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    River City Ransom

    Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Apr 25, 1989

    Scrolling brawler with RPG attributes. Fight through street gangs as Alex and Ryan in search of Ryan's kidnapped girlfriend. This game was basically an early proto-GTA sandbox brawler, where the player can explore the city, beat up or steal from random people, and shop around.

    segua's River City Ransom (Nintendo Entertainment System) review

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    Ah, reminds me of my High School Days of Infamy.

    Well maybe not, but River City Ransom was a very good 2D side scrolling beat'em up game on the NES. This game was so much fun due to the fact that, personally, it was humorous.
     
    As for a beat'em up game, it's the only one that I could recall in being unique in powering up the player's characters. This was an ingenious way to add a different type of game play element to the game. Of course taking place in a town, the game makes use of the shops to offer power ups.
     
    Recommendations: If you like old school beat'em up type games, I'm sure you'll enjoy this game.

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      Nostalgia-fueled review results in crazy score. 0

      River City Ransom(Nintendo Entertainment System) by vibratingdonkey on July 21, 2008

      I remember when I was but a wee lad, back when I couldn't afford a single piece of cartridge for Nintendo's electronical videogame machinery due to my moneylessness. So I used to leech off of those who could. One beautiful day when the birds were chirping and the sun had come up from bottom of ground, I got to borrow this thing called Street Gangs, which was its European title.What I was presented with was a story about blablablah. To remedy the situation you punched, kicked, threw and hit dudes...

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