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A thread on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyou G” board got nostalgic about the Famicom-era game “Knight Gundam Story.” Posters got fired up discussing Cannon’s betrayal plot twist, memories of reluctantly resetting the game after losing Carddass battles to tough kid opponents, and the ever-popular power-up forms “Superior Dragon” and “Full Armor Knight Gundam.” The thread also touched on generational theories about how SD Gundam carried the franchise through the gap between Zeta Zeta Gundam and Victory Gundam, dug up memories of what the in-game Carddass cards were actually for, and even shared images confirming a scene where an enemy character swaps places with an ally.
What people said
Was that really how it went?
Why?
I think there was something like him being mind-controlled by the enemy
Yeah, that special medicine item is absolute garbage, isn't it
I played the Famicom game when I was a little kid.
No it doesn't
A GM stays a GM forever
If you're born a GM, that's just how it ends
Wasn't there a scene where a GM raises its sword and goes 'Actually, I was a Gundam all along!' and then turns into one?
You're thinking of Indy Gundam
It scorched itself into my brain back in elementary school.
Thanks to that thing, I ended up with a fetish for light-and-darkness fusion too
They've been re-releasing a bunch of stuff lately, including Superior Kaiser
Is that a homage to Piccolo fusing with Kami (God) [from Dragon Ball]?
I thought the field theme was good, but the regular battle theme was way too mediocre
It's not an exaggeration to say SD Gundam and G Gundam are the reason the Gundam franchise survived at all
Nope
They're their own race called the 'Mobile Suit tribe'
Humans like Amuro are a separate 'human tribe' that exists on its own
There are also human-sized humans existing separately, and there's even a thing called 'Kihei' where a Gundam rides inside another Gundam
I feel like I tried hard to collect them, but I don't remember why.
You summon them with a spell called 'Call,' and they join the battle like a monster ally, kind of like in Dragon Quest
If you collect the letters on the right edge, you find out how to get to Carddass Island
I collected the Carddass cards too.
Not the Gundam generation exactly, but people in their 40s are the generation that got hit directly by SD Gundam
There's also one now called 'Superior Formula Final Dragon' that borrows elements from a different SD series
Isn't that a different thing from Gundam Mk-V?
The one equipped with the Three Sacred Treasures is Full Armor Knight [Gundam]
I feel like he was temporarily swapped out with a fake
I remember realizing 'wait, the face on the status screen looks slightly different!' if you looked closely
This is it
Yes, this is it, this is it!
So nostalgic, thanks!
I collected BB Senshi figures
I love the 3rd generation Shogun Gundam (written with the punning kanji '頑駄無')
Musha Gundam is basically a tale of conquering provinces
Zeta, Double Zeta, and Nu were originally set up to not get along
The plastic model had metal armor and it looked so cool
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
“Knight Gundam Story” was one of the SD Gundam titles released around 1990 on platforms like the Famicom, and the fact that it was tied into Bandai’s Carddass (gachapon-style trading card) promotions is central to this thread’s conversation. The “Carddass” elements mentioned in posts #48, #52, and #53, along with the Carddass battle story in post #11, reflect how players at the time collected physical cards alongside playing the game. Where opinions diverged in the thread was over the popularity of fusion/power-up forms like “Superior Dragon” and “Full Armor Knight Gundam,” and over generational theories about how SD Gundam and G Gundam propped up the franchise during the transitional “dark age” between ZZ Gundam and Victory Gundam. Though not mentioned in the article itself, the Knight Gundam Story series had multiple Famicom entries, and the “second game’s BGM” discussed in posts #37 and #93 appears to refer to one specific installment among them. Overall, the thread reads as nostalgic reminiscing from a particular age bracket (roughly people in their 40s) rather than a heated debate over which entry was better.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyou G”) thread “Memories of Knight Gundam Story“.
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