A zany street sports game by Technos, creators of Double Dragon. Wacky events, exaggerated physics, fun in multiplayer. In the Kunio-kun vein, as offbeat as it is charming.
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Sports4 players7+
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Zany multi-event sports game featuring Kunio-kun characters competing against rivals in athletic events. Published by Technos Japan, released in the USA in 1992. Kunio-kun character teams in races, jumps and throws with special moves. A multiplayer sports game from the Kunio-kun series on NES.
Crash 'n' the Boys - Street Challenge review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Technos applies its style of stocky, big-headed characters to deliberately absurd sporting events: an obstacle race through a building, a dive into a tiny pool, a rooftop fight. Every team wears bold colours, and the falling and collision animations are drawn with constant comic exaggeration.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
Q1 damagedQ6 completeQ10 new
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Collector interest
A Western Kunio-kun spin-off published by American Technos at the very end of the US NES cycle. Modest print run, little marketing at the time, and a late-blooming reputation built by retrogamers chasing the last localised Kunio-kun entries. US CIB with intact manual trades at elevated levels thanks to that end-of-life scarcity, independent of pure speculation.
Better with friends
A street athletics competition where rival gangs clash across twisted events, with cheap shots and trips allowed. The spice springs from that mischievous competition: winning the race or the jump matters less than gleefully sabotaging your opponent along the way. Colorful and packed with humor, it turns each discipline into a downright laugh riot, ideal to restart to fight over the title among friends.
Is Crash 'n' the Boys - Street Challenge still worth playing in 2026?
Crash 'n' the Boys - Street Challenge is a wild street sports game by Technos, a Western revisit of the Kunio-kun grammar. Outlandish events (race with weapons, neighbourhood football, diving), exaggerated physics and explosive multiplayer build a hugely fun line-up. Controls click quickly, the visual humour crosses cultures cleanly. For offbeat retro sports fans, Kunio-kun lovers and festive evenings, still a strongly recommended overlooked classic today, ideally with four players sharing a couch.
