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For those of you not familiar with the above tittle let me key you in. ITS FUCKING OLD. As I remember it it was awsome. It is the precurser to the entire mechwarrior series. It was a overhead map view styled right from the battletech board game. I used to love playing the board game and as a young kid I watched my dad play this MSDOS program. Yes it came on a floppy disk old school. The game was a huge 1109kb file.  

Cresent Hawks Revenge and Cresent Hawks Inception was the beginning for me.

"Jason, this is Rex Over" was the line coming out of your single onboard computer speaker back in the day.

Then came the original mechwarrior.

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/arcade_action/games_ma_me/mechwarrior.html

The evolution of the hit box came up with this game as you could now target legs, arms and heads of the opposing Houses Mechs.

Years go by but I cant forget the roots. For those that ever played the new versions of the mechwarrior series you have thank the guys at Infocom & Activision for the birth of one of the oldest gaming legacies. MechWarrior aka Battletech.