Criminally overlooked games #3: Downtown special

[StarFoxAutobot]

Does the screen flicker just from what you recorded the game with?

[BigBangBlitz]

Not necessarily. The recording isn't exactly a problem, it's whatever magic formula youtube used to re-compress the video I uploaded that altered the frame rate unfavorably.

[TetsuyaBrazil]

River City Ransom + Mystical Ninja Goemon = Downtown Special

[BuzzmFrog]

Where did you find an English version?

[asteriskForte]

reminds me of Mystical Ninja

[AnimeTeikoku]

maybe you can post a special move list?

like that one skill you learned from beating Godai, I never figured out what it is and how to use it... (if you know Godai, that one person in River City Ransom that guards the second floor of Reihou High. He has some other names in this game)

[BigBangBlitz]

There's a tech guide on gamefaqs! I was going to post it here anyway, but there's too many. There's like a dozen not even shown in this video.

[Sonic2332]

Although I miss them saying "barf", dickweed is a good substitute. :D

[CptnGordon]

A healer that has kanpou? I know he's not talking about this, but I just keep thinking of chicken. Stir-fried food heals anything, even curses.

[Minority119]

aint this on the nes as Technos Samurai?

[BigBangBlitz]

That's not an official release.

[Minority119]

@BigBangBlitz idk, it feels like it is official, but then again, I only have the rom, not the actual cartridge =P, good list though, I agree with most of your games about being underrated

[onldhes]

I thought this game only came out in Japan

[1787dude]

"Mr. bunzo is in trouble!"

[peepeevagi]

THIS is awesome.

[lionheartodd]

river city ransom clone

[kibjohn]

Made by the same company.

-kidThunder

[BillyCauseyjr]

@lionheartodd this is a sequal to river city. (known in Japan as shin nekketsu Kunio kun,)

[lionheartodd]

I didn't know that

[arly803]

not a clone, this is the original. rcr is an americanisation of this

[BigBangBlitz]

Not quite, this is the sequel to the unlocalized version. Unfortunately this was never localized. I feel it would have been a hit even with it's technical issues.

[lionheartodd]

@arly803 I get the picture already someone already told me this my comment was like 5 months ago

[tamtimtem]

if you like this game you should check out "Riki Kunio"

[Jermofoot]

Wow, this game looks pretty awesome! I see why it's criminallly overlooked. But at the same time, it's criminal it didn't get ported to the US properly.

[namyun2712]

Wow....I never thought I'd see this game again.

My mom bought this for me and my brother when she visited korea. Some guy told her that it will play in a NES. I cant read japanese but I thought the gameplay was so fun!

My NES broke a couple of years ago and I couldnt play this game since. Where in the world did you get this game?

[namyun2712]

Also, this game just came out on the Wii's virtual console (Japan only though....). I pray it will come out in the Americas as an Import...

[BigBangBlitz]

Ebay.

[chosentonessournotes]

Wait, this isn't River City Ransom?

[BigBangBlitz]

No.

[mitzibishi]

not saying its shit but it looks like a NES game by the whole, what cpu does this arcade run on?

[BigBangBlitz]

Err.. a Famicom.

[mitzibishi]

ok ok, wiseguy, i was looking through arcade games vids and thought this was an old arcade game. but if you wanna be wise, theres no such cpu as "famicom" what cpu does this run on

[BigBangBlitz]

Motorola 6502 8-bit

[mitzibishi]

nice wiki usage

[BigBangBlitz]

That's actually in my history of Nintendo article from Nintendo Power something or rather.

[monosaturated]

Would there be any problem with using Wikipedia?

[BigBangBlitz]

Nah, it's pretty cool.

[VideyoJunkei]

A shame about all the sprite flicker!

[BigBangBlitz]

In fairness the game gives you the option of lowering the physics in the game so that it runs smoother, but that takes a lot of the fun with it.

[alemar1122]

this looks sooo much like river city ransom

[BigBangBlitz]

(It's the sequel)

[ideitbawx]

my god, the language! dickweed, pissed, what the #!@* ... i love it!

i didn't know you could do that in games back then. though i did used to play wolfenstein when it was brand new; i was like 6 or 7

[BigBangBlitz]

You can't actually, it's just a rough translated approximation of some Japanese terms that have no literal English translations.

It was done by fans so some liberties were taken.

[sonic1285]

What do you mean by gimped previous game?

[BigBangBlitz]

This sequel is so far advanced from the last one it's hard to consider going back to playing our version, which was basically a messy version of the prequel to this game with sprite, palette and sound effect changes with strangely altered text and story details.

It wasn't a rush job clearly, but it loses a lot in the translation same as most localizations do.

[AkuNoHana]

Wow I actually grew up playing this game on my Famicom. It was in moonspeak so you can imagine it's pretty confusing especially for a kid. But I love the gameplay so much I've put countless hours into it and have gotten pretty far but never entirely finished it.

[BigBangBlitz]

I grew up on the gimped localized version of the previous Kunio game. I admit it was o.k., but i'd have done something ambiguously sinister to play Downtown special back then.

I say you should go back to it and get all the abilities, find all the shops and finish it with the good ending. It's totally worth it. The game is still better than nearly every other game in it's genre even now, discounting the somewhat crippling slow-down.

Maybe try playing through it online, it's a hoot.

[Str1ckNine]

DICKWEED

[SamuralPrince]

they look like there gunna punch u lol how that guy looks