I’ve heard a lot about the Super Robot Wars games lately. And after spending some time in Youtube, judging by the looks of countless Youtube videos being posted by so many mecha fans in relation to this title, there’s a clear suggestion that they were great games to play and I wished we had something like that in New Zealand shores.

Even if they are completely done in Japanese language, they should be still be sold in one of those selected niche parallel import markets where people like me living downunder can come over and get a taste of them. But sadly, no. Our market’s too small to be catered for this at the time.

My understanding that these games were made by a company Banpresto, a Japanese video game development company who has made the Super Robot Wars series franchise for the last 18 years in the business. The company, part of Namco Bandai’s division, has spawned numerious SRW titles on several video game platforms from Nintendo to Playstation during its tenure. The concept of the game is that they are RPG genre, which involves plenty of turn-based rounds with your favourite super robot characters. They get to level up, get experience points, learn new skills or attacks and they get to challenge tougher mechanical monsters just like your favourite characters from Final Fantasy games, Kingdom Hearts, etc. Players beat monsters when it’s their turn, monsters beat the crap out of players once it’s their turn next etc.

In those early times, not many super/real robots were brought into the games. There was only Mazinger Z, Getter Robo and a Gundam character, probably. The other robot series in the 80s and 90s were later added on other SRW titles.

Having check on this Japanese SRW blog page, I gazed upon its huge gallery of SRW titles and I wanted to find out what was the first SRW game title created. And I looked at this.

Super Robot Taisen F 1997 PS1

And I looked up this video link on Youtube that relates to the poster above.

Okay. I should have mentioned earlier this is not a Playstation game as you can see from the video.(apparently, they don’t have any Playstation video equivalent online -_-) Nevertheless, fundamentally it’s still the same title.

A number of familiar characters’ faces from the Mazinger Series and Getter Robo as you began the game and several dialogues emerged as you keep playing. This is very refreshing indeed.

I would like to get one of these. However, they don’t see anymore PS machines in our shores. :(

Source: Suparobo.jp, Wikipedia.org

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