How many can do this ?

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:05 pm

<center><img src="http://cownap.com/~mtmg/docs/extras/mtmReceipt3.gif" width="300"></center>

Somebody should remind the zone that wasn't free.

NIR_PitBull · Post by **NIR_PitBull** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:33 pm

Thats almost a half a months rent there.

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:31 pm

Around here that was half a month's rent twenty five years ago. But I was really only talking about the first item.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:37 pm

I went upstairs to find the recipt and found the box i got it in and i found the bag that i brought it home in. But i didnt find the recipt - it was $19.99 tho.

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:40 pm

> the box i got it in

Mine still has the plastic wrap and a rebate sticker they didn't rebate after I sent it in.

Cale · Post by **Cale** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:08 pm

Whoa...I remember buying MTM 1 at Computer City...dang that CompUSA for buying them out!

SLO_COPE · Post by **SLO_COPE** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:41 am

Geez - $69 bucks lol. Paid $25 for mine. My son, who was five at the time, picked it up in a store we were in and said, "Hey Daddy, let's get this!" lol. Wasn't for him I wouldn't be here.

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:25 am

Remember that in 1998 69 canadian dollars was worth 44 american dollars.

Post by **Phineus** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:30 am

Yeah, but it was still 69 cdn. I didn't pay in US dollars.

RobbyH14 · Post by **RobbyH14** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:33 am

I got it the day it came out at K-Mart of all places; went looking for it at a few other places before that.

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:22 pm

I recall getting my copy in 1998 at Frys for $29 or $39 (I don't clearly recall).

That was around the time when the fastest PCs were 550 mhz Pentium-2's, and my pent-1 233-mhz motherboard and cpu cost me $159.

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:25 pm

> How many can do this ?

Not I.

My youngest son won a copy of it through an online tourney for a combat game I can't recall the name of right now. Up to that point every pc game he or rbiii played looked weak in comparrison to snes and so I never bothered much with them.. All that changed forever when I tried out mtm2's the heights, I was instantly hooked and to this day have never played another console game. I don't remember the specs on the pc I first ran the game on except that it was a pre-pentium pile o crap bundled with netscape lol.

Mat-Allum · Post by **Mat-Allum** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:55 pm

ZOtm_BigDOGGe wrote:I recall getting my copy in 1998 at Frys for $29 or $39 (I don't clearly recall).

By Fry's, would you mean Fry's Outpost.com? I got mine at Outpost. And here's something funny - the shipping charge or whatever was higher than the cost of the game itself, which was about $4.95! I was lucky to even get it because - imagine this - it was the last one they had in stock.

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:19 pm

Yep. Fry's Electronics bought-out Outpost.com and made it into their internet store a few years back. I've been going to Frys since 1985, when they only had one small store in Sunnyvale (today they have 29 stores in 8 states).

There are several Frys stores here in the south bay area now, so I don't need to buy online myself (and you find slightly better deals in the store that are not available online).

Plus, I don't have to deal with shipping by walking in.

The new Sunnyvale store is as big as an airplane hangar that could hold a couple of 747's, and even has a "player" grand piano in the middle of the store that plays classical music (via a built-in CD player mounted below the keyboard that reads MIDI and move the keys and pedals). It looks like an invisible ghost is playing it sometimes.

What'S REALLY cool is that each store has it's own theme. The Palo Alto store,(even closer to me), looks like an old wild west saloon when you walk in, and there are western themes everywhere inside. The Sunnyvale location had several glass-enclosed exhibits inside, like an old Apple-1 motherboard (very rare) and all kinds of even older historical electronic equipment from many decades ago.

Here's a list:

In Northern California:
- Sunnyvale reflects the history of the Silicon Valley
- Palo Alto steps straight out of the old wild, wild west
- Campbell's ancient Egyptian theme has a 20-foot sphinx and King Tut tombs
- Fremont's 1893 World's Fair theme is a flashback to the first city powered by electricity.
- San Jose pays tribute to the first astronomers, the Mayans, with settings from Chichenitza.
- Concord is the newest addition to the Bay Area market.

In Southern California:
- Fountain Valley hails the ruins of ancient Rome, complete with a flowing aqueduct
- Manhattan Beach takes you to Tahiti with sculpted lava tiki heads and its own rain forest
- Woodland Hills is a page out of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland storybook, with 10 to 15-foot high figurines of the story characters
- Anaheim places you on the NASA flight deck for the Endeavor Space Shuttle, complete with launches on big screens all weekend long
- Burbank pulls you back in time to the 1950's with a retro-space theme from Hollywood, complete with little green Martians and Gort, the robot
- City of Industry pays tribute to the industrial revolution with bigger-than-life gears
- San Marcos takes you to Atlantis, with its aquariums, exotic fish, and waterfalls.

In Texas:
- Dallas allows you to experience the Lazy-K ranch, complete with a herd of longhorn cattle
- Houston lets you view the history of Texas oil, complete with oil derricks
- Austin is a tribute to the city's reputation as the "Live Music Capital of the World"
- Irving pays tribute to its history, which is depicted throughout the store on mural-size photos
- Plano shows how the railroad impacted the development of this thriving area
- Webster's murals depict the history of space exploration together with a scale replica of the international space station

In Arizona:
- Phoenix is a journey into an ancient Aztec temple.

In Nevada:
- the Las Vegas reflects the history of "The Strip."

In Washington:
- our Renton reflects past historical events.

Several years ago, the sunnyvale unit was in a Walmart-sized building that made you feel like you were shrunk down and placed inside a computer. The walls are lined with circuitry, table-sized IC chips and basketball-sized resistors and such. I really miss that store.

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:51 pm

> Anaheim places you on the NASA flight deck for the Endeavor Space Shuttle, complete with launches on big screens all weekend long ...

It's very very cheezy the way it's set up.... like some cheap b movie with cardboard cutout shuttle props... and those big screens are never on... ever, they just sit there. It is a nice store for finding just about anything electronic though.

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:32 pm

> How many can do this ?

I didn't think I could and after digging around for the box(es) my suspicion was confirmed. I didn't keep receipts going back that far

I do remember that it was in '98, after I'd loved but exhausted the playability of the MTM1 demo and then MTM1 complete (no internet back then so I didn't get addons), I walked into a local computer fair and they had MTM2 for AU$70. That was the first I knew of the sequel and I bought it on the spot.

My PC could barely run the game but for years afterward I wasn't put off... lol.

I can't remember what the price or context (xmas gift maybe) of MTM1 was at the time I got it, but the demo came to me on one edition of a CD demo compilation series called Fresh that they sold for $5 apiece... which I got immediate and with haste right after we bought our first IBM-compat PC

Post by **Phineus** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:55 pm

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I didn't preserve anything on purpose. It just worked out that way.

HaC · Post by **HaC** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:51 am

yeah d2s, i remember them fresh cds, and funnily enough thats how i became familiar with mtm1 and mtm2, through the fresh demo cds..hehe

i even remmeber the funky menu the cds had to go to the games..i thought it was really neato at the time

SLO_SCATTER · Post by **SLO_SCATTER** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:03 am

I'm with Phin, I still have the box and original cd. Although, I tore the plastic wrap off the box like it was a Christmas gift. [;)]

Great games never die!!!

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:25 am

Geez, you guys. I'm a self-confessed hoarder and have all of the box and every material that came within stashed away for most things, but keeping the plastic shrink wrap was something I never thought of. LOL [:P]

G'day Haccy! Haven't seen you around here for some time. How's going?

I actually still have the four Fresh CDs we collected right here in the drawer - spanning volume 1 (with MTM1 demo) to volume 39 (a very incomplete collection, LOL). In my case, I already knew of MTM and got the Fresh disc precisely for it, though playin those demos also turned us on to buying some other games including GEX and Age of Empires... so I guess those demo discs did their job!

<center><img src="http://mtm2.com/~d2s/temp/freshvol1.gif"></center>

I remember the big mouse-over animated menus too, though they didn't kick in till either volume 2 or 3. If you want I can give you a (silent and non-interactive) <a href="http://mtm2.com/~d2s/temp/freshvol39.gif">menu experience</a> again, heh heh