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Bandai Namco Entertainment began offering the smartphone app “Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match – Reiwa Revival Edition” on November 9. Built on the Famicom version released in 1985, its biggest feature is a massive boost to the roster of competing Chojin (super humans) — from 8 up to 50. It’s a one-time purchase priced at 1,000 yen, and it also comes with a communication-based battle feature. On the 5ch “Geisoku” (Entertainment & Sports News+) board, a thread debated the criteria used to pick the Chojin roster (reportedly based on recommendations from the voice cast), the fact that “communication battles” means short-range Bluetooth only rather than online play, and whether the 1,000 yen price tag is fair.
Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. is pleased to announce that its new smartphone game “Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match – Reiwa Revival Edition” began distribution on the App Store and Google Play on Monday, November 9.
What is “Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match”?
“Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match” is a fighting action game based on the anime “Kinnikuman,” originally released by Bandai in 1985.
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What people said
Yeah, he's just a jobber who gets wrecked by Meat.
Yeah, the Famicom version's manual straight up called it the "Nazi Gas Technique."
Heard they changed it to "Bell Red" instead.
The Maunten, Mr. Kaamen, Springman, Atlantis
Tetsu Inada's recommended Chojin:
Planetman, Sunigator, Sunshine, Junkman
Instead of pushing their own favorites, they went out of their way to squeeze in demon Chojin who didn't make the main cut.
These guys are good dudes.
Guess there won't be any real fights then.
Terryman's the strongest.
He's a Chojin who showed up in the current ongoing series.
Didn't expect them to include someone who debuted so recently.
No online play is a dealbreaker, and charging 1,000 yen for this is steep.
This is a matter of our honor as Chojin.
Getting milked this hard, they must be thrilled.
Both of them were huge in the new series, after all.
Tough competition.
No new rings either? That's surprising.
The Ninja
Planetman
Pesimiman
Leopardon
These guys, whose finishers are all projectile moves, might be the strongest Chojin candidates.
Wait, Neptuneman isn't in it?! 🤔
Probably got in through a recommendation slot
Also, with these one-time-purchase smartphone games, you never know how long they'll keep supporting it, and that's the annoying part.
Yeah, you'd want to hook up a controller, lol
My eyesight's so bad from age I can barely read the text on my phone.
Wouldn't it have been better to make the original 8 Famicom wrestlers free, and charge for the other 42?
With these kinds of nostalgia remakes, people buy on impulse for the nostalgia, but get bored in 2-3 hours, so nobody's gonna pay extra anyway.
It's got real staying power as a franchise.
It's less "staying power" and more "for middle-aged guys who never grew out of it"
It's currently running in Playboy magazine, you know.
Want to do Robin Special too — though landing either one looks tough.
Can you actually pull off the Robin Special in the Reiwa Revival Edition?
Probably why he got erased entirely from the overseas export version (Nazi-themed characters are a no-go).
Geronimo was swapped in instead. His finisher was a tomahawk throw — also a projectile user.
These days even that would be a no-go too, lol
He's not even a Chojin, lol
That kind of halves the value.
Bandai Namco: "Please just settle for Bluetooth battles."
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The original 1985 Famicom version of “Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match” let players choose from only 8 Chojin, a limitation that long-time fans had always found frustrating. The main talking point around this Reiwa Revival Edition is that it removes that limit entirely, expanding the roster to 50 Chojin and even adding a recommendation slot with comments from the voice cast. Meanwhile, opinion in the thread split over what “communication battle support” actually means in practice: rather than online play, it’s limited to short-range Bluetooth connections, prompting complaints that “if you can’t play online, it’s only half as valuable,” against counterarguments that “it’s plenty for a retro revival game.” Kinnikuman also remains an active, ongoing series currently serialized in “Weekly Playboy,” and the inclusion of recently introduced characters like Pesimiman in the roster reflects the fact that the manga’s story has kept running without a break. As for the 1,000 yen one-time price, opinions were divided between those satisfied by the nostalgia factor and those who felt it was overpriced given how quickly the game gets boring.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku) thread “[Game] ‘Kinnikuman: Muscle Tag Match – Reiwa Revival Edition’ Launches — Roster Massively Expanded to 50 Chojin, Communication Battle Support Added.”
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