River City Ransom

Play as Alex and Ryan and cross River City to fight street gangs and save your girlfriend from the hands of a bad guy named "Slick." Improve your fighting experience by powering-up your characters in River City's shops, picking-up items for bonuses and using the trash bins and pipes you will find in its streets.

Main story

2.5 h

Main + extras

3.5 h

Completionist

6.5 h

Released

1990 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player · Multiplayer · Co-operative · Split screen

Perspective

Side view

Multiplayer

• NESCouch co-op 2Campaign co-op
• SwitchCouch co-op 2Campaign co-op
• WiiCouch co-op 2Campaign co-op

• Technos JapanDeveloper
• InfogramesPublisher
• Aksys GamesPublisher
• 505 GamesPublisher
• AAmerican TechnosPublisher
• Arc System WorksPublisher
• II.T.LPorting

• ESRBE10+Mild Suggestive Themes, Mild Violence
• PEGI7No content descriptors
• CEROANo content descriptors
• GRACALLViolence
• ACBPGNo content descriptors

• Action
• Comedy
• Open world
• Sandbox
• 8-bit
• action-adventure
• anime
• backtracking
• brawler
• bully mode
• cheat code
• crime
• crime fighting
• death
• downloadable content
• environment as weapons

1. Downtown Nekketsu Story1989
2. Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day!1990
3. Downtown Special Kunio-kun's Historical Period Drama!1991
4. Surprise! Nekketsu New Records! The Distant Gold Medal1992
5. Downtown River City Baseball Story: Play Ball, Kunio!1993
6. Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari EX2004 · Remake
7. Downtown Nekketsu Dodgeball2011
8. Riki Densetsu2012
9. Kunio-kun no Nekketsu Street2015
10. Downtown Nekketsu Jidaigeki2015
11. River City Super Sports Challenge: All Stars Special2015 · Remake
12. River City: Rival Showdown2016 · Remake

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