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Your Experiences
Do you have any experiences on VO you wanted to share? Wanted to tell how you get to know about VO and how it had affect your life? Or maybe what you'll be doing if the VO machines you used to play with were removed, nowhere to be found?
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e.g:
Name: Tem Yap (Creator of this page)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Fav. VR: Apharmd B, Specineff 13 "The End", Myzr Delta.
Country: Malaysia
Experience:
Well, I've been playing VO for about 5 years now, the first time was in 1997, around August or so when I spotted a "Gundam look-alike" mech, Temjin on a PC CD cover. I bought it, of course, and found it quite hard at first, so I abandoned it for some time and go for other games (Megaman). Until I'd replay the game, being able to go past Belgdor(Yaay!!), I've managed to complete the game for the first time. I instantly got obsessed with it. So I started to play it over and over, trying on diferent VRs and techniques.
I tell about the game to one of my friend BS, who were not so interested in this type(He enjoys strategy). Soon after, he manage to unite me and another old friend of mine GF, though we don't talk much to each other when we're in primary. Then we began to make experiments on the game, while going for a couple of link games...and all this fun started to go over to GF's partner, WJ, who together they brought me to the world of animes and manga (Gundam Wing).
The following year comes, and the first time I step into the arcade(Yup, and don't be surprised that I was already 14 that time), the only game I play was VO:OMG, although I have a PC version of it. I then got to know about VO:OT from the internet, and were very excited about it. We, of course, continued to be drawn over to VO:OMG for a year, until in 1999, somewhere in December (Year's End School Holiday), I spotted a 'familiar' yet unfamiliar set of arcade machines. The blue seat, the dark piece of plastic in the middle, and the twin sticks. VO:OT made its first appearance in our lives. We went over to it, despite that we'd ran out of money to play with it(We don't know about it and finished our supply in VO:OMG). Lucky for us that we have just enough for one game. But since that's the first time we play VO:OT, we got decimated by the ever beginners-bully giant, Dordray.
After practicing with the controls, also with some guides from the internet (Especially the SiVoc's Page & Fei-Yuki's. THANKS!!), I managed to complete the game as well...As the obsession got worst, I soon got to master all the VRs, and until now I'm still with the old VO:OT machine, trying out new tactics (Mostly for entertainment) like doing a dashing CC on a downed opponent....
The news of VO: FORCE quickly ran through my brain. Keeping in line of its news updates, and finally to its release in Japan. For now, I'll still go for the VO:OT, till VO:FORCE comes, I'll go berserk...