History YMMV / SuperRobotWarsalpha

* HilariousInHindsight: According to ''Manga/VictoryFive'', The Baam Empire and Boazania had a bloody, violent war 3000 years ago. But in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' 2 and 3, Prince Heinel of the Boazanian Empire and Prince Richter of Planet Baam meet and become good friends, in spite of being [[CaptainPatriotic Captain Patriotics]] of their respective nations.

** The UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast version of ''Alpha'' has an odd bug where unit "Limit" is disregarded: it doesn't actually limit anything. The only reason to upgrade it is to get the "Full Upgrade Bonus".
** There's a funny little infinite cash bug in Scenario 58 of ''Alpha'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation version only), where if the Spirit Command "Provoke" is used on Tashiro, every move allied units make will rake in roughly 50,000 credits until someone attacks a target. By the end of a player turn, expect a metric asston of credits.

* [[AmericansHateTingle Americans Are "Meh" About Kusuha]]: The majority of international fans only know Kusuha via the ''Original Generation'' games via the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, where not only is she unpopular due to her constant DamselInDistress issues, but is statistically a below-average pilot. A fair cop in that context - Kusuha basically gets into trouble like the "partner" character from ''Alpha'', rather than the protagonist, thus her skill set and stats aren't what they were in ''Alpha''. This also frustrates those more familiar with the franchise, because they know she's much more capable in her own games (or even in the ''Second Original Generation'').

* GrowingTheBeard: The ''Alpha'' series marked the beginning of the complex plot weaving between series that's become iconic with ''Super Robot Wars'' as opposed to a borderline ExcusePlot for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny between HumongousMecha it had during the "Classic Timeline".
** It was also the starting point where the animation budget got bumped up, where instead of static character models bumping and jerking around to attack or dodge, you got more fluid movements, and even bigger ones for the ultimate attacks. ''Alpha Gaiden'' improved it so much the animation got borrowed by ''Impact'', and then ''Alpha 2'' enhanced everything even more.

* RetroactiveRecognition: After years of Creator/TomokazuSugita shaping himself up as a recurring DeadpanSnarker voice actor (like [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyon]] and [[{{Manga/Gintama}} Gintoki Sakata]]) and a lot of badass roles (such as [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna the Bloodedge]]) or even his latter role in the same series as [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars30 Edge Sainclaus]] (who seems to be more of a standard modern Sugita role), it'll be a surprise that Bullet is one of his earlier roles, and he's more or less a meek, occasionally shy everyday guy who's often the ButtMonkey.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Modern ''Super Robot Wars'' games get flak for their {{Final Boss}}es often having one or two non-MAP based attacks, yet Keisar Ephes, who's viewed as the progenitor of the "NightmareFuel-inducing FinalBoss attack" for the franchise, had only two such attacks to his name ("[[WaveMotionGun Gospel of the Emperor]]" and "[[NightmareFuel/SuperRobotWars The End of Galaxy]]").

* CriticalResearchFailure: When the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Archangel]]'' descends to Earth in ''Alpha 3'', Murrue Ramius mentions that ZAFT pilots cannot target the refugee ship they had released, citing how they could violate the "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Antarctic Treaty]]". Ignoring the fact that said agreement became defunct when the One Year War ended in the original show, the treaty was signed between the Earth Federation and ''the Principality of Zeon''; ZAFT isn't bound by it at all.

* UncannyValley: [[spoiler:In her persona as Nashim Gan Eden, when she opens her eyes, they become unusually big]].