Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
For me, it was that intro video for the old .com site. Some guy giving a speech about how his father had carried the sword in peace and now he carried it in war. Gave me chills. And then there were those nift animations of the No-dachi the CA and the arq.
http://web.archive.org/web/199910030....totalwar.org/

is the Wayback Machine link to tw.org of Sep '99, with many links still functional, including posts on the old Echelon forum - sadly, the link to that intro video didn't make it. I'll keep looking... somebody, somewhere has it.

I too remember with fondness staying up almost all night playing Shogun MP with fans from around the world - then going to work and pleading for a short day so I could return to 'Japan' and my new-found friends. That's the time when I first invested in PC headphones, so as to not wake Mrs. Kukri (again!) with the "...whipped dog!" speech. :)