/vr/ - Retro Games

How's the X-1 and FM77AV for gaming? Everyone only seems to bring the NEC PCs and occasionally MSX and X68000.

>>3800970
2 arcade games
11 on Famicom
7 on Game Boy
5 on Super Famicom
5 on PC Engine (two on HuCard and three on Super CD-ROM2)
A Mega Drive port of Kunio's soccer
3 X68000 ports
That one Neo-Geo version of Super Dodge Ball
Plus a bunch of modern versions on newer platforms.

>>3506791
>who the fuck is Slick anyway…
It's Simon's other name. In the JP backstory, Kunio, Hasebe (the Reiho girl you meet in the bridge, who is often drawn with violet/purple hair in the promotional art) and Yamada (Slick/Simon) were classmates in the same middle school.

Yamada's pre-battle dialogue is actually quite 4th wall-breaking in the JP version, as he tells the player "if I beat you, they better title the next game 'Hot Blooded Tough Guy Yamada-kun'" or something like that.

A lot of the JP version's humor and references got lost in the English translation, but I don't think they did a bad job on the localization per se.

>I guess it's one of those games which are remembered mainly because they sold well, not because of their groundbreaking gameplay. They interviewed a former American Technos employee for Retro Gamer a few years and he said that River City Ransom didn't really sell that well when it was first released (hence why they didn't bother to localize the immediately following Kunio games on the NES). I'm guessing it only became a cult favorite in later years during the NES collecting boom back in the late 90s/early 2000s thanks to internet exposure and its coverage on Nintendo Power.

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