Technōs Japan Corporation is a defunct Japanese video game developer, best known for the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon franchises. The company was also the owner of the American publishing subsidiary, American Technōs Inc. Initially operating from a single-room apartment, Technōs was founded in 1981 by three staff members of Data East. Their first game was Minky Monkey, released in 1982. Many of Technōs Japan's earlier games were often published or distributed by other companies, particularly Data East and Taito, as Technōs at the time did not have the economical... resource to distribute their own games at first. Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun , 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.
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