TECHNOS JAPAN

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This is not an artist, but appears here due to incorrectly tagged soundtracks. If this non-artist appears in your charts, do last.fm and yourself a favor. Fix your tags by putting the actual artist name in the artist field. The easiest way is to use Picard. Technos Japan Corporation (株式会社テクノスジャパン, Kabushiki-gaisha Tekunosujapan) is a defunct Japanese video game developer, best known for the Kunio-kun (which includes Renegade, Super Dodge Ball and River City Ransom) and Double Dragon franchises. The company was also the owner of the American publishing subsidiary, American Technos Inc. Initially operating from a single-room apartment, Technos was founded in 1981 by three staff members of Data East. Their first game was Minky Monkey, released in 1982. Many of Technos Japan's earlier games were often published or distributed by other companies, particularly Data East (as was the case with Karate Champ) and Taito, as Technos at the time did not have the economical resource to distribute their own games at first. Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun ("Hot Blooded Tough Guy Kunio"), a side-scrolling beat-em-up released in 1986 about a high school student who fought thugs and delinquents from other schools, was the company's first big hit in Japan. Kunio-kun was released in the west as Renegade with the game's graphics changed to make the game marketable in the overseas market. Technos would then produced an Famicom/NES version of the game, which would be Technos' first game for the home cons

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