NES Works #081: Double Dragon
Added 2021-08-11 15:00:07 +0000 UTCAnother big one this week—one of the biggest ones so far. Double Dragon was a big deal on NES, even if it left a bad taste in the mouth of anyone hoping to enjoy a direct arcade-to-console adaptation. For various reasons (be it Nintendo licensing rules or technical limitations or a combination of both), Double Dragon on NES bears only a loose resemblance to the arcade game, carrying forward characters, setting details, and a general mechanical similarity. Beyond that, however, Technos changed the game pretty radically in porting it to console—or at least, this console, anyway. Was it the right call? That's highly subjective! Bit I do think this version turned out to be a lot more convincing than an attempt to create a direct conversion would have been...
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Since I have a soft spot for River City Ransom, I like that this game looks forward to that game's progression as far as experience and cash (Limited Run is also going to do a physical release for the Kunio-kun collection that includes Double Dragon so I'm looking forward to that too). I also await your look at the Master System version when that comes up in Segaiden.
Peter LaPrade
2021-08-11 23:13:50 +0000 UTCAlso, it goes without saying that Double Dragon isn't the best arcade game from Technos. That's Wrestlefest.
Sven Mascarenhas
2021-08-11 17:39:51 +0000 UTC
