If you think, rightly, that World Heroes 2 by Cony Soft was the most ambitious crossover in history, you might want to add 古今英雄伝 - The Ancient & Modern Heros (sic) as a contender for the second place. Not only it features a diversified character selection, they're mixed with the good old Street Fighter II characters.



It appears to have been released in the last third of 1993. It seems to be based of Fighter V which already has obscure origins as it bears no copyrights. That game already had one of the portrait replaced (Ryu portrait was replaced with Goku), yet the replaced portrait in that one does not match Goku portrait in The Ancient and Modern Heroes. Some of the portraits were ripped from ファミコンジャンプ 英雄列伝 (Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden).

As for the fighters… whoever were in charge of this mess definitely played an exciting game of exquisite corpses.
Head - Body
Mario - Balrog (M. Bison)
Goku - Ryu
Sangokushi character #1 - E. Honda
Bart Simpson - Blanka
Ryo Saeba (City Hunter) - Guile
Sangokushi character #2 - Vega (Balrog)
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) - Ken
Cammy - Chun-Li
Wario - Zangief
Isamu (Kōya no Shōnen Isamu) - Dhalsim

Ryo Saeba and Isamu are the only two characters whose portrait do not appear on the front cover. It features rather Terminator (for Isamu) and seemingly another Sangokushi characters rather. See for yourself.

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