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hahaha, thanks for the info!

wow, I only ever heard of the '28 year' law..

Re the Mechwarrior franchise, Mechwarrior 4 is now available for free download. The official link http://www.mektek.net/projects/mw4/download.html unfortunatly due to the extreme popularity it seems this site is broken now.

You can get the installer here http://www.bigdownload.com/games/mechwa ... free-game/ , or do what I did and find a torrent with the download.

Awesome game I have to say!

Bane_Star wrote:Ever Seen Mech-warrior? Not the computer game, but the original paper and pencil roleplaying game.. the slot system for weapons you describe sounds very much like mechwarrior.

^ Exactly what I was thinking.

There is a browser based MMORPG implementation of mechwarrior at: http://www.neveron.com

Screenshot of the grid based map system: http://neveron.com/images/screenshots/battle.jpg

Screenshot of the slot based combat system: http://neveron.com/images/screenshots/arena.jpg

that looks very kewl. I miss the old days of Mech Warrior

I've heard Disney had something to do with the length of copyright being extended.

But yeah, I believe someone has the trademark for Mechwarrior still, there was a nice discussion on gamedev.net about if someone could use Mech in their game.

interesting. I don't think Mech actually came from Mech Warrior but who knows with some of these silly copyright trademark laws.

hallsofvallhalla wrote:interesting. I don't think Mech actually came from Mech Warrior but who knows with some of these silly copyright trademark laws.

If there is some copyright/trademark issues with using the term "mech", a designer could just take it upon themselves to create a more creative and unique term for them. Mech fans will obviously be ale to tell what they are from the artwork.

like "Mechie", "Mhech", "Mek", "Mechnoid"

Isn't Mech short for Mechatronics?

Pax.