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    Personal opinion, 2036 is WAY better than Scrambled Valkyrie, though Scrambled Valkyrie is still awesome. And yeah, the other PCE games are strategy games. And I don't think a fan translation of Scrambled Valkyrie exists. The game's already in english, what is there to translate? I think the pirate is just making his bootleg carts with some random ROM image he downloaded, and assuming that since the game is in english he has a translated version.
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    Pretty much spot-on with the difficulties. Max has a freaking homing laser, after all. And I don't even remember his F-mode weapon because B-mode was so useful. *boots game* Ah, a spread gun. The boringest of useful weapons. Hikaru requires you to actually AIM, but he still hits a good region, and deals a lot more damage. And Milia will do ungodly amounts of damage if you're aiming carefully, but the cost of a mistake is much harsher. But... there IS a difficulty setting in the options. I forgot about it too, but it was there front and center when I went to change the sound mix to stereo(I DID remember that the game defaults to mono sound for some strange reason).
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    You're in for a treat. It's not Macross 2036(what is?), but 's still a pretty good shooter.
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    Is anyone besides me bugged by the transparent red Castlevania cartridge? Even accepting that it is not representing the video game(the marginally-legible label DOES carry a Netflix rather than Konami logo), it is still goofy. The NESflix interface was cute, though I really wish they had updated it from the 2015 version of the software. The Nintendo can do better, and to be frank, this DESERVED better than quarter-screen cyan and white(what is this, IBM CGA?). ... Am I focusing on the wrong things here?
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    I'd watch Stealth 2.
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    I just started watching Tiger & Bunny again. Because superheroes.
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    Spock: I examined the problem from all angles and it was plainly hopeless. Logic informed me that under the circumstances the only possible action would have to be one of desperation. A logical decision, logically arrived at. Kirk: You reasoned it was time for an emotional outburst.
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    Pretty much. Aside from the same old novelizations, RPG rulebooks, and Toynami figures we've all seen a decade ago, it is a big pile of cafepress-style "print this graphic on these products" crap. ... Or whoever the cool "print this graphic on these products for me" webstorefront person is these days. I haven't actually heard the cafepress name in a few years now.
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    If I did see it, it was when I was very young and forgiving. I know OF it, and of the color palette issues. But I am pretty sure they would have legal troubles if they took a single episode as carte blanche to start writing stories about the kzin. They paid Niven for a story, not full rights to what we would now call his intellectual property. Even if the script deal COULD be interpreted as carte blanche, it invites legal headaches while all this is sorted out. Were I Paramount's legal team, I would "strongly urge" the writers to create a new, legally distinct race of felinoid belligerents just because no one wants to open that can of worms. The end result is basically the same, only they aren't using Niven's names for things(see also: kilrathi). Apparently previous attempts to re-introduce the kzinti have ended up featuring the legally-distinct "mirak" or "ferasen" instead. Though... while the Trek kzinti comported themselves poorly, I feel obliged to note that the salad thing is a valid response to a Known Space kzin psychic too. The psychic doesn't get "Oh, he ate a salad", he gets the sensations and experience of eating a salad. The end result is an effect somewhat analogous to force-feeding your interrogator raw turds, because vegetables are utterly disgusting to the kzinti.
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    It wasn't really a complete non sequitur. The kilrathi basically ARE the kzin(at best, they were "heavily inspired by"), and Chris Roberts is almost certainly more amenable to licensing them than Larry Niven, so they WOULD be a natural substitute. (assuming Roberts and not EA owns the kilrathi) ... But it would still cost more to license someone else's alien than to make up your own. There's no way the writers would've ever gotten approval to use the kzin or substitute the kilrathi. It also costs more to do an angry Tony the Tiger than it does to make a human with bits stuck to his forehead. So end result: Enterprise would've taken another crap on the lore and figured out a way to bring the hirogen in from the delta quadrant (and rewrite their society) instead of creating a legally distinct race of felinoid belligerents.
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    The internet is naught but smug comments. Anything that seems otherwise is just well-cloaked smug comments.
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    Hey, the kzin are hardcore. They could eat klingons for breakfast... assuming that Paramount was willing to pay Larry Niven to use them(and even less likely, Niven was willing to take the cash). Glad they didn't get a chance to mess that up.
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    I thought the thesis for Enterprise's failure was "crap writing and a stubborn refusal to follow up on promises made". Which was also the problem with Voyager, though Voyager was up-front with its refusal to follow up on promises. One episode in and the half of their crew made up of known terrorists is wearing Starfleet uniforms and happily getting along with the half of the crew sent to arrest them.
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    Wait, they blew up Bumblebee and he just put himself back together? Is he a junkion now? Also, that guy says "alien robot dinosaur" like it is a BAD thing.
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    Panel lines and glue plugs and origami shellforming oh my!
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    Ahhhhh.
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    I think these are fake. Not the least because a Super FamiCom release of Street Fighter II Turbo would have a random apostrophe in the title.
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    That sure is a Street Fighter box.
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    Voltron is the defender of the universe. Power Rangers aren't even the Defenders of the Earth. Defenders of California? Also, the lions can fight on their own instead of just being pants for the giant robot. This is incontrovertible and objective proof that Voltron is better. I won't say Voltron is THE most important thing in my childhood(that was probably Nintendo), but I WAS one of the millions that made it the most successful kid's show of its time, and I spent a lot of time shouting "I'll form the head" or "form blazing sword".
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    Seems like most of them are loyal sycophants instead of backstabbing schemers is the biggest issue.
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    The Megazord is an impressive toy, but it just ain't my super robot. Power Rangers was "a cheap Voltron knockoff" in my head, and while it may be inaccurate it is still how I feel in my heart. That's why I got Voltron.
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    Just rewatched ye olde Armitage III, for the first time in years and years. Still quite enjoyable, though I caught myself repeatedly asking one question that I never really considered in my younger days: How is our heroine getting away with wearing a bra and hot pants as a police uniform?
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    Hooray for easy upgrades!
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    Well, darn. Now I have to hunt for one. Or that.
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    Awww, man, it is a darn shame that the GCreation combiner is such a mess of bonus parts and stupidsword. I wonder if there was a communication breakdown somewhere along the line with that sword. Someone suggested a double-bladed sword, meaning like a tuning-fork(which is dumb but looks awesome), and the guy responsible for making the parts completely misunderstood the concept and stacked the blades like a sandwich instead. You're right about the GCreation torso being pretty lame, too. But those WINGS. Shuraking's wingspan is simply majestic. But the Toyworld torso is spectacular, and I love that tyrannosaur head hanging out of the chest. It is like someone looked at Gaogaigar, I mean Predaking, and went "Nope, lions are for chumps"... though I'm thinking the triceratops frill would make a spectacular chestplate too. ... Pity you can't fit the GCreation wings onto the Toyworld robot. They could give Slag a black humanoid head, like he's SUPPOSED to have! Scoria's cartoon-accurate red head is an instant dealbreaker for me. It is, seriously, the only thing that kept me from ordering one.
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