[186] A real software developer, the creator of Tempest 2000, who appears by gracious consent.

[188] Creator of the original Defender and Robotron: 2084, among other great Elder Days games.

[429] AG Systems comes from the WipeOut series of video games, in which it's one of the four main manufacturers of the anti-gravity vehicles used by the racers.

[767] YaK is pretty close to the truth, given that Jet Alone's name is a riff on Jet Jaguar, the robot co-star of Godzilla vs. Megalon. Jet Jaguar was built by an eccentric inventor, though, he had no connection to the JSDF.

[895] I do believe he's getting to her a bit. And, ironically, he's not even really trying; he still believes she genuinely dislikes him.

[982] We'll hear more about this project later.

[1145] Named for arch-hacker Kevin Flynn of TRON fame, of course.

[1304] One of the hardest damn Webs in Tempest 2000, able to make hardcore gamers groan in anticipated pain when it appeared.

[1317] But not as hard as this one.

[1322] A phrase pulled from a YaK blog post about, if memory serves, the PlayStation remake of Robotron: 2084.

[1530] Not, as Rei initially suspects, from some outside source.