River City Ransom - NES

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Available from HiFi LoFi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

River City Ransom for the NES is one of the greatest and most inventive games ever made for the console — a beat-'em-up from Technos Japan, the studio behind Double Dragon, that broke the genre wide open by fusing brawler action with open-world exploration and RPG progression. A villain named Slick has taken over River City High and kidnapped Ryan's girlfriend Cyndi. Alex and Ryan set out across a fully open River City — crossing between districts freely, backtracking at will — to defeat nine st