Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a fighting game developed and published by nWay. Lionsgate Games and Limited Run Games also co-published the game….
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
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Power Rangers is an American superhero franchise launched on August 28, 1993, built around color-coded teams of young heroes who pilot giant robots called Zords and fight against increasingly powerful alien threats. Created by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy and adapted from the Japanese Super Sentai series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers premiered on Fox Kids and became one of the defining children’s entertainment properties of the 1990s. The franchise ran for thirty seasons across three decades before its most recent television era concluded in 2023, and a new Disney+ series is currently in production with no release date confirmed.
It’s one of the franchises that I grew up with and in many ways keep coming back to. New games always have me interested and the potential new universe has me intrigued.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers premiered on Fox Kids on August 28, 1993, adapting footage from the Japanese tokusatsu series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger while replacing the Japanese cast with American actors for the civilian sequences. The series followed five teenagers recruited by the alien sage Zordon and his robotic assistant Alpha 5 to become Earth’s defenders against the evil witch Rita Repulsa, who had been imprisoned on the moon for ten thousand years before being accidentally freed. Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, and Kimberly became the original Red, Black, Blue, Yellow, and Pink Rangers, piloting individual Zords that combined into the Megazord.
The show became a cultural phenomenon almost immediately, driving unprecedented toy sales through the Bandai America partnership and establishing a template for the franchise that would carry forward across every subsequent season. The Zords, the morphing sequence, Zordon’s Command Center, and the monster-of-the-week structure built around escalating threats all originated with Mighty Morphin and remained touchstones across three decades of the franchise.
A remastered version of the original series titled Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Re-Ignition, using AI upscaling to restore the footage, arrived on Netflix in July 2025 alongside a new Playmates Toys Re-Ignition toyline, confirming that the original era of the franchise remains the strongest commercial anchor for new audiences and returning fans alike.
The introduction of Tommy Oliver as the Green Ranger in the five-part Green With Evil story arc in 1993 is the single most significant creative decision in the franchise’s history. Tommy began as a villain under Rita Repulsa’s control before breaking free and joining the team, bringing a moral complexity and a rival dynamic that the original five Rangers had not generated. His subsequent evolution from Green Ranger to White Ranger in the third season, and his return across later series as the Red Zeo Ranger, the Black Dino Thunder Ranger, and eventually Lord Drakkon in the BOOM! Studios comics, made him the franchise’s defining character across every medium. Tommy Oliver has appeared in more Power Rangers content than any other character in the franchise’s history.
Power Rangers ran for thirty seasons from 1993 to 2023, each season adapting footage from a different Super Sentai series while introducing a new team, new villains, and a new title. The season titles reflect the theme of each run, from Zeo and Turbo through Time Force, Jungle Fury, Samurai, and Dino Fury, with each era attracting its own generation of viewers while the original Mighty Morphin era remained the most recognized. Power Rangers Cosmic Fury in 2023 was the final season of the long-running television continuity, released on Netflix as a ten-episode series rather than a traditional broadcast run. The 30th anniversary special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always, also released on Netflix in 2023, reunited surviving members of the original cast for a standalone story.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie released in theatres in June 1995, a separate continuity from the television series that introduced Ivan Ooze as the villain and gave the Rangers new powers and Zords distinct from the show. The film performed modestly at the box office and has remained a nostalgic touchstone for the generation that grew up with the original series. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie followed in 1997, serving as a bridge between the Zeo and Turbo seasons and receiving significantly weaker reviews and box office returns.
The 2017 theatrical reboot produced by Lionsgate reimagined the original team with Dacre Montgomery as Jason, Naomi Scott as Kimberly, RJ Cyler as Billy, Becky G as Trini, and Ludi Lin as Zack, with Bryan Cranston as Zordon and Bill Hader voicing Alpha 5. The film underperformed against its production costs and the planned sequel franchise did not materialize. It was added to Netflix in March 2025.
The franchise has produced games across multiple decades, with Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid in 2019 representing the strongest recent entry. Developed by nWay and published across Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, Battle for the Grid is a crossover fighting game drawing characters from multiple eras of the franchise including Lord Drakkon, Tommy Oliver, and the Ranger Slayer. The game features full crossplay across all platforms and a story built around Drakkon’s attempt to control the Morphin Grid. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind, developed by Digital Eclipse and released in December 2024, brought the franchise back to the beat ’em up genre with a retro arcade aesthetic faithful to the original era.
BOOM! Studios has published Power Rangers comics since 2016, building an ambitious interconnected mythology that pushed the franchise into darker and more complex territory than the television series typically explored. The Darkest Hour saga, which concluded in 2024, ended with Billy Cranston potentially standing as the only surviving Ranger, a haunting outcome that fundamentally altered the Morphin Grid’s status quo. Power Rangers Prime continued the story in 2025 before concluding in April 2026, clearing the path for a line-wide relaunch.
BOOM! Studios relaunched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as a new ongoing series on June 3, 2026, with Marguerite Bennett taking over as writer. Power Rangers Green, a new series focusing on Tommy Oliver returning to the Green Ranger powers after retirement, and Power Rangers Unlimited, a new ongoing series, are also part of the 2026 publishing slate. The line-wide relaunch represents the most significant restructuring of the Power Rangers comic universe since BOOM! Studios first acquired the license.
Hasbro and 20th Television announced a new live-action Power Rangers series for Disney+ on March 19, 2025. The showrunners attached to the project are Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz, who led the critically successful Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for Disney+. In a significant departure from franchise tradition, the new series will not incorporate footage from the Japanese Super Sentai series, giving the production team original creative control over all visual storytelling for the first time in the franchise’s history. Principal photography was confirmed underway in 2026 with London as the primary filming location. No cast, release date, or title has been confirmed as of writing.
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a fighting game developed and published by nWay. Lionsgate Games and Limited Run Games also co-published the game….