This port is a great improvement over the arcade version. Famicom hardware is clearly weaker so the game doesn't look and feel as smooth, but mechanics-wise many flaws were fixed and new great features added.

In the Arcade version you could have more players on the court, but the only good one was Kunio - others had no uses other than tank hits to protect your carry. Now it's only 6, but each has his own stats, strong and weak sides, 2 special moves (ground and aerial) and you can choose each for the inner or outer court. Enemy teams now also have their own traits and differ by them, not by the amount of tanks and replacement meat they can throw against you. Matter of fact enemies no more have more players than you for no reason and the auto-lose timer is gone, therefore the gameplay became way less cheesy and repetitive, but more fair and strategic.

Friendly AI was also fixed - guys you don't control at the moment used to stand like slogs and take hits in the Arcade version, now they actually duck and dodge. Even stunlocking at the court border by quick throws although kind of doable sometimes, now isn't as broken as before.

This is just an 8-bit dodgeball simulator, but really fun and well made. And due to proper improvements, it become better than the original, despite being ported on a weaker platform.

One of the best game game to play at in High School, and now, we can play it at home with a controller instead. This is another good sports that is worth playing.

There's not much plot to this game. You want to be the best dodgeball team in the world. However, this is the second entry of the series Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun since it's the same character as the first one.

The music in this game does it's job. Not many memorable songs, but they were good enough for the game. They created songs that were fitting for the country that our team was up against. Of course, there's a lot of stereotypes when creating the song.

The visual of this game is good. Since the game doesn't need to create a whole lot of levels, they only needed to create backgrounds that were fitting for the team that we were up against. We are always the Away team, so that means that you travel the world to play dodgeball.

The controls are good in general. You can throw the ball, catch it and also throw it. You can also pass the ball to your teammates on your side of the course or your crew around the opposite part of the field. The most effective technique that I found in this game to eliminate the other team is to run until you reach the middle line and throw it. It will throw the ball much harder and will make the opponents fly away. One thing that I really hated from the controls is that the character that you control will always switch to the one closest to the ball. When the opponents does some passes to their teammates around your court, your character will switch all the time. This can be really annoying when you try to time the catch of the ball.

All characters have some health bars, so that when you hit your opponents, they are not out it they get hit by the ball once. You need to deplete their health bars until all 3 players form the other teams are out.

The game is still really good, short and doesn't overstay their welcome. However, you will do the same thing over and over to eliminate the enemies. So that makes the game really repetitive. I would still recommend this game since it's really short to beat.

Game #57 of my challenge.