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- | ====== 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. | ||
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- | ===== 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]]// | ||
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- | Roa cameos: //Battle Pinball//, //Battle Racers//, //Battle Soccer 2// (minor) | ||
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- | ===== 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 | ||
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- | ===== 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]]. |