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We live in a world filled with powerful, compact, networked computers -- a world that those computers are about to transform.

Retro Remote nominates Sex Kittens Go to College as Transformers' true precursor. The problem with Tranformers-type franchises is that the criticisms can only annoy people by reminding them of what they have chosen to ignore.

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Things like moving sidewalks and regrowing lost limbs weren’t just far out ideas dreamed up by sci-fi writers, these were actual visions of the future.

Valiant and righteous, the old-fashioned robots fight back against the slick, wealthy, huge machine.