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The title robot of its 1985 anime, Dancouga is a combining robot formed from four separate, transforming robots. Piloted by the Jyusenki team lead by Shinobu Fujiwara, it's often portrayed in games as a high offense unit that gets progressively stronger as it continues fighting.
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.
Created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa in 1975 as the sucessor and direct sequel to Getter Robo. Piloted by Ryouma Nagare, Hayato Jin, and Benkei Kuruma, it is considered an advanced version of the original Getter Robo, and is the most common version to appear in games.
The title robot of Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1975 animated series, Reideen is cited as the first Super Robot with ancient, mystical orgins. Piloted by Akira Hibiki, it is often used in the uncommon "ranged Super Robot" role in games it has appeared in.
Created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa in 1974, Getter Robo is a Super Robot, with several spin-offs, iterations, and sequels featured in manga, anime, and video games. Piloted by Ryouma Nagare, Hayato Jin, and Musashi Tomoe, it is the first combining and transforming Super Robot.
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.
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 signature robot of Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1978 animated series, Daitarn 3 is one of the largest and most versatile Super Robots. Piloted by Banjou Haran, it is portrayed as one of the strongest robots with a couple of drawbacks due to its size.
A traditional sword originating in Japan.
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.
The tiles used to play the popular East-Asian game.
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.
Title Super Robot of Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1977 animated series. Piloted by Jin Kappei, Uchuta Kamie, and Keiko Kamikata, it sometimes appears in Super Robot Wars games as a well-rounded Super Robot with no significant weaknesses.
A kind of protective clothing.
A train is a series of connected vehicles that move along a single or double railed track.
Feces is what's left after the body of an animal has removed all the nutrients it possibly can from food matter, pushing it out of the body to be done with it.
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.
A palm sized card used to play a variety of card games. Cards come in a deck normally consisting of 52 different cards.
Used to open doors, or anything else that is locked. In any game where the player has an inventory, it's a safe bet that a key will appear at some point.
The title robot of Go Nagai's 1975 anime, Grendizer is the third Super Robot in the Mazinger metaseries. Piloted by Duke Fleed, it gained a huge following in European and Arabic countries, and is often paired with Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger in video games.
Doors are a common object in most video games, as well as the keys and objects needed to open them. From role playing to shooters, doors are an important component of many games.
A fruit is a sweet and edible food that contains seeds. It is one of the major food groups according to the USDA. In many games, fruit is a bonus item, while vegetables rarely are.
Helicopters are flying vehicles, typically with a single large main rotor to maintain lift with a tail rotor to counter rotation induced by this main rotor. They are useful in air to ground combat as well as for quickly inserting and recovering infantry close to the front line.
A length of exceptionally sharp metal with a handle, used for centuries as the go-to killing device for the human race. It's dead simple: you stick the pointy end in the thing you want to die. Or you could always slash them with the equally sharp sides. That works too.
The bread and butter of any self respecting archer, the bow is a stereotypical ranged weapon of olden times and fantasy settings.
Meat is the edible flesh of animals. It is often seen restoring the health of adventurers and annoying vegans.
A laser is a focused beam of light, invisible through the air without some other medium (such as smoke) to illuminate it. Lasers are often used in video games as part of a targeting system, or as an offensive weapon in their own right.
A fruit. In many video games it is a low scoring prize.
A delicious substance that makes even the most cold-hearted person cry out, "Yum!"
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