Difference between pages "Card Trivia:Space Mambo" and "Card Trivia:Invoked Augoeides"

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"Invoked Augoeides":

This monster appears to be "Aleister the Invoker" merged with "The Grand Spellbook Tower".
- This monster’s head is in the shape of the “Spellbook” crest, and a projection of the crest appears behind it.
This card is named after Augoeides, an obscure term coined by Aleister Crowley meaning "luminous body" and thought to refer to the planets.

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-* This monster is based on the side-scrolling shooter game of the same name, ''[[wikia:w:c:gradius:Space Manbow|Space Manbow]]'', released for the MSX2 by [[Konami]] in 1989. In the game, the Space Manbow is a super weapon excavated on Alphard 4, and is also the last boss of the eponymous game.
+* This monster appears to be "[[Aleister the Invoker]]" merged with "[[The Grand Spellbook Tower]]".
-* The card illustration is a joke on the fact that the [[wikipedia:Ocean sunfish|sunfish]] is called a mambo (マンボウ) in Japanese. The actual Space Manbow from the original MSX2 game is in fact a giant spaceship, and can be seen in the background of the card illustration.
+** This monster’s head is in the shape of the “[[Spellbook]]” crest, and a projection of the crest appears behind it.
-* ''Space Manbo'' was originally created as an MSX2 port of the arcade game, ''[[wikipedia:Thunder Cross (video game)|Thunder Cross]]''.
+* This card is named after [[wikipedia:Augoeides|Augoeides]], an obscure term coined by [[wikipedia:Aleister Crowley|Aleister Crowley]] meaning "luminous body" and thought to refer to the planets.
-* The cyan lines and dots on this monster's body share a strong resemblance to those seen on [[wikipedia:Printed circuit board|circuit boards]].