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This group includes all licensed games based on the Japanese anime meta-series Gundam by Sunrise Studios. The franchise started with the TV series Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム), spanning 43 episodes and having aired in 1979-1980. Written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it is considered the foundation of the "real robot" current in the mecha genre, in which the technology behind the human-controlled robots is based on hard sci-fi concepts. This comes in contrast to the loosely-explained "super robots". The series persevered and hundreds of products followed, including TV anime series, movies (even live-action ones), manga, novels, toys, video games, and other merchandise.

While the franchise has explored different themes across the years, including by creating parallel universes in order to give their creative teams more freedom, the Universal Century timeline (featured in the original trilogy and the movie Char's Counterattack, among others) has remained the most popular setting. In it, the people have managed to colonize space by building huge colonies orbiting in the Earth-Moon pair's Lagrangian points. The people living in space have grown dissatisfied with being ruled by Earth, and in 2079 the Principality of Zeon has declared independence. What followed was a series of wars between the Zeon-controlled colonies and the Earth Federation, as well as minor conflicts in their aftermath. Viewers usually witness the events from the perspective of the Gundam pilot. The Gundam is initially a prototype mobile suit created by the Earth Federation, but later is transformed into a whole line of improved mobile suits based off the original idea. Because the Gundams are in a class of their own, they play an important role in all conflicts.

The Gundam meta-series has a fetish for robot-to-robot battles, but spaceships also play an important role. It tackles other themes as well, including: people born in space developing telepathic capabilities (newtypes), dirty politics detached from the needs of the common folk, pollution on Earth both as a cause for expansion into space and as proof of humans' unworthiness etc. There's a large cast of recurring characters, but it is considered tradition for every new major series to have a new Gundam, and a new pilot for it.

The Gundam games are a diverse sort. The SD Gundam World: Gachapon Senshi series for the Famicom and the games developed by Family Soft are turn-based strategies. There's an earlier Famicom title called Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Hot Scramble, which was part side-scrolling action, part first-person rail shooter in space--this was the first Gundam game on consoles. One of the earliest titles in the franchise was Last Shooting for MSX, featuring a first-person view of a Gundam's cockpit and tasking the player to shoot enemy Zakus and other mobile suits. The cockpit idea in an FPS was developed further over the years, most notably in the Arcade Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senjō no Kizuna, in which players step into a sit-down panoramic optical display cabinet. A significant importance in the late 90s and at the beginning of the new millennium had the 2D fighting games (including the Battle Master and Battle Assault series) and the Dynasty Warriors clones.

The first Gundam game to be released in the West was Gundam 0079: The War for Earth, which also has the honor of being the first to be developed outside Japan, by Presto Studios, of Journeyman Project fame.

Related Sites * Wikipedia: Gundam * ANN: The Mike Toole Show - Gundam Infinity

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Battle Assault 3 featuring Gundam Seed PlayStation 2 2004
box cover thumbnail Dai-2-ji Super Robot Taisen NES 1991
Dai-2-ji Super Robot Taisen Z Saisei-hen PSP 2012
box cover thumbnail Dai-2-ji Super Robot Taisen α PlayStation 2 2003
box cover thumbnail Dai-3-ji Super Robot Taisen SNES 1993
Dai-3-ji Super Robot Taisen Alpha Ginga no Shūen e PlayStation 2 2005
box cover thumbnail Dai-4-ji Super Robot Taisen PlayStation, SNES 1995
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2007
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2008
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 1 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 10 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 2 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 3 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 4 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 5 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 6 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 7 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 8 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 - Additional Mission 9 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2009
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 2011
box cover thumbnail Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn PlayStation 3, PS Vita 2014
Gundam 0079: The War for Earth Macintosh, PlayStation, Windows 1996
box cover thumbnail Gundam Battle Assault PlayStation 2000
box cover thumbnail Gundam Battle Assault 2 PlayStation 2002
box cover thumbnail Gundam Battle Online Dreamcast 2001
box cover thumbnail Gundam Battle Universe PSP 2008
box cover thumbnail Gundam Battle: Gunpla Warfare iPhone, iPad, Android 2019
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker PS Vita, PlayStation 3 2013
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 2 PlayStation 3, PS Vita 2014
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3 PS Vita, PlayStation 4 2016
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3: DLC-1 - Re:Break PlayStation 4 2016
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3: DLC-2 - Build Beginning PlayStation 4 2016
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3: DLC-3 - Build Rising PlayStation 4 2016
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3: DLC4 - Build Evolution PlayStation 4 2016
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3: DLC5 - Build Absolute PlayStation 4 2017
box cover thumbnail Gundam Breaker 3: DLC6 - Build Kingdom PlayStation 4 2017
box cover thumbnail Gundam Evolution Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 2022
Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes Dreamcast 1999
box cover thumbnail Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the... Dreamcast 1999
box cover thumbnail Gundam Versus PlayStation 4 2017
box cover thumbnail Gundam: The 3D Battle Nintendo 3DS 2011
box cover thumbnail Gundam: The Battle Master PlayStation 1997
box cover thumbnail Kidō Butōden G Gundam SNES 1994
box cover thumbnail Kidō Gekidan Haro Ichiza: Haro no Puyo Puyo Game Boy Advance 2005
box cover thumbnail Kidō Senshi Gundam F91: Senki 0122 SNES 1991
box cover thumbnail Kidō Senshi Gundam: Extreme Vs. PlayStation 3, Arcade 2010
box cover thumbnail Kidō Senshi Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost PlayStation 3, Arcade 2012
box cover thumbnail Kidō Senshi Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full... PlayStation 3 2014
box cover thumbnail Kidō Senshi Gundam: Gihren no Yabō SEGA Saturn 1998
box cover thumbnail Kidō Senshi Gundam: Ichinen Sensō PlayStation 2 2005

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