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    2020s,  Review

    Review – Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics

    I hate the name because I can never remember the whole thing, but I’ve said before that Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle is one of the most important retro collections to be released in North America in recent years. If you’re reading this and haven’t played it, you should. We got a few of the Nekketsu/Kunio-Kun/Downtown/River City games…

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    2010s,  Review

    Review – River City Girls

    I like River City Ransom. I'm a girl. Get me on that bus. While River City Girls doesn't adopt the log-arms of the Nekketsu/Kunio-Kun/Downtown/River City series, it does have a significant amount of colour and charm to make up for it. I'm just of the opinion that it doesn't play quite as well.

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Super Dodgeball Advance

    Oh, I was so totally pumped for the Gameboy Advance release. A total Nintendo fangirl at the time, I was drooling over the new handheld, as well as the impending Gamecube. When release came, I scooped up Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and Super Mario Advance, but those weren’t the only games I was excited for. Another was Super Dodgeball…

  • Review,  Video Games

    Review – Super Dodgeball

    I absolutely love the Kunio-Kun series. Over here, we got about 5 titles on the NES, all confusingly branded differently, whereas over in Japan, they got about a dozen, all confusingly branded differently. The unified artstyle, the cartoonish violence; the Kunio-Kun series is a special series for me for quite a few reasons. Super Dodgeball is also pretty special to…