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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

XBLA: Indie Watch: Kunio Series Returns With Downtown Smash Dodgeball

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"Kunio" is a classic set of old games made by Technos, including old NES titles like River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball. Early last year it was revealed that a little Japanese indie company Miracle Kidz were working with the original creators of Famicom Kunio titles to create some Kunio fangames. One of them was Downtown Dodgeball, a remake of sorts for Super Dodgeball on the NES and SNES.

Now Miracle Kidz have ported the game over entirely with Downtown Smash Dodgeball, now available on XBL Indie Games. The game is currently sporting an 800MSP price point (which will have to go down in price in October) but the game looks and feels just like the original games, only a lot smoother and in high definition.

Check out the trial version here, or see a video of the PC game in action here. For the official website, jump over to this link.

Comments

I'm a big fan of the Kunio games, so I picked this up weeks ago. I was not impressed. I played Super Dodgeball on a number of different platforms and this one does not seem to been handled very well. The controls felt off and a few other things just didn't translate well. I'm going to have to revisit it, but I was really disappointed.

Anyone else have any thoughts? I'm curious...

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