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    Hailey's comet orbits the sun. It is just a highly eccentric orbit. At the farthest, it is 35 AU out. Which means it gets a little farther out than Neptune, but not as far as Pluto. Due to the eccentricity of the orbit, velocity changes a good deal, from around 1 km/s at aphelion to over 100 km/s when it is closest to the Sun.
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    Much like Isamu, court-martialing Millard would be politically problematic. By ordering Guld to follow Isamu to Earth, he wound up being involved in what accidentally became a heroic rescue of the homeworld from an insane brainwash-happy AI. Can't court-martial that. I would assume he was quietly encouraged to retire, so they had an open desk to chain Isamu to once they promoted him out of a cockpit.
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    Sorry, I was being flippantly sarcastic. Basara does get character development, it is just subtle(the only subtle thing about him).
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    They will shout "LISTEN TO MY SONG" and start shooting people with boomboxes while singing.
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    Honestly, in some respects Plus is the most Macrossy Macross since the original. I think it is the only other Macross with characters that feel like real people to me. Not GOOD people, but real ones. I think most of us know an Isamu that never grew up and treats everything like a game, a Myung that gave up on their dreams and is hopelessly lost in life, or a Guld that takes everything too seriously, blames others for his failings, and acts like a colossal prick if you aren't as uptight as him. ... And then the robot brainwashes the Earth and Peter Pan has to kamikaze the Pentagon.
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    Sci-fi motorcycles: Yeah, they all look suspiciously similar.
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    I remember realizing how dumb the AI was, and then I abused it to keep a soldier walking around a single crate for a half-hour following footprints in the snow as I walked right behind him. Then I got bored and tapped him on the shoulder. Tapped him on the shoulder TO DEATH.
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    It is a pretty well-regarded title, and it isn't among the most common Genesis games. Bad combination if you want to get it for a decent price. Oh, don't even get me started on Treasure fans. I've never played Radiant Silvergun, but I've played Ikaruga( “Our frothing demand for this game increases!"), which is supposed to be a "spiritual successor"(and was "Project RS2" in development), and... it is kinda crappy. Pretty crap, but still just a boring memorization game. I remain convinced that most of the attention it got is just because it was a high-profile scrolling shooter at a time when there weren't a lot of scrolling shooters coming out. The standout Dreamcast shooter was Mars Matrix, but it wasn't from Treasure so it got ignored. </controversial_opinions_2>
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    What the crap! Definitely done by someone that doesn't understand the blue bomber.
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    For a while, it was one of the more famous examples of "great games Japan isn't releasing in America". The only big flaw I see with it is that you can't change the AI for the two sidekick turrets without a game over/continue. That sounded like Arrow Flash until you said "towards the end". That and Arrow Flash isn't exactly spectacular. It was good for early in the system's life when it came out, but against the entire library it's just average. ... You're probably thinking of Ranger X. But speaking of Genesis games with robots... I can't believe I forgot to mention MUSHA earlier.
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    Gaiares is a pretty interesting game, and definitely deserves a look. Actually, the Genesis has several noteworthy shooters that simply don't get the respect they deserve. Gaiares, Gleylancer, the Thunder Force series... You can't throw a stone without hitting a shooter, and that quantity means there's a good few gems in there just waiting to be overlooked. R-Type has style, but Irem's level design gets just hateful in the later stages. I've got a long-running love/hate relationship with that series. The entire Gradius series is a big unfun dumpster fire. Sorry, Konami, you've stayed married to a terrible powerup system and refused to fix your broken game. Even had the audacity to shoehorn it into Salamander and ruin a perfectly good game that didn't do anything to anyone. </controversial_opinion> Zanac on the NES, and the PS1 sequel Zanac Neo are both an interesting take on the genre. Enemy spawns and behavior are dependent on what weapons you're carrying and how well you're playing. There's something immensely satisfying when you're doing well and the game is throwing everything it can at you. It is almost like you can hear the computer shouting "Bullcrap, that shot hit, you cheating bastage!", and it is so nice to have the shoe on the other foot. Compile, you guys had class. But let's rock it EVEN older and get some Defender action going. That's a fun game, though the original arcade controls can be an obstacle. Especially now that everyone is used to playing the genre with an 8-way joystick. There's a lot of instincts that just don't work on a Defender cab. Fortunately, most home ports adapted the controls to something more normal. But my nostalgia goes to Parsec, on the 99/4a computer. Yeah, that's right. I'm gonna get WEIRD up in this joint. There's also some Robotech game on the TurboGrafX called Muhcrawss 2036. It's pretty cool.
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    When people start talking about Kingdom Hearts, I can never tell if I missed something amazing or dodged a bullet by not getting into that series.
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    Darius 1 is also kinda klunky. Limited shots on-screen, combined with VERY long screen, makes every missed shot very punishing. Taito got better, obviously.
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    Super Nintendo game is a sequel, as I understand things. It was a much diffrent game than the original arcade game, for the better. The original arcade is a stiff and boring game once you get past the initial "omg three screens!" aspect.
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    Of all the games to get another sequel... I love the title progression(Ninja Warriors, Ninja Warriors Again, Ninja Warriors Once Again), but really... it just isn't all that notable aside from being stuffed in a giant 3-screen Darius cab originally.
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    Having never actually finished Delta, and having bailed right around the point Mikumo's back story started to come out... I'm starting to think that Star Singer is a synonym for "emulator", which makes Mikumo basically an Ishtar bootleg. So... Macross 2 did it better?
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    Yeah, they seemed to draw every scene those two were in with an eye towards reminding people they were lesbians. Just in case we managed to forget in the last ten minutes.
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    Difference between the men and the boys... Actually, having been doing a little side project recently, I've come to find the trailer more important than I used to. I was comparing Prime toys from three different characters(OG, Powermaster, and Cybertron), and realized that aside from "red truck" and "radiator for abs", they also all shared "trailer turns into a battle station."
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    I'm reasonably sure that's not true, if only because I've seen monster truck commercials with a transforming truck, and it was a lot more than two feet tall. But that is a pretty darn big Prime.
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    That's the VD-1 Ajax. (Variable Detergent, obviously)
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    To be clear, I was making fun. Go figure that's an accepted spelling.
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    Wait, Hayate and Mirage got good at some point? ... Wait, Mirage is actually DOING something? CLEARLY things changed wildly after I dropped Delta.
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    Gasp! The Gelgoog and the AJAX share a head! Gundam ripped off Southern Cross!
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    I've heard of that one! I think it is some sort of pirate bootleg dub?
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    "The single best-selling character in the history of the Chogokin series " Well, that explains the availability and aftermarket pricing issues. Turns out he's a mighty robot loved by good, feared by evil, and coveted by toy collectors.
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