Like a lot of people around here my first contact with macross was through robotech i
live in mexico city and i remember the first time that the show aired here it was
around the year 1985 in channel 5 of mexico city since the very first moment i loved it
i watched all the series, and remember that some stores started to bring some toys
but i never found the VF1 that was the one that i wanted, i only found a couple of
zentradi pods and the action figures of rick and lisa, in that era the only toy that i was
able to buy was a small pirated copy of the sdf-1 in a flea market near my house
A couple of years later i found a macross videogame in one of the arcades, some
years later in one of the stores i found a VF1 it was really nice but too expensive
and i wasn't able to buy it.
Then i think it was 91 or 92 i went to one of the first comic book stores here in my
city and i found a small magazine made by fans and in that magazine they made an
article about macross and robotech (in the cover of the magazine they put a couple
of pictures so i bought it) and that was the moment when a learn about macross
also around that time there was a radio show about comics and anime and they made
a feature about the history of macross and around that time was when i learn about
DYRL and i was able to get a pirated copy again in a flea market.
After that it was until i think it was 1997 when in one moment i started looking in the
internet about robotech and found the episodes in real player format and i fall in love
again and started looking for macross stuff again
That was my experience in the dark ages