If you're feeling a little nostalgic, then here's some good news. Arc System Works America announced that it is releasing the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle for PS4 and Nintendo Switch on February 20. The bundle offers a wide range of beat’em up games from classic consoles and even the arcade.
Overall, the bundle includes a whopping total of 18 titles. Seven of these are Double Dragon and Kunio-kun games of the 80's and 90's. The remaining 11 are classic Kunio-kun titles that, for the first time, have been localized to English.
Here are the games offered in the bundle:
- Double Dragon series
- Double Dragon (1987)
- Double Dragon II: The Revenge (1988)
- Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (1990)
- Kunio-kun series
- Renegade (1986)
- Super Dodge Ball (1988)
- River City Ransom (1989)
- Crash’n the Boys Street Challenge (1992)
- Kunio-kun series (These games were published exclusively in Japan and localized for the time in NA)
- Nekketsu Renegade Kunio-kun
- Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club
- Downtown Nekketsu Story
- Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club – Soccer Story
- Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day!
- Downtown Special Kunio-kun’s Historical Period Drama!
- Go-Go! Nekketsu Hockey Club Slip-and-Slide Madness
- Surprise! Nekketsu New Records! The Distant Gold Medal
- Nekketsu Fighting Legend
- Kunio-kun’s Nekketsu Soccer League
- Nekketsu! Street Basketball All-Out Dunk Heroes
Double Dragon is a beat 'em up video game that was released in 1987. The game focuses on the twins Billy and Jimmy Lee as they go against different opponents. The game is presented in a pseudo 3D perspective, where the player can move in four directions, but the character is always facing either right or left. At the height of its popularity, the game resulted not only in an animated series, but even a live-action film adaptation.
Kunio-kun is a series of games, with the first release being Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun for arcades. The game has players take control of Kunio as he goes against different gangs. An international version, dubbed as Renegade, offered new graphics along with dubbed voices to give it a more western feel. The plot was changed as well and instead of Kunio avenging his friend, he was now fighting the gangs to save his girlfriend.
