I was about 10 years old and at the bowling alley for an after school league. I walked into the arcade and there was Double Dragon. You had multiple attacks, two player, and could pick up weapons!! This is one of the first game changers I can remember in the video game industry as a kid. I was just blown away.
Designer Kevin felt like we lived the same life except I was 13 when me and my friend Mike played it at the bowling alley after our league games. That game, track and field, dragon’s lair, xenophobe, and rush’n attack were my go to arcade games at that time
fuaaarrk yeh thiz game was everywhere , every corner of the earth and quickly too, i first saw in in 1987 in new zealand lol rainbiws end theme park, you couldnt get a game of it, and it was abig machine like golden axe and shit, you couldnt get a game because of all the c people around it swarming it, you had to wait for a couple months for all the freaks to play it to death and become sick of it, it was the same deal a few months earlier when street fighter first came out , you couldnt get a game till all the gangsta freaks enjoed it first,
@@retro2vrthe thing that frustrated me the most in the original Double Dragon was no continues. After 3 deaths you had to start from the beginning of the game and do it all over. So annoying.
In the arcade, we would wait an hour or so lining up our $.25 on the bottom of the monitor waiting to play Double Dragon. Kids would also go ahead and insert quarters then when your game was over, push you out of the way so they could play.
We used to do the whole quarter trick at the top when we were playing Pac-Man when that was so huge I can recall going to an arcade and there being five Pac-Man machines and all five were full
I remember playing this in the arcade with my cousins. They got the nes version. We were disappointed that we had to take turns playing due to it being one player. Then one day my dad walked through the door with a Sega Master System. We were playing the games that he bought with it and realized that it had most of the games that we played in the arcade. Outrun, Hang-on, Shinobi and so on. Then we got to this cartridge that said Double Dragon on it. We popped it in and much to our surprise there was a two player co-op mode. Very cool. I still own that Master System to this day with that copy of Double Dragon.
I had that MS-DOS version. Came on both kinds of floppy disk, which was common place. My PC had a 3.5" drive and my next door neighbor had 5 1/4". When either of us would buy a game, the other would get the other disk type. If a game had manual or card-based copy protection, we'd go to our friend Jimmy's house and use his dad's xerox machine. It was a pretty good racket we had going!
By the end of the co-op experience we all figured out what type of woman Marian really is! XD Thanks for uploading, this game has a lot of fond memories.
And then there's Billy and Jimmy...twin brothers who aren't even loyal to one another! In hindsight, perhaps Willy and the Black Warriors gang were actually the good guys.
download double dragon advance on youre android, its the best double dragon ive ever played, better graphics loads more new moves its smooth the sounds are very realistic , when you wantvto learn the moves ask me ill teach you theres loads like street fighter two , you can even beat them up on the ground with punches or just jump up and down on them like a trampoline , its everything double dragon could of dreamt of
@@rimaman8681 i like DD advance but theres an arcade remake that blows it away Double Dragon Reloaded Alternate (ver. 4.0.3). its a mix of the arcade DD1 and DD2, with the addition of extra custom stages, extra weapons and all moves from DD Advance! i prefer the classic arcade graphics/audio. and it runs at a buttery smooth 60 fps
@@_Majoras can i down load that onto android.? fucck!!! theres a big rat or somthing trying to come through the ceiling fuck im worried its guna fall onto my bed
Absolutely love the channel brother. Top 5 favorite on TH-cam. Some of the most thorough content regarding retro gaming around. Thank you for all your hard work.
Thanks for the review, I remember playing this game at the arcade back in the 80’s, when it was released on NES I bought it as soon as I saved all my money to buy it, played this one and Double Dragon 2 a lot. I bought Classic NES mini last year that has slot of classic games programmed in to it because of how small the memory was for the games, I think it’s 8 MB per game. My kids come over and play it because it’s on the TV and not on their phones, and they’re fun to play to this day.
Thank you, thanks for sharing your story. I love hearing about families coming together over classic games. BTW, a lot of those games from that era are timeless so will be playing them for years to come :-)
The first arcade I ever played. I was 8 yrs old when this came out. This was coolest damn game around, with my favorite video game music of all time to this day. Epic 80s nostalgia.
One of my favourite games growing up! The elbow was lethal. I remember when I first played this and you could pick up weapons. blew me away. Great job with this video~!
Haha, as a Kid i lived in a small Village in Germany. We had only one small Fast Food Restaurant. And one day i came in and there was this double dragon arcade. Oh man was i happy, this was so great 😎
hehehe, on my 10 th birthday my older sister and her boy freind decided they will take me to the masive video arcade in the city auckland new zealand they paid for me to play the games i found double dragon and we all played it to the end and i beat sisters boyfreind at the end when both have to fight, then a little while latter the game was in the small video arcade in my town , that game was sent every where
IMO Double Dragon Advance on GBA is the definitive game. It retains all the things which made the original awesome and adds to it seamlessly. And for good reason: it was developed by ex-Technos staff that worked on the original game.
You should have mentioned the backwards elbow smash, the most OP move in video game history. I have beaten this game many times without ever dying using only the elbow.. I love Double Dragon, I'll never forget the lineups at the arcade in the mall going all the way out of the arcade.
Not sure if anybody remembers but on the arcade case- the Double Dragon cabinet it listed "Spike" and "Hammer" under the controls as the name of the brothers. I even remember that being a trivia question back in the 1980's. I guess they didn't have the story created until they realized the game was so popular it was going to have a sequel? Honestly, video games didn't really have stories back then. Let alone having a sequel. -Just a piece of trivia if anybody wanted a trip down memory lane.
My first experience with Double Dragon was on the Atari and it had me hooked. As a 5 year old, when you have nothing to compare it to besides other basic Atari games, the gameplay was still pretty fun. It definitely hooked me and my imagination filled in the blanks.
Hi one of the secrets we found in double dragon as kids was that you could bring your partner back who died in the game as a ghost. It involved tricking one of gang memebers to hold their own partner and you slashing thier partner until the score reaches a certain number. Then your dead partner would return as a ghost who was not seen by the enemy and could help you win the game. This game was way advanced. Thanks for the video.
What's fun about these videos, imo, are the conversion notes. I grew up with a C-64/128, Intellivision, & NES-8. I had no idea that some of these games made it over to so many platforms! Its fun to look at all of the horrible versions of such beloved games. Talk about franchise cash-grabs!
Though not a port of the original, Double Dragon Advance on GBA is the best Double Dragon game Ive played and one of the best beat em ups Ive played as well. It came out later but its worth checking out on an emulator. It has the visual style of the original arcade game with many more enemy types , stages, weapons and a shitload of moves, as well as 3 difficulty settings.
DB2 the revenge was simply the best one. Something about that sound effect of the jumping knee and that it knocks your opponent across the screen as if a damn bomb exploded. Loved it.
THanks for making these videos, I'm really enjoying listening to you talk to me about my favorite games, it really cheered me up on a day when I needed it
I'll never forget first playing this at the Castleton mall in Indy. I was so obsessed with the graphics and sound that my Master System and NES ports never really satisfied me back then. Thankfully I'm more forgiving nowadays. Your opinion on the Genesis version is contrary to most of the internet. I'll have to give it a long play myself using my Everdrive to see if you're a genius, or just full of it. Thanks for the exhaustive comparison this time even though you did cheat a little. ;) Thanks Pat!
The Genesis version is bad. The graphics and sound are good. But the hit detection is trash. I have the original cart, I found it for $5 at a local game store.
There's a cult B movie called 'Twin Dragon Encounter', which came out in '86 and features twin brother martial artists fighting to save their kidnapped girl friends. Pretty sure that isn't a coincidence, especially considering other early arcade games that were inspired by American movies, like Contra.
Another one of those games that you had to be there when it first came out to understand how truly popular it was. There was ALWAYS a line of people waiting to play. I remember arguments happening all the time over if it was fair for someone to put a bunch of credits in as soon as they got on the machine so they could keep continuing when there was a line of people wanting for their turn. Then you’d have guys who would actually reach under you while you were playing and put their money into the machine so they could play next. That started a bunch of fights over people accusing others of stealing their cash. It’s popularity was up their with Street Fighter ,mortal kombat , 4 player TMNT
Spent many an allowance on the arcade version of this with my lil bro as a 10 yr old. We bought it for the Master System when it came out and we played it all the time, but were disappointed that the elbow move was basically pointless on the console. In the arcade, it's practically the only move you need to beat the game.
Great video and one of the landmark arcade games of all time. This was the king of the two player beat um ups and it helps to boost home entertainment systems too. I had it on the Sega master systems and the Megadrive but by this time it's popularity was cooling off. The move of the game was the secret elbow move. Once you knew this move, you were unstoppable. Great video once again. I have the arcade ROM on emulator now too.
The biggest issue I've noticed on arcade DD is the awful lag that occurs when too many characters are on the screen at the same time. The action suddenly goes into slow motion Never mind I just saw you pointed this out in the review
Saw this game for the first time walking through the bowling alley arcade room at the Showboat Casino & Hotel in Atlantic City (now closed) back in the early 80's. My dad gave me a quarter and i ended up playing this game all day (more like playing and watching other kids play when i ran out of quarters). Refused to leave to the point my parents would just end up gambling and leaving me in the arcade room by myself hours on end (those were much different, safer times back then). When the game finally came out on NES (and i got a copy) it was like a dream come true. Although the level up feature was a real let down. It forced you to punch enemies to gain extra points which was a lot more risky to your health bar.
Grew up in Stockton, CA. in a not so great neighborhood but my best friend at the time, Ryan and I would go down to Tony's Pizzeria every chance we had just to play this arcade game. I cant even remember if the pizza was any good, but i'll never forget playing that game with Ryan. If your out there Ryan, it was fun times my friend.
Another good spinoff is Abobo's Big Adventure. It features the bald headed Double Dragon boss character Abobo. Hilarious to play and a must play if you're a fan of the NES.
Double Dragon Neon is such a great game. They really need to do a sequel to it, but I know they've been busy working on the River City Girls games lately.
I grew up in Chicago, me and my brother was addicted to this in the arcade. Brings back great memories, it was in a restaurant on Chicago Ave, adjacent to it was the arcade classic Gauntlet.
It's true! The origional "Double Dragon" arcade machine released in the arcades in 1987 is the best! Better then any home versions and also the "Best Double Dragon game" in the series.
Thanks for the memories. My friend and me got really good playing the arcade that we said only elbows this time. it was elbows all the way to the end of the game. lol at school we would make the sound of the elbow to our other friends. Fun times.
As a kid, I never understood why the console and PC releases were nothing like the arcade games. I do understand that now... but also I don't feel compelled to buy all of the 'arcade archives' on PSN or whichever you prefer. There was something about the cabinets, something about being a kid, something about putting a quarter in the slot. It's just not the same playing the 'same game' if you will on my couch in my living room. If they had a Double Dragon cabinet at the local convenience store, I'd drop a few quarters on that every few days. Over time I'd probably spend more than the digital version costs. I miss arcade cabinets. I really don't think that can be emulated or reproduced without literally reproducing the genuine article (which... I'd love... I mean, ugh, yeah, am I getting 'old'? Surely not... when I was a kid you could play an awesome video game for 25 cents, albeit for a short time if you sucked. Now, it's like... I don't know. What's it like? $100s, and you have to have internet.)
I always talk to my kids about the arcades from the early 80s and how it was a much more social experience. The sites sounds and people all combined together is something we will probably never see again. I always wanted to own an arcade cabinet but never got around to actually doing so
I would get to drop a quarter into the machine on occasion as it was posted just inside my local Walmart when I was a kid, until it was replaced by a Street Fighter II machine. I never got anywhere on one quarter, but was thrilled by the action. When my friend got it on the NES, we played for hours and hours, even if the game wasn't exactly the same.
Didn't realize how many ports there were of the original! I remember Data East bragging how many ports of Bad Dudes there were, haha, but Double Dragon certainly was popular as well. A local skating rink had an arcade cabinet of the original and I remember people trying to beat each other's high scores, hah. Good times. Friends and I also had heated matches in the "vs mode" on NES, as this was before Street Fighter 2, hah. Thorough comparison of the various ports as always and great video!!
Thank you so much for the nice words. It was the golden age of beat em ups With both bad dudes and double Dragon appearing at about the same time. Yes, there were a number of ports for both games. Computer game publishers were scrambling to convert as many arcade games as possible to as many formats as possible, And a lot of times they shouldn't have bothered in the first place. LOL
As hideous as the Spectrum ZX is by today’s standards, the graphics are absolutely iconic. I always loved seeing how weird and different it looked when browsing through computer mags back in the 80s.
I was up in Minneapolis about eight years ago I just happened to run across double Dragon groceries so I had to pull over and take a picture. Who knew I would use it for a TH-cam video so many years later :-)
This has to be my all time favorite arcade game, ever! I wish we could get rereleased versions of one and two on current consoles to relive those past titles, maybe improve the slowdown. Would love a true third part, not that crap rossetta stone one that had lackluster gameplay and jerky animation. I do have to say the Gameboy Advance version added some great new moves and extended the stages a bit, but I'd still rather have the sprites from the original.
Double Dragon Advance is the best Double Dragon game. Double Dragon 2 for the NES was great too, but it was difficult to pull off some on the moves, such as the knee and the uppercut. You almost needed to use a turbo controller in order to play it. Double Dragon 3 for the NES was not quite as hard to control, but not quite as good of a game overall either. Super Double Dragon did not have the control issues, but it was not as fun to play as the others. Double Dragon 4 is the best after Double Dragon Advance, since it gives us the great gameplay of Double Dragon 2, with some extra moves. Most of all, it fixes the control issues and finally allows us to pull of the special moves without needing turbo. What we need now is a Double Dragon Advance Directors Cut that includes all of the features that were originally left out of the game. Double Dragon Advance has the best moveset of all of the Double Dragon games.
Your content is top-notch, deeply researched with the inclusion of concept art & easter eggs: The Scream in Altered Beast? Pretty dang obscure! It's very well paced too, I liken it to the first GhostBusters movie: Streamlined, no unnecessary fat! Great stuff 😋⭐️👍🏼 PS: I haven't watched your doco on it yet, but did you know Golden Axe lifted sampled screams from Rambo: First Blood? The fella falling out of the chopper & Caruso getting shivved in the leg, ouchie! 😭
Thank you so much for the nice words.It's very nice of you to say. As far as golden axe? Absolutely, it seemed the Sega sample a lot of their sounds from popular movies
This and Street Fighter 2 are the games who i couldnt believe were real at the time. Since then, we evolved so much but that reaction of seeing an amazing ground breaking game never happened again to me.
It happened a few times for me with both of those games you mentioned. It also happened with Pac-Man and downloading my first game over a 300 baud modem on my Commodore 64
That explains how the Double Dragons are more like street brawlers than martial artists in the original arcade trilogy, playing as them felt like being in a gang-battle scene from The Warriors even though they're supposed to be more like two Bruce Lees. The Hokuto no Ken influence would later be noticable in the Famicom ports where Billy and Jimmy look similar to Kenshiro and Ein.
I remember being in high school when Double Dragon came out. Between that, Renegade and the Mat Mania series, I really had affinity for Technos. I live in New York and there's a Double Dragon Chinese fast food takeout in the East Village. And yes, I remember the boss battle in River City Ransom
This game was in every fish and chip shop in Australia. Didn't take long to realise that you could beat the game on a single credit by only using elbows all the way through to the end.
When I was 7 and my bro was 9 we went on holiday to Spain. We had a Spanish babysitter one night and tricked her into believing that all the money she was given for food, was for the Arcades. After two hours we completed the game. First Arcade game I ever finished.
I was about 10 years old and at the bowling alley for an after school league. I walked into the arcade and there was Double Dragon. You had multiple attacks, two player, and could pick up weapons!! This is one of the first game changers I can remember in the video game industry as a kid. I was just blown away.
It was definitely a classic and is fondly remembered to this day
Yeah same me mate my first arcade I ever played was a sit down it was Pac man
Designer Kevin felt like we lived the same life except I was 13 when me and my friend Mike played it at the bowling alley after our league games. That game, track and field, dragon’s lair, xenophobe, and rush’n attack were my go to arcade games at that time
fuaaarrk yeh thiz game was everywhere , every corner of the earth and quickly too, i first saw in in 1987 in new zealand lol rainbiws end theme park, you couldnt get a game of it, and it was abig machine like golden axe and shit, you couldnt get a game because of all the c people around it swarming it, you had to wait for a couple months for all the freaks to play it to death and become sick of it, it was the same deal a few months earlier when street fighter first came out , you couldnt get a game till all the gangsta freaks enjoed it first,
First time I seen double dragon arcade was at the laundry mate. Spend all my money on it. And double dragon 2 the arcade game
The original Double Dragon on the NES was so frustrating. Double Dragon 2 on the NES was one of the best games ever made.
I preferred number two as well
And NES Double Dragon III was way better than the shiity Double Dragon III Arcade version.
I agree. Dd2 on the nes is my favourite beat em up of all time.
@@retro2vrthe thing that frustrated me the most in the original Double Dragon was no continues. After 3 deaths you had to start from the beginning of the game and do it all over. So annoying.
And it was only one player at a time as well
In the arcade, we would wait an hour or so lining up our $.25 on the bottom of the monitor waiting to play Double Dragon. Kids would also go ahead and insert quarters then when your game was over, push you out of the way so they could play.
We used to do the whole quarter trick at the top when we were playing Pac-Man when that was so huge I can recall going to an arcade and there being five Pac-Man machines and all five were full
kyle hackman that’s how you called next. Put your quarter on the machine.
@@andymcfly you wouldnt have done that in south auckland new zealand in the late 80s some one will scoot off with youre coins
I remember playing this in the arcade with my cousins. They got the nes version. We were disappointed that we had to take turns playing due to it being one player. Then one day my dad walked through the door with a Sega Master System. We were playing the games that he bought with it and realized that it had most of the games that we played in the arcade. Outrun, Hang-on, Shinobi and so on. Then we got to this cartridge that said Double Dragon on it. We popped it in and much to our surprise there was a two player co-op mode. Very cool. I still own that Master System to this day with that copy of Double Dragon.
I had that MS-DOS version. Came on both kinds of floppy disk, which was common place. My PC had a 3.5" drive and my next door neighbor had 5 1/4". When either of us would buy a game, the other would get the other disk type. If a game had manual or card-based copy protection, we'd go to our friend Jimmy's house and use his dad's xerox machine. It was a pretty good racket we had going!
LOL, piracy in its infancy. But a lot of times they printed those code wheels on dark red paper so you couldn't xeroxed them.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries that just required some creativity.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries not piracy, sharing! lol
By the end of the co-op experience we all figured out what type of woman Marian really is! XD
Thanks for uploading, this game has a lot of fond memories.
Real life men fighting over a woman.
And then there's Billy and Jimmy...twin brothers who aren't even loyal to one another! In hindsight, perhaps Willy and the Black Warriors gang were actually the good guys.
She doesn't make them fight over her, they do it on their own accord...
we may be getting older but knee bashing faces and shoulder throws will never get tiresome 🤣
LOL, I agree
Or seeing girls in red mini dresses with white panties, saw one last night
download double dragon advance on youre android, its the best double dragon ive ever played, better graphics loads more new moves its smooth the sounds are very realistic , when you wantvto learn the moves ask me ill teach you theres loads like street fighter two , you can even beat them up on the ground with punches or just jump up and down on them like a trampoline , its everything double dragon could of dreamt of
@@rimaman8681 i like DD advance but theres an arcade remake that blows it away Double Dragon Reloaded Alternate (ver. 4.0.3). its a mix of the arcade DD1 and DD2, with the addition of extra custom stages, extra weapons and all moves from DD Advance! i prefer the classic arcade graphics/audio. and it runs at a buttery smooth 60 fps
@@_Majoras can i down load that onto android.? fucck!!! theres a big rat or somthing trying to come through the ceiling fuck im worried its guna fall onto my bed
Absolutely love the channel brother. Top 5 favorite on TH-cam. Some of the most thorough content regarding retro gaming around. Thank you for all your hard work.
Much appreciated!Thank you so much
Thanks for the review, I remember playing this game at the arcade back in the 80’s, when it was released on NES I bought it as soon as I saved all my money to buy it, played this one and Double Dragon 2 a lot. I bought Classic NES mini last year that has slot of classic games programmed in to it because of how small the memory was for the games, I think it’s 8 MB per game. My kids come over and play it because it’s on the TV and not on their phones, and they’re fun to play to this day.
Thank you, thanks for sharing your story. I love hearing about families coming together over classic games. BTW, a lot of those games from that era are timeless so will be playing them for years to come :-)
The first arcade I ever played. I was 8 yrs old when this came out. This was coolest damn game around, with my favorite video game music of all time to this day. Epic 80s nostalgia.
I was 14 when this came out so I have been playing games for a while before the but it was still a classic. You are right about the music though:-)
One of my favourite games growing up! The elbow was lethal. I remember when I first played this and you could pick up weapons. blew me away.
Great job with this video~!
Yeah I generally suck at these games, so the elbow was my go-to. Eventually, I stopped as I never seemed to get better at it.
Haha, as a Kid i lived in a small Village in Germany. We had only one small Fast Food Restaurant. And one day i came in and there was this double dragon arcade. Oh man was i happy, this was so great 😎
LOL, thanks for sharing your story
hehehe, on my 10 th birthday my older sister and her boy freind decided they will take me to the masive video arcade in the city auckland new zealand they paid for me to play the games i found double dragon and we all played it to the end and i beat sisters boyfreind at the end when both have to fight, then a little while latter the game was in the small video arcade in my town , that game was sent every where
I grew up with the Atari ST version, and I can't even begin to count the amount of hours my friend and I sank into this game!
Those panty shots always hit me right in the loin. Ever since I was 7
Yeah!!!!
Pervs. Lol
IMO Double Dragon Advance on GBA is the definitive game. It retains all the things which made the original awesome and adds to it seamlessly. And for good reason: it was developed by ex-Technos staff that worked on the original game.
Everytime I watch a documentary made by you, I can't resist and start up that game on the system I loved to play. Thanks! Keep up the good work mate!
This game still holds up today. What a classic!
Excellent history lesson on the franchise as well; superb video my friend. 🤘
You should have mentioned the backwards elbow smash, the most OP move in video game history. I have beaten this game many times without ever dying using only the elbow.. I love Double Dragon, I'll never forget the lineups at the arcade in the mall going all the way out of the arcade.
It was definitely OP
That only works on the first game.
Without ever dying? You should be able to finish it without ever GETTING HIT due to the elbow! Lol.
Not sure if anybody remembers but on the arcade case- the Double Dragon cabinet it listed "Spike" and "Hammer" under the controls as the name of the brothers. I even remember that being a trivia question back in the 1980's. I guess they didn't have the story created until they realized the game was so popular it was going to have a sequel? Honestly, video games didn't really have stories back then. Let alone having a sequel. -Just a piece of trivia if anybody wanted a trip down memory lane.
Yes, I mentioned that in my video how their names were quite finalized yet
My first experience with Double Dragon was on the Atari and it had me hooked. As a 5 year old, when you have nothing to compare it to besides other basic Atari games, the gameplay was still pretty fun. It definitely hooked me and my imagination filled in the blanks.
Hi one of the secrets we found in double dragon as kids was that you could bring your partner back who died in the game as a ghost. It involved tricking one of gang memebers to hold their own partner and you slashing thier partner until the score reaches a certain number. Then your dead partner would return as a ghost who was not seen by the enemy and could help you win the game. This game was way advanced. Thanks for the video.
What's fun about these videos, imo, are the conversion notes. I grew up with a C-64/128, Intellivision, & NES-8. I had no idea that some of these games made it over to so many platforms! Its fun to look at all of the horrible versions of such beloved games. Talk about franchise cash-grabs!
They absolutely are, if you want the worst take a look at hard-drivin and some of the eight bit conversions. They are pathetic
Though not a port of the original, Double Dragon Advance on GBA is the best Double Dragon game Ive played and one of the best beat em ups Ive played as well. It came out later but its worth checking out on an emulator. It has the visual style of the original arcade game with many more enemy types , stages, weapons and a shitload of moves, as well as 3 difficulty settings.
I have seen it and it's a very good version
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yea I was surprised how good it was
DB2 the revenge was simply the best one. Something about that sound effect of the jumping knee and that it knocks your opponent across the screen as if a damn bomb exploded. Loved it.
Lol, the loud gunshot knees and same sound with the jumping spin kick. The knee has that cool laser/high-pitched sound when you jump too.
THanks for making these videos, I'm really enjoying listening to you talk to me about my favorite games, it really cheered me up on a day when I needed it
That's very nice of you to say, glad I could help :-)
I'll never forget first playing this at the Castleton mall in Indy. I was so obsessed with the graphics and sound that my Master System and NES ports never really satisfied me back then. Thankfully I'm more forgiving nowadays. Your opinion on the Genesis version is contrary to most of the internet. I'll have to give it a long play myself using my Everdrive to see if you're a genius, or just full of it.
Thanks for the exhaustive comparison this time even though you did cheat a little. ;) Thanks Pat!
Thanks, I'm pretty good at video games but even I cheat now and then LOL
The Genesis version is bad. The graphics and sound are good. But the hit detection is trash. I have the original cart, I found it for $5 at a local game store.
There's a cult B movie called 'Twin Dragon Encounter', which came out in '86 and features twin brother martial artists fighting to save their kidnapped girl friends. Pretty sure that isn't a coincidence, especially considering other early arcade games that were inspired by American movies, like Contra.
Getting all this back round information, makes me wanna go back in time, hit the Arcade, and playing them all over again!
I remember Renegade also. It was also quite cool.
It was very good as well
My friend and I made to the end and he proceeded to beat the crap out of me until he fell of the edge.
LOL, that's too funny
All these years I never knew they had to fight each other at the end. Good work. You should have way more views. Keep it up.
Thank you my friend, I appreciate the nice words
Hell yeah lol i hated that but i still whipped who ever ass.
I picked up the plug and play version. The joystick is gigantic and it’s not an arcade emulation. I think it’s an NES version. Still pretty cool.
Another one of those games that you had to be there when it first came out to understand how truly popular it was.
There was ALWAYS a line of people waiting to play. I remember arguments happening all the time over if it was fair for someone to put a bunch of credits in as soon as they got on the machine so they could keep continuing when there was a line of people wanting for their turn. Then you’d have guys who would actually reach under you while you were playing and put their money into the machine so they could play next. That started a bunch of fights over people accusing others of stealing their cash.
It’s popularity was up their with Street Fighter ,mortal kombat , 4 player TMNT
Spent many an allowance on the arcade version of this with my lil bro as a 10 yr old. We bought it for the Master System when it came out and we played it all the time, but were disappointed that the elbow move was basically pointless on the console. In the arcade, it's practically the only move you need to beat the game.
Yes, the killer elbow of doom. I knew it well :-)
Great video and one of the landmark arcade games of all time. This was the king of the two player beat um ups and it helps to boost home entertainment systems too. I had it on the Sega master systems and the Megadrive but by this time it's popularity was cooling off. The move of the game was the secret elbow move. Once you knew this move, you were unstoppable. Great video once again. I have the arcade ROM on emulator now too.
One of the all-time greats. Thanks a lot
My favorite part was fighting your brother at the end. Great twist.
That was very cool
The biggest issue I've noticed on arcade DD is the awful lag that occurs when too many characters are on the screen at the same time. The action suddenly goes into slow motion
Never mind I just saw you pointed this out in the review
The slowdown is really bad in some spots
use mame and overclock...
Man I want to play that Double Dragon board game
For some reason, I always associate this game with being at hotel game rooms with the smell of chlorine from the pool just next door.
Saw this game for the first time walking through the bowling alley arcade room at the Showboat Casino & Hotel in Atlantic City (now closed) back in the early 80's. My dad gave me a quarter and i ended up playing this game all day (more like playing and watching other kids play when i ran out of quarters). Refused to leave to the point my parents would just end up gambling and leaving me in the arcade room by myself hours on end (those were much different, safer times back then). When the game finally came out on NES (and i got a copy) it was like a dream come true. Although the level up feature was a real let down. It forced you to punch enemies to gain extra points which was a lot more risky to your health bar.
Once my brother and I discovered the Elbow punch is basically unstoppable if you time it right, we had way more fun 😂
Grew up in Stockton, CA. in a not so great neighborhood but my best friend at the time, Ryan and I would go down to Tony's Pizzeria every chance we had just to play this arcade game. I cant even remember if the pizza was any good, but i'll never forget playing that game with Ryan. If your out there Ryan, it was fun times my friend.
Excellent, thank you for sharing your gaming memories :-)
Another good spinoff is Abobo's Big Adventure. It features the bald headed Double Dragon boss character Abobo. Hilarious to play and a must play if you're a fan of the NES.
I've seen that hack, it looks pretty good
Double Dragon Neon is such a great game. They really need to do a sequel to it, but I know they've been busy working on the River City Girls games lately.
I agree
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Thanks a lot, I appreciate the nice words
I grew up in Chicago, me and my brother was addicted to this in the arcade. Brings back great memories, it was in a restaurant on Chicago Ave, adjacent to it was the arcade classic Gauntlet.
As a kid playing this i always thought it was hillarious when you grabbed the enemy by the hair and started kneeing their heads lol.
It was pretty violent for kids game LOL
it looks like you force the females to give you a bj....
You mean bimmy an jimmy 🤣🤣🤣
LOL
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they dont get it... but real fans knows: this shitty error = DD3/nes.
@@gabrielfmohr just share it, someone may get it. Peace! Also, I thought Bimmy wasn't even a real name.
Great video! I remember owning both the Tiger game AND the watch! Good times...
Thank you very much
The first side scrolling beat em up I have saw and played
A stroll down memory lane!
Thank you
(Raises an eye) There's an atari 2600 version...what madness is this?
LOL I agree
The box art for it is sick. Warriors/comic book style.
It's true! The origional "Double Dragon" arcade machine released in the arcades in 1987 is the best! Better then any home versions and also the "Best Double Dragon game" in the series.
It was always one of my favorites
Thanks for the memories. My friend and me got really good playing the arcade that we said only elbows this time. it was elbows all the way to the end of the game. lol at school we would make the sound of the elbow to our other friends. Fun times.
Thanks for the nice words, and thanks for sharing your story
As a kid, I never understood why the console and PC releases were nothing like the arcade games. I do understand that now... but also I don't feel compelled to buy all of the 'arcade archives' on PSN or whichever you prefer. There was something about the cabinets, something about being a kid, something about putting a quarter in the slot. It's just not the same playing the 'same game' if you will on my couch in my living room. If they had a Double Dragon cabinet at the local convenience store, I'd drop a few quarters on that every few days. Over time I'd probably spend more than the digital version costs. I miss arcade cabinets. I really don't think that can be emulated or reproduced without literally reproducing the genuine article (which... I'd love... I mean, ugh, yeah, am I getting 'old'? Surely not... when I was a kid you could play an awesome video game for 25 cents, albeit for a short time if you sucked. Now, it's like... I don't know. What's it like? $100s, and you have to have internet.)
I always talk to my kids about the arcades from the early 80s and how it was a much more social experience. The sites sounds and people all combined together is something we will probably never see again. I always wanted to own an arcade cabinet but never got around to actually doing so
I would get to drop a quarter into the machine on occasion as it was posted just inside my local Walmart when I was a kid, until it was replaced by a Street Fighter II machine. I never got anywhere on one quarter, but was thrilled by the action. When my friend got it on the NES, we played for hours and hours, even if the game wasn't exactly the same.
I played the heck out of the NES version as well even though it was different
Brings back memories the 80s era
Absolutely, thanks
Fun fact: the NES's "real" final boss is jimmy lee, who is the "real" boss of the black warriors gang
That’s right! Once u beat machine gun guy, a dark version of you “Jimmy” rather comes through the door. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
witch made no sense considering theirs no mention of it in the sequel and the brothers are perfectly fine with each other lol
@@fbomb7184 ur thinking double dragon 2
I remember the kids in the school yard talking about this cool new arcade game about "gang fights"...
Yes, we did in school as well
The nes version had good music
Yes it did
I like how they pulled out the Star Search theme
I really do appreciate the fine job you do, sir. Well done.
Thank you very much, glad you like the videos
I played the hand held version to the point I memorized every danger and almost never took damage. It was great.
LOL, I think you have more patience than I do
Didn't realize how many ports there were of the original! I remember Data East bragging how many ports of Bad Dudes there were, haha, but Double Dragon certainly was popular as well. A local skating rink had an arcade cabinet of the original and I remember people trying to beat each other's high scores, hah. Good times. Friends and I also had heated matches in the "vs mode" on NES, as this was before Street Fighter 2, hah. Thorough comparison of the various ports as always and great video!!
Thank you so much for the nice words. It was the golden age of beat em ups With both bad dudes and double Dragon appearing at about the same time. Yes, there were a number of ports for both games. Computer game publishers were scrambling to convert as many arcade games as possible to as many formats as possible, And a lot of times they shouldn't have bothered in the first place. LOL
I never played DD in the arcade but played it a lot on Famicom/NES.
That was a fun version as well
The first time I played this on MAME I thought there were emulation issues. My memory removed all slowdown from playing this as a child.
It's funny you mention that because I don't recall the slowdown being that bad either
As hideous as the Spectrum ZX is by today’s standards, the graphics are absolutely iconic. I always loved seeing how weird and different it looked when browsing through computer mags back in the 80s.
This game was something different, I remember watching it for hours before playing it because I thought it was too damn difficult for me.
Once you learn the elbow trick the game is a cinch. You can breeze through it in less then an hour.
Jimmy and Billy fight at the end because they are brothers but they don't want to be Eskimo brothers. 😱
LOL
This was my favorite game in the 1980s. Great video!
Mine as well, thank you so much
MAGNIFICENT VID thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks for the nice words, glad you enjoyed it
I'm really enjoying your channel! Keep up the great work!
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Wow I can't believe how many gaming machines they had back then! I didn't realize how good I had it with Nintendo and Sega until now.
You and me both :-)
Platforming with double button drop kick could be frustrating at times
You're right, it was very Frustrated
To put it simply, Double Dragons games were as good as the movie was atrocious.
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That is it exactly. Thanks for subscribing :-)
I was happy to find you also did a video on Final Fight. Thanks for the great content.
They had a Grocerie store based on a video game? The only other thing like this that I've heard of was a restaurant called Burger Time.
I was up in Minneapolis about eight years ago I just happened to run across double Dragon groceries so I had to pull over and take a picture. Who knew I would use it for a TH-cam video so many years later :-)
This has to be my all time favorite arcade game, ever!
I wish we could get rereleased versions of one and two on current consoles to relive those past titles, maybe improve the slowdown. Would love a true third part, not that crap rossetta stone one that had lackluster gameplay and jerky animation.
I do have to say the Gameboy Advance version added some great new moves and extended the stages a bit, but I'd still rather have the sprites from the original.
Had Double Dragon 2 as a child; played it constantly.
It was really good
Double Dragon Advance is the best Double Dragon game. Double Dragon 2 for the NES was great too, but it was difficult to pull off some on the moves, such as the knee and the uppercut. You almost needed to use a turbo controller in order to play it. Double Dragon 3 for the NES was not quite as hard to control, but not quite as good of a game overall either. Super Double Dragon did not have the control issues, but it was not as fun to play as the others. Double Dragon 4 is the best after Double Dragon Advance, since it gives us the great gameplay of Double Dragon 2, with some extra moves. Most of all, it fixes the control issues and finally allows us to pull of the special moves without needing turbo. What we need now is a Double Dragon Advance Directors Cut that includes all of the features that were originally left out of the game. Double Dragon Advance has the best moveset of all of the Double Dragon games.
This game was why I decided to get the master system over the nes (in the 80s)Two player co-op had me sold.
Your content is top-notch, deeply researched with the inclusion of concept art & easter eggs: The Scream in Altered Beast? Pretty dang obscure! It's very well paced too, I liken it to the first GhostBusters movie: Streamlined, no unnecessary fat! Great stuff 😋⭐️👍🏼
PS: I haven't watched your doco on it yet, but did you know Golden Axe lifted sampled screams from Rambo: First Blood? The fella falling out of the chopper & Caruso getting shivved in the leg, ouchie! 😭
Thank you so much for the nice words.It's very nice of you to say. As far as golden axe? Absolutely, it seemed the Sega sample a lot of their sounds from popular movies
Remember the live action Double Dragon movie from the 1990s? A lot of people went to the local cinemas for it.
I feel so sorry for those people:-)
This and Street Fighter 2 are the games who i couldnt believe were real at the time. Since then, we evolved so much but that reaction of seeing an amazing ground breaking game never happened again to me.
It happened a few times for me with both of those games you mentioned. It also happened with Pac-Man and downloading my first game over a 300 baud modem on my Commodore 64
I played this a lot at a local Pizza place when I was a kid. I played through the PS4 port earlier this week.
Excellent, it's a classic in my opinion
I had the MS-DOS and SEGA Master System versions...played them constantly
The SMS was my favoriteNext to the arcade of course
Every high score chaser knows you just spam the elbow right through to the last boss. Works a charm.
Yeah but that only works in the first game.
The main thing I remember from Double Dragon was the unstoppable back elbow. I'd go through the whole game and hardly use any other maneuver.
It was pretty brutal
So good, I remember also playing the Rosetta stones on small disk for the old pc.
It's one of my all-time favorite beat them ups
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I was playing the nes with my friend, we were just calling them, blue pants and brown pants
The Warriors is often cited as an influence, but it's obvious the anime series Hokuto No Ken provided a lot more inspiration.
That explains how the Double Dragons are more like street brawlers than martial artists in the original arcade trilogy, playing as them felt like being in a gang-battle scene from The Warriors even though they're supposed to be more like two Bruce Lees.
The Hokuto no Ken influence would later be noticable in the Famicom ports where Billy and Jimmy look similar to Kenshiro and Ein.
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I Loved this game during 80s !! I spent a lot of time and coins playing this game on arcade machines ! Very good memories
It was always one of my favorite games back in the 80s
I remember when this was new in the arcade and people would line up and gather around to watch and play. I was about 9 or 10 years old then.
I was 13 when this came out and had the same experience at our bowling alley
I remember being in high school when Double Dragon came out. Between that, Renegade and the Mat Mania series, I really had affinity for Technos. I live in New York and there's a Double Dragon Chinese fast food takeout in the East Village. And yes, I remember the boss battle in River City Ransom
I'm pretty sure I played every arcade and Nintendo console version of it including sequels
Your videos are great, sir!
Thank you very much
The sounds of the punching etc were awesome
Absolutely :-)
This game was in every fish and chip shop in Australia. Didn't take long to realise that you could beat the game on a single credit by only using elbows all the way through to the end.
I never knew about the elbow trick back then
I got to finally play that original game of his and loved the freeform flow of it.
So do I, The original is much better than any home conversion
I love arcade games grew up on nes track and field, i had the nes console case
When I was 7 and my bro was 9 we went on holiday to Spain. We had a Spanish babysitter one night and tricked her into believing that all the money she was given for food, was for the Arcades. After two hours we completed the game.
First Arcade game I ever finished.
LOL, that's hilarious. Thanks for sharing
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Fantastic, thanks for sharing and glad you enjoy my content