I can just imagine the Dev team sitting down and saying: “Okay, we got people interested in our first game with shock value because a girl gets punched in the stomach right at the beginning. How can we be even more shocking and edgy in the sequel? Murder the woman? That’s a great idea! Let’s do it!” 🤣🤷♂️
Now the first time played this game was when I was a teenager. There was an Arcade near the Jr. H.S I used to attend but would ditch until lunchtime sometimes not go to school at all. So before class began myself and friends would not go and go to the Arcade instead to waste quarters on video games. Later the police would actually come inside the Arcade to look for those who were ditching school but me and my friends were long gone. DD 2 brings so much childhood memories! Thank you for reliving them!
Esta arcada aún se encuentra en el centro cápitol Guatemala, la hé jugado y aún logro terminar el juego..... Ah que hermosa época cuando salíamos de clase y nos ibamos corriendo para jugar Double Dragon II. 🇬🇹
Are you serious? There's loads of coders today making homebrew stuff which pushes the hardware far beyond what everyone thought was possible. Assembly language has become very popular in the last few years.
Yep, I wish there was a way you and I could play together, I never tire of the NES version, still my favorite NES game of all times, I can play that game 20 times in a row and never tired of it. The music, sound effects etc. all superior to the arcade version, even the ending was better, the arcade version was terrible compared to the NES version imho.
@@Rick-si1re very true. The ending in this arcade version ending is basically just a polaroid photo of the three people. with corny music in the background. pathetic ending for a great arcade classic IMO.
@@dub2536 yeah, but those games weren't really about story like games are today, those games were about action, as many 80s and early 90s games were, the beat em up genre was a very popular genre back then. I certainly didn't play Double Dragon for it's "grand" story, did u? lol
@@Rick-si1re No, I didn't play it for the story. Touche. I just would have expected a better ending. I also feel that DD3 oddly got the gameplay and graphics worse than the first two. What do you think?
@@OikPoinFive nah you mean Smash of demolition but he did do repo gimmick when demolition when they went there way. Smash with booger body and dyed hair
Lo que no sabe la gente..es que la continuacion de este juego..es la del nes el double dragon 2 vs shadow warriors..donde el jefe final te explica de forma literal..que la muerte de marian..solo fue una ilusion y que solo al derrotarle podras romperla y es por lo cual marian sigue viva y se cataloga como canon la version nes y no esta..aun que esta mas genial el final de aca por que te explica que ya nada volvera a ser lo mismo..puesto que al final matas a tu alter ego..o algo asi como matar a tu pasado..ahora existe un nuevo billy o jimmy del presente que ya no duda en matar.
Nos anos 90 os fliperamas eram o vício da molecada, e Double Dragon foi sucesso absoluto, o 1° por ser mais fácil salvar com 1 ficha arrebentou, esse era mais difícil, certeza q nesse vídeo está no easy
@@TheVideoMaker1999 That's low hanging fruit. I'd say that NES Double Dragon 3 is the best version of DD3. It's the only one that's actually playable. The more accurate Genesis version is still crap because the arcade DD3 was crap. NES DD3 didn't even bother to imitate the arcade, which makes it better by default.
Excelente juego, y muy distinto a los demás, veamos: comienza con el asesinato de la.protagonista, y termina en que matas al de la metrayeta que mató a tu novia, y te sale un fantasma de tu alter ego , le ganas despues de continuar 500 veces y pues como no hay princesa qué rescatar porque ya la mataron, sale una foto de ella con jimy y lee (creo así se llaman) y suelta una lágrima, neta ese final de niño me hacia casi llorar 🥺
5:20 and 17:44 Hey!! It's Andre the Giant from wwf superstars arcade game, only with different hair colour and attire. Has the same moves set as well. Technos all the way!!
In the late 80s I actually preferred the NES Double Dragon games; I could never play the arcade games well, and the slow-down and sluggishness of their gameplay was pure frustration. DDII on the NES? Kick ass. Then a couple of years later, Final Fight and Streets of Rage 2 were my jam (plus arcade Punisher, X-Men, and AvP).
I always struggle to see how the computer whose punches and kicks connects and takes precedence over the others. There has been so many instances where when I attack, graphically it looks like my punches or kicks connected the enemy and yet enemy does not display a pain animation and I am the one who ended up getting hit and losing health....
Quem tinha acima de 12 anos no fim da década de 80, vivenciou a febre q foi as casas de máquinas arcades/fliperamas até início dos anos 2000... Era o vício da molecada e jovens da época... Double Dragon, Golden axe, Final Fight, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2, Cadillac Dinossauros, The King Of Fighters, entre outros eram demais... Saudades
Your beautiful girlfriend Marion gets needlessly murdered by the Black Shadow Warriors and you vow to seek revenge. I have this game for my Nintendo Entertainment System. As a matter of fact, I now have the complete NES trilogy!
Yea nes was way better IMO, sound fx was better, music was better for some reason lol, that 8 bit sound was hitting hard, longer and more stages and not as repetitive with the enemies
That's a photo of the three of them, prior to her getting killed. Unlike the NES version (and associated ports), Marian can't be bought back to life in this game. The ending of her crying was just a "Despite all that, I'm still dead and nothing will bring me back" type deal.
Marion WAS actually killed in Double Dragon II on the N.E.S. as well (though just wasn't actually shown to be), but was also resurrected after defeating the Mission 9 boss, unlike this version. She was also the end boss you fought at the end of D.D. III on Nintendo, and was under a spell, which you'd snap her out of by beating her as well.
I had no idea DD arcades were a different game! now i want play double dragon I & ll arcades, but I have only ever seen the NES version. where on earth is a double dragon arcade!😭
I remember playing dd2 at a circle k, the cashier used to get a little upset, because the neighborhood kids just asked for quarters to play dd2, one day they didn't have it no more, very upsetting 😢
I know what you mean. My circle K that was close to my house had street Fighter 2, Final Fight and Assault. For the longest time it great having. Then they decided to remodel the inside and they took games out. :/
I'm very confused i used to play this game as a kid in what version is where the characters are more shrink i used to play the one where they look like this one
So glad you’re not one of those lames who just spam one move throughout the whole game(usually its the jump spin kick). Its so boring to both play and watch someone play like that.
Its strange that with all the arcades that operated in my area back in the late 80s, early 90s...i never once saw a DD2 cabinet. For the longest time i thought that the NES version was a stand alone sequel made just for the console. It wasnt until the mid 90s that i found out there was an arcade version. Til this day ive still never seen one in an arcade. Are there any options for playing this besides hunting down an original cabinet?
Ooooooooh oh oh 10:00 that fcking music we call it the tractor stage 🤣🤣🤣 oh man childhood still in my ears gooooood memories thanks me and my brother by 1 coins to the final boss all boys are watching my brother and me playing it to the ends we are pro at games that times all boys round the cabinet arcade ..and the owner of the arcade does not like that because if we finish the game he must demande for the new game 😂😂 When the technical staff comes for changing games or repair or money we are the only 2 boys at our small city staying inside the store waching them ...at that time me and my brother we become pro ate repairing games arcade consoles we learned ......... memories by the way im from morocco north africa near to spain algeria
My thought exactly, one of the worse endings ever in a game, the NES version was so much better .............oh we're pretty much saying the same thing lol read my comment above haha.
@@arelr6822 the nes version did have the Shadow master, mission 9 was added to the NES version but then again the NES version was very different then the arcade version, but the NES version was way better imho. Meh, the ending was what it was, you didn't exactly play Double Dragon or any beat em up for it's story, some dude's girlfriend gets kidnapped, said dude then goes to rescue her and on the way fight hordes and hordes of thugs and saves the day, the stories of most of these games didn't go much deeper then that, but as I said, you played them for the action and not the story, when it was over it was over......
@@arelr6822 Well everyone is different, I thought most people played beat em ups for the action and not really the story. hmm, I don't remember DD1, I finished the NES version a few times but never the arcade version
So wait, are we supposed to believe that Marian survived in the end despite being shot dead at the start of the game? The ending is too abrupt, I have no idea what to make of it.....
Return Of Double Dragon on the Super Famicom was even better, and was pretty close to what the actual final version was supposed to be also. That despite even if it was still incomplete unfortunately too. I also preferred the arcade versions of the Double Dragon games, save for D.D. III. That of which was pretty awful for the most part, but was at least well done on the N.E.S., despite it's somewhat brutal (but far from impossible, like Battletoads was for example) difficulty to an extent though.
@Potato Gaming World You have to fight an illusion of Billy before defeating the real Final Boss to save Billy's girlfriend. I did played the NES version of Double Dragon II.
@russ g , i actually love DD. My older brother had a NES and I played those games when i was younger. parts 1 and 2. part 3 i thought was horrible. so they were a part of my childhood. in some weird way.
@clint45 That's actually not Abobo, but rather a different, though similar character called Bolo. Abobo was the mid/sub boss you fought in the first Double Dragon, while Jick was the Mr. T lookalike, who was the boss of Mission #1 as well.
@clint45 Abore is definitely a pain in the ass to deal with for certain, and can kill you pretty quickly for that matter too! I also never realized that the Mr. T boss was actually named Jick up until recently, while Abobo was merely the mid sub-boss in the original Double Dragon as well. That of which wasn't exactly common knowledge up until late, what with Jick not actually appearing in the console versions of the first Double Dragon also.
The tech was nowhere near there at the time. Even the PC and Amiga ports of arcade games in this era sucked, let alone the 8 bit consoles. This was 1998. Long before 16 bit consoles, and even those couldn’t come close to replicating arcade machines.
