World Heroes Anthology is the complete collection (on one disc) of one of SNK's most popular 2D fighting game series World Heroes. The titles included are: World Heroes, World Heroes 2, World Heroes Jet, and World Heroes Perfect. The collection contains 56 characters using hand-to-hand and weapons based fighting mixed with special super-human abilities enabling each character to perform special attacks.

World Heroes Anthology follows the storyline of Dr. Brown, a scientist, who having perfected a time machine has organized a fighting tournament throughout all of history to see who is the best fighter of all time. True to this plot, many of the fighters are based on actual historical figures.