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Off-Topic => Real Robotics => Real Robotics Discussion => Topic started by: Jonzu95 on November 06, 2009, 06:36:26 AM
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I remember when I was 7, I saw on TV a Robot Wars match. Do you wanna know what bots were there? Disc-o-inferno & Major Tom! When the battle was over and Major Tom was wrecked, I was thanking that, BOY! I WANNA BATTLE AGAINST THOSE!!! And then I always watched Robot Wars on TV.
Some my history:
2003:Watched first Robot match
2004:Start to play Robot Rage
2005:Same.
2006:Same, Boring...
2007:Started Robomayhem
2008:downloaded Robot Arena 2, Boy! This game rocks!
2009:downloaded Robot Wars AOD, Wasn't so good than RA2
2010:It would be nice to see the future:approve:
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I was a car aficionado back then, and not much of a robot nut. I only started liking robots last year, when I was selected to become a member of the 2009 Philippine FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) team. I initially agreed just to escape from the wrath of homeworks, but after a while I became interested in the field. After a few hours of surfing the internet, searching for robot simulators, I stumbled across this game. I got a torrented version of it, and I've been playing it ever since. :P
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1999 (I think it was) saw an ad on TV for Robot Wars I taped it to watch later, it was the international league, the line up was
Techno-Lease, Prometheus, Razer, Diotoir, Terror Australias, Depoposaurus
It was broadcast due to Australia competing, the announcers and presenters were all Australian, this was really cool but RW was never shown after
2001 or 2002 another channel advertised RW to come on Saturday Nights they Aired Series 3, followed by series 4 and started series 5 but was cut shortly after, all the series were the UK RW and featured Craig, Johnathon and Phillipa
this was when I got really into it but lost interest after series 5 went off TV
2008, I walked into a game store and found a preowned copy of AOD, it was really cheap so I brought it and played it to death lol, I disliked the lack of realism in it so I went in search of another RW game, I found ED and downloaded that and played it, after looking up videos of ED on youtube I came across an RA2 RW Replicas video, I then came across Clicks VHS and decided RA2 was a must have :P
from late 2008 to now I have been downloading every RW match I can find on youtube in good quality, so far I have series 6, series 7, Extreme 1, half of 4, half of 3 and started getting 5 lately
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I dont remember when it was, but many years back I was watching that what is on the TV and saw Robot Wars there, we decided to watch that and then for a few months we watched it regurally but then started forgetting about it. Few years after that I discovered Robot Rage, wich I played for half a year and stopped and a few more years after that I torrented RA2 and AOD, but scratched AOD because it wasnt as intresting as RA2. And here I am now.
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1st time I saw it was 2001 I think- My uncle filmed some Junkyard wars tapes for me and my dad to watch and a few episodes from Robot wars season 2 were on there. Then I got hooked.
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I saw it on tv while my parents were zapping through the tv programms. they stopped for a moment. What I saw was a little Red/yellow machine fighting a Red Robot with Black spots on it. I only remember that the second one was set on fire. my parents disliked it. (they still do) but I loved it from the first second on.
after the fight the Diotoir Team gave one of it`s eyes to firestorm i think.
Ironicly firestorm is my absolute favorite Robot (series 3 version)
I was going on everyones nervs with talkin about robot wars but noone liked it. 3 years ago someone said he hade a game where he can build Robots and he would sell it to me if I want. I played it since then, always building robots like the ones i saw when robot wars was still on tv.
and then I joint the GTM a month ago.
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Joe, how the heck did you get RA2 in austrailia anyway? I thought it was banned due to: "Non-human violence and gore that may offend robots."
Anyway, my first match was Weeliwako vs Brimhur.
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apparently the same way a lot of people got it.. torrent :P Infogames just didn't buy a world wide production license, they only brought one for a few places
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Saw Robot Wars on nick when I was around 5 never got the name, then I saw a Battlebots guide when I was around 10, saw the name Robot Wars watched that, <3.
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Flipping though channels at a hotel, I caught the last few minutes of a Robot Wars episode. When I got home I did some research, and eventually discovered Battlebots.
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I have something more, Last year I was watching Robot Wars Matches in Youtube, Then I saw a RA2 vid, I was like OMG! I searched it from google and tried to download it, finally I downloaded it and it was fun! when I had played it like 2 weeks, It scrapped out and I didn't find it anywhere. Then I found GTM! First I was thinking that it was boring place and I didn't registerate so I later found RA2 again. (I'm talking of Stock) 2 months I played it and it screwed again! I was so mad so I joined to GTM in May 2009, and you know all the rest, GTM Rocks!
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Got into robot combat about 10 years ago, when Robot Wars used to air. Watched BattleBots until it went off air, and went back to Robot Wars. Found RA2 a year ago and loved it. I still got tapes of those old Robot Wars & BattleBots matches.
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I had less than 10 years (I don't exactly remember).
I saw RW on an italian channel (from swiss) and got amazed by it.
My mother thought it was stupid and I couldn't watch it freely.
then they changed all the programs on the tv channel, it was offline for a few days. I kept watching it until it came back, and RW was no more.
Afterwards I just read things on the internet, then saw a lot of videos on youtube and played RA2 like heck, and browsed for hours on modding sties.
In the past years I've just sometimes browsed forums like this, and I seldom played RA2.
I sometimes check this forum because the hope of an RA3 never fades. I miss a robot wars like TV show so much too.
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2000: saw my first battlebots match
2001-2002: taped most of battlebots S4 and S5 and saw a few Robot Wars Extreme Warriors episodes
2003-2008: made mini lego battlebots and fought them.
2009: saw my first FWRW and RA2 vids on Youtube.
2009:convinced my mom to buy RA2.
2009: started Robot Wars Lego Madness.
2009: Joined Gametechmods.
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Just before we moved house in 1999, I discovered RW Series 2. I was glued to the screen every Friday. Eventually, it went off in 2003. I was heartbroken on discovering it wasn't coming back. I attended 1 event in 2006, and mostly forgot about RW. Then, in June/July 2009, I searched on google for Robot Wars, and came across the Robot Wars Wiki. Having lurked there for a month, I registered and started contributing in August. I saw the RA2 vids of a member called RA2 (Sonny_Resetti), and in one of his vids he talked to GF93 about Replica Wars. Searching for that, I eventually found myself here on GTM, and S_M gave me a copy of RA2 shortly afterwards.
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i started watching robot wars in 2000 and was hooked and in 2008 i found out about RA2 and so i bought it even though the last version (RA) was crap
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The first thing I remember about robots was when I was about 6 or 7. Had to get up about 5AM to watch it. Never really caught the name of it, or even the names of the robots ( all of them have just escaped my head. ). forgot about it for after a couple of weeks then my friend showed me robot rage. Wouldn't stop playing it till about 2005, when I moved to where I am now ( nice try ) and just forgot about it. Round about 2007, amde a new friend who would illegal download games for free or just plain get games for free that is legal and show them to me. 2009, showed me RA2 and I fell in love. About a week in, and I was allready better than him, but he had the beetle bros mod. I searched for it and found this place. Nice.
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I think when I was ten or so I caught the last 5 minutes of Battlebots when staying in a hotel. Looked interesting, so when I got home I looked it up. After becoming obsessive and making nothing but replicas out of my Mindstorms kit for about six months, my interest kind of went away.
Five years later I found RA2, and three weeks after that I joined the forums. You know the rest.
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yep that story c out right :P
Flipping though channels at a hotel, I caught the last few minutes of a Robot Wars episode. When I got home I did some research, and eventually discovered Battlebots.
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I don't really remember what the show was exactly. Originally I thought it was BBots but there was one machine there that I remember was a wedge bot with a claw or a pincher or something on top. Maybe Razor? That's why I thought it was RW.
Also take note that I can't tell what topics I've already posted in, for some reason.
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lol I took that quote from page 1 of this topic :P
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Found RA2 in a bargain bin at K-mart for 5$, thought it looked cool.
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Bump
Just before we moved house in 1999, I discovered RW Series 2. I was glued to the screen every Friday. Eventually, it went off in 2003. I was heartbroken on discovering it wasn't coming back. I attended 1 event in 2006, and mostly forgot about RW. Then, in June/July 2009, I searched on google for Robot Wars, and came across the Robot Wars Wiki. Having lurked there for a month, I registered and started contributing in August. I saw the RA2 vids of a member called RA2 (Sonny_Resetti), and in one of his vids he talked to GF93 about Replica Wars. Searching for that, I eventually found myself here on GTM, and S_M gave me a copy of RA2 shortly afterwards.
So Replica Wars brought you to GTM? awesomes
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waaaaay back in '01, my moms friend told her about Battlebots, so we watched it, and my first fight was Biohazard VS Taz-bot, and I was hooked, and since then Bio has been my fave.
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Just before we moved house in 1999, I discovered RW Series 2. I was glued to the screen every Friday. Eventually, it went off in 2003. I was heartbroken on discovering it wasn't coming back. I attended 1 event in 2006, and mostly forgot about RW. Then, in June/July 2009, I searched on google for Robot Wars, and came across the Robot Wars Wiki. Having lurked there for a month, I registered and started contributing in August. I saw the RA2 vids of a member called RA2 (Sonny_Resetti), and in one of his vids he talked to GF93 about Replica Wars. Searching for that, I eventually found myself here on GTM, and S_M gave me a copy of RA2 shortly afterwards.
So Replica Wars brought you to GTM? awesomes
Yes.
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i got into it somewhere in the middle of Robot Wars series 3 on BBC. i was young then, about 8 years old i think. can't remember that well. i then first saw the show and loved it. at first i didn't know what all the english meant since i could only speak dutch. later i used k'nex stuff to replicate battles and actually thanks to the show learned english.
after robot wars disappeared some years passed, then i suddenly remember the show after seeing the name of one of the games. i looked and youtube for more and actually found the battles. after having played the robot wars games and found out about robot arena 2. so i downloaded that to give it a try and just loved all the options there were. later i got onto the RA2 forum where i was active for a while. i then forgot about everything and got to other things. became addicted to 'forum roleplaying' and been doing that all the time (and i still do it). build a new pc in the time, got more games and then found my RA2 .exe and installed it again. and i got the grey screen on startup problem with windows vista. when i saw the RA2 forum wasn't there, i went looking and found GTM with a forum. got helped here then but then never returned. and then recently went asking for the hamachi stuff. i was recognised by someone here and got back to being active on GTM next to having my own roleplaying forum to watch over.
i must say that i always had a knack for robotic combat. that was i also liked the Medabots anime very much. but, that's my story. i now i am 19 years old tho. i have changed a lot in all the time.
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I got into RW early in Series 2. I remember seeing those bots and thinking 'woah :D'
Been into it ever since.
Last year, remembered playing a demo of RA2, and decided to see if I could download it somewhere.
I did. I liked. I ended up here :D
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i have never seen the first and second robot wars. i wonder if it is possible to see them somewhere.
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the complete series 2 is on youtube :D
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They both are.
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REALLY!!! plz post link
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http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCRobotwarsUK
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thank u G.K.
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looks interesting. will use reallayer to download the video's from youtube, just in case it would suddenly disappear.
i remember having whole series 4 taped on video tapes from when it was aired.
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I first heard about Battlebots on the old On Demand channel (this was early 2000; a week or so before I turned 13). From there, I was hooked. Watched almost every single episode of Battlebots from its debut til its demise. Also watched 2nd Series Robot Wars on the local PBS station (right after The Red Green Show; 11 p.m. EST), 4th Series on TNN (Grand Champions), and almost everything else I could under the sun (I missed the Nick Robot Wars since it was blink and miss it; same deal with Robotica Series 3).
In short, I'm a MASSIVE nerd about robots. I've always wanted to build one, but monetary reasons (read: lower middle-class family) and a lack of actual fighting in a 3 hour radius kept me away from it.
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looks interesting. will use reallayer to download the video's from youtube, just in case it would suddenly disappear.
i remember having whole series 4 taped on video tapes from when it was aired.
hehe join the club I have series 5,6,7, extreme 2, all 3 world championships, international league, part of series 3, part of series 4 and some matches from extreme 1
all downloaded from youtube :P try using tv.com as a checklist.
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3 world championships? i have only seen one. i do have series 6 and 7, but only the fights, i would prefer the whole eps, but i take what i get. i'm still busy with getting series one and two, but i do want to know where you got the rest.
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2001: My Grandma phoned and said there was an interesting program on BBC2. Saw the end of Heat C - Firestorm vs The Morgue.
2002-2003: Got RW:ED and AoD, was hooked. Also watched all of series 7 on Jetix/Fox Kids.
2004-2006: Forgot about them, and watch Dukes of Hazzard for ages.
2007: Discovered it on YouTube again. Bought RA2 (download version), and joined the old GTM.
2008: New computer = No RA2. Forgot about it.
2009: Re-discovered GTM, and torrented RA2 on PirateBay (Don't look at me like that guys, I'd already bought it, so I haven't done anything illegal). Got DSL, started entering tourneys and started showcasing bots.
2010: Died of sheer delight.
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so you are dead now... great. and i don't mind you torrenting it. how i got it also isn't the most fair way, but is a fail in the developers side. i had downloaded a trial version, 3 uses. used 3 used because the game kept crashing. looked on the site and got the official patch (then still using windows XP). the game was no longer seen as a trial version.
well, i'm happy since i can play it.
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3 world championships? i have only seen one. i do have series 6 and 7, but only the fights, i would prefer the whole eps, but i take what i get. i'm still busy with getting series one and two, but i do want to know where you got the rest.
after series 3 - Razer
after....gah mind fail - Razer
after series 7 - Storm 2
my collection is the matches/ interviews and thats about it, no torrents for the full eps sorry
I spent hours fishing on youtube for high quality full size (interviews etc) videos of series then subscribe to that user and download them as they come :P I have noticed a lot of stuff I got, I cant find it on youtube anymore... you have to be quick with all this copyright garbage on youtube now
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after series 3 - Razer
after....gah mind fail - Razer
During Extreme 1 Joe.
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I knew it was in extreme 1 but didnt want to sound stupid if it was wrong :P
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youtube does become more annoying on that part, so i better hurry with geeting series 1 and 2 completely on my pc. and 3 for as far as that one dude has uploaded it.
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EDIT: Just noticed I bumped this, whoops ^^"
Well...
I remember my grandfather taping BattleBots a long time ago and I watched the show with him (it was the Las Vegas 1999 event) and I immediately became obssessed with robots (the heavyweight rumble did it for me lol) and I never saw BattleBots for years after that (The only cable company that aired Comedy Central here at the time was DirectTV). After a few months, TNT (now Spike TV I think) started airing RWEW and RW 4th wars and I taped every episode (except the first RWEW series). Then Robotica started airing and I saw every episode (I know the name of every Robotica robot). Eventually, after a boring day at school, I saw the RW Extreme series (the battle was Steel Avenger vs Tornado vs King B Powerworks) and started to tape the 5th wars, 6th wars, and the 7th wars. After a while I learned about RA2, downloaded it from the Atari website and joined here sometime in 2007, came back as Overload, and then switched back to S.T.C.
Typed all this on the wii :P
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2001: My Grandma phoned and said there was an interesting program on BBC2. Saw the end of Heat C - Firestorm vs The Morgue.
2002-2003: Got RW:ED and AoD, was hooked. Also watched all of series 7 on Jetix/Fox Kids.
2004-2006: Forgot about them, and watch Dukes of Hazzard for ages.
2007: Discovered it on YouTube again. Bought RA2 (download version), and joined the old GTM.
2008: New computer = No RA2. Forgot about it.
2009: Re-discovered GTM, and torrented RA2 on PirateBay (Don't look at me like that guys, I'd already bought it, so I haven't done anything illegal). Got DSL, started entering tourneys and started showcasing bots.
2010: Died of sheer delight.
Dibs on his CD Player! :evilsmile:
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Well, I'm still alive, so therefore I am not off....
*dies*
DAMMIT!