The evil Slick has kidnapped Ryan's girlfriend and taken over the high school. The player is cast as either Ryan or Alex (second player) and has to fight his way through River City's merciless gangs before confronting Slick and freeing his girl.

River City Ransom is a side-scrolling beat-em-up similar to Double Dragon. The player, or players, travel through the locations of River City, encountering various gangs along the way. Gang members can be defeated with punches and kicks, or beaten up with objects scattered around. Upon their defeat, gang members drop money which Alex and Ryan can spend in malls to buy items that restore health and improve their combat abilities. The main characters have RPG-like numerical stats that can be improved this way, and can also buy books to learn combat manoeuvres. To finish the game, the player(s) have to find and defeat all the bosses.

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Alternate Titles

"ダウンタウン熱血物語" -- Japanese spelling
"Street Gangs" -- European title
"River City Ransom EX" -- Gameboy Advance title
"Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari" -- Japanese title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	River City Ransom	Game Boy Advance	$13.99
	River City Ransom	NES	$21.01
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User Reviews

River City: Where the smiles are free!	NES	Adzuken (339)
Barf!	NES	Zovni (9427)
Take Street Fighter, add Final Fantasy, throw in some Super Mario Brothers, what do you get? River City Ransom!	NES	Jimmy Sherrill (8)
Street fighting never got better than this	NES	MaiZure (114)
Humorous Fighting is "In" on the Gameboy Advance!	Game Boy Advance	Stephen Lambert (5)

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The Press Says

Player One	NES	Sep, 1992	93 out of 100	93
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	NES	Sep 27, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Game Informer Magazine	NES	Sep, 2001	8.5 out of 10	85
Quebec Gamers	NES	Apr 12, 2007	8.3 out of 10	83
The Video Game Critic	NES	Feb 12, 2008	B+	83
Game Informer Magazine	Game Boy Advance	Jun, 2004	8 out of 10	80
All Game Guide	Game Boy Advance	2004		80
Nintendo Life	Wii	Feb 23, 2008		80
UOL Jogos	Game Boy Advance	Jul 14, 2004		60
Total! (Germany)	NES	Jul, 1993	4.25 out of 6	35

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Trivia

When you are on the 3rd floor of the school and you fight the "Dragon Twins", the background music is the same music from the NES game "Double Dragon"

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This entry was contributed by Ghost (106), WildKard (12186), Zovni (9427) and gamewarrior (5078)