Central Park Media

Central Park Media were a home video company founded in New York in 1990 by John O'Donnell. They were one of the major North American importers of Japanese anime in the late 1990s and early 2000s, issuing subtitled and dubbed content on VHS and DVD. Among the huge number of titles they distributed were subtitled episodes of Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos - or some of it anyway; VHS releases were issued on their Software Sculptors label. Whether the DVDs stopped as a result of poor sales or the licence lapsing is not known. After several years of legal and financial trouble they declared bankruptcy in 2009.

Home video

United States

VHS (NTSC)

• Volume 1 (1997)

Includes "Rising Storm - the Fighting Style of Justice!", "Wolf Sword! Call Forth the Thunder of Courage!", "Steal the Metal Laster!", "Devil Trap - The Enslaved Village" and "Hot Fight at Absolute Zero!".

• Volume 2 (1997)

Includes "The Rock People and Mizuchi the Mysterious Dragon", "Sophia, Warrior Woman of the Leo Clan", "The Demon Sea of the Lost Civilization of Mu", "Dash Out, Tank Trancer!" and "Defeat Bug, the User of Darkness!".

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  Volume 1

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  Volume 2

DVD (Region 1)

• Volume 1 (10 June, 2003)

Includes "Rising Storm - the Fighting Style of Justice!", "Wolf Sword! Call Forth the Thunder of Courage!", "Steal the Metal Laster!", "Devil Trap - The Enslaved Village" and "Hot Fight at Absolute Zero!".

• Volume 2 (12 August, 2003)

Includes "The Rock People and Mizuchi the Mysterious Dragon", "Sophia, Warrior Woman of the Leo Clan", "The Demon Sea of the Lost Civilization of Mu", "Dash Out, Tank Trancer!" and "Defeat Bug, the User of Darkness!".

• Volume 3 (8 June, 2004)

Includes "Pledging Love on the Great River", "Legend of the Elmedia Hero", "Jet! Defeat the Double Death Blade!", "Burn and Run, Brother and Sister Warriors!" and "Sending Love to the Horizon".

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  Volume 1

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  Volume 2

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  Volume 3

Notes

• The subtitles renamed several characters, notably with Kenryū becoming "Blade Dragon" and Baikanfu becoming "Vikung-Fu".
• The DVD cover for Volume 3 includes a huge spoiler for the later episodes of the show, which Central Park never got as far as subtitling.
• Central Park seem to have acquired the series by accident.