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* [[Title Drop]]: Many Atari video games and properties have their names dropped throughout the series.
** The main computer for ''Scanner One'' is the [[Atari 8 Bit Computers|Atari 8000]].
** Issue #4 of the first series features "Mission: [
** [http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7885 Galaxians] was mentioned in issue #5 of the first series. Also an alien vaguely resembling a [http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7299 centipede] appears in the same issue.
** Martin and Lydia's son, Christopher, is codenamed "[[wikipedia:Tempest chr(28)arcade gamechr(29)|Tempest]]".
** In the second series, one member of the team is a diminutive alien nicknamed [
** When the Scanner One re-enters normal space, the pilot of the ship says "[http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7216 Breakout]!"
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: Imagine being a kid in 1983, buying a video game, and getting a free comic book about a series of global wars and disasters that have brought everyone to a world-destroying apocalypse that has reduced humanity to a desperate mission of sending a dimension-traveling team to try and find a new ''universe'' to inhabit. [[Sarcasm Mode|Right...]]
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