====== Battle Series ======
[[company:Banpresto]] is well known for turning out dozens of anime-based games over the years, but one of their most productive lines died a quiet death in 1999 and is virtually unknown out of Japan: the "Battle" games, which prominently featured characters from the universes of Gundam, [[caracter:Ultraman]] and [[company:Kamen Rider]]. The first "Battle" game actually came out several months before the first entry in the more well-known [[Super Robot Wars series]], and they certainly took off faster, with more than a dozen titles being produced (most likely with help from other developers) in the next five years.

A notable amount of the games were a sub-series of sorts: the Great Battle games, which commonly featured three protagonists (a Gundam, a Kamen Rider and an Ultraman) and were almost always-action based (whereas most of the regular Battle games were sports-based.....compare with the [[nekketsu_series|Kunio-kun]] games). Somewhere along the line, an original fourth character was added: Roa, a blue-haired guy who seems to be quite handy with a gun.

===== Great Battle =====
  *//[[SD The Great Battle]]//
  *//[[Last Fighter Twin]]// - Shallow beat-em-up
  *//[[Great Battle Cyber]]//
  *//[[Tekkyu Fight! The Great Battle Gaiden]]//
  *//[[The Great Battle III]]//
  *//[[The Great Battle Gaiden 2]]//
  *//[[The Great Battle IV]]// - Enjoyable creative but consistently repetitive side-scroller
  *//[[Super Tekkyu Fight]]// - Odd Bomberman clone without the actual, you know, bombing
  *//[[The Great Battle V]]// - Spaghetti Western-themed, with GBIV sidescrolling levels and shooting sequences ripped off from Wild Guns
  *//[[The Great Battle VI]]//
  *//[[The Great Battle Pocket]]//

Roa cameos: //Battle Pinball//, //Battle Racers//, //Battle Soccer 2// (minor)

===== Plain Battle =====
  *//[[SD Battle Annual Wrestling Match - Heisei Hero Basho]]// - Possibly the first anime robot sumo wrestling game made - bears further investigation
  *//[[Battle Commander]]// - One of the few non-sports games, seems to be an RTS with three different "tribes" of Gundams
  *//[[Battle Dodge Ball]]//
  *//[[Battle Soccer - Field Champion]]//
  *//[[Battle Baseball]]//
  *//[[Battle Dodge Ball 2]]//
  *//[[Battle Soccer]]//
  *//[[Battle Crusher]]//
  *//[[Battle Pinball]]// - Four multi-screen pinball tables featuring the Great Battle stars and their many enemies
  *//[[Battle Racers]]// - Blatant //[[Mario Kart]]// ripoff, competent but not very noteworthy outside of obscene difficulty later on

===== Tangents =====
Several other games released during the heyday of Battle seem to possibly be related, despite the lack of "Battle" in their titles. Among these are //[[Gaia Saver]]// and //[[Hero Senki]]// for [[hardware:snes|SNES]], as well as //[[Versus Hero]]// for [[hardware:gb|Game Boy]].