2:43 LOL! that's a hilarious image. never really played the Kunio sports spinoffs (well minus the Dodgeball one) but I think if this is in the kunio collection I may have to fire it up one of these days.
I guess it's fitting that the final game of 1993 is also the final game of Kunio-kun and the final game of Technos. It's also the first episode of November. Too bad the fates didn't line up for this one like it did for a few past episodes! We're about to enter the final year for the system, and that means... very few episodes left. Technos' engine for these games has always been solid since the 80s, and they've only refined it more and more as we've gotten to the end of their time on the Famicom. I've always praised the Kunio series. I love the fat, stubby little men (or school boys) from these games. They make me happy no matter what they're doing. They have the few sports games on the system I will ACTUALLY want to play! This is one I enjoy very much, sometimes more than dodgeball. I wish I could get a physical cart, but 100 bucks is out of my price range.
I haven't got around to this one yet, but it's good to see the Kunio series sticking with quality games up to this point. fwiw these games are super common on multicarts/famiclone systems nowadays, they always seem to include at least some of the games 🙂
its the only Kunio game i'm missing from my collection (for very obvious reasons.) I used to have an (obvious) pirate copy of it for completion sake but it died recently.
There's the World Classics Collection now which has pretty much all (almost?) of the titles from the 8-bit era IIRC, so you might as well get that. It's a shame that Technos Japan just poof and disappeared so unexpectedly (I really liked their beat 'em ups), but gaming business is like that every now and then.
An amazing game but extremely difficult to dominate all the moves and stages. If lucky u can win a match but this is a game I really want to get better just to try everything it has to offer. I have the cartridge but trying to get the box and the manual has been an impossible task. The music amazing work of Kazuo Sawa as usual, but the drumming used is not my fave. I used a song from this game for the ‘select character’ of one of my Kunio fangames. My fave Kunio sport game is the first football and the hockey game, but this one is also very good. Top notch graphics too. Next sport in Kunio’s career will be baseball in the snes/sfc, in the first game on which Kunio isn’t the main character, but his “follower” Sugata.
The baseball game was actually released five days before this basketball game, so this is the end of distinct sports for Kunio. He's got volleyball on the Game Boy next, and there's a bit of dodgeball (one of which comes out after Technos folds).
@@RndStranger you are right, baseball was before this one. Because of the different platform I always have on my mind as being developed after. The next Kunio installments would be the puzzle one (Kunio no oden) and the last beat’em up from technos, Kunio Tachi no banka. The awful beach volley for game boy would be the last of Kunio until Neo geo. But at least Technos would say goodbye on a high note with his last game being also a Kunio game and a very good one (at least for me), the Neo geo super dodgeball.
Good summary as always. Not quite the last Kunio sports game as in 1994 the GameBoy got Kunio Beach Volley da yo! Although this is the better game. It would have been fantastic to get this one instead on the GameBoy.
@@mushihimesarna728Yeah it's good, I enjoy it, but if I could have chosen what would be Kunio's last GB game, a port of this if done well would have been rad. But at least the Beach Volley game has some nice Super GameBoy touches :)
Well, at least this was a strong exit from Kunio-kun, one of the series that had the most on the Famicom. I happens to prefer the sports titles to the beat'em up games from that series, though this basketball one is not really my thing. At least for Kunio, most of the sport games happened to be some of the best sport titles on the system.
I'm starting to get a feeling that the Famicom was a cool console but the Super Famicom did everything it did except better and completely obsoleted it...
I still prefer famicom games. Punch Out, Castlevania, Battletoads, Kunio... Lots of games were better! And if you like platformers, you'd love the famicom even more.
Well if you are talking about shmups or Platformers, Famicom is way better than its sequel. I don’t know why, but platformers are just way better. No one calls Super Metroid obsolete because of Symphony of the Night and other Metroidvanias exists. And the Super Famicom doesn’t even have Dragon Quest IV.
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The final year of the Famicom approaches, just in time for Halloween. Nothing more scary than obsolescence!
I think worms are more scary.
I still play and beat them 😋
Whenever "hot-blooded" is in the title, you know it's going to be part of the Kunioverse. Except for that one Saturn and PS1 game by Technosoft.
2:43 LOL! that's a hilarious image. never really played the Kunio sports spinoffs (well minus the Dodgeball one) but I think if this is in the kunio collection I may have to fire it up one of these days.
If I had known that basketball was like this I'd have started watching it long ago.
my god those three tiered baskets are madness wonderful madness
I guess it's fitting that the final game of 1993 is also the final game of Kunio-kun and the final game of Technos. It's also the first episode of November. Too bad the fates didn't line up for this one like it did for a few past episodes! We're about to enter the final year for the system, and that means... very few episodes left.
Technos' engine for these games has always been solid since the 80s, and they've only refined it more and more as we've gotten to the end of their time on the Famicom. I've always praised the Kunio series. I love the fat, stubby little men (or school boys) from these games. They make me happy no matter what they're doing. They have the few sports games on the system I will ACTUALLY want to play! This is one I enjoy very much, sometimes more than dodgeball. I wish I could get a physical cart, but 100 bucks is out of my price range.
I haven't got around to this one yet, but it's good to see the Kunio series sticking with quality games up to this point. fwiw these games are super common on multicarts/famiclone systems nowadays, they always seem to include at least some of the games 🙂
Tried this one a while ago and the controls are the biggest challenge but as a finale Kunio game for the Famicom its a great way to go out :)
Fantastic sports game
P.S. 1993 is completed, one year left...
its the only Kunio game i'm missing from my collection (for very obvious reasons.) I used to have an (obvious) pirate copy of it for completion sake but it died recently.
There's the World Classics Collection now which has pretty much all (almost?) of the titles from the 8-bit era IIRC, so you might as well get that. It's a shame that Technos Japan just poof and disappeared so unexpectedly (I really liked their beat 'em ups), but gaming business is like that every now and then.
An amazing game but extremely difficult to dominate all the moves and stages. If lucky u can win a match but this is a game I really want to get better just to try everything it has to offer.
I have the cartridge but trying to get the box and the manual has been an impossible task.
The music amazing work of Kazuo Sawa as usual, but the drumming used is not my fave. I used a song from this game for the ‘select character’ of one of my Kunio fangames.
My fave Kunio sport game is the first football and the hockey game, but this one is also very good. Top notch graphics too.
Next sport in Kunio’s career will be baseball in the snes/sfc, in the first game on which Kunio isn’t the main character, but his “follower” Sugata.
The baseball game was actually released five days before this basketball game, so this is the end of distinct sports for Kunio. He's got volleyball on the Game Boy next, and there's a bit of dodgeball (one of which comes out after Technos folds).
@@RndStranger you are right, baseball was before this one. Because of the different platform I always have on my mind as being developed after. The next Kunio installments would be the puzzle one (Kunio no oden) and the last beat’em up from technos, Kunio Tachi no banka. The awful beach volley for game boy would be the last of Kunio until Neo geo.
But at least Technos would say goodbye on a high note with his last game being also a Kunio game and a very good one (at least for me), the Neo geo super dodgeball.
Good summary as always. Not quite the last Kunio sports game as in 1994 the GameBoy got Kunio Beach Volley da yo! Although this is the better game. It would have been fantastic to get this one instead on the GameBoy.
The beach volleyball one is pretty good, imo. The players are hilarious. Guys with umbrellas, matadores hitting the ball with their capes 😂
@@mushihimesarna728Yeah it's good, I enjoy it, but if I could have chosen what would be Kunio's last GB game, a port of this if done well would have been rad. But at least the Beach Volley game has some nice Super GameBoy touches :)
Well, at least this was a strong exit from Kunio-kun, one of the series that had the most on the Famicom. I happens to prefer the sports titles to the beat'em up games from that series, though this basketball one is not really my thing. At least for Kunio, most of the sport games happened to be some of the best sport titles on the system.
I'm starting to get a feeling that the Famicom was a cool console but the Super Famicom did everything it did except better and completely obsoleted it...
I still prefer famicom games. Punch Out, Castlevania, Battletoads, Kunio... Lots of games were better! And if you like platformers, you'd love the famicom even more.
Well if you are talking about shmups or Platformers, Famicom is way better than its sequel. I don’t know why, but platformers are just way better. No one calls Super Metroid obsolete because of Symphony of the Night and other Metroidvanias exists. And the Super Famicom doesn’t even have Dragon Quest IV.