VR Troopers

VR Troopers (Virtual Reality Troopers) is a syndicated live action superhero television series produced and distributed by Saban Entertainment from 1994 to 1996. The show tried to profit from the fascination with virtual reality in the early 1990s as well as the success of Saban's other property, Power Rangers.VR Troopers was the first official "sister series" to Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Much like it, this was an Americanization of a Japanese tokusatsu children's program series by Toei. The series is a co-production of Toei Company and Cyberprod.

The show featured early CGI and video effects mixed with Japanese stock footage from three different Metal Hero Series: Superhuman Machine Metalder, Dimensional Warrior Spielban and Space Sheriff Shaider. On May 7, 2010 the copyright for VR Troopers was transferred from BVS Entertainment to Saban Capital Group.

The series was deemed successful, but not as successful as the Power Rangers franchise. One issue was that the Japanese footage was quickly exhausted due to extreme cases where multiple tokusatsu scenes were put together in one episode to the extent where stock footage had to be reused multiple times throughout the series. Big Bad Beetleborgs, another Saban adaptation of a Metal Heroes series, encountered similar problems. The show spawned a toy line and a video game for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) and Sega Game Gear. In 2015, repeats of VR Troopers were available on Kabillion a video-on-demand service.

VR Troopers (video game)

VR Troopers is a 1995 fighting game based on the American syndicated television series of the same name that itself used elements from several different Japanese tokusatsu shows from the Metal Hero Series. The fighting game was developed by Syrox Developments and published by Sega.

Plot

Grimlord has sent an arcade game to Tao's Dojo which ends up sucking Ryan Steele, J.B. Reese, and Kaitlin Star into Virtual Reality. For them to get out, they have to get by Grimlord's Skugs and monsters.