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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
- Subject: Re: IS THERE A BTECH SIMULATOR IN EXISTENCE? ( like BOSTON )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.203308.16112@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:33:08 GMT
- References: <BzKrBG.526@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <Dec.21.13.52.46.1992.11683@gauss.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Dec.21.13.52.46.1992.11683@gauss.rutgers.edu> din@gauss.rutgers.edu (dragoon) writes:
- >Yes there is. Battletech Center's in Chicago. What you do basically is sit in
- >a cockpit and run around and kill people. Free for alls or team play. Teams
- >usually consist of 4 people so you can have 2 lances going at it against each
- >other. Lots of fun really. There are 4 or 5 different variants of 4 Clan
- >mechs that you can choose from: Thor, Loki, Madcat, and Vulture. Graphics
- >are excellent and there's even infra-red. Each game lasts 10 minutes and costs
- >$6-$8 depending on when you go. After each battle, you can watch the whole
- >thing from a top view on a monitor outside. So far there's only like 2 of
- >these places in existence. The other one's in Japan I think.
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- |ep, the only other currently operating BT Center is in Yokohama,
- Japan. They're putting another one in at Osaka, Japan, and the
- license has been signed for on in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm
- really stoked for the Bay Area one, as that's where I live. (:
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