Popular games for franchise GunBuster
Super Robot Taisen Alpha is the second game in the series to be built from the ground up for the Playstation, and is the start of the Alpha series. Alpha is the first SRW to feature the highly choreographed animation that the series is known for.
A PC-Engine only "digital comic" following the second half of the Gunbuster anime. Players can also enjoy a game of Rock Paper Scissors.
Super Robot Taisen Alpha for Dreamcast is a strategy simlulation game for Dreamcast, released on 2001. The game is an extended port of Super Robot Taisen Alpha with changes in the system, including an overall 3D transition, more titles in the game, and the ability to use coalescing attacks.
A Japanese only PlayStation 2 adventure game which follows the story of the classic Gainax 1988 anime OVA. Top o Nerae! GunBuster is a video game released in Japan for the Playstation 2 on February 3, 2005. The game does not follow the events of the series, but instead tells a new story which builds on the themes of the original. The game is divided into roaming adventure scenes in which Noriko must converse with characters and collect items to advance the story, and action segments in which Noriko and Kazumi pilot the Gunbuster mecha.
An interactive "digital comic" for the PC-Engine, following the first half of the anime of the same name. Top o Nerae! GunBuster Vol.1 is based on the anime OVA series Gunbuster by Gainax. In the early 21th century humanity discovered a race of bug-like aliens while colonizing known space. The aliens steadily advance towards the Earth with the goal of eradicating it. To counter that, humans have developed giant mechas that ca be navigated by trained pilots. The story of the game follows closely the first chapter of the anime, focusing on the young pilot Noriko Takaya and her first steps towards the mastery of her dangerous profession. The game has a Japanese-style adventure-like interface (with Look, Talk, and other verb commands leading to sub-menus), but plays more like a cross between an interactive movie (with animated scenes and voice-overs) and a visual novel, where choices of actions and responses play a dominant role. Every wrong action raises the heroine's "stress meter"; once it is full, the game is over.
Shortly after the events of Alpha, the Earth Federation has covered up many of the events in the climatic battle with the antagonist Aerogaters, but the gravity shock wave from the detonation of the Excelion (from Gunbuster) in the Battle of the Solar System's Absolute Defense is rapidly approaching the Earth, and threatens to wipe out the space colonies and the planet. The Earth's only hope is the Aegis System, which could shield the Earth Sphere from the shock wave. Unfortunately, the heroes are sent to an alternate future, where the Earth has been ravaged by the wave. Faced with a new threat in the form of the Ancestors, the heroes must find a way to return to their time and prevent this alternate, dystopic future from happening.