Ultraman: Towards the Future — stories left

The Super Famicom version earned a place in the Silver Hall of Fame in the "Cross Review" of the game magazine Famitsu, and the arcade version took No. 9 for the Best Action Award and No. 8 for the Best Presentation Award in the "5th Gamest Awards" (1991) run by the game magazine Gamest.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 30 out of 40, earning a place in the Silver Hall of Fame. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 23.2 out of 30, as shown below.

In the "5th Gamest Awards" (1991) held in the game magazine Gamest (Shinseisha), it took No. 9 for the Best Action Award, No. 8 for the Best Presentation Award, and No. 27 for Hit Games of the Year.

In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 6, 6, 5, and 5, for a total of 22 out of 40.

In addition, the game publication Chozetsu Daigirin '98 Spring Edition (Tokuma Shoten), published in 1998, introduced it with a positive comment on its presentation, saying that "with the opening title and the system that lets you fight for only 3 minutes, the content is irresistible for the generation that grew up watching it on TV and for enthusiasts".

In addition, the game publication Chozetsu Daigirin '98 Spring Edition (Tokuma Shoten), published in 1998, introduced it with a positive comment on its presentation, saying that "damaging enemies with punches, kicks, beam attacks and the like and finishing them off at the end with the Specium Ray, a setup just as on TV, heats up an enthusiast's blood".

A work that was ported with a substantial remake, including detailed presentation, new modes, the addition of new kaiju and Zoffy (conversely, some kaiju were removed), kaiju also having special-move gauges and being controllable, being able to finish with special moves and kicks other than the Specium Ray, and the addition of story demos.

The game book Mega Drive Daizen (2004, Ota Shuppan) said: "It is a work whose eagerness to make a game of an 'eight-head-tall Ultraman' for the first time, rather than a two-head-tall SD character, can be rated highly", "One can sympathize with the insistence that 'the finisher is the Specium Ray', but even after beating Bemular down to 0 health, running short on the special-move gauge and having Man collapse when time runs out is not satisfying.

It is based on the TV series Ultraman, with the Japanese version being based on the 1966 series and the North American version being based on the contemporary Ultraman: Towards the Future series.