Beltane70

As annoying as Shinn may be, I don't hate him anywhere near as much as I loathe Quess Paraya from Char's Counterattack or Nena Trinity from 00!

I'm rather ashamed to admit it, but I actually ran out of time in the normal mode of Lightning Returns and had to start over.

Started the first 4 eps of Psycho-Pass... wow!

Just wait until you get around to the middle of the series!

One of the things that I really got a kick out of was the fact that the voice of the Dominators is played by Noriko Hidaka!

And nobody will care!

I really hate to admit it, but I'm finding Lightning Returns hard enough on normal that I may just quit and start over on easy. Normally, I'd grind in a game like this to over-level myself and power through, but with the game's time-based play, this isn't an option.

I can't wait until May. Now does Full frontal really need an upgrade for his suit? Sinanju is already super fast, has a big weapons payload etc. Sticking the sinanju in that mobile armor is just going to make it a slow moving target that probably has a lot of fire power, but it's going to get blown up anyways and out pops sinanju. Okay rant over. At least the neo-zeong doesn't look 100% dumb like a few other upgrades in Unicorn.

I doubt it will be a slow moving target. I'm quite sure that it'll have enough thrusters to more than compensate for its increased mass.

The main issue is that Minmay never sang those songs!!! OMG!!! the most important songs in the macross universe!!!

and of course FB2012 is just a movie cilp for 2031 people.

Not necessarily. Do You Remember Love? could still just be a Minmay song. All that having DYRL as movie within the Macross universe means is that the title song was just one of her regular songs instead of the one that saved humanity.

Threre's also a very large retro-arcade in Chicago called The Galloping Ghost. They also have Cobra Command, but it wasn't up and running when I was there during this past June. That arcade also has the DYRL game.

Red Bank, NJ also has a retro-arcade, Yestercades, but it's nowhere near as big as The Galloping Ghost or American Classic Arcade Museum.

where's that arcade... is it in NJ? there was one in chinatown (NYC) but they closed down and the owners reopened in Brooklyn and made it into a console fighting game place. i haven't seen an arcade in years. (i guess i haven't looked around)

Back in the 80's the one in 34th Penn Station was my favorite arcade (it was called Space Station? i believe). they had mach 3 and firefox, but i didn't even know what was going on back then to understand the tech behind it...

That last arcade is down in Point Pleasant in Ocean County. It doesn't have Cobra Command anymore, though. I hope that I didn't confuse you there. I only meant that it was the only arcade that's still around, not the only arcade to have the game.

After hearing everyone raving about Brave Default, I broke down and bought both the game and a 3DS XL. I actually got lucky and found the system on sale at Target for $175.

Yeah, it was the same for me, but I never thought about taking a recording of it. I should have, considering how rarely I saw the machine.

Believe it or not, Cobra Command was in quite a few arcades down by me. I can think of about five arcades in my area that had the game. What's really sad is that out of those five, only one of those arcades is still open. All the others are long gone.

You and me both, Buddy. You and me both.

I see I'm not the only one that was confused by Keith!

Yeah, totally uninterested in this box set.

I have always had a deep distaste over that Robocop game ever since my childhood 7-11 store replaced the SHINOBI machine with it. SHINOBI was soo much better...

I only saw this game twice during my youth in all the arcades I've ever been to:

I remember thinking it was the bestest game ever. Now that I got it to finally work on MAME, it almost brings a nostalgic tear to my eye when I boot it up.

Cobra Command also known as Thunder Storm on some machines was my favorite arcade game when I was around 13 and the only arcade game that I could beat! I've always loved the into theme to that game. In fact, I loved it enough that I actually took a tape recorder into an arcade to record it.

The animation for the game was produced by Toei.

Would it be cheaper for you if you were to drive to the US to buy it?

At least no one was injured or killed in the incident.

I bought Lightning Returns last night. I'm finding it to easily be the hardest Final Fantasy game ever, not including the high-level content in XI or XIV.

There's an easy setting, but I went right for normal and don't plan on quitting, despite the difficulty.

So far in the history of me and Final Fantasy games, VIII is the only one that I hated and never completed.

Ironically, if there's any space man I don't recall owning, it's blue. Had many white/red/yellow, and maybe a black one or two. But blue? Doesn't ring a bell. (probably did though, based on how many space sets I had)

I only had the space men in red, yellow, and white. I had quite a few of the late-70s to early-80s space sets, but never owned any of the Futuron, Blacktron, or Space Police sets.

No, there isn't. Trust me, if there's any news on any new anything related to Macross, it will be announced here, often on the very front page of the site.

The Galaxy Explorer was the very first Lego space set that I ever had! The Starfleet Voyager was also my personal favorite and the very first Lego set that I bought with my own money.

Must buy Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!

I was hoping that they'd get around to making a VF-0D toy! Hopefully, things will be a bit better for me financially by the time this comes out.

If you don't know it's a bootleg, how can you say in your original post, "obviously a bootleg"?

Congratulations on getting the Dendobrium kit! I remember getting mine at Anime Expo a decade ago. To get it home, I actually had to check it in as a separate piece of baggage!

I saw an update about this just moments ago when a friend posted the announcement of a Ghostbusters set. I laughed a bit when the girl in the video pronounced it Maycross.

http://networkedblogs.com/Tjrsc

The Valkyrie is mentioned at around the 2:40 mark.

I always meant to get both the Albion and Musai sets, but never got around to getting them. I did however, buy Re-GZ set.