Go-Go! Nekketsu Hockey Club Slip-and-Slide Madness
Hey there, this is the Nekketsu High School Paper. Our own Kunio has become famous as a leader. With him we won both the dodge ball and soccer championships. They competed and won at the world stage, it is truly amazing. But did you know, Nekketsu High also has an ice hockey club? Sadly, our team is very weak... We probably won't even make the playoffs in the next national championship. Perhaps Kunio can lead our ice hockey team to victory as well. With him, would it become a successful team, or still be in the minor leagues? Passionate ice hockey spirit! Good luck everyone! The game was originally released as Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey Bu: Subette Koronde Dairantou, but has since been localized as Go-Go! Nekketsu Hockey Club Slip-and-Slide Madness.
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I was fortunate enough to play this game on cart at the 2002 Classic Gaming Expo, where Sardius very narrowly beat me. However, I thoroughly trounced him in another game that night, so I guess we’re even. If you can call a sound defeat “even.”
Anyway, this is a game in the glorious Technos series of games, in which people beat the hell out of each other while doing various things. Think Nintendo World Cup on ice, I guess. Except with a lot more beatings, and variety and stuff. You’re the hockey team at school, and you’re playing all the other sports teams at school. It sounds odd, but who cares - when you beat a team you get the option of using their uniforms, which also includes the ability to use their special attacks. It’s a hell of a lot of fun, believe you me. As you can well imagine, beating your opponent unconscious is one of life’s little pleasures, and this game manages to faithfully reproduce that same experience. And the first game is soooo much fun, because you can easily kick their ass. Who says only challenging games are fun?
Oh, and this is the game that was almost going to be released in the States as “Crash n the Boys - Ice Challenge”. In case you were dying to know.
(editor's note: this game now has an official English translated version in the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle, also it's my favorite Kunio game and probably one of my favorite NES games period! Insanely underrated)