![]() ![]() “Double Dragon” Created by Technos Japan Based on the video game of the same name Produced by DiC Animation Directed by Chuck Patton Starring Jim Byrnes, Garry Chalk, Michael Donovan, Scott McNeil, Wesley Morris, and French Tichner Originally aired SeptemRun time 22 minutes. A cool evolution of the original Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun gameplay with some DD vibes.Saturday Morning Cartoon! ‘Double Dragon’ The Combatribes is another great beat them up from Technos, I can easily imagine the fun with three players in the arcade. For me it’s not about the size of the move list (often the opposite) but more how the gameplay constantly occupies my mind. I know beat them up is a genre where the characteristics of a good game are rarely discussed, and however various depending the person. The Switch on tabletop mode with an arcade stick is a decent alternative when emulation is good. I personaly think those arcade beat them up’s have to be played as closely as they were designed, on the original cabinet for the lucky ones, otherwise with a good emulation (like maybe MAMEshmup on a 5ms screen or CRT if it’s possible ?) with an arcade stick. The only one who can surpass it, fo me, is Final Fight. I slightly prefer the original Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun in arcade, I find the gameplay so perfect and fun. #DOUBLE DRAGON CARTOON CITY SERIES#Technos did first Renegade/Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun in arcade, then DD was an evolution of the concept, then it became two independant series with derivative elements, like the oriented striking in DD2 coming from Renegade etc It’s still one of the best beat them up for me, once you choose to not abuse of elbow strikes, kinda boring I guess. I don’t think it’s a coincidence (or an error of the market) that as soon as FF came out, we stopped seeing beat em ups with small sprites and janky “stun enemies to grapple” systems, and that nobody adopted DDII’s dumbass direction-based attack scheme.ĭouble Dragon is one of my greatest memory in arcade as a kid. While 1cc playthroughs of the arcade Final Fight will make use of all the characters moves at one point even if they abuse Cody’s infinite punching exploit, arcade DD1 can be pretty much steamrolled by spamming the back elbow and nothing else. The only thing DD really has over FF mechanically is platforming elements of dubious merits and that enemies can pick up and deny weapons to the player. Its enemies are also much more varied in AI and attribute than Double Dragon (Hollywood/El Gato alone has way more going-on than anyone in the first two DD). They have similar amount of moves, but FF’s moveset is far more functional than DD’s and it has three characters with (somewhat) different moves and attributes while DD, doesn’t. I don’t see how FF is more shallow than DD. But none were as big a name as DD, or fell apart as dramatically in what should have been their prime. Sure lots of other properties have languished in more recent years, like most of Konami’s portfolio. A few later licensed ports/sequels of varying quality (Advance, Neon and the recent stupidly named IV, despite there already being a fourth main game).įrom one of gaming’s top brands with a cartoon and movie, to dead, in less than ten years. 1996: Technos Japan declared bankruptcy.Īnd that’s really it for Double Dragon.Technos themselves also made a Double Dragon 1v1 fighter, on Neo Geo of all places, based on the recent terrible movie.It tied into am American cartoon that had just started. Double Dragon V is a crappy outsourced 1v1 fighter, a late entrant into the Street Fighter II clone market.Still a nice evolution of the beat em up with great 80s/90s kung fu moves, but it’s 30fps and bare bones in many ways. Double Dragon IV (Return of Double Dragon) on Super Famicom was shaping up to be a quality game… but was rushed at the end and was released half finished. ![]() ![]() Double Dragon II on Game Boy was a reskinned Kunio game with the Double Dragon III art, another WTF.Double Dragon III Famicom was done by Technos, and was much better, but not as good as II.Double Dragon III arcade was outsourced.Double-Dragon-Famicom-Cover-double-dragon-40191114-560-800.jpg 560×800ĭouble Dragon II was another arcade hit, but this time it got a superb Famicom port which IMO remains the pinnacle of NES/Fami beat em ups. ![]()
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