 More recently, a new 3D shooting game called "Macross Ace Frontier" included several elements from the original series.It was developed by Artdink for the Sony PSP and was released in 2008.In the "Anime Encyclopedia", authors Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy called the series "One of the three unassailable pillars of anime sci-fi, pioneering the tripartite winning formula of songs, battling robot-planes and tense relationships".