Miracle Kidz gets the band back together for more schoolyard violence.

When River City Super Sports Challenge and River City Soccer Hooligans were announced just over a week ago, Aksys Games gave retrogamers a great big old school hug by bringing back one of the 8-bit era’s greatest heroes: Kunio. The scrappy teen, who has a knack for engaging in fisticuffs and excelling in all manner [...]

When companies tout their game’s ability to display each individual blade of grass making  up the playing field, you know that the sports genre has lost touch with a small matter called fun. Downtown Smash Dodgeball did not. The product of Miracle Kidz (made of the creative team behind Technos’ Kunio family of games), Downtown [...]

I have no hesitation in expressing my love/near-fanboy-level obsession with Technos’ family of rough and tumble titles. Check the company’s credentials: Crash N’ The Boys, Double Dragon, Renegade, River City Ransom, and many, many more. One of my favorites, which seems to only be remembered by retrogamers and grumpy old men like myself, is Super [...]

Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s neo-retro games. Konami’s ReBirth series has seen the company apply updated visuals and gameplay (and even entirely new series entries done in a 16-bit style), to the likes of Contra, [...]