Double Dragon ( ??????? , Daburu Doragon is a series of their hit video games originally developed by Techn's Japan and released as an arcade game in 1987. The series starred in twin martial artists Billy and Jimmy Lee as they struggle against various enemies and rivals. Due to the popularity of game series, animated series and live-action film adaptations have also been produced.
The franchise belongs to Arc System Works, the company that has transferred the original Double Dragon to the Sega Master System console in 1988.
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The first game, Double Dragon , was released in the arcade in 1987. The Nintendo Entertainment System version produced by Techn's was released in 1988, followed by the Game Boy version in 1990. Various licensed versions are also manufactured by developers others for gaming platforms such as Master Systems, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Genesis, Atari Lynx and for home computers. Two sequels of Double Dragon were released for the arcade: Double Dragon II: The Revenge in 1988 and Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone in 1990. Like originally, Techn's produced a version for NES (Double Dragon II: The Revenge in 1989 and Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones in 1991 respectively). The fourth game was released exclusively for Super NES in 1992, titled Super Double Dragon . It was the last game produced by the original team at Techn's. The Gear Game Game titled Double Dragon is not associated with the series, rather than based on Streets of Rage .
In 1994, Tradewest released Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls for Super NES and Genesis in North America and Europe, a competitive battle game developed by Leland Interactive based on the Double Dragon series TV animation by Bohbot Entertainment. The Jaguar version was released by Telegames as well.
Another fighting game produced by Techn's, titled Double Dragon , was released for Neo-Geo arcade and home console in 1995. Neo-Geo CD version was also released, as well as PlayStation Version by Urban Plant. It was the last <<> Double Dragon game produced by Techn's before the company went out of business.
In 2003, a remake of the original Double Dragon Advance, produced by Atlus and Million (copyright holder of Double Dragon ) series at the time) for Game Boy Advance.
In 2011, another remake was released for the iPhone, developed by Brizo Interactive and published by Aksys Games.
On April 4, 2012, WayForward Technologies announced that it will develop the Double Dragon Neon, a parody of the series. The game was released September 11, 2012 for the PlayStation Network, one day later for Xbox Live, and released for PC in the first quarter of 2014.
On April 5, 2013, Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons, original 3D remake of Double Dragon II, was released on Xbox Live Arcade by Gravity game developers.
A compilation of three arcade titles, titled Double Dragon Trilogy , released by DotEmu in 2013 for iOS, Android, GOG, and Steam platforms.
The new title in the series, titled Double Dragon IV (not to be confused with Super Double Dragon ), was released on January 30, 2017 for PlayStation 4 and PC respectively and September 7, 2017 for the Nintendo Switch. This happens immediately after Double Dragon II: The Revenge and uses 8-bit art-style, similar to the NES port from the initial entry of the series. The title was developed by Arc System Works and former Technos staff such as producer Takaomi Kaneko, director Yoshihisa Kishimoto, character designer Koji Ogata, composer Kazunaka Yamane, and Kei Oyama programmer.
- Super Spike V'Ball (NES) - The NES version featuring Billy and Jimmy as playable characters.
- WWF Superstars (arcade) - Featuring a cameo by Billy as one of the audiences of the game.
- Battletoad & amp; Double Dragon (NES, GB, Genesis, SNES) - Crossover game between Double Dragon and Battletoads .
- Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (Neo-Geo) - Burnov of Neo-Geo Double Dragon game made a cameo as opposed to Captain Atlantis at the end of the story.
- Rage of the Dragons (Neo-Geo) - Unofficial acknowledgment of Double Dragon produced by Evoga and Noise Factory. The main characters are named Billy and Jimmy Lewis. Abobo's Big Adventure (PC) - Unofficial parody of various Nintendo Entertainment System titles, including Double Dragon , and starring Abobo as the main character.
- River City: Rival Showdown (3DS) - Both Billy and Jimmy Lee are playable characters in Dual Dragon Duel mode.
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A loose dragon comic book series is based on a game published by Marvel Comics in 1991, which runs six issues from July to December. This comic book was written by Dwayne McDuffie for the first four issues and by Tom Brevoort and Mike Kanterovich for the latter two. It features original criminals, and unique stories explaining the origins of the brothers.
Double Dragon is one of the video games featured in the manga, titled Game Boy Rock'n by Shigeto Ikehara, at Comic BomBom from October 1989 to December 1991.
The animated series Double Dragon was produced by DiC Entertainment and Bohbot Productions, originally aired in a two-season syndication from 1993 to 1995, which lasted 26 episodes.
The movie version of Double Dragon was released in theaters in 1994 directed by James Yukich and starred Scott Wolf and Mark Dacascos as Lee sisters.
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Character
Lee Brothers
For most of the series, players control martial artist Billy Lee , who fights against various enemies such as gang members and opposing fighters. He is often aided by his twin brother Jimmy Lee , who usually serves as the second player character in most games. Lee brothers are characterized as the successor of the fictional martial art known as S? Setsuken ( ??? , "Twin Sever Fist", also known as S? Saiken ) , which combines techniques from other styles such as karate, tai chi, and Shorinji Kempo.
This duo was not actually named when the original arcade game was originally released in Japan, although the names of Hammer and Spike were given to them in the cabinet and promotional brochures produced by Taito for the version overseas. Billy and Jimmy Lee's names were first established in the Famicom/NES version of the first game and consequently used in other console versions and tie-in products, such as the original soundtrack album The Original Sound of Double Dragon, actually used in an arcade version until Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone . Billy Lee's name comes from a combination of Bruce Lee's first name with the first name of his character Billy Lo from the Game of Death movie, while Jimmy is named after musician Jimmy Page
Due to the difference between the arcade and console versions of the game, the designs of the Lee brothers tend to vary throughout the series. While the original arcade game has Player 1 controlling a blond brother Lee who wears a blue outfit and Player 2 as a brown brunette in red, the NES version has their hair color and changing outfit: Billy is now a brown-haired sister blue, while Jimmy became a blond brunette in red. Super Double Dragon is the first game to have different Lee brothers hairstyles during game play, with Billy styled hair styled and Jimmy flat top spikes, design conventions adopted by subsequent games like << i > Double Dragon Advance and smartphone versions, despite some in-game promotional and visual arts for previous games (such as the final photo of Double Dragon II: The Revenge and the sequence of character/portrait characters from > Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones ) has described Lee's brother with a different hairstyle. Other games, such as competitive Neo-Geo fighting games and Double Dragon Neon, portray Lee brothers as identical twins like in the first arcade game.
Both brothers were shown romantic interest in a young woman named Marian , a student in their dojo. The arcade version of the first game (along with most console versions) can end with the two brothers fighting each other against Marian if the two players reach the end together, with survivors finally winning Marian's affection. The Famicom/NES version, which sets Marian as Billy's long-term girlfriend, changes the story so that Jimmy is actually the leader of the Black Warriors (a change made as a result of the lack of two-player cooperative play in the version) and is the one who governs Marian's abduction.
Enemy characters
The enemy organization of the original Double Dragon is a Black Warriors gang, characterized as the dominant criminal organization in New York City after the nuclear war left the seized city. law and order. Just like the Lee brothers themselves, the names of the gang members are established throughout the console versions of the series. The original leader of the gang was the Willy Mackey machine gun (generally known only as Willy ), who wanted to gain knowledge of Lee brothers martial arts for himself and ordered Marian's kidnapping as a ransom. Repeated gang members in different versions of the first game include thugs Williams and Rowper , dominatrix Linda , and strong bald Abobo . The arcade version also features two unnamed head swaps from other characters (ie Abobo and Lee brothers) as the final boss: although this character is not in the NES version, which instead introduces a unique enemy, a Chinese martial artist named Chin Taimei . Lee's head swap head will appear in Mark III/System System version released by Sega, where he is named Jeff .
The gang name will change in the game later. While the arcade version of Double Dragon II: The Revenge makes Willy and Black Warriors avenge their previous defeat by shooting down Marian, the Famicom version replaces Willy with an anonymous fighter who leads the mysterious armed group following the original Black Soldier dissolution. Though unnamed in the Japanese version, the NES version of English localization will refer to this organization as Shadow Warriors (or Black Shadow Warriors in the manual), a name then used for groups unrelated enemies in the Super Double Dragon , as well as Willy's own gang in Double Dragon Advance . The Shadow Warriors is also the name of the criminal group in the Double Dragon series animation and its tie-in game, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls, where they almost reach the fullest of characters new.
The names of Williams and Rowper come from the characters played by Jim Kelly and John Saxon respectively in the movie Enter Enter the Dragon . Other characters seem to follow the same naming convention as Linda, who shares her name with Bruce Lee's widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, and enemy characters Bolo from Double Dragon II: The Revenge who shares his name with actor Bolo Yeung.
Gameplay
Gameplay in most games takes place in a pseudo-3D perspective like in Renegade and then beat-'em-up, where player characters can move in four directions but always facing left or right. Players can perform various weaponless fighting techniques against their enemies, as well as using melee weapons such as baseball bats and throwing knives normally obtained from enemies. In some installments, there are techniques that can be done in combination with other players.
References
External links
- Double Dragon series director Yoshihisa Kishimoto Series
- Double Dragon in MobyGames Serial
- Double Dragon in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
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