Oh, Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club, how we've missed you! If there's one thing that the Nintendo DS has been missing, it's more Kunio-kun. The latest issue of Famitsu reveals that the hot-blooded gang will be returning with another entry to the beloved Super Dodge Ball series, bouncing the game off the back of our heads and onto the DS.
Though online support hasn't been revealed -- and we don't expect it, however perfect the idea might be -- developer Arc System Works will include an eight-player free-for-all battle mode, via local download-play. We don't even know eight people! According to initial translations, Cho Nekketukoukou Kuniokun Dodge Ball DS will also feature customization options for players and even teams.
We can only hope that a publisher will eventually pick up this title for North America, much like Atlus did with River City Ransom Ex and Super Dodge Ball Advance, both for the GBA. Guard your eyeglasses and scurry past the post break for the magazine scans of this gym class favorite.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-01-2007 @ 11:59AM
JC Fletcher said...
oh my god oh my god AWESOME
YES
I do wonder if Million has been absorbed into ASW or if they're gone too. Million was the developer formed from the ruined Technos.
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8-01-2007 @ 12:01PM
Ben said...
Yay! This was one of my favorite games on the NES. My friend and I would play this for hours.
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8-01-2007 @ 12:28PM
maxchalk said...
Oh my god. This was my favorite NES game. They better release this in the US! SO HELP ME!
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8-01-2007 @ 3:52PM
Your Lost Socks said...
Typo there - in the Japanese title, "Nekketukoukou" should be "Nekketsukoukou" - no such thing as a tu in Japanese. :)
Editing aside: OMFG yes.
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8-01-2007 @ 6:12PM
JC Fletcher said...
Not so much a typo. 'tsu' is often Romanized as 'tu', as in TUMIKI Fighters.
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8-05-2007 @ 12:31AM
TreIII said...
"Typo there - in the Japanese title, "Nekketukoukou" should be "Nekketsukoukou" - no such thing as a tu in Japanese. :)"
Technically, it's still right.
There are a number of ways to actually romanize the Japanese language, and among them, the likes of how "Shi" and "Si", as well as "Tsu" and "Tu" are two different ways of spelling the same sound.
Just a lil bit of knowledge for ya...
Any way, yeah. This game is going to be awesome. DAY 1 (IMPORT) PURCHASE CONFIRMED ON THIS END.
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8-13-2007 @ 3:54PM
RexDart said...
" Not so much a typo. 'tsu' is often Romanized as 'tu', as in TUMIKI Fighters."
TUMIKI isn't romanized; it's always been written in roman letters.
"Technically, it's still right.
There are a number of ways to actually romanize the Japanese language, and among them, the likes of how "Shi" and "Si", as well as "Tsu" and "Tu" are two different ways of spelling the same sound. "
Well, only there's no "Tu" sound to spell....there's just "tsu".
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