VR Troopers is a syndicated live-action superhero-adventure television series produced and distributed by Saban Entertainment from 1994 to 1996.

The show featured early CGI and video effects mixed with Japanese stock footage from three different Metal Hero Series: Metalder, Spielban and Shaider.

Its successor, Big Bad Beetleborgs, another Saban adaptation of a Metal Heroes series, was cancelled for the same reason.

The show focused on three teenagers in their late teens, Ryan Steele, Kaitlin Star, and J.B. Reese, living in the fictional West Coast town of Cross World City, California.

Ryan was the most focused martial artist; J.B. was the computer wizard; while Kaitlin was a photographer and budding reporter for the local newspaper, the Underground Voice Daily.

Inside, a digitized head of Professor Horatio Hart (who is a friend of Ryan's father Tyler) explained the truth about his life's work of having developed extremely advanced virtual reality technology in secret.

"VR" is a dimension existing alongside our own; within it lie mutants, aiming at conquering both worlds.

The main ruler of these is a creature known as Grimlord, who, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, has a human identity as billionaire industrialist Karl Ziktor.

Among other regular characters on the show, Zeb as Jeb, Ryan's hound dog that, after an accident in Professor Hart's lab, becomes capable of human speech; Woody Stocker, Kaitlin's wacky hat-loving boss at the Underground Voice Daily; Percival "Percy" Rooney, the local mayor's nephew and Kaitlin's bumbling rival reporter; and Tao, the wise martial arts sensei who owns the dojo and a family friend of the Steele Family.

Grimlord's base of operations switched from the virtual dungeon to a massive spacecraft which used mostly US footage and added new Generals such as Oraclon, Despera, Doom Master and his Vixens.

Adam was friends with Tao's daughter Mia, and a young kid called Mouse MacKenzie.

[5] The Cybertron pilot starred Jason David Frank as Adam Steele and drew its source footage from Metalder.

Frank's character was depicted as a solo hero going up against an army of robots known as Wardrones who were led by Grimlord.

Grimlord's alter ego in the pilot was Cyrus Rikter (Gardner Baldwin), who had a son named Percy, who was Adam's martial arts rival.

Tao also had a daughter named Mia and Doug Sloan played the part of Tyler Steele in flashbacks.

The pilot included a pair of bumbling news reporters named Elmo (played by Jamie Kennedy) and Scuzzy, who would've served as the series' comic relief.

Like Power Rangers, VR Troopers used a combination of American footage spliced with fight scenes from Japanese shows.

Spielban provided footage of J.B.'s and Kaitlin's robotic suits, Ivar, Icebot, skugs, and the battle scenes involving the Skybase, shark cruisers, tanks, and fighter jets.

In the U.S., five VHS videos were released: "Lost Memories", "Oh Brother", "Computer Captive", "Error in the System", and "Virtual V6".