Fighting outside the Game Center in Renegade 3DS. It’s killing me that you this is just the background for your battle against this oversized sprite, and you can’t actually head into the arcade to see what games are in there. Remember how you could buy Techno Belts and R&B CDs in River City Ransom? I want an arcade equivalent here.

Here’s another newly unveiled video for the Renegade remake’s Mission Mode, in which you get to fight the dudes from Super Dodge Ball at a shopping mall.

If we lived in Eric World — a dystopian alternate Earth where survivors live in fear of their careless dictator’s appetite for strange and unreasonable video games — we’d have an amalgamation of all the Kunio titles.

You’d get to play for Nekketsu High School’s various sports teams, search the neighborhood for your rivals and beat them up, ride motorcycles around town, then hit the Game Center to play the arcade version of Kunio no Oden.

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Hitting the batting cages in Renegade 3DS. It’s great that Million is packing fun little experiences like this into the remake, but I still think this game is going to have a hard time selling copies when it releases to Japan in a month, even with the reduced ¥4,410 pricing (games typically sell for ¥4,800 to ¥6,090 there).

Again, I’m wishing on a star here that this will sell enough to make a River City Ransom remake with this kind of treatment happen and release to the States.

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Two minutes of Renegade 3DS gameplay. I know most previews for this import-only 3DS game are mixed, to say the least, but you’ll want to watch this anyway just to hear that remix of River City Ransom’s shop music again.

While I expect hardly anyone will buy this in Japan, I’m crossing my fingers that sales will meet expectations and Arc System Works will greenlight a similar remake for River City Ransom — I’d love to see this motorcycle sequence brought into that potential game.

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Four-player Battle Royale in Renegade 3DS. How did that guy in the brown suit get a pistol? Why is he holding it with a side grip? No wonder he can’t hit anything here!

I wish using that bicycle allowed you to ride around the stage, running over fools, but no, all you can do is pick it up and wield it as a weapon. Who hits people with a bike? If anything, you’re more likely to hurt yourself when the spokes jam into your fingers. Know what I mean? That is some bullshit. I’ll stick with the soccer ball, or, you know, stay strapped with the automatic handgun.

More Battle Royale videos from Renegade 3DS here!

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Someone playing River City Super Sports Challenge. Unlike River City Soccer Hooligans, the 3D engine makes sense for this game! I love the variety of environments with each screen; this looks way more fun than I expected.

Speaking of River City Soccer Hooligans, that game hit stores this week (just in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup), but you probably knew about that already, what with all the hype and promotions for it. :o/

There was a time when many would have murdered in cold blood (ironic considering the hot-blooded nature of the Kunio-kun series) for a sequel to Nintendo World Cup; what happened? Did the 3D engine turn them off? Was Super Dodgeball Brawlers so much of a disappointment that Kunio fans turned in their jackets? Perhaps today’s gamers just aren’t interested in seeing dudes punch each other and barf all over the place anymore?

What a sad world this has become, where gamers have outgrown Kunio-kun.

Buy: River City Hooligans

Preorder: River City Sports Challenge

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Full River City Soccer Hooligans match, Team Nekketsu vs. Spain. This new 3D engine doesn’t have the same charm as Nintendo World Cup’s Kunio sprites, as many have pointed out, but if you give it a chance and watch this video for a few minutes, you’ll see this looks pretty fun! I love how hectic the pitch becomes with all the slide tackles, the ball turning into a bull, and the environmental effects.

The only thing that will stop me from picking this up when Aksys releases the game in the States is its lack of online matches. It has support for up to four players, which is great, but I doubt I’ll find any opportunities for local games. As I learned from Super Dodgeball Brawlers and River City Ransom Ex, I tend to get bored quick with single-player Kunio experiences.

Preorder: River City Hooligans (Amazon says this is already out, but I believe it isn’t supposed to release for another two weeks)

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River City Soccer Hooligans (Kunio-kun no Nekketsu! Soccer League Plus World Hyper Cup) trailer. Yes, all that stuff is in the Japanese title. While I’m still thrilled about the idea of new Kunio games, the 3D engine Million has adopted for this and River City Super Sports Challenge is a little disappointing. The instantly recognizable Kunio characters are now jagged block people, and the movement looks nothing like what I’m used to from the series.

Of course, I’ll probably still buy it, so I hope it’s good. It’s out in Japan May 27, so maybe it’ll be out here sometime in the summer.

Buy: Super Dodgeball Brawlers ($18.21)

See also: Million hints at Wii game for Kunio

[Via Andriasang]

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