Series Retrospective

This entry in my ongoing series of series retrospectives is on the Cyber Troopers Virtual-On series.

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On (Dennō Senki Bāchyaron, roughly "Computer Fighting Machine Virtual-On") is a series of video games created by Sega AM3 (Amusement Research and Development Department 3, later renamed Hitmaker). The series was created by Juro Watari. The original series was first published for arcades in January 1996. The game features fast, action-oriented gameplay requiring quick reflexes. It has seen four iterations to date and has been ported to several video game consoles.

The mecha designs for all installments of the series were created by robot designer Hajime Katoki.

I originally wrote this 4-part retrospective back in 2019, but I know I need to update it sooner or later to cover the Virtual-On Cyber Troopers Collection that Sega released digitally in Japan at some point.