Double dragon

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Double dragon
DoubleDragon-Logo.jpg
Studio JapanJapan Technos
Publisher JapanJapan Taito
Senior Developer Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Shinichi Saitou u. a.
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 08/ 1987
genre Beat 'em up
Game mode 2 players at the same time
control 8-way joystick ; 3 buttons
casing default
Arcade system Main CPU : Hitachi HD6309 (@ 3.579545 MHz), HD63701
Sound CPU: HD6309 (@ 3.579545 MHz)
Sound Chips: YM2151, 2 × MSM5205
monitor Raster resolution 240 × 224 (4: 3 horizontal) Color palette: 384
information Details for part 1, arcade version

The Double Dragon game series is one of the best-known and oldest beat-'em-up games.

Versions

The first part was developed in 1987 by Technos Japan, initially for arcade machines . In the following years, Double Dragon II - The Revenge (1988) and Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone (1990) appeared. These three arcade games were also implemented for common game consoles and computers about a year later after the arcade was published. There are also special versions, almost all of which were developed exclusively for the respective game console.

Plot and course of the game

Alone or in pairs, you take on the role of the brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee, who fight their way through the levels in order to free a kidnapped girl named Marian at the end.

Fighting is done with fists, legs and all sorts of objects that are lying around or that can be taken from opponents. The objects can either be slammed (baseball bat, whip) or thrown (knife, dynamite , barrels, boxes, boulders).

The two-player mode has the special feature that at the end you have to fight against each other in order to be able to finish the game. The winner then saves the girl.

Characters

Jimmy and Billy as cosplayers

Most of the characters were named after Bruce Lee's film The Man with the Death Claw (Original title: Enter the Dragon ).

player

  • Billy (blue)
  • Jimmy (red)

opponent

  • Williams (weak punk)
  • Lopar
  • Linda Lash (female punk with whip)
  • Bolo (strong giant)
  • Abobo (1st Boss, similar to Mr. T )
  • Jeff (2nd boss, similar to the player)
  • Willy (final boss, with submachine gun)

Movie about the game, miscellaneous

  • For the movie there is again an implementation as a game with the title "Double Dragon", which however had little in common with the first part of the video game series of the same name. The film implementation was - in contrast to the old, sideways scrolling parts - in the style of Street Fighter II and provided with video sequences from the movie. The plot of the game resembles that of the film and therefore has great differences to the plot of the other games. The game "Double Dragon V", which was released for home consoles and which is based on the cartoon series in terms of setting, is also designed in the style of Street Fighter in the "1-on-1" style. The same applies to the offshoot "Rage of the Dragons", released in 2002 , which is not officially part of the series due to licensing conditions.
  • The Game Boy version of Double Dragon II is completely different from the arcade version. It is a localized version of a Japanese game of the "Kunio-kun" series, in which the graphics, music, characters and texts have been exchanged and only the basic structure and level design has been retained.
  • Several soundtrack CDs for the Double Dragon series have been released in Japan . Double Dragon also has comic booklets and an animated series from 1993/1994.

Comparable predecessors and successors

Ports

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