Anyone out there remember World Heroes, Alpha Denshi's not that great fighting game for the Neo Geo platform? There were only a handful of them, with sequels like World Heroes 2 Jet and World Heroes Perfect hitting arcades throughout the early nineties. Fortunately for those who have fond memories of the 2D fighter, SNK Playmore is releasing a collection of four World Heroes games for the PlayStation 2.
And it might just have the best name ever: World Heroes Gorgeous! The emphasis is mine.
Seriously, does it get any better than "gorgeous"? No, I don't think it does. Please take a few minutes to enjoy the ultimate fighting game name and mourn the loss of "turbo" and "hyper." They were good to us.











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I remember. Camp Nazis with extendable robot arms are hard to forget.
Not many fighting games with Rasputin either
One of these just came out on VC, right?
Woo! Go Fuuma and Mudman!
Just a fancy name for another collection, but this time, of SNK's C grade fighter? Pass.
Do want.
Eternal Champions > World Heroes > *
However
World Heroes Gorgeous > *
This is the kind of game I end up buying because I feel it is a good way to remember old times and a good collectible. It would be great if I could control myself and save the money for a good game I will actually enjoy, damn this companies, they know me too well..
Does anyone know if you can play imported PS2 games on the PS3?
Gorgeous!
I still make fun of the board meetings in regards to this game. I always pictured some big buff dude with a tan, pitching some of these characters "and get this, he throws a shark!"
Gorgeous. What next.
@Sabre_Justice:
Fabulous?
I'll wait for King of Fighters Delicious, thanks.
Neat! I've got World Heroes Perfect for the Saturn, and still love it. It'll be cool if Gorgeous gets a US release, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm holding out for World Heroes: Splendid.
MUDMAN FTW!!!
waiting for the US release...also what does the online in the right corner mean? I doubt it has online play
Ah, what early 90's arcade rat could forget World Heroes? Although, after a google image search, I'm beginning to think my memory has been automatically upscaling the graphics...
King of Fighters Fergalicious FTL!
I'm still waiting for the Last Blade and Kizuna Encounter collections to come out stateside. ;_;
Am I the only one who utterly hates World Heroes? Sure Hanzou and Fuuma look badass in Neo Geo Battle Colosseum, but that still doesn't change the fact that World Heroes sucked. Well, in my eyes at least.
Dead or Alive has already used Hardcore, Xtreme, and Ultimate... Can we expect DOA: Infinity? DOA: Nudity? DOA: Pepperoni?
Waa Hoo Hoo Waa Hoo Hoo! It's on baby!
@ProdigalMoon: Same here ='(
What do FTW and FTL mean?
@Rugia:
FTW= For The Win
FTL= For The Lose
LOL= Laugh Out Loud
WTF= Work Time Fun
Dave Silva : I'm still waiting for the Last Blade
Yep, some last blade 2 action.
/but they will release another 1000 metal slugs
The important questions here are:
1. Is this coming to the U.S.
and: 2. If it is, when?
Nice. I remember becoming "friends" with someone who had a Neo Geo just so I could play that. :P
I'll get this, just because when it first came out for the neo geo it was like £200 or something, for those of you old enough to remember.
It'll bring those old arcade day memories back again...
I doubt this is coming to the US.
Its possible, I think, to mod a PS3 to be PS2 region free. Not all that common though.
Garden of Love FTW.
I liked the deathmatches in the games. Jet and Perfect were adequate early 90s fighters.
Was I the only one who thought that the blue dude with the robo arms was a total ripoff of the M Bison design?
@Scuba Steve: Why do you doubt? Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting collections made it out the door... and Art of Fighting sucks as bad or worse than World Heroes... it sucked bad enough for Capcom to make fun of Ryo with Dan, anyway.
I'll wait for World Heroes Butterface.
But seriously, World Heroes was the best cheeseball-ripoff of SF2 out there. I might actually consider buying this if it gets a stateside release.
I am going to be all over this.
It is a shame that they didn't at least thought of doing a good remake of one of the versions of the game, the game in it's time was passable and you could had a great time playing it, but come on! they could have done an extra effort at least "beautyfying" the graphics and do a remake.
Hanzo rocks... and the Kim Dragon!!
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