Arcade Longplay - Double Dragon (OLD RECORDING)

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Played by: Georgc3
Marion has been kidnapped by the black warriors and demanded the lee brothers to disclose their martial arts secrets in return for Marion's freedom. The Lee brothers retaliate by going on a mission to rescue and save Marion. They use whatever technique they have like basic punches, kicks, jump kicks, elbow strike, head butts, as well as weapons. That comes to their hands. The Lee brothers must pursue the gangs through city slums, industrial areas, and the forest reaching out to the black warriors' hideout to confront big boss, Willy the gunman. This is easily the best version of the original Double Dragon.
I used to play this game a lot in the arcades. At the very last level where the final boss, while I was attacking Abodo, he grabbed and threw me up in the balcony where Willy the gunman was standing. Wow, did not notice it. It gave me the shortcut to beat him at an instant. After defeating Willy the gunman, all other enemies start to retreat. I only managed to kill one enemy which was Jeff preventing him from escaping. I assumed the difficulty was played on medium or hard since I did not check the settings at all.
Tried playing this game on MAME-Rerecording but the emulator movie file desync so I had to play it on MAMEUI with directing AVI recording instead. -
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[@Breakbeats92.5]

The game that changed it all. Words cant describe how blown away I was when i first saw this cabinet in the local arcade when I was little.

[@federicoparadiso8045]

i understand you, i felt the same

[@leeludlowart237]

Me too

[@junglsolja]

First saw this in a 7-11 with a small crowd around and the quarters lined up on the top panel.

[@Shendue]

I got instantly hooked. I think I passed like an hour just watching. The graphics were mindblowing at the time.

[@coolbluelights]

I could never beat the green guy at the end of the first level. it took me 30 years and a downloaded ROM for my PC to get my revenge lol

[@heavytruckequipmentrepairs6165]

This was the best arcade. We had it at the corner store there would be 20 kids play it. Fun times. Miss the good days.

[@morbidcorpse5954]

No online mess, downloadable content, or half complete game at release. Good ol beat up and good times.

[@brianledoux2396]

We had one at ames

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

At our arcade Double Dragon was played by 21 kids

[@weirdo1083]

I remember here in australia the local arcade had double dragon as a little kid and there would be a big line up to play it cheers.

[@d0n1mega]

This is the game that got me hooked on gaming. Dad used to take me to the arcade and give me a fist full of quarters and i would spend them all on this game. Beautiful memories!!

[@martynfisk511]

Best game of the 80s. Hard to believe that it's almost 30 year's old. Used to play this all the time on Brighton seafront. The good old elbow smash. I can complete this on the hardest setting without losing any health.

[@martynfisk511]

I was referring to the arcade version. Horrible game play and the con was that you had to put money in to buy upgrades. As for the far superior double dragon I didn't cheat well unless you call using the elbow cheating. But if it's in the game you can use it. I've always been pretty good at double dragon. When you set the game to the hardest setting the walls on the 4th mission do not come out I don't know why as it's meant to be hard. You cannot use a cheat on an arcade game unless you use MAME player

[@matthewadams2723]

I used to play this on Brighton seafront 😆

[@catshavesouls]

The elbow was the best weapon in this game.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Double tap forward. My asshole brother never told me how to do it when I was a kid, so now I offer this information to all other newcomers to atone for his sins.

[@thatguy22441]

Took a little longer but was a sure thing. I remember playing this game with a mouth full of Jawbreaker when I was a kid.

[@persona83]

Edward Carnby that so nice, man. Keep the arcade coop spirit alive.

[@felsner1]

Sure. If you don't know how to play.

[@ilegallaws3741]

U literally can’t get up n fight from those elbows

[@olivertatlow8537]

The mighty elbow defeated all on this game.

[@bryanneideffer3969]

Oliver Tatlow Yes seems like the player doesn't like it, sad I say

[@atroise]

I was like 9 years old when I first played it in Brazil, now 34 years later and I still love it 😊

[@swizerland100]

have u seen any video's on youtube of this without music?

[@josesantiago5858]

This is why the 80's arcades games are the best

[@BomberMonkAssassin32]

+J Santiago You can download this on the PS4

[@josesantiago5858]

+BomberMonkAssassin35 Cool, how can i download is there a link>?

[@BomberMonkAssassin32]

On the PS4 just go onto the playstation store in the search engine just type in Double Dragon and it should appear....

[@josesantiago5858]

+BomberMonkAssassin35 thanks,;-)

[@xxxmindaugasxxx]

+J Santiago only japan acc

[@angeroneski945]

One of the joys of being a kid in the 80’s

[@oldstylegaming4655]

I wasn't around in the 80's, but this game is on PS4

[@pensarefare]

When I first saw this game it was in a dusty micro one-or-two-games-only arcade. These kind of places were pretty common in southern Italy in the 80's. It had only one joystick and two buttons (in order to jump you had to press both). I was only 11 and the game was a dream to me and my friends. Later on I discovered it in a bigger arcade with two joysticks and the third button, so I found out the 2 players option and new moves. Artificial Heaven for me

[@wordman3624]

Real loyal thugs 😆 The moment Willy is beat, they're like, fuck this, I'm out.

[@Freethought73]

Damn......I feel so OLD watching this now!

[@spencerseixas7540]

1976...i don't feel, i'm...

[@lira4219m]

@@spencerseixas7540 -nick-true emotion.

[@MOMONEYAKAMaurice]

I'm old too

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. So, you know how old I was when this game came out. Video game memories can make me start crying. Maybe, that's not so weird, because many of us have great memories of our teenage years.

[@maxpower252]

23:00 That moment was always sublime. It still gives me goosebumps 30 years later like it did when I was 8 or 9 years old.

[@saturn1returns]

Yup.

[@chaosdimension6433]

That change of music was fuckin epic, you knew that shit is about to get real

[@saturn1returns]

@@chaosdimension6433 the shit was about to kick off!

[@StellaSteve80]

What I love about these old games it the simple midi music is so memorable. Over 30 years later and I’d still recognise the game in a second.

[@robertrice9466]

The greatest arcade game ever, the game play was brilliant and easy enough to use and the moves you could do where excellent and the music on this game is so rememberable I could hum it at anytime asked. I first played this game in Blackpool on holiday and I’ll never forget it. ❤️

[@porminuto7665]

I remember of being a fan of Enter the Dragon, The Warriors, Streets of Fire, Big Trouble in Little China, Mad Max and such movies. Then suddenly this game shown up, nothing like that have been made before. The huge sprites, the colors, the ost, the continuous scenarios...it was like controling a mix of those movies in a cabinet. Remarkable experience.

[@sammydane5988]

A 1987 game that still kicks major a** in 2022! 💯 ❤️

[@StormShadow1500]

After killing the Boss.. Those Bad Guys fleeing like "My Boss is dead. Since, I will not get paid, gotta go home to feed the kids!"

[@xin4941]

LOL, you got the point!

[@kdawg7736]

They were like "Run Away!"

[@suchiuomizu]

It's the same gang who had members at the start of mission 2, who chose to jump to their deaths, rather than fight.

[@avrillyon4054]

This game was one of the best that marked my childhood

[@quickfire9102]

In 89 I used to play this and Vigilante (IREM) lots and lots of times outhere in Brazil. From 1991 the Street Fighter mania (2p versus) took over the world and it outshined the beat'em ups.

[@KTF0]

I had to replay the video several times to get the complex plot. Inception eat your heart out.

[@jasonhull2163]

There was an arcade in my home town called Flippers. Last from around 1987 until 1991 They had this game and several other classic 80`s arcades. It broke my heart when they closed.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I remember this game, I saw the original arcade version back when I was 10 years old at a miniature golf on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn which is about a mile from the Marine Parkway Bridge. That brings back memories, and I remember someone beat the whole game..

[@georgelazenby3607]

People wonder why I walk around the streets swinging what appears to be an imaginary baseball bat. I show them this video. No-one is laughing any longer

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

My only gripe with the game was the lag, if too many characters came into the brawl it crawled

[@cardetailingstudioaustria4121]

The best Beat EM Up ever for all Time. For the year 1987 is this Game amazing. So many Details make the Double Dragon so big.

[@ketfoen]

I must have spent like $500 playing this while growing up. I was so heart broken when they replaced this game at the Redondo Beach arcade with another game.

[@Zaloomination]

So cool to see that this whole game was one giant level, very unique! That slowdown kills me though...

[@chaosdimension6433]

it was a limitation but made for some epic slow mo moments!

[@matttarpley9325]

Hands down: The greatest arcade game EVER! Oh the quarters I used. One, i could beat the game. After I beat it: Repeat. Loved it!

[@robdcollector2808]

Matt Tarpley ...my brother was nuts on this game. It was cool when it came out for nintendo!...those were days of 8 bit graphics!lol

[@jimmyhanger2256]

So many quarters, so many memories....tears...

[@hanglooserecluse]

This was the only arcade game i could ever crack back in the 80s. I used the reverse elbow to beat the big boss fighters and it was a power move that got me through. I was never a big gamer though and dont even play modern games at all

[@jordonvazquez7620]

Such an iconic and memorable beat em up that forged a gaming phenomenon like without this game we would not have final fight and streets of rage so I respect Techno's japan for making this classic

[@KenMasters.]

Don’t forget Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun, that game is Double Dragon’s precursor and has done better at being relevant and long running.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Ken Masters but is there an American version?

[@WHALEDOGS9111]

Great memories. One of the best Arcade video games ever

[@marioesqueda9534]

Got my own dedicated cabinet at home!! This was one of my favorites as a kid in the 80's! The music the characters the action will never get old to me! That into song in the beginning and end!!!!

[@danieltemelkovski9828]

Wow, your own dedicated cabinet at home. Lucky bastard. I would have killed to have this at home back then.

[@MrRondito]

Oh man,i feel so old watching this video..

[@jimmykicker7775]

I think I spent half my college fund on this game when I was a kid.

[@justinchaos2647]

Indeed...it was tough as hell though, can't believe how shit it looks now :)

[@Exmachinagamma]

Made it to the end with another player in the arcade ran out of quarters and these two guys wanted to continue OUR game to complete it. We blocked em and Marion died hanging there to die.

[@WuPac216]

jimmykicker7775 i was a little kid at the time so i spent all my moms laundry money on this game.

[@paulbarnes755]

Justin Chaos Congratulations you're an absolute moron 😂 😂

[@mightymulatto3000]

This game was like a drug.

[@piwbenzyna]

I love first stage soundtrack. It's motivational just like "Rocky's" theme...

[@NicanTlacaWarrior1]

My favorite video game ever, first played it when I was 6 in an arcade... almost 40 years later, I'm STILL playing it! And it's just as fun as it was the very first time I played it.

[@TheCinderellaman10]

The boss music at the end of each stage is iconic and still gets me hype!

[@erikninnemann7102]

Just downloaded this to my PS4! Ah the memories. My friend and I could get through this on a quarter each in 2 player at the bowling alley.

[@antoniomitchell1883]

Is it on Xbox one? How much was it?

[@youngnick1800]

This game was the shit when I was a kid man didn't wanna go to the grocery store with momma if they didn't have this lol

[@juliannakaberovsky4545]

My childhood! this was a revolution in last 80s!!!

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Whoa! I never knew you could get up to the balcony like that... right on! Nice moves...

[@cookiesarecool9655]

its awesome you got to fight for the girl in the end classic game.

[@wmcwmc8623]

4:12 that's a really big kitty.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Longcat is long. Tacgnol is gnol.

[@matttarpley9325]

Heathcliff. Lol

[@mgtowlite7414]

Nah, my ex-girlfriend had a bigger pussy...

[@Sm1thWessonAndMe]

Yeah, looks more like a lion cub

[@AchtungBaby77]

I remember trying to knock the kitty off the trashcan repeatedly with the bat and never succeeding 😅

[@The_Drifter_13]

Man, I played this a lot in the arcade as a kid and thought I knew all the tricks. Learned a few new ones here!

[@snake0911]

how the composer for this game did not get an oscar is beyond me.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

Level 2 music is classic.

[@christianeduardomanchioliv4831]

El truco ese de que te tire el grandote y quedas solo con el jefe no lo sabía, nunca terminas de aprender , hermoso juego

[@hugoc.robles156]

el grandote se llama Abobo 🤓

[@cuzmcc]

i use to elbow my way to the end lol

[@hanglooserecluse]

Slycargo Bravado me too

[@deg6788]

Its was set on loudest in the arcade you could hear the beating from the opposite side . Topgame.. love those times i will never forget ❤

[@fabioagius9709]

The first two player arcade game I've ever seen in my life!

[@paulziegler3558]

Ahhh...good old double dragon arcade with it's impressive 5 fps.

[@nebularain3338]

It's actually 60fps, but the address bus is only 8-Bit so that's why the slowdown occurs.

[@holden6104]

@@nebularain3338 Is there any way to fix it in Mame?

[@88hyperman]

Pretty cool 😎 how you killed the big boss by throwing him from the balcony and then all his goons taking off lol 😆

[@phhh3849]

All time best game ever. Hall of Fame.

[@santosjean]

It was this game that made me take an interest in games, put a movie in my head now, how time goes by fast. Good times when we went with friends to play these wonderful games. I remember that I thought the graphics were incredible, it was a distant dream to have this in our homes, we had to content with: MSX, TK 90X, Amiga (great computer for the time). Good memories, I can not describe how I feel about this.

[@TYNEPUNK]

some of the best music heard in a game

[@witheredmedia]

+Radiant Silver Labs nes version sounded better

[@charlesmcneil1659]

+Radiant Silver Labs I was thinking the same thing. The Triple AAA (a corner store chain in Cole harbour) got this in the summer it came out, and man, I was there everyday pumping in every sliver of silver I could find, and a big part of the appeal was the music. SuperDope.

[@thesnare100]

And it's good that here on youtube you can actually hear the music. In the arcade, all the sounds around drowned out this music.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

+adramelk44 This music is way better than the NES especially level 2

[@billybassman21]

The NES version sucked. Back in the day I returned it.

[@ckdecembergaming5655]

Wow, never knew about that last fight "glitch"!

[@oldstylegaming4655]

I always do that

[@Blue_Noah]

Neither do I!

[@stare2]

This was the best of all the DD's !

[@sleazyfellow]

Before final fight there was this, the intro and the first stage music are still great for the day. Wish it would get a proper reboot.

[@mikedisher30]

Nothing even came close to the arcade version!!

[@Nobunaga1983]

Mike Disher it kinda sucked. the slow gameplay is awful. much better on genesis

[@condor.67]

NES version = way better. The minimalistic approach of the 8-bit version brings a new dimension of art with it's graphics and chiptune sounds and OST, also there's this versus mode that it's incredible for such a limited hardware, etc js

[@mikedisher30]

condor67 yeah that one was good, I have it and the 2nd one too

[@condor.67]

+Mike Disher dude double dragon 2 for NES is the best double dragon ever made by human race

[@mikedisher30]

condor67 I can't tell you how many times I played that awesome game

[@MarthiousKnowledge2]

This was the shit back in those days!

[@oldstylegaming4655]

It's available on PS4

[@doncorneo6373]

He died at 21:05 and restored the game. You can hear it in the music.

[@catchifyoucan232]

Don Corneo Good call

[@solarflare9078]

It was quite possibly a programming error, as this game was very poorly optimized. Even the timer became slow as always when the stupid slowdown happened.

[@patarikisoterion9899]

Wow never knew you could kill the last boss before he’d even started pulling the trigger😂😂

[@Majorosp]

I finished with just me playing! The elbow is the trick!

[@hey_joe7069]

The girl with the whip excited me. I always let her whip me until i was dead. I could never play this game.

[@TheSaltsinNZ]

She certainly had a rockin' pair of tits. I feel some erotic fan fiction coming on.

[@quickfire9102]

I know what you mean. At my teen years i let her kill me a lot of times, but with her bare hands.

[@cincin75ytb]

Damn what a strong fetish...

[@happyfeetjones3365]

that was a slick trick at the end! this game brings back memories.

[@thekelvingreen]

Very nice trick with the balcony at the end!

[@Spynmaster]

Truly you've played a few rounds on this game, Georgc3. At the final fight, I thought you were in trouble when you went to that corner, but at 24:03, I was like "O.O - he just took a shortcut! Memorized." Well-played.

[@Tommyblueeyes]

I used to go the WHOLE game doing those elbows lol won the game doin em tho..that machine gun guy was hard man

[@everythingphil9376]

These videos a great! I can finally see the ending without spending a ton of quarters! Unlike when i was a broke kid when these awesome games came out.

[@albogdanovic6583]

Dude! I remember this game so well! When my brother and I were broke (which was often) we would get one token and beat the game

[@KKplaysit]

You should have let that last guy go though dude. He was only a henchman and was just trying to bail once you killed his boss. That was a little uncalled for.

[@AgentDanielCross]

No mercy! she was seriously injured, those bastards are gonna pay for that!

[@quickfire9102]

Agree. Merciless! These Billy/Jimmy clones are all bad-assed.

[@manakaitarblootza7258]

Bimmy and Jimmy

[@persona83]

Nah. Kill'em all.

[@corvus1253]

Ah hell no. I would've curb stomped the son of a bitch!

[@marcusmachado5078]

um dos melhores jogos que ja joguei

[@Taarnafeather]

Great music and that elbow strike... Truly the best things in this game :')

[@jimbo8743]

This game brings back a lot of good memories 👍

[@thecowboy2]

One of the characters could have gotten his own Japanese anime. Abobobobo -Bo -Bobobo.

[@Labcabin96]

+thecowboy2 he has his own flash internet game. its fun too. abobo's big adventure check it out.

[@_Majoras]

they're saving a damsel in distress this is an outrage!!! quick somebody call anita sarkeesian!

[@IbizanHound2]

24:00 Ooopss... Abobo did an A-boo-boo!

[@siemenstraffic]

At 19:26 The Incredible Hulk shows up!

[@oldstylegaming4655]

Marvel vs. Technos

[@michaels7900]

I fcking used to this game when I was a kid.

[@BronzeLincolns81]

I was probably 5 or 6 going to the bowling alley with my dad where they had this cabinet. Didn't play it much because I hardly ever got any quarters.

[@lira4219m]

´´nick´´-woow man,you show it´challengers of 87´s when I was young only played it.

[@CaptStefan]

24:00 You can get on that balcony?!? I played a gazillion times and that never happened!

[@wesleyhempoli5548]

Ya i know he should have thrown him down

[@akandrea6731]

😐 me neither

[@TheDavo10001]

I was so surprised I had no idea that could happen!

[@saturn1returns]

What a hack!

[@nicolas320]

Only the best know

[@luceve1626]

Christ, this music.

[@eltortu6743]

Que gran recuerdo de este juego era espectacular.. que recuerdos de mi niñez!!!

[@Auditorius7]

There were many a Saturday afternoon in 1988 when my dad and I would go to Gas Stop (which had a full arcade) on the northside of Mason City, Iowa, and play this all the way through. It was fairly easy to do since you could get 15 tokens for a buck(it's a wonder that Aladdin's Castle at the mall ever competed with Gas Stop since you could only get 4 tokens for a buck there). It was pretty sad when Double Dragon moved out, but in its place, there ended up being Bad Dudes, then P.O.W., but by 1994, Gas Stop closed. There was much mourning, but the memories are still great.

[@w.a.t8908]

Joguem muito esse jogo nos anos 80

[@MrDmacc1]

wow he just punch her in the gut and kid k napped her amazing game, lol takes me back to my child hood I spent like a million quarters on this, lol

[@MrCrazyrob666]

That Mission 3 music.... memories of the late 80s

[@paulocraice]

Bought three arcades: Double Dragon, Rygar and one powered with 60 games like Black Belt, Pit Fall, Vigilante, Altered Beast and so many other classics ❤ yes I’m a AI nerd. Now my workstation feels perfect. 😊

[@leslieweekes5750]

An absolutely awesome game,I used to play this game back in the 80's.I just love It!! I would go for this over these new type of games...lol..

[@oldstylegaming4655]

It's available on PS4

[@TheCastellan]

4:15, that cat's huge.

[@JoeMeats]

Lmao I was saying the same thing

[@Crimson7588]

ahhh the 80s with Luca pizza on my breath and a hand full of aladdins castle tokens in hand at the mall

[@TYNEPUNK]

+Crimson7588 yessss for me it was 10ps, fish n chips on my breath and eyemouth aracades in scotland. Remember how u could hear DD from anywhere, it dragged u in that start tune, sublime game design.

[@Crimson7588]

+Radiant Silver Labs remember the line that always formed around DD

[@pavlospapadopoulos6899]

this was i epic games back in the years. i remember my self waiting forever. just to play i game in the arcades. i nostalgia very strong game. and i lot of goins spend for this. was i pleasure watching this video.

[@demarcotolson3763]

My favorite game spent alot on this game

[@stephenworldwide]

separated by only a year, the difference between this game and Final Fight is immense. but at the time, this game was the shit.

[@turricaned]

More like 2 years. The designer of FF has stated that he took DD2: The Revenge as a primary inspiration. :)

[@LakeFossilPress]

Final Fight was one of those that really didn't port too well on the SNES -- as good as this was they kind of screwed up turning it into a one player and cutting out the fastest character. I often used Guy when I was in the arcade version of Final Fight - I had also played it's first sequel. too.

[@stephenworldwide]

I used to stay up all night playing FF on the Super NES. I thought it was pretty close to the arcade and it was such a fun "button masher"

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Retro Storm 2 years. Arcade came out in 89. SNES came out in 91.

[@uniroyalbarrie]

Crazy how Billy killed Willy at 24:58. Death move if it was real life. Hahahhaha

[@TheCastellan]

Or at least turn his spine into salsa

[@stuarthough8440]

actually his name is jeff not willy willy was the boss at the end of level 2

[@zombiehampster1397]

My friend and I used to always coop this game and we would get thru on one quarter each, beat the machine gun guy, and then it was on...our fights to the death were just as epic.

[@paul16451]

Elbow punch made this game too easy. It was more of a challenge to maximize your score by using only reverse kicks, which gave the most points at 200 (elbow was only worth 180). I managed it once. And I loved using the reverse kick maneuver while holding something, it made you quick-turn and swing on enemies behind you.

[@samdroidva]

The slow gameplay !!!! It's too frustrating!

[@paulbarnes755]

samdroidva Absolute nonsense.

[@Seiko180]

I agree, this game aged so bad

[@solarflare9078]

Join the club samdroidva and ZaLO. This has to be one of the most overrated arcade games ever. The Mega Drive version even had more animation and no slowdown, so there's no excuse for this to be so bad.