@@NintendoCompleteThat was one of my favourite moments that I ever experienced playing the NES - when that song starts and the “Dragon Twins” appear right before the final boss. River City Ransom is the best.
Fun fact: Double Dragon 3 was the the Origins of the first microtransactions in video games in which you entered a Shop and used the Credits you put into the Arcade to buy Weapons and extra lives. So No Mobile games didn't do it Double Dragon did it first in 1990.
This port is a classic. It may not be as close to the Arcade original as the Master System version was and the lack of a co-operative mode is admittedly lame, but the excellent soundtrack and the surprisingly in-depth combat + level up system more than make up for it.
This music kicks so much ass! Also, I love the plot being simple. Thugs snatch your girl, and you start going on a rampage and kick all of their asses to win her back. I love it!
I recently found out they also made super dodgeball, which explains why the characters look similar. Will in double dragon looks like Sam in super dodgeball, Rowper looks like Mike, and Abobo looks like several characters including one named Boris.
@@drl5002 Those games, in addition to River City Ransom, Nintendo World Cup Soccer and a few others, were Americanized Kunio-kun games. Heck, there was a Kunio Game Boy game that got changed into a Double Dragon game for the English release.
Lol I wish the headbutt be as powerful as the back elbow. I had fun playing around the combinations. Punch punch head butt. To this day very difficult to complete this game in their face legimate without some sort of running away.
@knuclear200x true enough lol, but I would go, yeah? So what? You can't do it, can you? This was a common enough thing with my friends growing up, and especially my cousin, it would irritate him to no end and I loved every second of it.
@@classicgunstoday1972 could be, or it could be a reference to the showdown between Sarah Connor and the Terminator in OG Terminator in '84 as well in the hydraulic press.
There's a bug at 5:00 where if you go back up the ladder, walk to the left, then back right, then bad guy will have disappeared. Then if you punch or kick where he was, you still get XP. You can max your character and get infinite lives doing this.
As kids back in the 80s, we didn’t care about dumbed-down arcade ports. We just wanted to beat bad guys to a pulp, and have fun doing so. SO many memories of this classic brawler. 🥹
I just watched your original playthrough vid of Double Dragon last night, and I must say that the gameplay and showcasing of everything is a good deal improved from the last one. 😄 I gotta ask, though: why didn't you ever have Billy do his Pin attack in your old vid like you did in this one?
At 6:16. You know you don't have to fight that guy, right? After he shows up, you can climb down the first two ladders and that ends the mission. It's an old-school trick.
Classic. Great nusic...good gameplsy (minus the platforming). As a kid i thought the series was an NES original...wasnt aware of the arcade games..never even saw them in the wild. Only arcade version i saw was the NES playchoice 5 one. I would argue the NES porte of DD 1/2 are better than their arcade counterparts
A.K.A The game that had a fan make the muscle man his own game titled "Abobo's Big Adventure". (But for the love of god do not play it. Seriously. I already have enough trauma from that game's Contra level. I don't want to relive it again.)
Poor Marian. It can't be fun being gut punched out of nowhere and carried off like that, slung over someone's shoulder.
Poor Abobo than receive kicks in his balls.
Doesn't she just get straight up merc'd in the next game? 😬
Or outright murdered like both in the arcade game and the NES version.
Only difference is that she's resurrected in the NES version.
Thoughts on the upcoming remake?
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it 💥
Always forget about that bizarre two player versus mode. Six characters to pick from but you can only play mirror matches!
I remember beating this game only once. I spammed elbows on the machine gun guy and the final boss. So amazing when I finally won. Classic beat-em-up.
I really love the music in this version of Double Dragon....
That first stage theme is living rent free in my head.
Very nostalgic
I loved how they used the main theme for the build-up to the last boss fight in River City Ransom.
@@NintendoCompleteThat was one of my favourite moments that I ever experienced playing the NES - when that song starts and the “Dragon Twins” appear right before the final boss. River City Ransom is the best.
@@Dorian_Scottthe arcade version was better IMO
This game has been therapeutic for me since 1987. Long live DD!
Was re-watching old playthroughs of this
I never beat this game but the music is so iconic
Let me guess: the damn wall in Mission 5
Dude, I forgot how awesome the music is for this game! 🤟🏼✌🏼
I’ve said this before, but if this game would have been 2-players it would have been one of the best NES games.
Agreed
As has been established with a few other games like Bad Dudes and POW: Prisoners of War
It was one of the best games
110% agreed!
I won’t argue with that. River City Ransom scratched that itch a little later.
The happy times I remember playing this on the game boy back in the day
Incredible, I was thinking of Doulbe Dragon earlier today, probably around about the time you posted this video.
Oh man, the Mode B "Victory Music" sounds ominous as hell. Gives me 'Bad Ending' vibes lol!
Not a damn person in this game can keep their hands up. Dudes throwing reverse punches straight from the hip and EVERYONES getting head shots
Fun fact: Double Dragon 3 was the the Origins of the first microtransactions in video games in which you entered a Shop and used the Credits you put into the Arcade to buy Weapons and extra lives. So No Mobile games didn't do it Double Dragon did it first in 1990.
The thumbnail! Kicking Abobo in the family jewels!! 😂
When we were kids, we'd always try to pause at this exact moment, and then start cracking up.
There's a good reason this is the version that gets included in all of those compilations and not the Master System version.
Master system is more sorta accurate to the arcade and has 2 player co op. And none of the level up move gameplay changes
@@dz4265 Arcade accuracy doesn't matter much when you mess up the basics though. Hit detection being key among them.
@@SomeOrangeCatyeah that hit detection is way of in double dragon for sms. And why does jimmy have blue hair?🤔😂
This port is a classic. It may not be as close to the Arcade original as the Master System version was and the lack of a co-operative mode is admittedly lame, but the excellent soundtrack and the surprisingly in-depth combat + level up system more than make up for it.
Definitely. I prefer how this plays to the Master System game.
@@NintendoComplete Same. The Master System port had really poor hit detection.
Its like a rpg beat em up. Then mighty final fights does it later. The Target Renegade game reuses the blue brother sprite.
You got 50,000 in double dragon?! No way! This brings me waaay back.
California!
Dangit! You beat me to the reference.
_I love the Power Glove! It's so bad!_
😂🤣😂🤣
There are now rom hacks of this game where you can play as Tyris Flare, The Mask, or even ED-209! Times have changed! 😅
And yes I heard about them they really Fuck Shadow Warriors Up real clean by ED-209 😂😅
Was actially fan game built up not hack.
This music kicks so much ass! Also, I love the plot being simple. Thugs snatch your girl, and you start going on a rampage and kick all of their asses to win her back. I love it!
Taking into consideration that this was Technos Japan's SECOND EVER NES GAME (Renegade was released first), this was a good effort.
I recently found out they also made super dodgeball, which explains why the characters look similar. Will in double dragon looks like Sam in super dodgeball, Rowper looks like Mike, and Abobo looks like several characters including one named Boris.
@@drl5002 Those games, in addition to River City Ransom, Nintendo World Cup Soccer and a few others, were Americanized Kunio-kun games.
Heck, there was a Kunio Game Boy game that got changed into a Double Dragon game for the English release.
A hard but fun game indeed
Lol I wish the headbutt be as powerful as the back elbow. I had fun playing around the combinations. Punch punch head butt. To this day very difficult to complete this game in their face legimate without some sort of running away.
When I was a kid, I'd show new players that they could "put Adobo on the slidey thing and they'd win already"
Yeah, but it was a huuuge flex back in the day to beat him without the conveyor.
@@SonicSlicer among kids, the easy way is the best way. Otherwise, you were accused of wasting time
@knuclear200x true enough lol, but I would go, yeah? So what? You can't do it, can you? This was a common enough thing with my friends growing up, and especially my cousin, it would irritate him to no end and I loved every second of it.
No doubt influenced by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with the conveyor belt rock crusher fight with the big guy
@@classicgunstoday1972 could be, or it could be a reference to the showdown between Sarah Connor and the Terminator in OG Terminator in '84 as well in the hydraulic press.
Bimmy looks great.
😂🤣 3:32
Abobo’s: This is Madness
Billy: This is SPARTA
The game that started it all.
Where is Kung fu Master?
@ Yeah, but…
@@SolCresta3405 doble dragon is the Fother, Kung fu is the grandpa👴
@ Okay.
I'm used to the Pal version. The music seems too fast for me.
But...but this one of the best games on the NES with its even superior sequel...
50 thousand? on double dragon?!
There's a bug at 5:00 where if you go back up the ladder, walk to the left, then back right, then bad guy will have disappeared. Then if you punch or kick where he was, you still get XP. You can max your character and get infinite lives doing this.
Childhood moments relived
I still remember playing this on my Uncle's Famicom and it was nostalgic to see this again😊
As kids back in the 80s, we didn’t care about dumbed-down arcade ports. We just wanted to beat bad guys to a pulp, and have fun doing so. SO many memories of this classic brawler. 🥹
the trilogy of double dragon nes games is best.
Oh wow, I had no idea there was a move where you could crouch over a fallen enemy and smash them. :O How do you pull that off?
I just watched your original playthrough vid of Double Dragon last night, and I must say that the gameplay and showcasing of everything is a good deal improved from the last one. 😄
I gotta ask, though: why didn't you ever have Billy do his Pin attack in your old vid like you did in this one?
Thanks, I'm glad to hear it! I have no idea about why I didn't in the old one. It was put up so long ago.
At 6:16. You know you don't have to fight that guy, right? After he shows up, you can climb down the first two ladders and that ends the mission. It's an old-school trick.
Haha I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.
Make the choice of either the straight shooter or “See ya, next mission.” ✌🏼
I was never able to complete this game i could never get beyond l3 going into the caves. I've only learned you could do that as an adult 😢
That Thumbnail is Wild!
Good time!
Very cool game!!
Nothing screams Double Dragon like Billy kicking Abobo right in the nards. Cheeky thumbnail, Alex. 🤭
Billy: Jimmy. You are a nasty traitor!
Then he reunited with his brother in DD II The Revenge
Classic. Great nusic...good gameplsy (minus the platforming). As a kid i thought the series was an NES original...wasnt aware of the arcade games..never even saw them in the wild. Only arcade version i saw was the NES playchoice 5 one.
I would argue the NES porte of DD 1/2 are better than their arcade counterparts
don't still know how do you fkn do this))) awesome)
Man I miss nes days my childhood
A slightly odd version of a classic but still a lot of fun
i remember when i finally beat this!!! i got this game in my collection
Video thumbnail: The weak spot of Abobo
15:35 - “50,000? You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?” - Corey Woods, The Wizard (1990)
The NES music sounds way better than the Master System version.
The thumbnail of Jimmy kicking Abobo in the balls 😂🤣🤣
Wow, I soon as I saw the nunchucks dropped I remembered this game! 😂
I'm surprised it took you this long to get to Double Dragon.
Absolutely sick tunes 🙏
Woo, Double Dragon! 👍
This my favorite game
Great game 🎮 👏 👌 👍 🙌 💪
I love renegade and all 3 new double dragons
Meant nes
Flashbacks ❤
Billy be like: ¬¬
I am really bad at this game I couldn’t beat mission 3
Hey, Alex You Should Do A Playthrough Video of Blaster Master Boy.
Oh yes classic game that I sill love!
Someone actually made a proper 2 player rom hack of this game. It's a bit on the janky side, though.
Me pregunto si sabe del truco para obtener todas las habilidades desde el nivel 2 de una manera rapida🤔
How do you save your score on retro blast
I knew it! The gauntlet prior to facing Jimmy Lee is alphabetical;
Abobo
Chintai
Linda
Roper
Willy
Didn’t do the heart glitch with the baseball bat 😢
If you like this version but don't want the leveling system try the gameboy port.
Wish the enemies didn't constantly interrupt your punches in this game. It ruins it for me.
Been playing Revenge with my son lately.... nice 🤌
You haven't made this video yet?? Im sure you have.
The old one was like 8 years old and really needed an update.
@@NintendoComplete oh ok 👍
Fuckin' good old days 😎
YOU HAVE TO GO IN ONE OF THE HOLES MADE BY ABOBO!? WHAAAAAAT?! 🤯
Volskwagen it's pleasant for the trip
How is it that a simple game like this is better most of the rot that comes out these days?
Dang, Abobo has a huge head.
Good song a game.
Classic
冒頭の音楽は熱血物語の龍一龍二を思い出す。
YOU GOT 50,000 POINTS ON DOUVKE DRAGON!?
You can beat the 2nd boss simply by going down the ladder and leaving lol
Marian Kidnapped
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Billy Lee Jimmy Lee
Marian Love ❤️❤️😘
Abobo smash
A.K.A The game that had a fan make the muscle man his own game titled "Abobo's Big Adventure".
(But for the love of god do not play it. Seriously. I already have enough trauma from that game's Contra level. I don't want to relive it again.)
This game men were allowed to beat women aint realize that as a kid 😂