watching some Robot Wars vids on Youtube when I came across some vids of RA2. The game looked interesting, so I downloaded the trial version from the RA2 main website. A few days later, in November, I converted my trial version, and I developed from there.

Starcore · « **Reply #27 on:** August 18, 2009, 01:51:16 AM »

My 12-year-old son got the game from a school book order form back around October 2003. I had enjoyed watching Battlebots on TV and had done computer games for years before that (games like CRobots and wrote my first Tank Combat Game back in 1978) so I thought it was cool my sons were liking robotic games.

I helped him, his older brother and their friends install it our home computer gaming network. As they were trying to figure out how to bot build I hunted the Internet for them for samples and examples of other good bots. Found Robot Arena 2 Forums and Aceuplink in my searching and I lurked for a about a month. In late November 2003 I registered at Aceuplink and was banned before I had even posted 1 post. They thought because of some similarity of my IP to a problem member BeOt that I was an alt of BeOt. Which was odd since I was connecting from Oregon and that I heard later, BeOt was from UK. I almost decided to not work to correct things if they wanted to be so quick to accuse. Finally proved my identity. I dived into making my own pack in December 2003 over my vacation time only to have RFS complain that my first showcase bot was "Overloaded". (Borg Queen) A few others followed suit saying my bots were overloaded and unrealistic. Luckily I am more thick skinned than that.

The forums were rife with veterans blurring their bots in showcases to hide technqiues from new members. I have a thing about teaching, training, growing. January 17, 2004 after being active with the forums a bit over a month I released Starcore V1 AI Pack. The rest as they say is history...

Starcore

JoeBlo · « **Reply #28 on:** August 18, 2009, 09:20:55 AM »

I was a huge robot wars fan back in the day but lost interest in robot combat after robot wars went off screens

then towards the end of last year I went into a video game store and saw a preowned copy of Robot Wars Arenas Of Destruction.. I never knew they made a PS2 game so I brought it straight away and played it to death and then my interest in robots started again.

the game was good but just too fake for my liking I looked up videos on youtube and saw extreme destruction which appeared better (but its about the same) got myself a copy of that and played it to death and wished I could built my own bots with less restrictions.

while looking up extreme destruction videos on youtube to find robots people had made I came across a video of Clicks I believe? showing a VS that could turn into a HS mid battle I instantly looked up more videos before finally getting my mitts on a copy.

I looked up more videos and came across replicas and knew I just had to get them looked on one video and someone asked "how did you get all the replicas?" and someone replied GameTechMods.com and the rest is history

phew maybe a little too long with the story but at least you can see why I follow the beetle brothers work so much :-D

Scrap Daddy · « **Reply #29 on:** August 18, 2009, 10:29:58 AM »

I bought RA1 and liked it. Then RA2 came out and I bought it for 29.99. >:O

JoeCB1991 · « **Reply #30 on:** August 18, 2009, 11:01:39 AM »

I was a fan of Battlebots, I saw this game online, I wanted it.

Somebody · « **Reply #31 on:** August 19, 2009, 07:50:24 AM »

Bought RA2 for $5 on eBay
Was sent RA1
Person said sorry, then sent RA2 for free
Got both for five bucks >:)