some games will live forever as classics
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at 1989’s beloved beat
him up River City ransom created by
American Technos Inc for the Nintendo
Entertainment System players take on the
roles of two high school students named
Alex and Ryan together these pals must
cross through river city battling thugs
to free their classmates at the same
time they must rescue Ryan’s girlfriend
Cindy from slick also known as Simon the
notorious gang Lord who has crippled the
city with fear from the start of the
game players must battle gangs of
students frat boy jocks and gang leaders
however players quickly realize that
this action adventure is different from
other brawlers of the time the reason
being its inclusion of RPG elements such
as having to manage an inventory as a
result you must buy and sell items while
learning new abilities and skills to
raise your stats in order to make it to
the later levels
because of this mechanic you’ll find
yourself doing lots of shopping in river
cities malls which happen to be filled
with frightened citizens as you can tell
by the fact that many have chosen to
wear diapers so as you may have guessed
money is a huge factor and you gather
funds by defeating foes on the other
hand if you die you lose half of your
cash however in co-op you’re forced to
compete for dollars which adds a level
of difficulty to the game then again you
can just be coins out of your partner
which is always fun in terms of gameplay
River City ransom lets you punch kick
jump jump kick run and long jump while
picking up weapons you can even throw
weapons and enemies or use them to
deflect incoming weapon strikes heck you
can even use your partner as a weapon or
have him jump on your head to throw them
to higher places showcasing a massive
amount of variety for a game of the
8-bit era River City ransom even has its
gang members talk through the text at
the bottom of the screen this allows you
to learn their individual names plus it
allows for opponents to cower in fear
while bosses show no concern and will
even taunt you dismissed by many as a
mere Double Dragon clone upon its
original release River City ransom has
gone on to be recognized as one of the
greatest NES games ever made this is due
to its amazing depth unique visual style
and for containing some of the best
two-player platform fighting of all time
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at 1989’s beloved beat
him up River City ransom created by
American Technos Inc for the Nintendo
Entertainment System players take on the
roles of two high school students named
Alex and Ryan together these pals must
cross through river city battling thugs
to free their classmates at the same
time they must rescue Ryan’s girlfriend
Cindy from slick also known as Simon the
notorious gang Lord who has crippled the
city with fear from the start of the
game players must battle gangs of
students frat boy jocks and gang leaders
however players quickly realize that
this action adventure is different from
other brawlers of the time the reason
being its inclusion of RPG elements such
as having to manage an inventory as a
result you must buy and sell items while
learning new abilities and skills to
raise your stats in order to make it to
the later levels
because of this mechanic you’ll find
yourself doing lots of shopping in river
cities malls which happen to be filled
with frightened citizens as you can tell
by the fact that many have chosen to
wear diapers so as you may have guessed
money is a huge factor and you gather
funds by defeating foes on the other
hand if you die you lose half of your
cash however in co-op you’re forced to
compete for dollars which adds a level
of difficulty to the game then again you
can just be coins out of your partner
which is always fun in terms of gameplay
River City ransom lets you punch kick
jump jump kick run and long jump while
picking up weapons you can even throw
weapons and enemies or use them to
deflect incoming weapon strikes heck you
can even use your partner as a weapon or
have him jump on your head to throw them
to higher places showcasing a massive
amount of variety for a game of the
8-bit era River City ransom even has its
gang members talk through the text at
the bottom of the screen this allows you
to learn their individual names plus it
allows for opponents to cower in fear
while bosses show no concern and will
even taunt you dismissed by many as a
mere Double Dragon clone upon its
original release River City ransom has
gone on to be recognized as one of the
greatest NES games ever made this is due
to its amazing depth unique visual style
and for containing some of the best
two-player platform fighting of all time
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