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When your robot comes from your grandfather's basement, performs impossible transformations, is more powerful than an entire nation's military or otherwise kicks reason to the curb, it's more than a mech; it's a Super Robot.
Created by Go Nagai in 1974, Great Mazinger is the successor and direct sequel to Mazinger Z. Piloted by Tetsuya Tsurugi, it often appears in video games with Mazinger Z and Kouji Kabuto.
Mechs (or Mecha) are humanoid-like pilot driven vehicles often depicted in media as a combat machine. Early examples of Mech/Mecha in video games are often derived from early manga and anime as well as table-top games.
Mazinger Z, created by Go Nagai in 1972, is a popular Super Robot, featured in manga, anime, and several video games, including various arcade shooters and all Super Robot Wars games involving giant robot anime crossovers. Piloted by Kouji Kabuto, it is considered the first super robot.
The Nu Gundam is a mobile suit that appears in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and is often Amuro Ray's mobile suit of choice in various Gundam and Super Robot Wars games.
The titular mobile suit of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, piloted by Kamille Bidan and later Roux Louka. It can transform into a jet-like "Waverider."
A combining Super Robot formed by five vehicles, a style later used by others such as Voltes V and Voltron, first appearing in the 1976 anime of the same name. Piloted by the Combattler team, lead by Hyouma Aoi, it has appeared in many Super Robot Wars games.
A bomb is an explosive device.
A combining Super Robot formed by five vehicles, appearing in the 1977 anime of the same name. Piloted by the Voltes team lead by Kenichi Gou, it was the second in the "Romantic Trilogy" following Combattler V and preceeding Daimos, and is often paired with Combattler V in games.
The title robot of Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1979 anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam". Piloted by Amuro Ray, it is the basis for every Gundam series and robot after it, separated itself from the Super Robot genre, and spawned a franchise spanning anime, manga, video games, model kits, and much more.
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