Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics Announced For Switch

I do remember seeing The Combatribes at bus stations.

I’m not sure this is gonna get a localization, but it would be cool if it did!

@Thomystic I’m pretty sure I rented it back when, but I had no idea it had any relation to the kunio-kun games…

This is great news! River City Girls was a fun game but it couldn't touch the original Kunio-Kun games for me, this'll be a purchase for sure 😁

Cool, I am interested in a localised version. Thanks for letting us know, if you find out more.

Nice. Though I'll probably have to get it at Play-Asia, knowing my luck.

Ahh I was wondering why Arcade Archives stopped carrying Technos games. I'm glad to play the Neo Geo version of Super Dodgeball alongside Combatribes and Shadow Force. Too bad Double Dragon fighting game and Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer are not included.

"Xain’d Sleena"

Finally the original title is used as it should be.
This title were only used in Europe and Japan.

This is a great oldie and easily the top game in the collection.

• This game were called Soldier of Light on European home computers like Amiga, MSX etc.
• Solar Warrior in USA.

"Xain’d Sleena" is the correct title.

Now I get this is the first time their redoing Tecnos' few non-Kunio games like Xain'd and DunQuest, but I still feel like like those Kunio games have been re-released already on modern platforms

@Toastmaster I used to play the heck out of "Solar Warrior" back in the day - awesome game! I didn't even realize it was developed by Technos.

@BrianJL I didn't remember who made it either.

I remember it impressed me in the arcade with it's big good looking enemies / bosses now and then.
It were one of the early games of this kind.

I remember i forgot the name sometime after playing it on Arcade, and i tried to explain someone what i played.

Someone said it had to be Soldier of Light. I said no, because the title started with X....
Turned out it were the exact same game, just different name.

One of the worst things about 1980's and 1990's in gaming and movies, were all the alternate names of everything.
25 years ago or so i remember they set a standard in Norway on titles, using USA and International titles on everything to avoid name confusion.

This is excellent news! I picked up the Japanese copy of the first Kunio kun collection and I'll be getting this one too. I've really been wanting to play the Neo Geo version of Super Dodgeball, and it's even better now that it will be included with a bunch of other Kunio games.

5 Kunio games + Soldier of Light + Shadow Force + The Combatribes. I'm a sucker for Kunio-kun games and I loved Soldier of Light on C64. Day 1 buy for me from Play-Asia, even tho most of them will be in Japanese.

Xain’d Sleena! Is it truly the first instance of mid-air jumping in a game, or is there another game that did it first?

@Toastmaster I loved the music for it too! I can still hum it.

Damn that's a lot of Kunio 😆
I'd have to take a closer look at that list. There's other interesting things on there.

Looks cool, I've never heard of a lot of these. We're there ever american arcade games? I remember river city rampage on nes, and a dodgeball game very similar to these on nes but not arcade versions.

Pretty excited about the worldwide release, presumably with text in English.

That's a good list of games, combat tribe snes is unnecessary though since the arcade is better in every way.

@BrianJL Ahh yes. It also have that great memorable fanfare before the level starts.

YES I'm too pumped for this. Xained Sleena is actually being used how it's supposed to. Solar warriors is it's European name. Imma sucker for anything technos and kunio. River City Baseball is one of the best games they made in my opinion. If u don't have nostalgia for most of these then they more or less won't hold well with lots of people. But I grew up with Japan exclusives being that my grandma used to send me a few games a month from her hometown in Japan. I got really lucky. I'm fluent in Korean and Japanese but English is what I'm most comfortable with. But you would be surprised at how many exclusives we or Europe never got even though there is an English option on a lot of releases. The devs took the time to port a game into English but still didn't release worldwide is really strange to me. These will all be English. Most of em already had that option of I remember correctly. The non-arcade ones anyways.

I'm tempted just for Xain'd Sleena. I played it so much at the arcade that could finish the game on one credit.

Yes please. Pretty sure I saw that The Combatribes was the unofficial Double Dragon 3. And whilst I know that the "real" arcade Double Dragon 3 is almost objectively bad it would be nice to get that and the one-on-one fighter for completeness.

Hahaha, there we go, English release! Instant buy

Calling it now, physical release through LRG. Well with any luck, the box art won't be as hideous as the Double Dragon and Kunio-Kun collection.

I have to admit that I've never played any of these games, but I'm 100% interested in getting this compilation to see what I've been missing out!

I almost lost hope about a follow-up to the previous collection, and I'm very happy about these news.

This time we know in advance that there will be a Western release. Question now is will this time be released physically in normal stores? I have the physical Switch version of Kunio-kun: The World Classics Collection, but sadly the games are in Japanese, and they never patched the English translation of the Western digital release into the Japanese one.

I hope they proceed differently this time, especially seeing that the last two games are text heavy... but seeing in the trailer that some games are translated for the first time while the last couple aren't, I guess this is what we'll have, so there is only one remaining mystery: physical (available at Amazon) or not.

Plus I spotted an omission: there is no Kunio-tachi no banka here, but I guess that's because it was a separate release as River City Girls Zero, which causes a licensing issue. Too bad, but I'm glad for all the other games included, even the ones that aren't related to the Kunio brand.

@Moroboshi876 LRG 100% for English release, just like with the previous one.

Oooh, what a cool announcement! Time to get hooked on/be bad at Kunio no Oden!

Looks varied enough and up my alley, will keep an eye out. Really curious about the DICENICS title randomly

@jesse_dylan yes the trailer had been updated, shows English text

I did not expect to hear the good news so soon, very nice.

I thought I imported that Kunio-kun THE WORLD collection from Japan at some point, but hadn’t. So this will fit the bill nicely this year. It will be fun to think back and see which of these I recall playing in the arcades long ago.

The Combatribes had to have its text slightly rewritten on Wii VC. I imagine that changes will probably stay here.
I don't think it should be enough to affect playability but some will argue.

Still it's pretty cool if they got to the effort of localizing all these games. Some probably have quite a bit of story to them.

Particularly some less familiar games: board game Sugoro's Quest++, mystery dungeon RPG DunQuest, and River City Renegade which was the River City Ransom successor (funny though that the first fan-translation split the game into two, asking the player as some point "load ROM #2". Thankfully the only time someone tried that with a SNES game. )

@Toastmaster “ One of the worst things about 1980's and 1990's in gaming and movies, were all the alternate names of everything.”

I completely disagree. The 80s and 90s were phenomenal at least in the willingness to bring it to the west with a means to market the game or movie. The sales or interest wouldn’t be as high if you didn’t rename it to something relatable or even “cooler”.

Remember , that was a time before globalization is what it is now, especially with the internet. Even though it now means sorting out different titles for the same game, there was a necessary evil I guess to the sales process.

Nintendo has even gotten so lazy about the localization of even the titles in their NSO because it is not affecting their sales: the downside of that decision is just general lack of interest to play them.

But the way considering how awesome their first Kunio collection was, in offering localized versions of the Japan-only games, I have high hopes for this!

@Magrane That's true. They had to rename a bunch of things as the original names wasn't easy to sell in a bunch of countries.

It's still weird that Xain'd Sleena were chosen for Europe instead of Soldier of Light or Solar Warrior.
I always preferred Xain'd Sleena, probably because it were the only Arcade title in Europe and Japan.
It also sounds cooler than the English titles.
Still one of the most unique game titles.

NSO is a lazy effort from Nintendo.
Even after 25 years, N64 emulation isn't even perfect on PC emulators, and Nintendo's N64 emulator are worse than some of those.

If some random John Doe can make N64 games run natively on PC, Nintendo could have done the same.

These PC ports are not only perfect, but they run N64 games at locked 60 FPS, but Perfect Dark supports 1000 FPS i think.

What can you expect from a company that emulated Mario 64 at 900p instead of 1080p?
Even a 15 year old weak phone could run Mario 64 at 1080p...