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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 15:17:59 No.2741620 View Reply Report Delete

God tier
>Double Dragon Advance
>Double Dragon II (NES)
>Double Dragon (arcade)
>Battletoads vs. Double Dragon

Decent tier
>Double Dragon Neon
>Double Dragon II (PC Engine)
>Double Dragon II (arcade)
>Double Dragon (NES)
>Double Dragon (Game Boy)

Meh tier
>Double Dragon (Master System)
>Double Dragon III (NES)
>Double Dragon II (Game Boy)

Shit tier
>Double Dragon 3 (arcade)
>Double Dragon II: Wanders of the Dragons

Vs. fighting tier
>Double Dragon (Neo-Geo)
>Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:55:41 No.2744514 Report Delete

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>>2744496
You do know what "traced" means don't you?

I can see the similarities but they are still very different in style.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 11:44:42 No.2744834 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744994

>>2744514
I didn't meant traced in the literal sense of course, but it's obvious the Atari artist use the Famicom art (which were pretty stylized renditions of the characters to begin with) for reference without fully knowing who the characters were. Like, why the hell are Williams, Chin and Abobo harassing Linda when she's one of them (I know she's supposed to be Marian, but she dresses like Linda in the NES manual art)? Why is Abobo the same size as the other bad guys? Was Chin (the Chinese guy) even in the Atari version?

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 13:18:52 No.2744961 Report Delete

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>>2741871
>>2741914
Rage of the Dragons was kinda weird. It was an unofficial sequel to the Neo-Geo Double Dragon, which in turn was a tie-in to the movie, which in turn was only loosely based on the original games.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 13:37:56 No.2744994 Report Delete

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>>2744834
The word you're looking for is "referenced", not traced.

The Atari cover looks like someone handed an artist the promotional art in >>2744496 and then gave him a copy of The Warriors on VHS and said "take these guys and make them American."

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 13:52:24 No.2745017 Report Delete

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>>2744994
To be fair, Double Dragon's whole visual style was inspired by Renegade (the American version of the first Kunio game), which in turn was inspired by The Warriors. Even the bad guys in Double Dragon are called the Black WARRIORS.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 15:32:28 No.2745172 Report Delete

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>>2743281
Was it just me or were the Jeffs (the Lee brother palette swap enemies) were cheap in the Genesis version? They were tough in the AC version to begin with, but they could hair grab you more easily on the Genesis.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 19:56:26 No.2745593 Report Delete

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>>2741620
Hey, #3 was not that bad at all!

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 23:40:45 No.2745903 Report Delete

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>>2745593
Double Dragon 3 was really weird. Your punches barely had reach, the character animation was pretty horrible and the US version featured microtransactions in fucking 1990.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOO71x-lB5A

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 00:52:45 No.2745975 Report Delete

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>>2745903
It wasn't made by Technos Japan.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 03:01:03 No.2746098 Report Delete

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>>2745903
The arcade version and its ports of that are nothing. The NES version is the only one that is matters - in anything but a negative way.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 04:59:36 No.2746209 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747546

>>2745975
It was outsourced to another developer, but Kishimoto (the original Double Dragon creator) oversaw its development and even named the game after one of his favorite '70s bands.

>>2746098
I'm not particular fond of either, but the NES version allowed you to play as a ninja. That counts for something.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 05:58:15 No.2746226 Report Delete

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I will always love the intro tune from the atari Ste version. My older bro and I wore out many a joystick whip kicking barrel throwing dudes and 80s as fuck women. Weirdly the game had no other music, just meh sfx and the memorable "wah" of the women when they got ko'd

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 13:05:42 No.2746692 Report Delete

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>>2746226
Most home computer games in the 80s were like that. Since storage space was a luxury with floppies, they usually only had two music tracks at best, a title theme and an ending theme. Occasionally you might have one or two background music, but that's that.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 15:30:48 No.2746913 Report Delete

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Dumping some old Return of Double Dragon articles from Famitsu.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 15:32:19 No.2746916 Report Delete

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>>2746913

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 15:33:21 No.2746920 Report Delete

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>>2746916

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 15:35:52 No.2746925 Report Delete

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>>2746920
The game got so-so scores when it was eventually reviewed.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 17:04:47 No.2747138 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747143

Some review for the Master System version too.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 17:05:49 No.2747143 Report Delete

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>>2747138

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 21:17:21 No.2747546 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747562

>>2746209
Well, that must mean the original creator intended to be making DD3, it that doesn't imply they had faith in the outsourced version. Maybe time constraints meant that the NES version was easier to get done for them, or more likely, they deemed it more important.

Yeah, it did technically have a a ninja, but you can't forget playing as a king-fu master with a belly-flop-of-death. Cause, more capable character and all that.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 21:27:28 No.2747562 Report Delete

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>>2747546
>Well, that must mean the original creator intended to be making DD3, it that doesn't imply they had faith in the outsourced version. Maybe time constraints meant that the NES version was easier to get done for them, or more likely, they deemed it more important.
It was outsourced cause Technos's arcade division was busy with other projects such as WWF Superstars and Combatribes at the time and apparently there was a huge demand for a third Double Dragon arcade game since the first two games were pretty successful. I'm not sure why they didn't wait until they were over with their other projects before working on DD3.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 21:47:39 No.2747594 Report Delete

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>>2744496
>Hokuto_no_Ken.jpg

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 22:18:39 No.2747626 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747771

>>2747562
Oh, arcade division, that makes sense.

Wonder why they didn't instead port the NES version to other systems, if the master system and PC engine were still being supported, those would have been an excellent candidates. But PCE's single controller options were, well, anti-double.

Even a solid port of the NES version to the genesis and PC would have been preferable.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 23:46:59 No.2747771 Report Delete

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>>2747626
Technos only supported Nintendo consoles until a few years just before they went out of business when they did those Neo-Geo games, along with Popeye's Beach Volley on the Game Gear and Geom Cube on PlayStation.

All those Double Dragon and Kunio ports on Sega and NEC consoles and such were actually licensed versions made by other companies, so Technos themselves probably had little choice in the matter regarding which games they choose to convert.

Acclaim were the ones who produced the Double Dragon 3 port on the Genesis and Game Boy.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 13:26:19 No.2748771 Report Delete

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Posting some fanart of Linda.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 13:27:47 No.2748773 Report Delete

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>>2748771
Wish the artist had done a version of this with Marian.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 19:55:21 No.2749359 Report Delete

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>>2748773

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 21:50:51 No.2749570 Report Delete

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>>2748773
I'm going to assume there are nudes

I don't see how there couldn't be

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 02:04:30 No.2749947 Report Delete

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>>2749570
Nah. The artist just really likes his beat-'em-ups.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 14:23:40 No.2750879 Report Delete

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 20:36:26 No.2751584 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752118

>>2746925
>That one reviewer giving it a 3
I love how people act like game reviewers being biased retards is some sort of new thing that started with Kotaku and IGN, this shit has always been going on. Flip open any EGM and see it for yourself. I swear childhood me wanted to murder Sushi-X.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:15:17 No.2752118 Report Delete

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>>2751584
He complains that there's not enough enemy variety and that it's too old-fashioned, but the 2P co-op is nice (I'm guessing this and Rushing Beat were the only 2P beat-'em-ups on the SFC at the time). The common complaints in the other reviews are that it's too slow-paced, the characters are too small compared to beat-'em-ups, and it's barely an improvement over the 8-bit NES versions.

Famitsu reviews back then could be really harsh if they wanted to.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:45:55 No.2752872 Report Delete

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:14:23 No.2754159 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754181

>>2746925
i guess Technos didn't pay Famitsu enough

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:25:29 No.2754181 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754219

>>2754159
Double Dragon I on the Famicom got a 31 from Famitsu, which is considered above-average. DD2 only got a 26 though. Not sure how DD3 did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:50:16 No.2754219 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754779

>>2754181
Too lazy to search this out myself, but: did Famitsu generally have a bias against beat 'em ups? I can see DD1 getting a low score because of comparisons to the arcade version, but DD2... fuck 'em.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:13:41 No.2754779 Report Delete

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>>2754219
I don't think they really have any bias against beat-'em ups. Golden Axe on the Mega Drive and Batman Returns on Super Famicom both scored above 30 too. I just don't think they cared about specific genres unless they were RPGs.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:16:04 No.2755683 Report Delete

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:17:12 No.2755684 Report Delete

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>>2755683

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 21:19:21 No.2755692 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 13:14:16 No.2756839 Report Delete

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 16:59:16 No.2757298 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758059

>>2741620
No Kunio-kun?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLghiQtvBR5hXcE_FMV6-CA8Niy23Ez1vn

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 22:08:23 No.2758059 Report Delete

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>>2757298
Kunio-kun had more sports games than beat-'em-ups though.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:57:22 No.2758356 Report Delete

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>>2758059

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:16:41 No.2758385 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758583

>>2758356
The NES/FC version is so fun..

>Running punch okizeme infinite
>good bike mini-game

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 03:30:43 No.2758583 Report Delete

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>>2758385
I loved how you could milk out infinite extra lives by sitting on your third enemy on the very first area.

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