Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics

[Nz17]

From developer Technos Japan, known for creating the legendary River City and Double Dragon series, this exciting collection brings you 12 games in one! The variety pack includes gems that haven't been widely ported before. From arcade classics to region-exclusive titles, you'll have plenty to explore in this collection! Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics launches April 24th, 2025 for Nintendo Switch & PlayStation 5 & STEAM. Players 1 to 2 players (although 1 to 4 players for some games). Text Languages include Japanese, English, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese while in-game languages are Japanese & English.

The 12 games included in the 'Technos The World' collection, which covers systems like the Neo Geo and Super Famicom, are:

River City Renegade
Kunio's Dodgeball Time, C'mon Guys!
Downtown River City Baseball Story
Kunio’s Oden
THE COMBATRIBES
SugoroQuest++ DICE-NICS
DunQuest
Super Dodge Ball
XAIN'D SLEENA
CHINA GATE
THE COMBATRIBES (Arcade)
SHADOW FORCE

Seems good to me!

[Steve W]

XAIN'D SLEENA

I would love to know the thinking behind the name of that game. Why bother making it pronounceable when you can squish a bunch of letters and punctuation together that don't seem to fit very well?

This is one of those arcade games that I've run across a couple times in the wild that was up for purchase but I couldn't pull the trigger. I always liked the gameplay but afterwards I could never remember the name of the machine. It took until a decent arcade emulator and an 80 gigabyte batch of ROMs for me to finally correspond the title with the game. Not the best route to make the game memorable to the arcade crowd.

This looks like a good gathering of games but it's not on anything I currently own. That sucks. I'd love to play Super Dodge Ball (the arcade version, not the NES port) and I'm curious about Kunio's Oden. So, is it a game where a school gang leader cooks fish cakes in broth?

[Tron 2.0]

XAIN'D SLEENA

I would love to know the thinking behind the name of that game. Why bother making it pronounceable when you can squish a bunch of letters and punctuation together that don't seem to fit very well?

This looks like a good gathering of games but it's not on anything I currently own. That sucks. I'd love to play Super Dodge Ball (the arcade version, not the NES port) and I'm curious about Kunio's Oden. So, is it a game where a school gang leader cooks fish cakes in broth?
That version of super dodge ball is the neo-geo version it's never been available for consoles until now.I have a complete kit of it for my neo-geo mvs setup and it's not a bad take on the series either.

[kupomogli]

More like River Shitty amirite? I know that River City Ransom is a Nintendo favorite, but you add RPG mechanics to a piss poor game and suddenly everyone's like, 10/10!!. I bought the Kunio Kun World Classics Collection for one reason, and it's games I already own. Double Dragon 1, 2, and 3. Even the black sheep of Double Dragon is better than any Kunio game. Scott Pilgrim is better than the Kunio games, but it's also a mediocre beat em up with nothing going for it but great graphics and a great soundtrack.

Most beat em up games are trash because most of them lack any sort of depth. The Double Dragon games were the first ones to have any real depth to them and that was limited in the first and third games. It was Double Dragon 2 and the simple act of punching forward and kicking backwards that to this day make it one of the greatest beat em ups of all time. Aside from that though you still had the spinning kick, the hyper uppercut, hyper knee, and the jumping through all which required precise commands when landing on the ground or jumping mid air. Almost 30 years and most games are still your same copy paste garbage beat em up with a new coat of paint.

Streets of Rage 2, Final Fight, and Batman Returns enhanced the beat em up genre simply by offering more to them. It's games like Odin Sphere, Dragon's Crown, Muramasa, Streets of Rage 4, Fight N Rage, and Dawn of the Monsters which are your modern day beat em up evolutions. It's pretty ridiculous that the most depth to this genre for most games to this day is just moving to another lane to avoid damage and then move back. It's crazy that games from this genre even sell and it's a genre that is as popular that it is.