Labels:text | screenshot | font | black | black and white OCR: ganizer U pon arrival, we seek out Mark Thorpe, creator and main o ining of Robot Wars. He gives us a quick tour of the arena, expl k of how the whole thing began. A few years ago, inspired by the wo fellow robot enthusiast Mark Pauline, he had a brilliant idea: why not stage a demolition derby, but take the humans out of the equation? With no drivers to risk getting hurt, the destructive power of a machine would be limited only by the laws of physics and their creator's devious imagination. The carnage-and hence the entertainment value-would increase a hundredfold, creating the perfect spectator sport: a two-day long, injury-free car crash. Thorpe found an enthusiastic partner in Gary Pini and Profile Entertainment, and within months the first Robot War was underway. It was a rousing succ ...
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