Yeah, they discontinued it?

Jarlath said:

Yeah, they discontinued it?

They have it on Switch now, as a app.

Kalarz said:

They have it on Switch now, as a app.

But he pulled out a Wiimote, apparently thinking that an online service goes a ten year old console would still be live.

Reader-added tags include "Girl is undergoing karaokenium decay", "Crazy Kamille", and "Damn you, next-gen machines!"

Also, based on a Pixiv comment, I think Kogasa's supposed to be a parody of Amuro Ray's father Tem, but I couldn't swear to it.

Moonspeaker said:

Also, based on a Pixiv comment, I think Kogasa's supposed to be a parody of Amuro Ray's father Tem, but I couldn't swear to it.

He absolutely is. It's a parody of the scene where he makes a circuit out of random junk and gives it to Amuro, telling him that it'll upgrade the Gundam's abilities (spoiler: even Amuro can tell that it's random junk and that dear old dad has gone a bit coo-coo).

uchuunamako said:

He absolutely is. It's a parody of the scene where he makes a circuit out of random junk and gives it to Amuro, telling him that it'll upgrade the Gundam's abilities (spoiler: even Amuro can tell that it's random junk and that dear old dad has gone a bit coo-coo).

To elaborate, early in the series Tem Ray get sucked out into space, and for most of the series people thought he died. But then he turns up alive later on, but he's clearly suffered some kind of brain damage from oxygen deprivation since he hands Amuro a box of junk electronics and claims it's a power-up item that will make the Gundam invincible. In the TV series that's the last we see of dear old dad, but the movies unceremoniously kill him off by having him fall down a flight of stairs.

The "power-up item", dubbed the Tem Ray Circuit, actually became a running gag in the Super Robot Wars franchise. It's an equippable that lowers a robot's stats, but also reduces its repair cost to just 10 Credits; it'll often be given to Evangelion Unit 1, since it makes deliberately destroying the Eva to trigger Berserker Mode a viable strategy.

For further trivia on the Tem Ray Circuit:
- SRW 30 brought it back as a powerup part, but it's actually just a useful part this time, being a nerfed version of the powerful and rare Haro that you can get quite early, and I think there's the implication that Tem's doing okay in that game's timeline. Still, it's thematic that even the good version of the Circuit is inferior to Amuro's toy ball robot.
- If you look at the image, Kogasa's Circuit has "USB1.1" on it. This is a merchandising reference, as Banpresto released a USB 1.1 hub based on the item in 2007. USB 2.0 was the standard by then, so making the hub USB 1.1 on purpose made it outdated junk just like the item it resembles.