Charles we are trying to gas charity for future generations. Liz have a good weekend. March madness as we kick off the final hour of trade in the first day of a new month. We are not talking the s p and nasdaq at new record highs. Any gain at the close for either of the majors will seal the deal. The s p higher by 41 points, the nasdaq gaining 200, Dow Jones Industrials up 77. Where are we seeing madness . It is one of the biggest laggards as we pick up a final hour of trade. Major headlines swirling around boeing. Look at the intraday chart and cratering in the stock that happened at 10 509 am eastern time. Thats when a wall street journal report hit the tape that boeing is in talks to purchase spirit aerosystems, opposite chart here, shares immediately responded, spiking as high as, lets see, 200 . The high of the session, spirit aerosystems, significant gain, 33. 99. Spirits market, 3. 7 billion. It used to be part of boeing but was spun off in 2005. It is the company that is behind
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Back in the late eighties when 2D shooting games were a dominant form rather than a somewhat niche genre, a particular kind of shmup became very popular indeed. While the likes of Capcom’s
1942 certainly set the groundwork, the success of Toaplan’s separate 1987 arcade releases
Twin Cobra and
Flying Shark made hard-nosed, unembellished military shooting games very popular indeed. In the following two years came the likes of
Twin Eagle, Meta Fox, Fighting Hawk, and Toaplan’s own
Fire Shark and
Twin Hawk.
By 1990, a Tokyo-based studio named Seibu Kaihatsu put a well-needed spin on what had become something of a shooting game trope. Rather than adding another straight-down-the-middle military shooter to the pile – and resisting any titular references to hawks, eagles, sharks or twins – the studio seasoned Toaplan’s recipe with sci-fi.