River City Ransom : Classic or Best Game Ever?

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Right up there with Kid Icarus in my worldview.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 September 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Smiles are FREE!

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 24 September 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

KID ICARUS REVOLUTION.

rio natsume, Saturday, 24 September 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

shigsy said it s happening. i beleive him beauase shigsy is a don.

rio natsume, Saturday, 24 September 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Kid Icarus was shit.

River City Ransom is a piece of my heart - you know what kingfish sez about ICO and Sigur Ros? RCR + Technotronic = infinity times more special to me. I used to turn the TV volume on mute and just play my Technotronic tape through the boombox right in front of the console and play and play and play. Fantastic.

RCR has the distinction of being the ONLY game where I didn't get bored collecting money and stats to beat the bad guys; just run back and forth bashing up frat boys and generic dudes until the kick was right.

ACRO CIRCUS should be my fucking handle.

TOMBOT, Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

aside from the special moves you could buy, my fave: SHOES!

Lookit me, i'm running around beating up THE COWBOYS and THE MOB with flip-flops!

Seriously, and it was $99.00 for a pair of Cowboy Boots. Couldn't run quite as fast, but could boy could you kick!

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

but yeah, i associate the technotronic single with this game. and neneh cherry. The summer we first had a NES was the summer we listened to the local Top 40 radio station all day.

1989, baby.

oh yeah, and Jivebunny & the Mixmasters, which i think i associate with both Ultima & Castlevanias I & II...

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

You're insane with that Kid Icarus slander.
EGGPLANT WIZARD, BITCH.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 September 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Count me among the pro-Kid Icarus squad.

Can we have a thread about totally batshit early video game story/character logic? Like, why is the mythical figure Icarus battling against eggplant wizards? What's the outerspace ostrich theme in Joust about?

polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

go ahead and start one

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

For those too lazy to google, this is the definitive RCR site.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

my brother & i would play baseball. one person has a rock, the other has a stick.

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 24 September 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

never played this game or even heard of it in fact until now but I like this poster

cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

ah, the glory of Nintendo Power.

One of the bad things about this game was that upon first play-thru, you couldn't tell if you were supposed to go up or right.

Distinguishing between actual and painted-on backgrounds wasn't the game's best feature.

kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.worldlynx.net/bent/rcr/gfx/s_psword.gif

This was brutal.

Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

this is stone-cold classic... playing this emulated on nesds for the first time ever and it's held up surprisingly well! great dialog and rpg-lite stylings, great sprites... everything, really

czn, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

i want a remake for wii

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

earthbound VC and wii river city ransom, is it really so much to ask nintendo?!

itprintsmoney.gif goes here, obv

czn, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

i've got my fingers crossed for some kind of us version of the recent hanabi festival where ninty will release river city ransom, earthbound, mario rpg and dragon quest. (speaking of the hanabi festival, did anyone get sin and punishment? 1500 wii points seemed a bit steep, have i missed out?)

r1o natsume, Monday, 1 October 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to be getting that and the SMB2 game afore too long methinks.
If they ever release RCR for the wii; I buy tomorrow.

forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

IT'S OUT! Getting it now!

forksclovetofu, Saturday, 26 April 2008 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/471599582_2cd0a55036.jpg

The phrase "Generic Dudes" is so useful in everyday life, and always brings back fond memories.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

i downloaded a modded rom called pussy city pimps, a while ago. i can't remember what the differences were.

Creeztophair, Sunday, 27 April 2008 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

One of the great co-ops that my brother & i would play all the time. Sometimes we'd work together to get money, other times just beat each other up to loose money.

kingfish, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Going to buy/download this tonight!

Jeff LeVine, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

Uberclassic.

Nhex, Friday, 9 January 2009 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

I beat the fuck out of this on the wiicade. Levelled way too much and then cruised to the end.

more ign'ant than thuggin', surely (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 January 2009 22:57 (seventeen years ago)


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