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All Style, No Substance
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/26/2025
Back in the 1980s, a Japanese publisher called Technos (with a long mark over the ‘o’) made a splash with a variety of arcade games, mostly falling neatly within the Beat ‘em Up genre. Technos was the original owner of one of the biggest IPs in the genre, ‘Double Dragon,’ but was also responsible for another IP set within the ‘Double Dragon’ universe, ‘River City.’ The original game, “River City Ransom,” was one of those impossible ‘Nintendo Hard’ NES games that wasn’t particularly fun or good in any way, but it had a unique graphical style, and Nintendo Power Magazine spilled copious amounts of editorial ink in making sure people knew about it.
Personally, I never played the original “River City Ransom,” and never had any interest in it. Indeed, my …
