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And then you lopped his head off, didn't you?

If I recall, the RPG's quite out there in some places too. And I did have the chance to speak with one of the programmers before. He takes his Macross rather seriously. But in the end, it's a game, not a collector's piece. Accuracy is less important than it being playable. Hence the VF-1 lugs unlimited missiles and bullets, the missiles fired change by configuration, the battroid has a sniper rifle that can be charged up for a super shot, and diffrent VF-1s have diffrent stats. BTW, according to Macross Compendium, the 1S DOES have "enhanced avionics identical to VF-1A's Block 12 design" and " improved FF-2001D engine with greater engine thrust". So officially the VF-1S IS better than the other versions.

IT'S JESUS!

Yah. Games regularly tweak things into illogic for their own purposes. Battlecry essentially used it as a difficulty setting. If you're taking way too many hits, you can downgrade your jet and trade some upgrades for increased armor. ... Though there is a kind of logic behind tying the manuverability and armor together. More armor means more momentum. More momentum means more energy's required to change course. More energy requird to change course means you change course slower than you would if you had less armor. Hence, more armor = less maneuverability.

And the ritual burning of Tokyo!

As far as personal aesthetics go, I think a white skull and crossbones looks really ugly on a light background. As far as the Max 1S goes, it'd look pretty good on a dark blue, but not the light blue used Max's plane.

I say Roy. He had better hair.

Excuse me sir, but then I must ask...how tall are you, so that we're sure to have the right size stake...

And instead of running around a field throwing a ball and tackling people you'd drive mechs around a city lobbing the ball from a catapult and shooting other mechs!

Both games are MSX2. Fortunately, most emulators will do MSX2. I've played both of them signifigantly using RuMSX, which I have to say isn't the best emu ever.

That bad? I'd heard it was actaully a half-decent film.

MAN-MZIN WARS!

I reiterate: Metal Gear on the NES is but a pale shadow of the original MSX version. The diffrence between the 2 games is astonishing. BTW, you actually get to fight the Metal Gear in the MSX version, a feature that was left off the NES adaptation due to technical limitations.

Oh gods... If I was on the Macross, I would've killed for a satellite uplink from Earth, even if Pluto is 4-6 light-hours out(depending on where in the orbit you are). Who cares if your radio is 4 hours behind everyone else's, or that it takes 12 hours for a requested song/show/file(hooray for the internet) to come back to you(6 for the request to reach earth, 6 more to come back to you)? GIVE ME SOME DIVERSITY!!!!

Then I shall revel in unofficial blasphemy! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

And again we confuse fission with fusion. Fusion's output depends on the input, but can be as simple as helium gas. In the real world, Helium3 fusion(yes, the Gundam reaction) is rather promising because it releases a lot of energy and puts off NO neutrons. At all. He3 combines with He3 to generate 2 protons, an He4(which is a more stable helium isotope), a heck of a lot of energy, and if you happen to live in the Gundam universe you get some minovsky particles. On the downside, it's a royal pain to get the reaction started. Not that I think helium gas is a great propellant, but it's there for the usage.

Personally, I think the colored heatshields look very ugly. So given the disturbing lack of continuity present, I choose black heatshields as "correct".

I propse that all the cast be rewritten as female.

The NES version of Metal Gear is a pale shadow of the original MSX version. Snake's Revenge is NOT Metal Gear 2. It was made without Hideo Kojima, and has been disavowed by Konami. The true Metal Gear 2 is Solid Snake on the MSX computer, and was japanese only. Pick an emulator here... http://www.zophar.net/msx.html Metal Gear can be found anywhere. Same for untranslated Solid Snake. Personally, I tend to use http://www.planetemu.net/ just because they have lots of stuff. The translated ROM image for Solid Snake is here... http://www.msxnet.org/gtinter/mgear2us.htm Note that you have to look at the MSX TWO ROM/Disk image sets for both games. the Metal Gear series were MSX2 games.

I HAD THAT ONE AS A KID! ... Gods, but I hated it. That stupid shoulder chain gave me no end of trouble. I could never get it to move during transformation, and somehow managed to get it to pop out of the track several times. And the fact that I really wanted the motorbike instead of the jet(this is how a child thinks of a MOSPEADA and Legioss) certainly didn't help.

Only for fission. Fusion cares not for half-lives. It doesn't even need radioactive substances.

Regarding your edit note: You forgot they were FORCED to Mars. They intended to go straight to Earth and the Zentradi attacks forced them off-track. ... Ah, forget it. I wasn't following things right.

I think your thinking of fission reactors. Fusion engines would produce no radioactive waste. That's why every one wants them so badly. Depends on the fusables. Fusion CAN create radioactive byproducts, though not as many. The main advantages to fusion reactors are A. You get FAR more power for a given fuel mass, because fusion releases far more energy than fission. and B. Hydrogen, the most easy fuel to fuse, is cheap. It's present in some 70% of the Earth's surface, and seperating it from the oxygen atoms it's bound too is a very simple process. Indeed, most fusable materials are cheap. Unlike the very large atoms needed for fission, the small atoms used for fusion are quite stable and very common.

Presumably hydrogen. It's cheap, easy to find(especially in space), and easily fusible. On the downside, it's not very massive. And spraying beactor byproducts out the back is a really bad idea in an atmosphere(if you thought anti-nuke protestors were bad now...). Hence the need for a seperate propellant that can be heated by the reactor and expelled out the back.

The legal issues may HAVE reared their ugly head at the last minute. As for resolving them, a lot's happened since '99-2k. As I understand it, since then it's been established in court that Tatsunoko only holds rights to the original TV series animation. So logically Harmony Gold can't play the license infringement card anymore since their licensor only holds rights to the original series animation(and just the animation, not the characters or mechs present in that animation). ... Of course, they may've played the trademark card too. That's still on the table.