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The series (typically localized as ''River City'') is a video game series started by Technōs Japan. The series is now handled by Arc System Works who purchased all of the intellectual property rights from Technōs' successor, Million Corp. The first game in the series is fully titled , which roughly translates to "Hot Blood Tough Guy Kunio", with Nekketsu being the name of the series' title character Kunio's high school. The kun suffix after his name is an informal Japanese honorific usually applied to young males. The series originated in arcades, before appearing on the Famicom console. Kunio later became Technōs Japan's main mascot, appearing on the company's logo in several games and television commercials. A few of the early ''Kunio'' games for the NES were Internationalization and localization, localized for the North American market. These include ''Renegade (video game), Renegade'', ''River City Ransom'', ''Super Dodge Ball'', ''Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge'' ...
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Yoshihisa Kishimoto
is a Japanese video game developer known primarily for his involvement with Technos Japan Corp. He is best known for his work on beat 'em up games, as the original creator of the '' Kunio-kun'' and ''Double Dragon'' game franchises, having worked on the original arcade and NES installments in both series. While not the first side-scrolling martial arts action games (predated by '' Kung-Fu Master''), they established the general template and conventions used by the beat 'em up genre since the late 1980s. He has thus sometimes been referred to as the grandfather of the beat 'em up genre. He is currently the President and Representative Director of a game company called Plophet. Biography In his teenage years as a high school student, he used to regularly get into fights on a daily basis, which was partly triggered by a break-up with a girl who dumped him. Kishimoto was also a fan of Bruce Lee's Hong Kong martial arts films, particularly ''Enter the Dragon'' (1973). These were ...
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