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While this list is far from complete, here are other titles by Technos Japan/American Technos, the people who created River City Ransom. (See my Misc. & Odd page for features on some of them)

Double Dragon - 1988
  The game that started Technos on the path of fighting mayhem. A 1 or 2 player alternating fist-fest. A good game, average difficulty. It's basically your normal, everyday side scrolling beat-em up.

Double Dragon II - 1989
  The sequel to the above game. Same concept, although the controls were ruined by some auto-reverse layout (your attack depends on which way you face, poor human factors decision), and the game is just less interesting. Oh yeah, One Player this time.

Super Dodge Ball - 1989
  A fighting game, but not in the normal sense. It's 5 on 5 attack volleyball basically. One or 2 players can participate, and frankly the game is very enjoyable. Also, the characters look exactly like the River City Ransom gang--big plus!

World Cup Soccer - 1990
  As they did in Dodge Ball, it's RCR merged to form a soccer hybrid. The game is actually pretty fun, though it doesn't follow the actual rules of real soccer. It's multiplayer, has a tournament mode, and actually requires strategy.

Double Dragon III - 1991
  The third, and final, Double Dragon game on the NES. Now it's 2-Player simultaneous, but you have to use up credits to buy power ups, and the game itself is kind of annoying.

Crash 'N The Boys Street Challenge - 1992
  A valiant attempt at merging River City Ransom with Track N Field. While the Swimming and Hammer Golf competitions are enjoyable, the rest are a venture into annoyance. It can be played by up to 2 players, which is nice, but let's face it--it gets old fast.

Crash 'N The Boys Ice Challenge - ?
  I have no idea if this game was ever made, and I've never played it, but if it's anything like Street Challenge I doubt I'd want to.

Mr. Kunia / RCR 2 - ???
  Never played this game, but enough rumours about it have popped up on my RCR web site to warrant a mention. There exists a Japanese Super Famicom (SNES) game with mechanics and graphics bearing some similarity to River City Ransom. People who've written me speak of the game as "River City Ransom: The College Years." While I am skeptical, the game at least warrants some curiosity since it has shops, experience, and conversation--i.e. all those RCR elements we love.

Look out for that truck!!!

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