World Heroes Anthology @ Amazon for $0.96.

Tarma

Tarma

Old Man
25 Year Member
Joined
Nov 7, 2001
Posts
10,060
If it was free I wouldn't want it. WH series is awful.
 
mmsadda

mmsadda

Just buy my shit. Seriously. You can call me Susan
10 Year Member
Joined
Jan 20, 2009
Posts
3,238
Yeah, but instead of standard $3 shipping, it's $7.99 to ship. That means for the same price you could have the second Fatal Fury collection.

Anyways, World Heroes was a really mediocre series; I enjoy 2 and 2Jet... but the first one is crap, and I haven't gotten into Perfect
 
Lyte Edge

Lyte Edge

Quartermaster,
Joined
Apr 8, 2001
Posts
642
I enjoyed WH2 and Jet back in the day (and also the Gameboy port of Jet, which was amazingly well-done for the time), and Perfect was okay, but this series has just aged horribly.

ADK's best fighter is Ninja Master's. Still holds up and kicks WH's ass all over the place.
 
mmsadda

mmsadda

Just buy my shit. Seriously. You can call me Susan
10 Year Member
Joined
Jan 20, 2009
Posts
3,238
I never heard of World Heroes, other than seeing the occasional SNES copy (I think) for sale back in the mid 90s. I picked up a copy of 2 because it was cheap around 2001 or so, for the MVS, and thought it was halfway decent, though it never got much time in the cab because of other games like, say, SamSho1.

Obviously LyteEdge is right that it hasn't aged well; was it popular back in the day? enough to justify how many carts are out there?
 
alec

alec

Hardcore Neoholic
15 Year Member
Joined
Jul 22, 2003
Posts
5,261
back up to $10 :( interestingly enough, shipping back to 3.99

i enjoyed WH1 back when it was initially released in the arcades. Mostly because I was 7 years old and couldn't even attempt to challenge the teenagers at Street Fighter til I was 8 or 9. Rasputin and Inspector Bison are pretty damn cool characters.
 
Lyte Edge

Lyte Edge

Quartermaster,
Joined
Apr 8, 2001
Posts
642
mmsadda said:
Obviously LyteEdge is right that it hasn't aged well; was it popular back in the day? enough to justify how many carts are out there?
Click to expand...

I remember the first one was everywhere, and people loved the whole death match versus option. They should have stuck with that and refined it further, but dumped it after WH2.

Saw Jet at an airport arcade once and that was it. Never saw Perfect anywhere.
 
Michael Yagami

Michael Yagami

I was wondering if I might get a rank with a Castl
Joined
May 1, 2002
Posts
5,928
I own this and I have yet to play it. :(

I really should pop it in. I used to play WHP all the time when I had my cab.
 
Dizzy11523

Dizzy11523

Camel Slug
15 Year Member
Joined
May 20, 2003
Posts
500
I had arcade hits 1 on PSP and I never saw World Heroes on it.
And Metal Slug always froze for a second every 2 minutes.

I traded it in today in anger. :mad:
 
J. Max

J. Max

judas,
Joined
Aug 8, 2002
Posts
2,531
I like the World Heroes games...at least from 2 on up. They're not really serious fighting games; more like something like Power Instinct than anything else. Honestly, they have aged far better than the Art Of Fighting series.

And of the Fatal Fury games (not counting the Real Bouts) only Special and 3 really stick out in my mind as being good.
 
Ajax

Ajax

way more american than wyo, way more
15 Year Member
Joined
Oct 9, 2005
Posts
5,094
I like all of 'em. Pure nostalgia for me. Perfect is a pretty solid game, really.
 
S

Steve

The Wonder Years,
Joined
Mar 4, 2001
Posts
3,493
mmsadda said:
was it popular back in the day? enough to justify how many carts are out there?
Click to expand...


It wasn't SFII popular of course, but it was one of the earliest competitors and the original cab definitely made its rounds. My friends appreciated it as an alternative to SFII, it didn't take itself too seriously which all of us liked.

I actually feel the games were pretty good for its time. And as some mentioned, 2 and Perfect are actually pretty darn good.
 
Late

Late

Reichsf?rer-Finnland,
20 Year Member
Joined
Nov 22, 2001
Posts
8,348
Haha I just knew that Steve would post in this thread.

Actually, I've harbored the idea of getting whp for a time now.

Captain Kidddddd!1!11
 
rugal2000

rugal2000

, Troll Me, , Cuz I is 3lit3, ,
Joined
Aug 31, 2000
Posts
1,732
I thought world heroes looked ugly back when i first saw it in 1996 (i was comparing it to fatal fury special and art of fighting) but once i bought and played it its one of my favourites. 2 and 1 i like a lot. WH2jet and perect ive never really played much
 
S

Steve

The Wonder Years,
Joined
Mar 4, 2001
Posts
3,493
These games are whupping my ass, lol. I don't remember them being this hard/cheap in the arcades.

I hate how you can't change the buttons for individual weak and strong punches/kicks. I know the arcade versions had the whole tap lightly for jab system, but I was never a fan of that system. No wonder I enjoy the SNES ports so much. You can configure it to have true 4 button play, and it makes a huge difference IMO.
 
SouthtownKid

SouthtownKid

There are four lights
20 Year Member
Joined
Oct 12, 2003
Posts
28,936
Fuck, price went back up to $10.

And haters: fuck you. World Heroes 2, Jet, and Perfect are all great games.
 
astrodan88

astrodan88

King's Dry Cleaner
Joined
Feb 19, 2008
Posts
392
Even though I enjoyed WH as a kid, I felt it was made redundant by all the other superior fighting games. Then... I went back and played WH2 the other day and remembered how fun the death match mode is, especially with 2 players.
Deathmatch FTW!
 
Praise the Lard

Praise the Lard

Sieger's Squire
Joined
Nov 7, 2003
Posts
822
astrodan88 said:
Even though I enjoyed WH as a kid, I felt it was made redundant by all the other superior fighting games. Then... I went back and played WH2 the other day and remembered how fun the death match mode is, especially with 2 players.
Deathmatch FTW!
Click to expand...

My sentiments exactly. Deathmatch BBQ!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top