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River City Ransom: Underground resumes retro beatings

Biff bop wallop barf

The old-school biff-bopping of a beloved NES beat 'em up has resumed with the release of River City Ransom: Underground [official site], an official licensed revival. It bleeps! It bloops! It barfs! It is, to refresh your memory, a scrolling beat 'em up with a touch of action-RPG as a group of plucky heroes kick the living heck out of badguys. I'm still delighted seeing how elaborate and acrobatic some of their moves are. Peep this:

Cover image for YouTube video

Developers Conatus Creative partially funded Underground through a Kickstarter in 2013. Here's what they now say about the finished game:

"Many years after vanquishing Slick on the school rooftop, Alex and Ryan must take to the streets again. Help a new crop of fighters defeat the hordes of River City, and clear their name in a sinister kidnapping plot. You'll earn money, unlock moves, and upgrade your skills in a sprawling city on the brink of total chaos. This modern take on an old classic features over 500 unique street fighting moves, dozens of weapons, secrets galore, and a bonus arena fighting mode."

Oh, and it has cooperative and competitive multiplayer, in both local and online flavours.

River City Ransom: Underground is out on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux at £11.99/15,99€/$15.99, thanks to a 20% launch discount. Conatus plan to share information on how to mod the game once they're done with the fuss and bother of the launch.

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Alice O'Connor

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Alice has been playing video games since SkiFree and writing about them since 2009, with nine years at RPS. She enjoys immersive sims, roguelikelikes, chunky revolvers, weird little spooky indies, mods, walking simulators, and finding joy in details. Alice lives, swims, and cycles in Scotland.

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