I remember first playing this as a kid and thinking grabbing someone and kneeing them in the head was the most horrific brutal thing ever. I immediately tried it on my best friend in the playground the next day.
@@PrinceCity007 Nice!! 😂🤣😂 Glad to know someone shared my pain! My mom would send me to buy something from the convenience store and I'd always come home with 25-75¢ short.
I remember my mother came into the arcade watching us play and she really disliked when the girlfriend gets punched saying oh my goodness save her lol.
Good ole Double Dragon. So many memories of this game. From the opening theme to the end. First arcade game I ever completed. But damn did the slowdown get annoying lol. And those wall blocks at the end were a pain.
I loved this game in the 80s but my parents banned me from playing the game in arcades. Too violent. Well all my mates were probably playing it. Kids around my age group were. Glad to see it again. Brings back memories.
This game was groundbreaking for the story, the graphics, the mechanics, and an AMAZING soundtrack. Worth the hundreds in spent on it in the arcade. I remember my 1st one coin finish. Did it with a friend. I also remember having to fight my partner the 1st time. Was a great twist to a great game.
@IgaKoga The whole dark and gritty story: *It all started from a flashback five years ago in the future of 199X...* The post-apocalypse was on the rise when most of the world’s population fell under genocide as a result of a nuclear war, poverty and civilization has entered a new era of anarchy, violence, and crime. At the center of this civilization where only the strongest survive, both the enforcers of law and order gave way to power, control and brutality. The new law began when citizens had gradually start to form gangs as a means of survival. From that day on, the world was eventually shrouded in darkness as criminal organizations increased in numbers. *However from the outskirts of The Big Apple...* Two young Asian-American twin brothers who were famously known as *Billy Lee* (ビリー・リー, Birī Rī) and *Jimmy Lee* (ジミー・リー, Jimī Rī), under the title: The Double Dragons (ダブルドラゴン , Daburu Doragon) because of their likenesses to Bruce Lee Shih-fu whom their own father was a pupil of and later passed his knowledge onto his sons training them in the Chinese Kenpō art of (拳法 Quán-Fǎ, lit. “Fist Method”) since they were both 12, until several years later when the brothers became Chinese Kenpō shih-fus at the ages of 15 and operated a martial-arts dōjō located in the heart of New York City. It was a well-known dōjō with over 30 branches and 2,000 practitioners attending. *Their newfound fame was still at large, until...* However, the dojo was destroyed during the same nuclear war and most of the students were slaughtered along with the twins’ father. The two brothers were forced to close down their famous dōjō, but their expertise survived with them, as well as the woman that Billy recently had a love-affair with was an attractive woman named *Marian Kelly* (マリアン・ケリー, Marion Kerī) whom he was with for a decade, she worked as an acting instructor for the female branch of the school, although his brother Jimmy had feelings for her as well which pushed him into the sad and sorry road of envy. *Moving on a few years later from their tragedy...* It is now the present apocalypse of 19XX, where the now 20-year-old Double Dragons have recently spent their lives becoming the new heroic vigilantes by protecting innocent lives from countless gangs with their own newfound Jeet-Kune-Do type martial art called Sō-Setsu-Ken (双截拳 Shuāng Jié Quán, lit. “Twin Sever Fist”). While the brothers were saving civilization from the gangs who were tearing everything apart, Marian is at their newfound hideout and shelter where she privately trains all of the rescued citizens with the teachings of Sō-Setsu-Ken to stand up for themselves against the gangs they were victimized by. *During the fall of the gangs by the Double Dragons...* The Lee Twins have caught the attention of the most powerful gang of them all: The Black Warriors (黒 戦士, Kuro Senshi), their headquarters is located in a hidden part of The Big Apple, and their leader is “Machine Gun” Willy Mackey, his henchmen and subordinates address him as “Big Boss Willy”. Willy was the former head of a biker gang known as The Killers, but after the nuclear war, his organization grew in power, hence the Black Warriors, where he recruited seven of the world’s greatest villains that the criminal underworld has to offer such as *Williams* (ウィリアムス, Wiriamusu) a thug with a nasty gut punch; *Roper* (ローパー, Rōpā) a much more stronger fighter than Williams; *Linda* (リンダ, Rinda) the whip-wielding femme fatale wife of Williams; *Zack Abobo* (ザック • アボボ; Zakku Abobo) the bald strongman who has the ability to toss his opponent in the air; *Jick Abobo* (ジック • アボボ; Jikku Abobo) he is also a strongman but this mohawked bulk is more stronger than his younger brother Zack; *Chin Tai Mei* (チン・タイメイ) the Chinese arch-rival to the Double Dragons and a shih-fu in the art of Koh-oh Ken; *Jeff* (ジェフ, Jefu) the Black Warriors’ very own Dragon doppelgänger as well as Chin's replacement who has studied and plagiarized the art of Sō-Setsu-Ken; and *Mibobo* (みぼぼ) the green humanoid who is a superhuman version of the Abobo brothers, he guards the gates of Willy's hidden fortress. *As the world was starting to become a better place...* The Black Warriors decided to take advantage of the opportunity to trap their two enemies with a scheme that they put together. One day, the Black Warriors had split up into groups of two to declare war on all five cities of The Big Apple except Manhattan which belongs to Willy, then they finished the reign of terror by leaving a note to where the Double Dragons were hiding out just after massacring their survivors, Billy and Jimmy rushed back to their pad in their red car to check on Marian and the survivors, the only two unfortunate things that the Lee Twins found was every last one of their survival pupils dead with Marian missing, Billy sees the written message on their wall, it reads "We’re getting Marian! If you wish to save her, meet us tomorrow at ten 'o clock.” - BLACK WARRIORS. In a moments notice outside of their hideout, Billy and Jimmy heard Marian getting physically assaulted by Williams and then taken away to lure the Lee Brothers to the headquarters for a death trap. *And here’s where the game starts...* As the Double Dragons were too late to save Marian at that time, the heroically relentless duo didn’t stop there as they open their garage gate to stop all 8 of the Black Warrior underlings who were stalling the skillful twins. During these events: strange things occured to the gang from the equally strange apocalypse such as seven of the gang members attacking in clones or duplicates, which was the fight of Billy and Jimmy’s lives which were challenged by the Black Warriors from each 4 corners of New York City such as fighting Zack and Jick in an alley of the City Slums; tracking Chin and Jeff down in a partially completed building of the local Construction Site; and heading off to the Deep Woods to have a rematch with Zack Abobo and Chin Tai Mei, Billy and Jimmy reach the enemy's base guarded by Jeff who also failed his rematch with the opposite duo, and the Double Dragons reach the blast door to encounter Mibobo, the strongest out of all Black Warriors who is also beaten by the Lee Twins. *And now the Final Boss stage...* After the duo’s worthy opponents have failed all three combat stages, the death match began when the Double Dragons have uncovered the hidden fortress of the Black Warriors by entering through the blast door of steel, Billy and Jimmy are challenged and surrounded by death traps, torture chambers, and of course: every last member of the Black Warriors, as the two fight their way to the top where Marian is hanging from a rope around her hands and the Big Boss himself “Machine Gun” Willy watches the Double Dragons fight the last of the cloned Black Warriors to the death; after this final chase, Willy summons his last reinforcements in his lair which so happens to be three clones of Jeff, the trigger-happy Willy walks off the balcony and through the blast door to join the fray and eliminate the Double Dragons. The two struggle during their final showdown but gain the upper hand because of their great skill and using Willy’s underlings as practice, Willy was beaten into an unconscious state by Jimmy, while Billy knocked the three Jeffs into a pit of spikes. *And this is how the game ends...* The Double Dragons didn’t reign victorious just yet; Billy attempts to rescue his lover, but was stopped by Jimmy who secretly reveals to his brother about his intentional schemes of treachery by boasting about purposely giving the Black Dragons the address to their hideout, having Marian kidnapped also on purpose just to be the first to rescue her in order to win her heart, having Willy’s butt handed to him to gain leadership into becoming the new undisputed boss of the Black Warriors, and to be looked at as the true “savior” of the post-apocalyptic crisis, all according to plan. Jimmy then offered his own brother a proposition to be his right-hand man and wing-man as long as he keeps this reveal as a secret, but an enraged Billy refused and instead chose to battle Jimmy to the death over the fate of the city and for the jeopardized love of his life. *Who will win? You decide!*
Mid-80s at the mall... my dad would give me 5 dollars on a Friday evening and with that I'd buy a slice of pizza for 1.50 and the rest I'd spend on games at the arcade.
My goodness, this brings back memories. I had the game boy and master system adaptations which were brilliant too. Those musclemen bosses skipped leg day though!
Eh, a lot of early 16 bit games suffer from staticky sounding music and it shows in this video. I prefer the NES version because again, it doesn't suffer from that amateur / early 16 bit style music.
@@GayKermit-._-. The NES audio and music is garbage compared to the arcade. The Music and sound FX in this game are classic. How can anyone prefer the NES other than nostalgia goggles?
There is a store in my hometown that used to have this game in late 80s. The building has a unique smell (nothing bad), and to this day, as soon as I walk in, it makes me think of Double Dragon.
I look at this game and never get bored. I knew a guy who used code secrets where u can also play with Jimmy Lee as a start for one player. Double Dragon is a pan arcade blast.
I use to enjoy my cousin Rooster who took me to the corner store in Detroit and let me watch him play the Arcade Game in 1988 when I was 5 years old.🏬 Fun times!❤️
@TheKayliedGamerChannel-RUclips It was wild that the Sega Mastersystem had it as two player game. It was a sad day for us NES owners when it came out as single player game😢
Joguei muito Double Dragon!!! Essa foi a 1ª versão, depois foi adaptado para os consoles caseiros: Master System e Nes. Fiz um rewiw das vesões de Double Dragon em meu canal de games. Parabéns pela postagem!
Nintendo had some serious restrictions about violent games. I remember that TMNT for example was toned (and dumbed) down a lot in comparison to the other ports.
Man I used to live at the laundromat by my house that had double dragon. Used to go play this game every chance I could. Glad I have both arcade version of 1 and 2 on PlayStation.4
I was able to do this back in the day. I remember having this game at the laundromat an walking there after school everyday just play it. I got so good it took one quarter an the elbow to beat the game.
Double Dragon: The one that started it all. Final Fight: The one that popularized it. Streets of Rage: The one that perfected it. The holy Trinity of the beat 'em up genre.
On the corner of Court St. and Franklin in Flint, MI was a 711 type store called "Sunshine" in the 80s. I would hang out there at 6 years old playing this game. I was beyond obsessed with Double Dragon. The NES version was quite disappointing.
PROPER SCUFFING! That's why I always loved the game since it came out. When you knew the buttons you can have a jolly good scuff. The A.I knows how to fight. 11:34
I was 5 years old when my babysitter Tina took me to the arcade to hangout and smoke cigarettes with the rest of the teens. I got to play Double Dragon while inhaling second hand smoke. It was the best day of my life.
This game brings a lot of memories. They had this at the local pizzeria (common in Sweden at the time) - our crew used to gather there and play when we were kids 🥲
I love this game back in the day…. But looking at it again, the lag is so terrible. A remake of this version needs to be done without the lag…. Even the NES version doesn’t lag this much .
Every day after school at the grocery store we used to form a line just to get a turn to play 😀 so many quarters lol 1:36 after all these year's just realized he could have easily fit through the doors, but instead punches his way through the wall.. 😄
I played this first at our local fairground, must have been in the mid 80's. I was never very good at it and lost too much money trying to be. I used to nick my dad's foreign coins (which were well below the value of UK currency) to play and some of them used to work. He had a stack load. I was obsessed with everything about this game. The muscly men and the end boss music used to terrify me, that's probably why i kept losing haha. The fair was only there for a week in the summer, which was obviously saved me a shit load f money and probably a good hiding haha.
When I was 5, I was a troll in the arcade. I would beat the game only using elbows and wouldn't get hit once, including during the Billy v Jimmy fight at the end. Adults use to want to punch me so bad haha.
Know i late to party... but could have sworn when i played this in the BACK WHEN TIMES ... The statues with the spear where able to toss you into the spikes. This was a arcade at the CANADA BEACH.
Did the original arcade run as slow when there was multiple characters on screen? I can't remember but I remembered loving the Sega Genesis version because it looked somewhat like the arcade.
As far as the 8 bit versions of this game. I like the Atari 7800 Version the best. It resembles the Arcade version better than the Sega Master System and Nes ports. The 7800 version also has no flicker at all, even when like 6 or 7 characters are on the screen at once.
@@osakatales9228 As far as the level design and the way that the characters look (more skinny like the arcade than wide looking like the NES and Master System characters). Like for example level 2 resembles more of the arcade than the Master System as far as how it looks from the beginning of the level to the end. I like all 3 versions but 7800 has always been my favorite out of the Nes and Master System because of the difficulty. The Master System and Nes versions were way to easy for me while I had the most fun beating the 7800 version. Now I was using the Europad. Playing DD on the 7800 with the proline is no fun.
I knew one guy in my whole hometown who could finish the game with just one coin! No kidding. But of course you need to figure out all the bugs to make the most of the game-play,
This matches the aesthetic much better than the WoL recording -- Double Dragon is all about speed and cheap stunts. :> I especially liked the stage 2 boss strategy, which I never had the nerve to do when I was paying an actual quarter for each credit! Excellent work.
Although the arcade was better than the nintendo the nintendos music was better. But this is probably top 5 best arcade games of all time. Wasted a bunch of quarters on this growing up and never got past the 3rd level.
Aww man, this game was the shit in late 80's, I graduated high school in 87, me and my buddies would go wear this game out! Is there no way to get the arcade version on PC?
I was like 10 and this game yoybhad to learn from the older guys who played it but still very hard and you are playing like it should be one coin respecting a lot of factors like time lag enemies on screen and old dirty tricks
![Arcade Longplay [475] Ghouls 'n Ghosts](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/odPJN_lZJgY/mqdefault.jpg)
I remember first playing this as a kid and thinking grabbing someone and kneeing them in the head was the most horrific brutal thing ever. I immediately tried it on my best friend in the playground the next day.
😂😂😂😂
I hope your best friend forgave you as the game was trying to teach you how to fight back against bullies.
are you still friends?
@@exbronco Of course! He was best man at my wedding.
My nan didn't like it either
I can still smell all the cigarettes at the local arcade while I spend $10 worth of quarters trying to jump over one bridge
I got so many whoppings for coming home late due to playing this game as a kid. I regret nothing!
Man I got so many whopping too!!! That's so crazy I thought that was only my story
@@PrinceCity007 Nice!! 😂🤣😂 Glad to know someone shared my pain! My mom would send me to buy something from the convenience store and I'd always come home with 25-75¢ short.
Hard headed kid 😅
Must have spent a fortune on this when I was a lad
FlipFlop me too one of my favorites
Same here every saturday in the local shop, but it was a classic.
I remember my mother came into the arcade watching us play and she really disliked when the girlfriend gets punched saying oh my goodness save her lol.
Good ole Double Dragon. So many memories of this game. From the opening theme to the end. First arcade game I ever completed. But damn did the slowdown get annoying lol. And those wall blocks at the end were a pain.
I loved this game in the 80s but my parents banned me from playing the game in arcades. Too violent. Well all my mates were probably playing it. Kids around my age group were. Glad to see it again. Brings back memories.
This game was groundbreaking for the story, the graphics, the mechanics, and an AMAZING soundtrack. Worth the hundreds in spent on it in the arcade.
I remember my 1st one coin finish. Did it with a friend.
I also remember having to fight my partner the 1st time. Was a great twist to a great game.
What story
@IgaKoga
The whole dark and gritty story:
*It all started from a flashback five years ago in the future of 199X...*
The post-apocalypse was on the rise when most of the world’s population fell under genocide as a result of a nuclear war, poverty and civilization has entered a new era of anarchy, violence, and crime. At the center of this civilization where only the strongest survive, both the enforcers of law and order gave way to power, control and brutality. The new law began when citizens had gradually start to form gangs as a means of survival. From that day on, the world was eventually shrouded in darkness as criminal organizations increased in numbers.
*However from the outskirts of The Big Apple...*
Two young Asian-American twin brothers who were famously known as *Billy Lee* (ビリー・リー, Birī Rī) and *Jimmy Lee* (ジミー・リー, Jimī Rī), under the title: The Double Dragons (ダブルドラゴン , Daburu Doragon) because of their likenesses to Bruce Lee Shih-fu whom their own father was a pupil of and later passed his knowledge onto his sons training them in the Chinese Kenpō art of (拳法 Quán-Fǎ, lit. “Fist Method”) since they were both 12, until several years later when the brothers became Chinese Kenpō shih-fus at the ages of 15 and operated a martial-arts dōjō located in the heart of New York City. It was a well-known dōjō with over 30 branches and 2,000 practitioners attending.
*Their newfound fame was still at large, until...*
However, the dojo was destroyed during the same nuclear war and most of the students were slaughtered along with the twins’ father. The two brothers were forced to close down their famous dōjō, but their expertise survived with them, as well as the woman that Billy recently had a love-affair with was an attractive woman named *Marian Kelly* (マリアン・ケリー, Marion Kerī) whom he was with for a decade, she worked as an acting instructor for the female branch of the school, although his brother Jimmy had feelings for her as well which pushed him into the sad and sorry road of envy.
*Moving on a few years later from their tragedy...*
It is now the present apocalypse of 19XX, where the now 20-year-old Double Dragons have recently spent their lives becoming the new heroic vigilantes by protecting innocent lives from countless gangs with their own newfound Jeet-Kune-Do type martial art called Sō-Setsu-Ken (双截拳 Shuāng Jié Quán, lit. “Twin Sever Fist”). While the brothers were saving civilization from the gangs who were tearing everything apart, Marian is at their newfound hideout and shelter where she privately trains all of the rescued citizens with the teachings of Sō-Setsu-Ken to stand up for themselves against the gangs they were victimized by.
*During the fall of the gangs by the Double Dragons...*
The Lee Twins have caught the attention of the most powerful gang of them all: The Black Warriors (黒 戦士, Kuro Senshi), their headquarters is located in a hidden part of The Big Apple, and their leader is “Machine Gun” Willy Mackey, his henchmen and subordinates address him as “Big Boss Willy”. Willy was the former head of a biker gang known as The Killers, but after the nuclear war, his organization grew in power, hence the Black Warriors, where he recruited seven of the world’s greatest villains that the criminal underworld has to offer such as *Williams* (ウィリアムス, Wiriamusu) a thug with a nasty gut punch; *Roper* (ローパー, Rōpā) a much more stronger fighter than Williams; *Linda* (リンダ, Rinda) the whip-wielding femme fatale wife of Williams; *Zack Abobo* (ザック • アボボ; Zakku Abobo) the bald strongman who has the ability to toss his opponent in the air; *Jick Abobo* (ジック • アボボ; Jikku Abobo) he is also a strongman but this mohawked bulk is more stronger than his younger brother Zack; *Chin Tai Mei* (チン・タイメイ) the Chinese arch-rival to the Double Dragons and a shih-fu in the art of Koh-oh Ken; *Jeff* (ジェフ, Jefu) the Black Warriors’ very own Dragon doppelgänger as well as Chin's replacement who has studied and plagiarized the art of Sō-Setsu-Ken; and *Mibobo* (みぼぼ) the green humanoid who is a superhuman version of the Abobo brothers, he guards the gates of Willy's hidden fortress.
*As the world was starting to become a better place...*
The Black Warriors decided to take advantage of the opportunity to trap their two enemies with a scheme that they put together. One day, the Black Warriors had split up into groups of two to declare war on all five cities of The Big Apple except Manhattan which belongs to Willy, then they finished the reign of terror by leaving a note to where the Double Dragons were hiding out just after massacring their survivors, Billy and Jimmy rushed back to their pad in their red car to check on Marian and the survivors, the only two unfortunate things that the Lee Twins found was every last one of their survival pupils dead with Marian missing, Billy sees the written message on their wall, it reads "We’re getting Marian! If you wish to save her, meet us tomorrow at ten 'o clock.” - BLACK WARRIORS. In a moments notice outside of their hideout, Billy and Jimmy heard Marian getting physically assaulted by Williams and then taken away to lure the Lee Brothers to the headquarters for a death trap.
*And here’s where the game starts...*
As the Double Dragons were too late to save Marian at that time, the heroically relentless duo didn’t stop there as they open their garage gate to stop all 8 of the Black Warrior underlings who were stalling the skillful twins. During these events: strange things occured to the gang from the equally strange apocalypse such as seven of the gang members attacking in clones or duplicates, which was the fight of Billy and Jimmy’s lives which were challenged by the Black Warriors from each 4 corners of New York City such as fighting Zack and Jick in an alley of the City Slums; tracking Chin and Jeff down in a partially completed building of the local Construction Site; and heading off to the Deep Woods to have a rematch with Zack Abobo and Chin Tai Mei, Billy and Jimmy reach the enemy's base guarded by Jeff who also failed his rematch with the opposite duo, and the Double Dragons reach the blast door to encounter Mibobo, the strongest out of all Black Warriors who is also beaten by the Lee Twins.
*And now the Final Boss stage...*
After the duo’s worthy opponents have failed all three combat stages, the death match began when the Double Dragons have uncovered the hidden fortress of the Black Warriors by entering through the blast door of steel, Billy and Jimmy are challenged and surrounded by death traps, torture chambers, and of course: every last member of the Black Warriors, as the two fight their way to the top where Marian is hanging from a rope around her hands and the Big Boss himself “Machine Gun” Willy watches the Double Dragons fight the last of the cloned Black Warriors to the death; after this final chase, Willy summons his last reinforcements in his lair which so happens to be three clones of Jeff, the trigger-happy Willy walks off the balcony and through the blast door to join the fray and eliminate the Double Dragons. The two struggle during their final showdown but gain the upper hand because of their great skill and using Willy’s underlings as practice, Willy was beaten into an unconscious state by Jimmy, while Billy knocked the three Jeffs into a pit of spikes.
*And this is how the game ends...*
The Double Dragons didn’t reign victorious just yet; Billy attempts to rescue his lover, but was stopped by Jimmy who secretly reveals to his brother about his intentional schemes of treachery by boasting about purposely giving the Black Dragons the address to their hideout, having Marian kidnapped also on purpose just to be the first to rescue her in order to win her heart, having Willy’s butt handed to him to gain leadership into becoming the new undisputed boss of the Black Warriors, and to be looked at as the true “savior” of the post-apocalyptic crisis, all according to plan. Jimmy then offered his own brother a proposition to be his right-hand man and wing-man as long as he keeps this reveal as a secret, but an enraged Billy refused and instead chose to battle Jimmy to the death over the fate of the city and for the jeopardized love of his life.
*Who will win? You decide!*
Great memories in Chicago playing at a restaurant was only 12 years old with my cousin for hours 😂😂
Ahhhh.....The old classic elbow loophole. Good memories!
elbow ftw
Mid-80s at the mall... my dad would give me 5 dollars on a Friday evening and with that I'd buy a slice of pizza for 1.50 and the rest I'd spend on games at the arcade.
Now you will get a half a slice for 5 and no game
Taking that lower angle to the computer dude was always key to getting that elbow in and surviving!
My goodness, this brings back memories. I had the game boy and master system adaptations which were brilliant too. Those musclemen bosses skipped leg day though!
If you don't love the music of this game and the sound effects, i don't know
Eh, a lot of early 16 bit games suffer from staticky sounding music and it shows in this video. I prefer the NES version because again, it doesn't suffer from that amateur / early 16 bit style music.
@@GayKermit-._-. The NES audio and music is garbage compared to the arcade. The Music and sound FX in this game are classic. How can anyone prefer the NES other than nostalgia goggles?
There is a store in my hometown that used to have this game in late 80s. The building has a unique smell (nothing bad), and to this day, as soon as I walk in, it makes me think of Double Dragon.
The building that I played it at had a unique smell too.... That's so crazy
I look at this game and never get bored. I knew a guy who used code secrets where u can also play with Jimmy Lee as a start for one player. Double Dragon is a pan arcade blast.
This game was clearly made before AI chips got put in computer games. The fighters never fail to be fooled by the player’s backhand punch!
Sometimes,the punch button would break and we had no choice but to lose....
Love how this game has a happy ending after all!
I use to enjoy my cousin Rooster who took me to the corner store in Detroit and let me watch him play the Arcade Game in 1988 when I was 5 years old.🏬 Fun times!❤️
I remember those black guys being like b.a.baracus they were nails when I was 6 years old.
Played this game a lot at the beckers store, brings me back to my younger days, great video.
14:03 : “You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?!” 🤣
hahaha! What movie was that again? Oh yeah The Wizard. Loved that movie
I clicked this video just to see how long it takes to get 50,000 on 🐲🐲
the NES port is pure shit. it only used the double dragon IP to sell itself but the game was 100% different
Still today a major reference of its own.
When i was playing 30 years ago, i already knew about the elbow s magic. :)
Elbow and head = you got it all.
Whole game has an awesome soundtrack.
Yes uses a Yamaha sound chip I remember when it came out the sound and graphics had gone right up since hyper Sports.
Used to wait in line to play it. Even ran away from the house one time but grandma knew exactly where to look for me. Boy did I get in trouble.
lmao
Awesome arcade game in its day that never properly adapted to home gaming consoles. Pissed me off as a kid!!
Me too
OH SHIT! Somebody is gonna get some pussy tonight lol
The Megadrive/Genesis port wasn't so bad... :-)
Kaylied Gamer best version is in Gameboy advanced.
@TheKayliedGamerChannel-RUclips It was wild that the Sega Mastersystem had it as two player game. It was a sad day for us NES owners when it came out as single player game😢
Double dragon all time favorite game in my childhood ❤
Amazing game... Very good... Congratulations and thanks guy... Double Dragon forever in my life... I from São Paulo Brazil... Obrigado!
The game boy advance reboot double dragon is FANTASTIC.
And just remember, if you ever get involved in a fight (don't do that actually) , do use your elbow :P
As a kid this was like a training video of how to fight. I never killed a giant green man with an elbow though.
So many memories. So many quarters. The In and Out store had one in my neighborhood. Used to take back bottles and cans to play.
1:36 Abobo sure knows how to make an entrance.
15:51 Ditto for Jick.
Great memories as kid with this game, played in a video store in Brooklyn back in 1988
Joguei muito Double Dragon!!! Essa foi a 1ª versão, depois foi adaptado para os consoles caseiros: Master System e Nes. Fiz um rewiw das vesões de Double Dragon em meu canal de games. Parabéns pela postagem!
It's strange the SNES never got a port of this. I'm thinking it could have done it pretty much perfectly.
Nintendo had some serious restrictions about violent games. I remember that TMNT for example was toned (and dumbed) down a lot in comparison to the other ports.
Man I used to live at the laundromat by my house that had double dragon. Used to go play this game every chance I could. Glad I have both arcade version of 1 and 2 on PlayStation.4
ELBOW! "Well that's the same move again, but you can't argue with success"
I was able to do this back in the day. I remember having this game at the laundromat an walking there after school everyday just play it. I got so good it took one quarter an the elbow to beat the game.
Double Dragon: The one that started it all.
Final Fight: The one that popularized it.
Streets of Rage: The one that perfected it.
The holy Trinity of the beat 'em up genre.
Streets of Rage is overrated. TMNT and Simpsons are better brawlers.
On the corner of Court St. and Franklin in Flint, MI was a 711 type store called "Sunshine" in the 80s. I would hang out there at 6 years old playing this game. I was beyond obsessed with Double Dragon. The NES version was quite disappointing.
With one coin ? Amazing GG ! :)
PROPER SCUFFING!
That's why I always loved the game since it came out. When you knew the buttons you can have a jolly good scuff. The A.I knows how to fight. 11:34
Strategic play, nice.
I was 5 years old when my babysitter Tina took me to the arcade to hangout and smoke cigarettes with the rest of the teens. I got to play Double Dragon while inhaling second hand smoke. It was the best day of my life.
I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm expecting a lot of elbow grease
This game brings a lot of memories. They had this at the local pizzeria (common in Sweden at the time) - our crew used to gather there and play when we were kids 🥲
I love this game back in the day…. But looking at it again, the lag is so terrible. A remake of this version needs to be done without the lag…. Even the NES version doesn’t lag this much .
There was a remake made for the GBA. It's really good.
What about the Red Dragon? Then they could have Triple Dragon; and just have the Red Dragon included. HALALUYA - TAO
Man goes on mass elbow spree. Over 100 injured and dead.
Remember going to the arcade in vacation playing this game. Fun times
14:00 The elbow! 😆 He bangs his head on the floor! TO THE MUSIC😆😆
That's the funniest way I've seen someone do the "Green guy hack".
ELBOW! Well that's the same move again but you can't argue with success
Every day after school at the grocery store we used to form a line just to get a turn to play 😀 so many quarters lol
1:36 after all these year's just realized he could have easily fit through the doors, but instead punches his way through the wall.. 😄
I played this first at our local fairground, must have been in the mid 80's. I was never very good at it and lost too much money trying to be. I used to nick my dad's foreign coins (which were well below the value of UK currency) to play and some of them used to work. He had a stack load. I was obsessed with everything about this game. The muscly men and the end boss music used to terrify me, that's probably why i kept losing haha. The fair was only there for a week in the summer, which was obviously saved me a shit load f money and probably a good hiding haha.
I swore that at the end you fought a shadow version of yourself and now I have no clue what game I was thinking of.
Love the music in mission 2.
The elbows were unrivalled as a weapon on this game.
Remember being particularly handy with the blades on DD at the local leisure centre.
AS LONG AS YOU WERE ABLE THROW THOSE ELBOW’S YOU
WERE GOING TO MAKE THROUGH TO BEAT EVERYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS GAME AND BEAT THIS GAME …..
When I was 5, I was a troll in the arcade. I would beat the game only using elbows and wouldn't get hit once, including during the Billy v Jimmy fight at the end. Adults use to want to punch me so bad haha.
Cool story bruh
My all time favorite game as a kid. I knew lots of tricks
0:22 Caitlyn Jenner
Amazing, congrats on the gameplay! I also created a Double Dragon series on my channel. Liked!
Once you learned that doing the "back-against-the enemy-elbow-punch" defeated anyone it was rather easy. Still spent a fortune in the arcade!
i remember reminiscing with friends in 1998 about this game. we all had a laugh about how abobo would fuck you up
my god this is what I grew up with. it was so hard....still looks hard
I was so scared the first time I got to the final room.
Know i late to party... but could have sworn when i played this in the BACK WHEN TIMES ... The statues with the spear where able to toss you into the spikes. This was a arcade at the CANADA BEACH.
I always feel that the front muscles of Apopo is same as his back muscles in shape XDDDD
Did the original arcade run as slow when there was multiple characters on screen? I can't remember but I remembered loving the Sega Genesis version because it looked somewhat like the arcade.
Hard core 80's
OP: Magic Elbow is boring
Also OP: Heavily relies on magic elbow
Where can i get the soundtracks
I played this game in a shop named "Bush" in shimla in the 90s.
It is impossible to beat the game with just punches and kicks!, Damn.
I'd like to see a no elbow run
@@sytran666 I've done it with the bat.
THIS GAME ATE MANY OF MY QUARTERS!!!! :) I LOVED IT WHEN A STRANGER WOULD JUMP IN AND HELP ME
I did the same back in the early 90s. Beat it in a single quarter.
Nice tricks ! Wish there was a trick to avoid the stage 4 traps , I still cannot figure how to get past them with 1 credit.
Dammnnn broo....beat them with elbow
Eu jogava demais esse jogo e virava ele com apenas uma ficha, boas lembranças! Vc sabe me dizer como consigo baixar esse jogo para Play2?
As far as the 8 bit versions of this game. I like the Atari 7800 Version the best. It resembles the Arcade version better than the Sega Master System and Nes ports. The 7800 version also has no flicker at all, even when like 6 or 7 characters are on the screen at once.
Sorry to say but the atari version looks stripped of all detail and does not compare to the NES version. Not to mention the audio is far behind.
Bruh this man really said the Atari 7800 version looked like the Arcade. Then I must be the owner of multiple used car dealerships.
@@osakatales9228 As far as the level design and the way that the characters look (more skinny like the arcade than wide looking like the NES and Master System characters). Like for example level 2 resembles more of the arcade than the Master System as far as how it looks from the beginning of the level to the end. I like all 3 versions but 7800 has always been my favorite out of the Nes and Master System because of the difficulty. The Master System and Nes versions were way to easy for me while I had the most fun beating the 7800 version. Now I was using the Europad. Playing DD on the 7800 with the proline is no fun.
Good grief, just checked the 7800 version out and it looks terrible, not quite C64 terrible but far behind the Sega MS version.
I knew one guy in my whole hometown who could finish the game with just one coin! No kidding. But of course you need to figure out all the bugs to make the most of the game-play,
0:23 😳😳😳 definition of a gut punch!!!!
My record on this game was 107,xxx back in college. Requires lots of flying back-kicks.
i spent soooo many hours at the local fish n chip shop with 20c coins trying to clock this game
this thing sucked up so much of my precious coins, it felt like fighting for my life.
This matches the aesthetic much better than the WoL recording -- Double Dragon is all about speed and cheap stunts. :> I especially liked the stage 2 boss strategy, which I never had the nerve to do when I was paying an actual quarter for each credit! Excellent work.
Although the arcade was better than the nintendo the nintendos music was better. But this is probably top 5 best arcade games of all time. Wasted a bunch of quarters on this growing up and never got past the 3rd level.
It's basically kung-fu on roids
Aww man, this game was the shit in late 80's, I graduated high school in 87, me and my buddies would go wear this game out! Is there no way to get the arcade version on PC?
You can play it on emulators like I did. MAME is the easiest one, FBA is also very good. Probably there are others.
love the Dancehall soundtrack
Gosh the memories. Thanks.
se puede jugar en psp y nececita de algun emulador?????
Sii el emulador mame for all
actually the most challenge part was not the big boss, is after bit the boss, the final battle between dragons, is the prototype of streel fighter
I grew up playing this game 💪
I used to be able to beat this on 10p using only headbutts. Would have been Ramsgate Boating Pool circa 1988-90
How is back elbow done?
Punch+jump
Self-disposing mooks (and bosses). ^^
I was like 10 and this game yoybhad to learn from the older guys who played it but still very hard and you are playing like it should be one coin respecting a lot of factors like time lag enemies on screen and old dirty tricks