Figured I could dump some of the resources on Mechwarrior 2.
This is a good read on how the game came to be after the troubled Mechwarrior 2: The Clans that was originally planned until it was scrapped and taken over by a different team: https://www.localditch.com/mechwarrior/mech2/clans.html
Minor tidbits: https://www.localditch.com/mechwarrior/mech2/index.html
A Sarna Retrospective of MW2: https://www.sarna.net/news/did-you-know-retro-battletech-games-mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat/
A local LA News Segment on the game (warning: *very* 90s!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENA8oDpReTU
A commercial flyer that somebody was so nice to scan: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfmjy9usvwz59bo/Mechwarrior2%20Retail.pdf?dl=0
Assorted trivia via Mobygames: https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat/trivia
The writers and designer making fun with each other after crunching on Mechwarrior 2 (personal video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNYjcRLSlYw
The game was so popular back in the day it was voted by readers of Computer Gaming Magazine as the #1 Reader’s Most Played Game and 1 in #1 in the magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide for the Action genre https://twitter.com/ArtofBattletech/status/1481251639348670468
It managed to sell around 500.000 copies in its first 8 months of release https://imgur.com/u1IaMu4
A commercial for MW2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C06peqEKtOE
A commercial for MW2 Mercenaries: https://twitter.com/ArtofBattletech/status/1443725756165758976
Preview video of MW2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_KwjrZl7Go
Art stuff:
A Twitter thread with some of the art renders that I managed to excavate by personally contacting one of the artists: https://twitter.com/ArtofBattletech/status/1453057773630074881
AI upscaled and 60fps interpollated version of all the MW2 FMVs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwggmlL7Cxd5lQRWMl28nQmZqalwMYzLE
Some of the lost art that I scanned and touched up https://twitter.com/ArtofBattletech/status/1343291474499301376
Early 3D artwork for the unreleased Mechwarrior 2: The Clans: https://twitter.com/ArtofBattletech/status/1318580302701355010
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