History VideoGame / MahouDaisakusen

* '''Mahou Daisakusen''' (aka Sorcer Striker, 1993): A kingdom is under attack, and great rewards are promised to any who come to its aid. Four [[BountyHunter bounty hunters]] (Gain the Battler, Chitta the Witch, Miyamoto the ''Samurai Dragon'', and Bornnam the Necromancer) come to the rescue.
** Got a UpdatedRerelease for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in 2017 by M2 as part of their Shot Triggers lineup.
* '''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen''' (aka Kingdom Grand Prix, 1994, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn 1996): A big multi-stage race is being held, and the winner will be granted one wish. In addition to the main protagonists from the first game, four (or five if you count Laycle alone) new characters (Kickle and Laycle, Nirvana, Honest John, and Bul-Gin) join the fun and many [=NPCs=] attempt (and fail) to at least make it through the first stage.

* '''Great Mahou Daisakusen''' (aka Dimahoo, 2000): The Earth is revealed to be hollow when the Great Gobligan Empire drills to the surface and initiates a war with the surface world. New heroes rise up to challenge the Goblins and save their land. Not much other plot besides that. This was published by Creator/{{Capcom}} as opposed to Eighting.

* DropTheHammer: Honest John's bomb is to hit the air with a hammer so hard that it hits almost everything on the screen, three times.

* {{Engrish}}: The translation quality (for the games that have any translations at all) is classic early [[TheNineties '90s]].

* MixAndMatch: ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen'' is also a multi-stage racing game. Racers get 9 points for 1st place, 6 points for 2nd place, 3 points for 3rd place, and 1 point for 4th place, for each stage.

** Music by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/MasaharuIwata

* {{Engrish}}: The translation quality (for the games that have any translations at all) is classic early-90s

* GuestFighter: Birthday the Criminal and Golden the Prince, from ''VideoGame/ArmedPoliceBatrider'', are secret playable characters in ''Great Mahou Daisakusen''.

* RecurringBoss: In every game, there is a fight against a ninja (optional in ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen'') and a fight against a fortress mounted on a gigantic turtle. The first boss in ''Great Mahou Daisakusen'' is Busturtle -- a particularly huge turtle with enough of an arsenal to rival an aircraft carrier on its back.

* TurtlePower: In this game series, turtles bear cannons, tanks, and sometimes whole fortresses.

* IllGirl: Shizuka, who features into Miyamoto's ending in ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen''.

** Got a UpdatedRerelease for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 in 2017.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Gain the Battler has a pet monkey for a companion.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Miyamoto, who is a gigantic Samurai Dragon with a goatee, moonlighting as an actor in ''VideoGame/ArmedPoliceBatrider''.

* ChestMonster: In stage 3 of ''Great Mahou Daisakusen'', although there are no legitimate treasure chests in that game anyhow.

* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: In the first game, Bashinet (the red mecha) refuses to quit until you finally blow him up for good.]]

* {{Youkai}}: Naturally, present in the Japan-themed stage of ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen'', Yashiki of Ninja

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: The supposed fate of Bornnam after the events of ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen''. While nothing has been officially said about Bornnam's final fate, the fact that he isn't seen or mentioned in ''Great Mahou Daisakusen'', combined with the second fact that his own ending in ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen'' has him losing his life after battling against Gain and the other bounty hunters in his attempt to take over the world gives a good and strong assumption that Bornnam is pretty much long gone from the series]].

* OneHundredAndEight: The number of treasures you can retrieve in ''Great Mahou Daisakusen''.

* HumongousMecha: Many of them, usually as bosses. Some of them are so big and complex -- such as Dribling, the dragonesque walker in Great Mahou Daisakusen -- that they require three orc pilots.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Orcs, goblins, and kobolds are recurring enemies throughout the series. They are even capable of building steampunk contraptions, including and not limited to ''rockets with Apollo capsules'' and ''weaponized satellites'' in outer space.

** Dribling, the dragonesque walker who serves as the third boss in ''Great Mahou Daisakusen,'' reappears as a golden variant in the final stage.

* {{Seppuku}}: The ninja in the first game does this upon defeat.

* '''Great Mahou Daisakusen''' (aka Dimahoo, 2000): Some kind of war is going on but there is little else in the way of plot. This was published by Creator/{{Capcom}} as opposed to Eighting.

* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: In the first game, the red mecha refuses to quit until you finally blow him up for good.]]

* HumongousMecha: Many of them, usually as bosses. Some of them are so big and complex that they require three orc pilots.

* RecurringBoss: In every game, there is a fight against a ninja (optional in ''Shippu Mahou Daisakusen'') and a fight against a fortress mounted on a gigantic turtle.
** The red mech Bashinet in ''Mahou Daisakusen''.

* ImpossiblyTallTower: One stage is the Kobold Tower, so high it extends into outer space.

* '''Great Mahou Daisakusen''' (aka Dimahoo, 2000): Some kind of war is going on but there is little else in the way of plot. This was published by Capcom as opposed to Eighting.

* ExcusePlot: The games general though the last entry is particularly excessive as it has a generic ending in a series that generally had amusing and unique endings for its characters. Some blame Capcom overseeing it for this.