<S>Indy007 where did you play virtual world? Thats a tesla (last version) pod, did you ever play pre tesla? <Was at the San Diego grand opening in hazard center. Still have the 1300+ logs from the missions~$7 a pop=( Got TONS o free play as a defending master<double Order of Burton in battletech(pre tesla and then tesla just for gp) and single master in redplanet. MAN that was a fun place 
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I played the old school 2.0/3.0 pods @ Exhilarama, West Oaks Mall in Houston back in ... wow.. had to be '96. I had maybe 25 missions in those. That place died, and the Tesla pods came out. Those were at Dave & Busters, and I probably put in about 250 missions on those. I was fortunate, I asked about the advanced modes, and was the only player around, so an employee set up a 30 minute game and gave me a crash course. After that they banned me from playing against newbies and only let me play with the masters & veteran regulars.
A Gillian's opened up and picked up 8 more pods. Then, overnight, D&B dumped their pods, and that Gillians closed down. Now, there's between 8 and 16 Tesla pods that belong to MechCorps, sitting at a place called Track21 running Firestorm. They even did a Red Planet beta preview on a laptop there recently. It's slated for re-release if it hasn't been already.
I haven't played in the pods since they moved to Track21. I think I'd rather just code and build my own set at this point. I can pull it off for < $2500 each, compared to the $10k+ of Tesla pods, with better features and a lot less maintenance. I think Virtual World is halfway on drugs. They don't even write their own site-link code, and haven't upgraded the internals... ever apparently.
