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Developer(s): Technos
Publisher(s): Technos, SNK
Platform(s): Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, Playstation
Release Date(s): March 31st 1995 (
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Arcade), June 2nd 1995 ( Neo Geo CD), April
26th 1996 ( PS1)
Characters: Billy, Jimmy, Abobo, Marian, Burnov, Amon, Dulton, Rebecca, Cheng-Fu, Eddie, Duke, Koga Shuko
Related Games: Rage of the Dragons
Review:
The first Double Dragon fighting game spin-off (based off of the horrible
1994 Double Dragon movie, which of course was based off of the original
successful arcade game) featured 10 selectable characters and 2 boss characters.
Double Dragon seemed yet like another Street Fighter 2 rip-off on
it's debut and for the most part, it was.
Instead of featuring specific kick & punch buttons like most
other fighting games, characters in Double Dragon have 4 basic attacks
which wary depending on the character's position. The staple super move meter is
also present, known as a "charge" meter in this game, and fills up
faster when a character has less health. Special "charge moves" are
performed by executing the command of a regular special move and pressing two
attack buttons simultaneously at the end instead of just one.
Overall, Double Dragon is a very basic
fighting game, but offers some decent gameplay.
It had a few memorable characters, although the majority of character designs
lacked personality and were quite shallow/generic; but some of them had
some considerably unique & cool moves at least. The overall graphics could
be described, at best... bright & colorful, and the character sprites were
considerably "big" for the time. In my opinion though, the
overall visuals were bland and the animation was also lacking when
compared to many other fighting games at the time. A decent effort, but
really an average fighting game.
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Closing Comment: Double Dragon, the fighting game, failed to impress on most levels to say the least; but at the least it was a halfway decent tribute to the classic arcade beat-up-up (which I was a very big fan of as a kid). The later released Rage of the Dragons was also based on the Double Dragon series, was the successor to this title. ~F.Yagami, Webmaster of TFG
