Trivia
MegaTron has a bizarre history and a look immediately familiar to BattleTech and MechWarrior fans. In 1991, Stanely released this game, and it wasn't a bad effort. Half-decent graphics, good sound, a useful AI, and workable gameplay ("crash-proof", some even called it) added much to an already good concept: modem-to-modem Giant Robot combat, long before the days of NetMech. Unfortunately, Stanely was disappointingly unoriginal, and stole BattleTech concepts and images from FASA while trying to make money off this blatant copyright infringement. He even called the two robots MadCat and Vulture (MechWarrior 2 fans will recognize them as Timberwolf and Mad Dog), referred to them as BattleMechs and Omnis, and set the game in 3015. It's unclear whether there was a genuine lawsuit by FASA or the threat of one (I've asked, but nobody at FASA today remembers what happened back in 1991), but in 1993 Stanely released a new version with a few improvements. The two units are called Bear and Snake, and are now Assault Robots, not BattleMechs.
Megatron VGA was at one point the subject of a lawsuit between FASA and Stanley Design, but the story was changed enough to get past the lawyers and the lawsuit was avoided.
Contributed by
Trixter 
(8865) on Mar 16, 2000.
