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PSP: I just want to know -- wheres the mecha?!
Wed, 22 Nov 2006

Usually I try to have something vaguely amusing (to me ;), informative, remotely useful, or at least personal to say. But today, this time I just want to ask something. As someone who played electronic games and video games in the 80s and 90s:

Wheres the Wing Commander equivilent? I mean, don't people still want to fly a small space-faring fighter against large capital ships? Think Star Wars and running down the trench with enemy fighters on your tail, turrets lobbing heavy munitions youe way -- fun! Descent? (Well, I could finish porting it..) Those of us from the golden 80s watched "The Last Starfighter" and we want to shoot something down. Hell, make it a Starblazer's tie-in for the retro-anime crowd.

In the same grain, we played Battletech on the tabletop and watched Robotech on the tube, and endless reems of anime mecha - giant robots, beam weaponry, machine guns, stomping enemy buildings and the almighty Death From Above jumpjets.. we need the rebirth of Mechwarrior. Bring it.

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