NES Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball bu Japan

Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club[1] (熱血高校ドッジボール部 Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu) is the second game in the Kunio-kun series, a dodge ball sports game released in arcades in 1987 and developed and published by Technōs Japan Corp.. The North American version of the game, re-titled Super Dodge Ball, was published by Leland Corporation. Unlike Renegade (the North American version of Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun) this localization made few changes to the game's graphics, teams were simply swapped around as well as the audio samples.

Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu is the first Kunio-kun sports game and the first dodge ball video game. The game was designed by Hiroshi Sato, who wanted to create a dodge ball simulator game. According to Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Kunio's popularity in Japan as a result of Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun led to the character being added to the game, as well as various elements from that game. The idea behind the players in the game taking multiple hits was taken from the original Kunio-kun game, while the existence of the super shots emerged from a dodge ball tournament the developers made during development (they would run and jump prior to throwing the ball at someone).

The game was ported to multiple platforms. It first received an enhanced port on the Famicom in 1988, which gives names and stats to the players on each team, along with unique super shots for each character on the ground and in the air. It also includes two new teams, India and USSR. The game has a versus mode where players can use any team, along with a practice mode (Club Activity) that allows up to four players to play as the Nekketsu Team with no boundaries (this was the first game on the Famicom that allowed 4 players to play simultaneously). This version was released in North America by CSG Imagesoft Inc. for the NES, also named Super Dodge Ball. Since no peripherals were yet released to allow for more than two players on the NES at the time of the game's release, Club Activity (renamed Bean Ball mode) only allows two players.

The game also received another enhanced port on the PC Engine titled Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu: PC Bangai Hen (熱血高校ドッジボール部 PC番外編 lit. "Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club: PC Extra Edition"), developed by KID and published by Naxat Soft in 1990. It uses the gameplay of the arcade version but gives individual stats, super shots and names to each player like the Famicom version, and has a quest mode in which Kunio and the Nekketsu team (along with the captains other teams that can join when defeated) face of against aliens. The port on the Sharp X68000 developed by SPS is exactly like the arcade version, with the addition of stereo sound, parallax scrolling and a secret options mode.