World Heroes Anthology, known in Japan

Japan

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 as , is a game compilation, which includes all four games from ADK

ADK (company)

, also known as , was a Japanese video game production company founded sometime in July of 1980. "ADK" is an acronym for Alpha, Denshi, and the Japanese term for "corporation", Kabushiki kaisha...

's World Heroes series, which were a part of the early Neo Geo

Neo Geo (console)

The is a cartridge-based arcade and home video game system released on July 1, 1991 by Japanese game company SNK. Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first console in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s...

 titles from SNK

SNK

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. The four games presented here World Heroes

World Heroes

is a series of fighting games created by ADK originally created for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinets with the assistance of SNK, though some of the games in the series were also ported to the Neo Geo AES and Neo-Geo CD platforms, as well as some non-SNK platforms such as the Super NES and the Sega...

, World Heroes 2

World Heroes 2

is a fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on April 28, 1993...

, World Heroes 2 Jet

World Heroes 2 Jet

is a fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on April 26, 1994...

, and World Heroes Perfect

World Heroes Perfect

is a fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on May 25, 1995...

. The compilation was released for the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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 on March 11, 2008.

Story

The main storyline is based around Dr. Brown who has created a time machine

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

 able to bring together fighters from various times in history, with the goal of determining the greatest fighter of all time. As the games focus on different time frames throughout history, most of its characters are based on real people.

• World Heroes
  World Heroes (arcade game)
  is a fighting arcade game developed and published by Alpha Denshi with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on July 28, 1992...
  
  
• World Heroes 2
  World Heroes 2
  is a fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on April 28, 1993...
  
  
• World Heroes 2 Jet
  World Heroes 2 Jet
  is a fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on April 26, 1994...
  
  
• World Heroes Perfect
  World Heroes Perfect
  is a fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK . It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on May 25, 1995...
  
  

External links

• World Heroes Anthology website