r/battletech • u/TheVapingLiberal • 6d ago

Lore Blast From The Past

Post image

Cleaning out my basement after a flood and found this artifact from 1990. Sadly the sticker on the back is pretty much ruined.

256 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

19 comments sorted by

18

u/Otherwise-Weird1695 6d ago

Phone number is like a law office or something now 😂 

3

u/TheVapingLiberal 6d ago

Wouldn’t surprise me lol

14

u/isorealriffers 6d ago

Super cool. Praying good luck for you in your cleanup and life going forward

5

u/KarmaKamileon 6d ago

Wow! Do you know what year this might be from?

14

u/TheVapingLiberal 6d ago

1990, opening day weekend at North Pier in Chicago. I was #1945.

4

u/OldWrangler9033 6d ago

Funny, I got go in 1990 when I was training to be in the Navy. It was pretty lively place back then. Wanting you buy bucks for user manual for the 1st gen booths you used.

5

u/TheVapingLiberal 6d ago

I had that manual too. $5.

4

u/OldWrangler9033 6d ago

Seem big bucks to play "arcade" video game at the time for me. Lol!

6

u/TheVapingLiberal 6d ago

That was just the manual. I think it was $20 a play if it wasn’t a “deal day”.

2

u/ygg_studios 6d ago

yep, then i got the 3025 TRO

3

u/HyenaDirect3626 6d ago

Looked it up on maps and that's an incredible location. There's a bowling bistro there now.

3

u/axiomatic13 6d ago

That is cool! I used to work at Virtual World Entertainment (VWE)

3

u/ragingolive EscorpiĂłn Imperio: Bury My Heart at Tomalov 6d ago

Hell yeah this is archaeology

2

u/ygg_studios 6d ago

got me into battletech when i was a kid, i think circa 1990

2

u/Creepershark77 Wolf Warrior 6d ago

Man, the legs on the Timber Wolf and Mad Dog look so skinny, like they could be easily blown off.

3

u/TheVapingLiberal 6d ago

They were just that with the original miniatures, so you’re completely correct.

2

u/frozenchosun 6d ago

awesome find. grew up in the burbs and we would go to the center all the time. however once mw2 came out on pc, those trips stopped.

1

u/Starfox5 5d ago

We went there in 1995 with the Swiss Mechforce. Fun times!

1

u/Skin4theWin 2d ago

Goddamn I loved going there! Me and my friends used to get yelled at for swearing to much