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My dad got the Vectrex when they went on clearance. And he worked at TI, so there was no question who's side he was taking in the home computer wars. We've got multiple 99/4a units. And a pair of "p-boxes." Anyoen that owns multiple p-boxes is hardcore almost by definition. Even a 3.5" disk controller, which is pretty neat. (As I understand the story, it was a planned product that was scrapped when TI exited the home computer business, and the circuit boards wound up being populated with chips and sold by the user group).

That they were short on manpower. The show takes great pains to point out that people are being promoted far faster than they should be. Hikaru may well have been the most-experienced pilot IN Skull Squadron after Focker died. It wasn't a choice. Js are what was available. The Macross had limited supplies, they couldn't pop new planes out at will. That the Jeniuses were ASSIGNED 1Js shows that someone felt they needed better than a 1A. Post-war, there's STILL limited resources, and cranking out VF-1Ses for everybody is secondary to, you know, rebuilding the planet. After that? Max and Millia weren't flying VF-1s for their entire career. She's flying an 11 in the 7+ episode where she's teaching Gamlin to be awesome in flight school, and there's a small collection of available planes to fly in M3(including the couple's trademark 1Js, of course., as well as the much-loved VF-4. and the VF-14). Millia flew her 1J again in Macross 7, but... she was retired. She no longer had need of a top-end fighter plane. It was a large, but awesome, memento from her younger days.

My first game machine, along with a TI 99/4a. Rockin' it oldschool with Mine Storm and Parsec! Yeah!

Hell yeah! Sometimes they fall a little flat, though. Their vector display simulation is far short of what CAN be done. If you aren't playing Asteroids with real hardware, you should be playing it with AsteroidsGL. http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulator.php?id=asteroidsgl The guy made an effort to model features like the point flare a real vector display has. He also has fun options to emulate the noise you get from imperfect power supplies and flyback transformers interfering with the audio circuit, so you can tune it to sound like the imperfect Asteroids machine you may or may not have seen as a kid. I admit to turning the flyback noise up. It gives me a warm fuzzy sensation, since my Vectrex has suffered the same malady since time immemorial.

*sigh* Loading a game, and my 360 crashed. Reach and double-tap the power button while thinking. Went something like ... "Huh. *clickclick* Never crashed loading a game beF-WORD!" The Crimson PacMan has finally shown it's unsightly visage in my house.

Plow all the way through to the end of the war, just like Macross did! Robotech: We Can Win. Coming soon(er or later)to a theater(or Blockbuster) near you

It's not the first time they've done this. As I recall, the first hints of the Haruhi license came out in a similar manner.

Only after she fights Bombshell. ... I feel vaguely nerdier for making that comment.

I was playing RE4 on me 'Cube just last night. 'S aged rather well. 'S also the only RE I've spent a significant amount of time with. Hell of a lot more fun than that loaner copy of Code Veronica I played, though.

The 3-light red-ring is a free repair. They extended teh warranty, but ONLY for the ring of death.

As stated, because it sounds cool. See also: Starscream, Omega Supreme, Shockwave, Fortress Maximus, Optimus Prime, Megat-oh, you get the picture. I hadn't thought about it, but... it's not unique to the movie. Thrust, Skywarp, Soundwave, Blaster, Rumble, Mixmaster, Ratchet, Sixshot, Astrotra-oh, you get the picture.

To be fair, in my experience a lot of the anime community thinks Gundam Wing was a thoughtful masterpiece. I LIKED Macross 7, but I wouldn't say it's top-tier or required viewing. Actually, I wouldn't say that about ANY Macross except for the original TV series and DYRL(order depends on if they're more focused on eye-candy or writing).

Sounds good to me.

Them and everyone else.

... I'd buy it.

I told you I ignored that because it made me feel better. Gamlin's just using flashy moves because Basara brings out the attention-whore in him.

But if Max is #1, and Max says Basara is almost as good as he is... doesn't that make Basara an elite due to expert testimony? *throws some more fuel on the fire* Guld should be lowered on similar grounds. I demand Kawamori do a non-canon cross-temporal free-for-all. Macross: Arena would be the BEST OVA EVER.

If I recall, that was one of the things they got out of Rare. And Rare claims they created it while they were working for Nintendo. Regardless, it's pretty obvious that they only added them to the 360 to get a VS Wii bullet-point.

I've seen those before. It boggles the mind.

I'd just ignored it most of the time and assumed they stuck to the armor and transmitted to the inside through vibration. It made me feel better.

Me too!

Grabbed a Universe Cyclonus today. ... Am I the only person incredibly disappointed... because the first step in the instructions is to fold up the nosecone and reveal the head? It's probably due to watching way too much Voltron, but it just seems wrong for the head to not be at the end of the transformation. And WTF? He only has a gun hole in his right hand. That's just strange any way you slice it.

Emulation never really seemed to affect prices much. Remember, Chrono Trigger's peak value was while SNES emulation was being featured in mainstream print media. On the other hand, the guys that dumped the NES Earthbound game DID have to pay an arm and a leg to the guy that owned the prototype. He was concerned all the ROM images would make his only existing english cartridge(with a game-killing bug) less valuable. Don't forget that Terranigma has TV type detection, and will ONLY boot at 50Hz. Despite the fact, if I recall correctly, that it wasn't optimized for 50Hz play, so it runs slower than it should. It's really rather strange, since almost all TV type detection on the SNES was to prevent the Europeans from importing US games. And as someone that LOVED Illusion of Gaia(crappy Enix US translation and all), I've always been disappointed that it never made it over here.

To be fair, I don't think that's the big problem, so much as the pink hair and Gubaba on the shoulder. But given her father successfully used an upturned collar it to camouflage a VF-1A, she may have a genetic gift for stealth in spite of her hair.

Yeah. Games are REALLY variable when they're still fresh. And calling which ones are going to become valuable is pretty hard to do. I haven't paid a lot for most of my used games. I think I coughed up 40 for my Chrono Trigger cart at a Funcoland many moons ago, and that's my peak. Some of them currently have a good bit more resale value than I spent, though. On a related note, I am pleased to note that my original copy of Lunar 2 apparently did not lose value when the PS1 remake hit. It warms my fanboy heart. (It's possible that the game was as out-of-control as Chrono Trigger and Valkyrie Profile were before they got ported, and I just don't know it. But I don't think it was, given I never heard anyone but me speaking of it in religious terms.)