The only thing DD really has over FF mechanically is platforming elements of dubious merits and that enemies can pick up and deny weapons to the player. Its enemies are also much more varied in AI and attribute than Double Dragon (Hollywood/El Gato alone has way more going-on than anyone in the first two DD). They have similar amount of moves, but FF’s moveset is far more functional than DD’s and it has three characters with (somewhat) different moves and attributes while DD, doesn’t. I don’t see how FF is more shallow than DD. But none were as big a name as DD, or fell apart as dramatically in what should have been their prime. Sure lots of other properties have languished in more recent years, like most of Konami’s portfolio. A few later licensed ports/sequels of varying quality (Advance, Neon and the recent stupidly named IV, despite there already being a fourth main game).įrom one of gaming’s top brands with a cartoon and movie, to dead, in less than ten years.

1996: Technos Japan declared bankruptcy.Īnd that’s really it for Double Dragon.

Technos themselves also made a Double Dragon 1v1 fighter, on Neo Geo of all places, based on the recent terrible movie.

It tied into am American cartoon that had just started.

Double Dragon V is a crappy outsourced 1v1 fighter, a late entrant into the Street Fighter II clone market.Still a nice evolution of the beat em up with great 80s/90s kung fu moves, but it’s 30fps and bare bones in many ways.

Double Dragon IV (Return of Double Dragon) on Super Famicom was shaping up to be a quality game… but was rushed at the end and was released half finished.Double Dragon II on Game Boy was a reskinned Kunio game with the Double Dragon III art, another WTF.Double Dragon III Famicom was done by Technos, and was much better, but not as good as II.Double Dragon III arcade was outsourced.Double-Dragon-Famicom-Cover-double-dragon-40191114-560-800.jpg 560×800ĭouble Dragon II was another arcade hit, but this time it got a superb Famicom port which IMO remains the pinnacle of NES/Fami beat em ups.

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