Compati Hero
| Compati Hero Series | |
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| Genres | Sports, Action, Platform, Role-Playing, Strategy, Racing, Pachinko, Pinball |
| Developers | Various |
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| Platforms | Famicom, Super Famicom, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, PlayStation, GameCube, Dreamcast, Sega Pico |
| Platform of origin | Famicom |
| First release |
SD Battle Ōzumō: Heisei Hero Basho April 20, 1990 |
| Latest release |
Lost Heroes 2 February 2, 2015 |
The Compati Hero Series (コンパチヒーローシリーズ Konpachi Hīrō Shirīzu?) is a video game series published exclusively in Japan by Banpresto and Namco Bandai Games (formerly Bandai) that began in 1990, that serves as crossover between Ultraman, Kamen Rider (also known as Masked Rider) and Gundam.
It was the first video game series to involve a crossover between animated giant robots and live action tokusatsu heroes from different established franchises. The series makes this possible by using caricaturized versions of the characters (officially referred as "SD" or "super deformed" characters), which allowed the different heroes and villains to co-exist and interact with each other without the need to reconcile their contrasting styles and settings. The first game in the series, SD Battle Ōzumō: Heisei Hero Basho for the Famicom, which mixed franchises that were originally licensed to Popy, was developed as a congratulatory present to Yukimasa Sugiura when he was promoted to president of Banpresto at the time, which was soon followed by series of spin-offs and related games featuring the same cast of characters that developed into the Compati Hero Series.
The series was successful with children thanks to the SD Gundam craze, but after the release of Charinko Hero for the GameCube, there were no new games afterward for nearly eight years. Banpresto released a new game in the series titled Lost Heroes, for the Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation Portable on September 2012.
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