Can you believe my 6 years old and my 5 years old kid are playing this game right now in front of me. Can’t believe I kept my SMS, Genesis and N64 all those years.
I used to play this when I was about 5 with my older teen brother... he always used to beat me, and I cried but I loved playing so much.... nostalgia overload xD
I was born in 1990, but I grew up playing '80s games. Double Dragon is one of the greatest games I have ever played and I played numerous ports. This one is a pretty good port of the game.
I love Double Dragon on the Sega Master System. Everyone who reviews this version seems to whine about the flickering. However nobody gave a shit about a flicker in the 80's as long as you had 2 player mode (unlike the NES version). Fun times playing this back in the day
You are hearing the Yamaha FM enabled sound. It was a Sega Master System add on. Originally the sound is processed using the Master System sound card and that is the one you remember hearing.. Cheers!
Ahh my very first video game. I used to play this back in 1992-1993 when I was old enough to hold a controller and hit buttons. I still play it to this day and can finish it without a single death
This craps all over NES version of Double Dragon in the same way River City Ransom does so because the co-op was a game within a game experience. Competing with one another in 2 player while trying to beat the game and have the higher score was endlessly fun especially as different more technical moves award more points.
Hey mew. For the double dragon video I turned on the FM chip emulation on the emulator. So it treats the game as if it were running on a Japanese master system which had an improved sound chip not found on other master system consoles. Double Dragon is the exception, all the other videos use the regular sound emulation so they sound as close to a normal master system as possible.
The game is being played with its FM music support enabled. You can only do that if you play it either in a Japanese Master System model, in a Japanese Mark III with the FM module attached, or through any emulator supporting the FM music.
i remember playing this game 22 yrs ago at a friends house. back then, i only had an atari 2600 & was floored when i saw the graphics on this game. lol. ...thats one advantage sega games (both master and genesis) had over nes is that they were truer to their arcade counterparts, and this version of DD stands as a testament to that. ....lol,..4:01 i still remember those cardboard boxes with SEGA stamped on them. thats classic.
I remember buying a Sega just for this version. Follows the arcade version much more accurately than NES. The NES seems like a completely different game than the arcade version. I like it too , but the SMS version was as close as you could get back then to the arcade.
This version has more bombostic music than I remember the game having. The one I played has much more 8-bit sounding music. Are there multiple versions of this game on the Mastersystem? ALL the sound effects and music sound dramaticly different.
Then there must have been more than one arcade version because this is different than the one I played. Port means to switch ports. This game wasn't unplugged from one interface then plugged into another. They didn't simply change or emulate the input program, they rebuilt it, but it's composure is identical.
wait, you have all the moves in this version since the beginning of the game? I remember you have to earn certain amount of points by punching or kicking (punching yields more points) to get new moves. I used to love the grab/knee/throw move.
@Kevin39LV8 that's the unofficial Atari port... they used the "Tengen" brandname on their NES stuff. Partly because Nintendo in those days would never have published anything by Atari if it knew it was by Atari! Nintendo didn't endorse it, that's why it doesn't have the Original Nintendo Seal of Quality and looks diffrent to a normal cartridge. It's a Sega programmed game and only one Sega game, Wonderboy, ever saw official release on the NES renamed Adventure Island released by Hudson.
It sounds different cuz he might be using an emu with the FM sound chip enabled or he has a japanese SMS with the FM chip. SMS sold in North America didn't have the FM chip, they had the PCM chip.
Regardless to what the Sega version had over the NES version in sound and Graphics. It is better just because it is 2 player simultaneously where the NES version made us take turns.
But just so you know. The Dreamcast was My favorite system of all time ! Even over the PS2 & 3. It had a charm about it that could not be matched by Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft. Not sure what it is.. But I certainly wish that Sega would get back into the console business with a Dreamcast 2 .. but one can only dream :(
@Nintendavin Yeah the Sega Mark III you had to buy the add-on. But the actual Japan Master System had it built in. It made the game sound a lot better. Check out Golvellius's FM sound, it is also very good.
@TheSegaAges it's not disinfo. & you are correct about nintendo's stranglehold. Sega could have done far FAR more to move more units. I could go on & on about Sega's major blunders with the SMS but they did manage to clear out their inventory in a big way with the SMS expansion for the genesis. That was a brilliant move & it pulled sega's head out of the water. Sega screwed up however with the Sega CD, 32X, & the Saturn.. If they would have skipped the CD & 32X & jumped strait to saturn. well .
@youtubasoarus As much as I would have hated to admit it back then, I have to agree. As a gamer, it's a pity that the Master System didn't have a chance in North America.
I don't remember the music sounding like this. Is this played on the early Japanese mark3 that had an FM chip similar to megadrive/genesis? It sounds like a megadrive almost. Master system I remeber was all beeps and white noise. Haha, I just remembered on shadow dancer, and the dog barking at the start. That was hilarious. "WOOF! WOOF!" XD
I remember me and my friend (ages 4 and 5) would play this every day, and finally we beat it, but the game wasn't ending and we couldn't figure out why. So he went off the cliff to see if that would work, and it did. The game ended and I was the winner!!! Yay me!!!! To this day I think that's messed up. I'm gonna call him right now and remind him that he won just as much as I did.
how come the music is so enhanced? I remember the sega version was no way close to this quality? But then again I could be wrong, nontheless great music and game!...
Makes you wish River City Ransom also had a high score points system as well would have made the co-op even better, but I guess it sorta does if you use the coins for that.
That's very true. Either Sega (developer of this port) or Acclaim (western publisher of DD2) should have done it. In a hypothetical case, DD2 should have ported from the NES though, instead of replicating the arcade game like it was done with DD1, because in the case of DD2, the NES game is way superior to the arcade game.
WOW! Totally agree with @luigi84289 I have a 360 now and just thought I was getting to old for them but it really is graphics over content now...hello, where's the fun gone? I remember running home from school to play this and Wonderboy lol Kids don't know they're born now but they missed out totally in not being around late 80's and early 90's awesome times :)
I agree. Realism ruins the fantasy of games. One problem with video games now, I think, is they are trying too much to be like the movies, which doesn't work. A game is not a movie just like a book is not a movie, and so on. Inventive gameplay trumps graphics any day. It's certainly one of the reasons Tetris has remained popular all these years.
Alot of people HATE the sms port, but i think it's EVEN BETTER then the Nes version and the arcade version put together! You even start with all the moves!
+jobezg Double Dragon got ported to everything. Commodore 64 (there are 2 versions of the game for the C64), ZX Spectrum, Gameboy, NES, Sega Genesis (unlicensed Genesis cart), Sega Master System,Atari 7800, Atari 2600 (yes you heard me Atari 2600 from 1977), Game Gear, Atari Lynx,Amiga,IBM PC, everything at the time.
Thank you my Case is Rested I've been saying that NES Version Sucks; the Master System Version Rules...I never played this still, but I already like it.
I think its a shame that the older consoles had to be phased out at all. I dont see why game manufacturers dont continue to release new games for the older systems aswell as the new ones. Even if they were in smaller numbers.
@EpicWinOrFail It had good Graphics. But it was not utilized to it's full potential. Some games looked awesome. Especially the 3D games & other games like R-Type.
@youtubasoarus It's not just you. Sega had better hardware than Nintendo did at the time, and it showed in their home consoles. Unfortunately, Mario was owned by Nintendo and Sonic wasn't born yet. Otherwise, SNES vs Genesis would have been this first. (Man, the music is sooooo much better!!)
my brother and i used to play this game and he would always kick me on purpose...i ended up throwing the controller at him and missed and broke his bedroom window....man we got in trouble for that one
a man punching a chick on the stomach?? wow, thats harsh. He's like, " Yo sweet heart, im gonna punch u in the stomach just in case your pregnant, so now i'll be the dad instead". And i thought that chicks werent suppose to be punched, well unless they were fighters
I disagree, this music sounds more like the arcade. In fact, this is a more faithful version of DD than the NES was. And this one is two players. Also, in the NES version, there were only two characters that could be displayed per screen, and it had to be the same character. In this version, three characters could be displayed and they didn't have to be the same.
This looks like it's on an emulator. On the master system there was huge flickering, but a pc today could handle this no problem. But the sound is better.
classic shit. the golden era where you didnt have to cheat on any game with stupid puzzles. I like some of the new games out but the old games for sega, nintendo, super nintendo I had more fun with. contra, mario, shinobi, streets of rage, double dragon,paperboy.
100% Agreed,realism has killed gameplay.Its the obsession with graphics over gameplay that has put me off this generation of game consoles and made me focus on retrogaming.Nowadays everything "Must" to be in 3D.A perfect example is Castlevania.The 2D NES,SNES,Genesis,Gameboy & DS versions are great playable classics.The 3D versions for N64 & Playstation2 were FAILURES at best.A clear cut example that not everything can or should be just about realism/graphic output.
I was born in 88 ( so not too old) I grew up with double dragon and these "retro games" ( yhup sir, that's my generation too ;-) ) and...I've been playing these game til a couple years ago when, somehow, everything speeded up. I mean these games aren't retro for me. My last system is a N64. I mean, wts is going on ??? We had to wait so long for the N64 and we haven't finished its games that 2 other systems already came out ? wth !!!
![[TAS] Double Dragon (ARCADE) in 05:39 / Production 2023](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2HwKkNVw5Q4/mqdefault.jpg)
I used to play this game for hours with my little brother. Damn I miss my Sega Master System. I always loved the third level the most.
Can you believe my 6 years old and my 5 years old kid are playing this game right now in front of me. Can’t believe I kept my SMS, Genesis and N64 all those years.
I used to play this when I was about 5 with my older teen brother... he always used to beat me, and I cried but I loved playing so much.... nostalgia overload xD
this is much better than the nes version
ahhh had this game for my SMS back in the day,,ahhh the memories,, loved this game
I was born in 1990, but I grew up playing '80s games. Double Dragon is one of the greatest games I have ever played and I played numerous ports. This one is a pretty good port of the game.
I love Double Dragon on the Sega Master System. Everyone who reviews this version seems to whine about the flickering. However nobody gave a shit about a flicker in the 80's as long as you had 2 player mode (unlike the NES version). Fun times playing this back in the day
I agree with you. I was very impresse how Sega master system stuck close to the arcade game play
You are hearing the Yamaha FM enabled sound. It was a Sega Master System add on. Originally the sound is processed using the Master System sound card and that is the one you remember hearing..
Cheers!
Loving that FM sound, I need to mod my SMS and add a FM chip someday.
Ahh my very first video game. I used to play this back in 1992-1993 when I was old enough to hold a controller and hit buttons. I still play it to this day and can finish it without a single death
This craps all over NES version of Double Dragon in the same way River City Ransom does so because the co-op was a game within a game experience.
Competing with one another in 2 player while trying to beat the game and have the higher score was endlessly fun especially as different more technical moves award more points.
+Aristoper It is a fun game, better than most, and offers one of the few quality 2-player experiences on the system.
Rist The NES version is far better. The sound effects in this game are atrocious.
80s were a golden age for gaming.I feel sorry for the new generation of gamers out there.They don't what they missed.
Hey mew. For the double dragon video I turned on the FM chip emulation on the emulator. So it treats the game as if it were running on a Japanese master system which had an improved sound chip not found on other master system consoles. Double Dragon is the exception, all the other videos use the regular sound emulation so they sound as close to a normal master system as possible.
Use fm wherever possible. Especially Rtype
I love the music from stage 2.Classic 80s
game bgm.I'll always remember it.
This version is a lot better than the NES one, SEGA Rules!
My brother and I used to play this until our parents told us to go to bed. We're 35 and 36 years of age now.
The game is being played with its FM music support enabled. You can only do that if you play it either in a Japanese Master System model, in a Japanese Mark III with the FM module attached, or through any emulator supporting the FM music.
i remember playing this game 22 yrs ago at a friends house. back then, i only had an atari 2600 & was floored when i saw the graphics on this game. lol. ...thats one advantage sega games (both master and genesis) had over nes is that they were truer to their arcade counterparts, and this version of DD stands as a testament to that. ....lol,..4:01 i still remember those cardboard boxes with SEGA stamped on them. thats classic.
I remember buying a Sega just for this version. Follows the arcade version much more accurately than NES. The NES seems like a completely different game than the arcade version. I like it too , but the SMS version was as close as you could get back then to the arcade.
was the sound and music enhanced for this video? I don't remember the music sounding this good on the SMS.
This version has more bombostic music than I remember the game having. The one I played has much more 8-bit sounding music. Are there multiple versions of this game on the Mastersystem? ALL the sound effects and music sound dramaticly different.
Then there must have been more than one arcade version because this is different than the one I played.
Port means to switch ports. This game wasn't unplugged from one interface then plugged into another. They didn't simply change or emulate the input program, they rebuilt it, but it's composure is identical.
i remember this version being much tougher than the nes one
wait, you have all the moves in this version since the beginning of the game? I remember you have to earn certain amount of points by punching or kicking (punching yields more points) to get new moves. I used to love the grab/knee/throw move.
@Kevin39LV8
that's the unofficial Atari port... they used the "Tengen" brandname on their NES stuff. Partly because Nintendo in those days would never have published anything by Atari if it knew it was by Atari!
Nintendo didn't endorse it, that's why it doesn't have the Original Nintendo Seal of Quality and looks diffrent
to a normal cartridge.
It's a Sega programmed game and only one Sega game, Wonderboy, ever saw official release on the NES renamed Adventure Island released by Hudson.
It sounds different cuz he might be using an emu with the FM sound chip enabled or he has a japanese SMS with the FM chip. SMS sold in North America didn't have the FM chip, they had the PCM chip.
Regardless to what the Sega version had over the NES version in sound and Graphics. It is better just because it is 2 player simultaneously where the NES version made us take turns.
But just so you know. The Dreamcast was My favorite system of all time ! Even over the PS2 & 3. It had a charm about it that could not be matched by Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft. Not sure what it is.. But I certainly wish that Sega would get back into the console business with a Dreamcast 2 .. but one can only dream :(
@Nintendavin
Yeah the Sega Mark III you had to buy the add-on. But the actual Japan Master System had it built in. It made the game sound a lot better. Check out Golvellius's FM sound, it is also very good.
@TheSegaAges it's not disinfo. & you are correct about nintendo's stranglehold. Sega could have done far FAR more to move more units. I could go on & on about Sega's major blunders with the SMS but they did manage to clear out their inventory in a big way with the SMS expansion for the genesis. That was a brilliant move & it pulled sega's head out of the water. Sega screwed up however with the Sega CD, 32X, & the Saturn.. If they would have skipped the CD & 32X & jumped strait to saturn. well .
There's no modes in the SMS version, this is the default settings played on an emulator.
Thanks i'll try to get this version for my SMS =)
you are right.. this sounds much better than genesis version..
Awesome. Time for Part 2.
Lol the sound of the whip sounds like a creaking door :P
Shit I feel like i'm getting my youth back here.
@youtubasoarus As much as I would have hated to admit it back then, I have to agree. As a gamer, it's a pity that the Master System didn't have a chance in North America.
I don't remember the music sounding like this. Is this played on the early Japanese mark3 that had an FM chip similar to megadrive/genesis? It sounds like a megadrive almost. Master system I remeber was all beeps and white noise. Haha, I just remembered on shadow dancer, and the dog barking at the start. That was hilarious. "WOOF! WOOF!" XD
There was an FM chip that you could add onto the Japanese one that made it sound more like a Sega Genesis.
My player 2 for this game couldnt punch like player 1, is that for eveyone too, or is that just my controller? ty
talbot as you know im a big fan of your work, but how come the music and fx are so different from my old SMS version
I remember me and my friend (ages 4 and 5) would play this every day, and finally we beat it, but the game wasn't ending and we couldn't figure out why. So he went off the cliff to see if that would work, and it did. The game ended and I was the winner!!! Yay me!!!! To this day I think that's messed up. I'm gonna call him right now and remind him that he won just as much as I did.
how come the music is so enhanced? I remember the sega version was no way close to this quality? But then again I could be wrong, nontheless great music and game!...
HAHA, it was such a rush to come across new (different colored) bad guys!! good times!
O melhor jogo do Master System!! =]
The best game of Master System!! =]
Wayyyyyyyyyy better than the Sucky Pathetic NES 1-Player earn your Moves Only Game
Is the soundtrack on this one different. The audio for my cartridge sounds nothing like this. Same song just different instruments and sound effects.
All i got and am gonna say about this is WOW!!!
The master system version looked soo much closer to the arcade compared to the NES version
What version is better NES version or this one?
Makes you wish River City Ransom also had a high score points system as well would have made the co-op even better, but I guess it sorta does if you use the coins for that.
That's very true. Either Sega (developer of this port) or Acclaim (western publisher of DD2) should have done it. In a hypothetical case, DD2 should have ported from the NES though, instead of replicating the arcade game like it was done with DD1, because in the case of DD2, the NES game is way superior to the arcade game.
WOW! Totally agree with @luigi84289 I have a 360 now and just thought I was getting to old for them but it really is graphics over content now...hello, where's the fun gone? I remember running home from school to play this and Wonderboy lol Kids don't know they're born now but they missed out totally in not being around late 80's and early 90's awesome times :)
nooooossa,é a primeira que vejo esse jogo depois de muuuito tempo mesmo,eu jogava locado...
bro. well done.
I agree. Realism ruins the fantasy of games. One problem with video games now, I think, is they are trying too much to be like the movies, which doesn't work. A game is not a movie just like a book is not a movie, and so on. Inventive gameplay trumps graphics any day. It's certainly one of the reasons Tetris has remained popular all these years.
Definitely better than the NES version, hands down.
Seems it's not just me - should have read the other comment below before I posted!
why does the music sound weird? I don't remember it was like this
i love the music ... it was hard to play on sms
i miss sega!
I never knew this game was on Master System. I must say, it does look better than the Nintendo version that I was accustomed to.
Alot of people HATE the sms port, but i think it's EVEN BETTER then the Nes version and the arcade version put together! You even start with all the moves!
its not
+jobezg
Double Dragon got ported to everything.
Commodore 64 (there are 2 versions of the game for the C64), ZX Spectrum, Gameboy, NES, Sega Genesis (unlicensed Genesis cart), Sega Master System,Atari 7800, Atari 2600 (yes you heard me Atari 2600 from 1977), Game Gear, Atari Lynx,Amiga,IBM PC, everything at the time.
raymond rivera it does
Yes but i love all 2 systems they rule the 8bit time
and every system had cool games
Best video game EVER
Thank you my Case is Rested I've been saying that NES Version Sucks; the Master System Version Rules...I never played this still, but I already like it.
I wouldn't mind getting this game.
This Music is not the same Seumachan is right,Somebody has to explain
But that green dude on the bridge...that Dude is straight bad ass. What if you ran into that guy workin out at the YMCA..You would just leave..
Ahhh the memories...
I think its a shame that the older consoles had to be phased out at all. I dont see why game manufacturers dont continue to release new games for the older systems aswell as the new ones. Even if they were in smaller numbers.
hi are you using an emulator to play this
well everyday is a school day,cheers dude and hurry with cyborg hunter & is it really based on an anime
The SMS music was superior to the NES but graphics wise & game play wise the NES dominated. on Double Dragon of course. :P
is there no game over for this game, i have this and am shit at it. but i never get game over every time i die i just keep respawning...??
@EpicWinOrFail It had good Graphics. But it was not utilized to it's full potential. Some games looked awesome. Especially the 3D games & other games like R-Type.
Is that Jimmy or Bimmy?
0.44 - 0.50: Is it just me, or were Sega rickrolling people way back then?!
Its funny that the Master System music is better than the Genesis music.
this version of double dragon was almost identical to the arcade version way better than the nes version. the nes version had better music though.
This isn't a port, it's a different build. Even though it's almost identical to Nintendo's build it's obviously different.
@Kevin39LV8
Stuff U, Nintendo didn't have Shinobi... end of arguement.
the music kick butt
renegade is in the style of doule dragon
oh snap! there's a rick roll in the game! 0:43
@youtubasoarus It's not just you. Sega had better hardware than Nintendo did at the time, and it showed in their home consoles. Unfortunately, Mario was owned by Nintendo and Sonic wasn't born yet. Otherwise, SNES vs Genesis would have been this first. (Man, the music is sooooo much better!!)
my brother and i used to play this game and he would always kick me on purpose...i ended up throwing the controller at him and missed and broke his bedroom window....man we got in trouble for that one
a man punching a chick on the stomach?? wow, thats harsh. He's like, " Yo sweet heart, im gonna punch u in the stomach just in case your pregnant, so now i'll be the dad instead". And i thought that chicks werent suppose to be punched, well unless they were fighters
aaahhhhhhh, good times
My first Beat em all . A good start but
I do prefer Streets of rage
Its too bad they never made a port of Double Dragon II for Master System.
4:39 awsome
looks like ronald mcdonald hes fighting.
At 0:46 you can see Rick Astley on the wall.
I disagree, this music sounds more like the arcade. In fact, this is a more faithful version of DD than the NES was. And this one is two players. Also, in the NES version, there were only two characters that could be displayed per screen, and it had to be the same character. In this version, three characters could be displayed and they didn't have to be the same.
Sounded a lot better on my SMS. You should turn off the FM sound emulation.
This looks like it's on an emulator. On the master system there was huge flickering, but a pc today could handle this no problem. But the sound is better.
Jesus do they actually fight back in this version? Seems like NES was a lot less forgiving.
Casmar they do but this guy is a fucking jedi at this game
classic shit. the golden era where you didnt have to cheat on any game with stupid puzzles. I like some of the new games out but the old games for sega, nintendo, super nintendo I had more fun with. contra, mario, shinobi, streets of rage, double dragon,paperboy.
100% Agreed,realism has killed gameplay.Its the obsession with graphics over gameplay that has put me off this generation of game consoles and made me focus on retrogaming.Nowadays everything "Must" to be in 3D.A perfect example is Castlevania.The 2D NES,SNES,Genesis,Gameboy & DS versions are great playable classics.The 3D versions for N64 & Playstation2 were FAILURES at best.A clear cut example that not everything can or should be just about realism/graphic output.
level 3 has the best song!
I was born in 88 ( so not too old) I grew up with double dragon and these "retro games" ( yhup sir, that's my generation too ;-) ) and...I've been playing these game til a couple years ago when, somehow, everything speeded up. I mean these games aren't retro for me. My last system is a N64. I mean, wts is going on ??? We had to wait so long for the N64 and we haven't finished its games that 2 other systems already came out ? wth !!!