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Blazing Star is a shoot-em-up game for the Neo-Geo home game system whose major contribution to civilization is the phrase "You fail it! Your skill is not enough, see you next time, bye-bye!" which was adopted by internet trolls, who post variations of it. A fixed shooter game, also known as a 2-D shooter or shoot-em-up (shmup for short), is a video game where the player has limited control of their character and the focus is almost entirely on annihilation of their enemies. ... The original Neo-Geo console was greatly advanced for its time. ... In the context of the Internet, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory messages intended to cause a disruption in discourse. ...


Blazing Star is the semi-official sequel to the acclaimed Neo-Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo-Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions. While Blazing Star is certainly a cut above a number of other shooters, some fans compare it unfavorably with Pulstar on the basis that Blazing Star was "dumbed down" in terms of difficulty and there are those that prefer the simpler 2D sprite look over the prerendered sprites that came to dominate many of the more recent shoot-em-ups. R-Type is a horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. ... Rom is also the name of a toy and comic book character Rom (Spaceknight). ... The megabit is a unit of information storage, commonly abbreviated Mbit. 1 megabit = 106 = 1 000 000 bits or 220 = 1 048 576 bits (see Binary prefix). ... This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... The seawater creature in The Abyss marked CGIs acceptance in the visual effects industry. ... A cut scene or cutscene (sometimes also referred to as a cinematic) is a sequence in a video game over which the player has no control. ... An example of Engrish noted in Tokyo in the year 2000 Engrish is a slang term which, in its purest form, refers to poor-quality attempts by Japanese writers to create English words and phrases; whether in mistranslation of an original Japanese language text, or in an attempt to create...


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