MechaZone 223 Cheat Sheet

MechaZone 223 was full of all sorts of references to various anime, manga and conventional sources. Some of them were easy enough to spot to be called homages, but others were slightly more cryptical.

I've compiled most of the early ones to the list below. The rest will follow, when I have some time to add them and when they are cleared for public display.


Asian Combine
Combine from Ogre
Cabs Zrgn
Rot13-encoded (I think)
Calif Rodexe
spell backwards
Carter's Deep
John Carter, from Burroughs' Barsoom (Mars) books
Colonel Kilgore
Apocalypse Now
dan Kugar
anime series Dancougar
Doctor Rico
the main character in Heinlein's Starship Troopers is is called Rico
Dram
old unit of weight, still used with e.g. shotgun shells
EarthMate
Landmate from Appleseed
Eniram
spell backwards
Eric Paddleditch
direct translation of Erkki Melaoja (HelPol)
Esu Ylno
spell backwards
Flow
spell backwards
Fuhro
from latin
GUGES
from Masamune Shirow's Appleseed
High Martians
Space: 1889 RPG
imp-riahl
imperial
Ko Tatsuno
Tatsunoko is a japanese animation studio
Lum-thruster
Lum from Urusei Yatsura
Mantsuria-Riga
Fnord
Martin Emmex
Mx i.e. Maxxon, aka yours truly
MechaZone 223
combination of MegaZone 23 and Area 88
MiahM
Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Heinlein's book
Norton Swell
twisted from Orson Welles
Nupetiet Vernitzs
Zentraedi command ship class in Macross
Orjuuttaja
from the Ryydman -parody (pretty obscure for non-Finns I guess)
Paneuropean Alliance
Paneuropeans from Ogre
Professor Emm
prof. Meta from my HelPol games
Pugna
from latin
Rednamalas
spell backwards
Rod Wlar
anagram of Warlord, i.e. Sotaherra (HelPol)
Vindex
from latin
Wing of Honneamise
An animated movie of the same name


Maintained by Mikko Kurki-Suonio
Last updated 18-FEB-96
Resurrected 19-AUG-03
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