I love giant robots.  Ever since I saw Robotech as a young child I dreamed of piloting a behemoth of walking metal and devastation.  Then somewhere around the early 1990′s I walked into a place called “Virtual World” located in Old Town Pasadena and my life was changed forever.  It was here that, for the princely sum of $10, I could strap myself into a VR pod a.k.a. “Tesla Pod” for 6 minutes and duke it out with those that had the same dreams as me.  In between games, they had a “pilots lounge” that sold the board game “Battletech” and its long line of novels.

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