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{{quote|''Kids, if there's one thing you take away from River City Ransom, may it be that violence is the answer to your problems. If you beat a gang member hard enough, he will become an honor student. And if you beat an honor student hard enough, he will give you his lunch money. And the final moral is: it's all about good grades and trips to the mall.''|'''[[Seanbaby]]'''}}
''River City Ransom'', released in Japan as ''Downtown [[Hot Blooded|Nekketsu]] Monogatari'' (part of the ''[[Kunio Kun|Kunio-kun]]'' series, which also included the ''[[Super Dodge Ball]]'' series, ''Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge'', and the original ''Renegade'') and in Europe as ''Street Gangs'', is a [[Beat
While not the most well-known game on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], it was well received by those who did play it. It offered several different ways to customize your character, was one of the earliest games to blend RPG elements into another genre in a successful fashion, and was noted for its humor in many spots.
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* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/River_City_Ransom-front.jpg See] (US) [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Downtown_Nekketsu_Monogatari_game_cover.jpg for] (Japan) [http://timewarpgamer.com/images/nes/river_city/street_gangs_box_eu.jpg yourself.] (Europe)
** And then the GBA rerelease reuses the US NES version's pose coupled with an anime-esque style, effectively combining the US and Japanese versions. [http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009YXDR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Click!]
* [[Anti
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: On the enemy gang members. 9 in the NES version and up to 20 in the GBA version.
* [[Batter Up]]
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* [[Chain Pain]]: The game definitely has chains useable as weapons.
* [[Chez Restaurant]]: Chez Walle's
* [[Creepy Twins]] ([[Co
* [[Cultural Translation]] - All the Kunio games that were localized for the international market were Americanized in some form or another. ''River City Ransom'' did so by replacing the characters' gakurans with jeans and shirts. The GBA remake reverts back to gakurans, but keeps the anglicized character names.
** Averted with ''Super Dodgeball Brawlers'' for the DS, the only game besides the Neo-Geo version of ''Super Dodge Ball'', where Kunio and Riki were still called Kunio and Riki outside Japan.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In the GBA version, you can recruit some of the bosses to your side [[Defeat Means Friendship|after beating them]]. In a few cases, you might get them to join without a fight.
** Riki (Ryan's Japanese counterpart) himself is an example of this trope. Riki was originally Kunio's (Alex) rival in the original ''Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun'' (the Japanese version of ''Renegade''), where he was the first boss in that game. ''Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari'' takes place months after the original ''Kunio-kun'' [[All There in the Manual|according to the manual]], which is why Ryan is unfriendly towards Alex in the opening of the GBA version.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Tex and Ivan are hinted to be this. Tex refuses to fight you if he finds out Ivan has made a [[Heel Face Turn]]. {{spoiler|Actually, he has a crush on Ivan's sister, Abby}} Both Ivan and Tex will also fight you simultaneously under certain conditions.
* [[Hot Blooded]]: It's part of the Japanese version's title.
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* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: In addition to having the standard Easy, Normal, and Hard modes, the GBA version has a [[Easier Than Easy|Wussy]] setting and a [[Harder Than Hard|Crazy]] setting too.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: You can hit people with rocks, trash cans, and tires.
* [[
* [[Jekyll and Hyde]]: It's possible (without cheats, even!) to create a copy of Slick. Now, play a solo game (max 1 person party) with both characters as Slick. Rename one Simon. [[Fight Club]] ensues.
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Ivan Popov in the GBA remake has a score to settle with the Dragon Twins for getting too close to his sister, Abby.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: This is quite possibly the least brutal [[Beat
* [[Mirror Match]]: In the GBA remake only.
* [[Money Spider]]: Justified in part by only fighting human opponents - but isn't it strange how every member of a gang always has the same change in their pockets?
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* [[Theme Naming]]: Each gang has its own theme, be it the [[The Mafia|Italian-themed]] Mob or the [[Deep South|cornpone-loving]] Cowboys.
* [[The Movie]]:''River City Rumble'', a fan-made tribute movie made by [http://www.x-strikestudios.com/ X-Strike Studios]. Still better than half of the game-based movies out there.
* [[The Rival]]: In the original Japanese version, Kunio and Riki are rivals who team up against a common enemy and become [[Fire
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Benny and Clyde, [[Recurring Boss|recurring bosses]] who fight Alex and Ryan despite not being in any gang or related to the plot at all.
* [[Unwinnable]]: While it isn't likely to happen accidentally, in multiplayer, if an Javelin Man equipped player throws the other to the right in the first Benny and Clyde fight, they fly off into infinity and the game can't proceed.
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