Kunio-kun: The World Classics Collection

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Sold i never got around to importing a copy.
 
ForeverSublime

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If you like beatemups or wacky sports games - and you haven't played these - please do! Well worth the $. There are a few games there that have cross-generational significance, and even the more mediocre titles are short and charming. . . great for settling side bets with friends or children, or killing a commercial break during a sporting event. Drink!

Not much has been done with the Super Famicom games in the series - would love to see a similar treatment.

Edit: Technos was so good at making games that stood well as multiple player and single player games.
 
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I have always believed the Yakuza series is primarly influenced by Nekketsu Shodai, not Shenmue, and it's becoming more appearant with the newer games.
 
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k'_127 said:
Footage of an unreleased Famicom game:

https://twitter.com/_moshix2/status/1242507393323286528
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Nice catch. Looks like it was asked to be removed. Information on the post archived here:

https://www.unseen64.net/category/nin/nes-famicom/

Nekketsu Kunio-Kun Zukan [NES, Famicom – Cancelled]

Nekketsu Kunio-Kun Zukan (熱血くにおくん図鑑, translated by Google as “Enthusiastic Kunio-Kun Encyclopedia”) is a cancelled game / software in the Kunio-kun series by Technos Japan, planned for the Nintendo NES / Famicom console. In the main games of the series you take the role of Kunio, a japanese high-school delinquent (bancho) with a good heart, punching and kicking other gangs to free the streets of your city.

While in the west the series is mostly known for Renegade and River City Ransom on the NES, in Japan many more Kunio games were developed and published. In 1988 Super Dodge Ball (a sport-based Kunio-Kun spin off) was released on the Famicom and in 1993 this “Nekketsu Kunio-Kun Zukan” seems to have been in the works too, but never officially announced.

ome footage from this cancelled Kunio-Kun “game” was shared on Twitter in March 2020 by Former Technos programmer Otake, as noticed by Heimao. By looking at it, Nekketsu Kunio-Kun Zukan seems like some kind of “school simulation” or as suggested by its translated title, an “Encyclopedia” to show off all the characters from the series and their bio, by moving around the school. A couple of weeks later Otake deleted the footage from Twitter, apparently because someone else from Technos asked to remove it. A copy of the footage is saved below, to preserve the existence of this lost project.

Thanks to Heimao for the contribution!

Video on YouTube
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