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When I first read "The robot fighting TV shows mentioned include BattleBots, Robot Wars, and MegaBots, the earliest of which started in 1998", the other day, I was surprised. 1998 seemed a little late. But the wikilinks said 1998 for Robot Wars, so...  ...however, I've ''just'' found (without looking for it, or even knowing I still had it to find!) a VHS tape in the back of a cupboard labelled "American Robot Wars Final 1996 [Highlights - Approx. 8 Minutes]", which seems to be a highlight video I will have received as a member of the Robot Wars club (here in the UK) with an order form to buy the full-length video (£12.99, +65p P&Pfor club members), which definitely tallies more with my memories of watching RW (and joining their club) a handful of years earlier..  Now.. ..where do I have a working VHS player? Anyway, FYI. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.105|162.158.158.105]] 17:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC) - Addendum: ''Also'' there was another similarly packaged video nearby called "[The] History Of The Third Wars (18 Mins)" with slip "With compliments from the House Robots" and cartoon depictions of Matilda and ¿Sgt Bash?, so probably pushes it back even closer to my recollections of when it all kicked off. Also suggests I should have a good tidy up.
 
When I first read "The robot fighting TV shows mentioned include BattleBots, Robot Wars, and MegaBots, the earliest of which started in 1998", the other day, I was surprised. 1998 seemed a little late. But the wikilinks said 1998 for Robot Wars, so...  ...however, I've ''just'' found (without looking for it, or even knowing I still had it to find!) a VHS tape in the back of a cupboard labelled "American Robot Wars Final 1996 [Highlights - Approx. 8 Minutes]", which seems to be a highlight video I will have received as a member of the Robot Wars club (here in the UK) with an order form to buy the full-length video (£12.99, +65p P&Pfor club members), which definitely tallies more with my memories of watching RW (and joining their club) a handful of years earlier..  Now.. ..where do I have a working VHS player? Anyway, FYI. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.105|162.158.158.105]] 17:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC) - Addendum: ''Also'' there was another similarly packaged video nearby called "[The] History Of The Third Wars (18 Mins)" with slip "With compliments from the House Robots" and cartoon depictions of Matilda and ¿Sgt Bash?, so probably pushes it back even closer to my recollections of when it all kicked off. Also suggests I should have a good tidy up.
  
Wikipedia confirms it, it really was before 1998 (look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Wars_(TV_series) this article], section «History»: it says Marc Thorpe created Robot Wars and held the first competition in 1994.) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.238.35|172.68.238.35]] 12:47, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
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Wikipedia confirms it, it really was before 1998 (look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Wars_(TV_series)| this article], section «History»: it says Marc Thorpe created Robot Wars and held the first competition in 1994.) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.238.35|172.68.238.35]] 12:47, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

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