Nobody talks about this one. The Virtual Trilogy sat untouched for thirty years because the mix of anime and live action looks cheap now, but the premise, warriors dropped into a simulation where dinosaurs evolved into civilization instead of us, is genuinely unsettling. You're watching a world that shouldn't exist, built with the technical limitations of 1993 but the ambition of something bigger. The show commits to the weirdness without winking. That commitment is rare.

The TV Warriors enter a virtual simulation of the past, and there they come face to face with a humanity made up of dinosaurs. The 1993 TV series runs 60 episodes and opens the Virtual Trilogy. It combines animation with live-action footage in a story that draws on adventure, fantasy and science fiction.