Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 11 - “Activate! Double Zeta” (始動！ダブル・ゼータ) - discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the easter-egg in Beecha's choice of reading material.

- An official page about Star Luster from Ninendo for the game's inclusion on the Wii Virtual Console.

- Wikipedia pages about Star Luster in English and Japanese.

- Very detailed Japanse-language writeup about the game from Game Catalog @Wiki.

- Video capture of someone playing Star Luster.

- Games Radar article noting that Star Luster may have been the first game to incorporate a regenerating shield mechanic.

- Pictures of Star Luster guidebooks that may have inspired the magazine or book that Beecha is reading.

- Wiki Page for Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Hot Scramble.

- Footage of someone playing Hot Scramble.

- Archived copy of Japanese-language interview with the creator of Hot Scramble.

- Profile on Ohnogi Nobuyuki (composer).

Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

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