'River City Girls' is the game 'Scott Pilgrim' hoped to be » Borneo Bulletin Online
The beloved Scott Pilgrim vs The World game is back in digital marketplaces. The game was a throwback to beat ‘em up brawlers like Double Dragon and Streets of Rage. But all these games owe a debt to Kunio and the students of River City High School, or Nekketsu High School in Japan. Kunio is the main character of a franchise of games that span genres, mainly beat’em ups and sports, affectionately referred to sometimes as the Kunio-kun games. Americans got their first taste of Kunio and the violent, brawling students of this long-running, confusing Japanese franchise in 1989′s