Double Dragon 1 arcade gameplay playthrough longplay

[@marcevans6545]

When the end-boss area music kicks in it still gives me goosebumps after all this time. An all-time classic from my youth.

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

Me too. It used to scare me as a kid. I don't think I ever got past stage 1 because of it, what with the big black muscly guy at the end. haha

[@robinhood-s7g]

Facts

[@BiggDogg-w2m]

A part of my childhood. This game is an old school nostalgic classic.

[@aaqilian5.085]

Dag, the entire game was 20 mins? Seemed so much longer when I was a kid. Good memories. Thanks for this, mate

[@davemiller7633]

That's because the next guy was breathing down your neck for his turn to play!

[@neonknight-1522]

@@davemiller7633 😂

[@fromashestoangels378]

@@davemiller7633 Epic comment and dead accurate 😆😂😅

[@robd1329]

I wish i can download this game and Narc

[@grimmseti]

@@robd1329 You can. I did just last night LOL It's called MAME, and arcade emulator. Give it a try!

[@thatguy22441]

That's still my favorite arcade game of all time.

[@tavaresmelton4019]

what about Shinobi?

[@gr8gmr]

@@tavaresmelton4019 *His* favorite arcade game.

[@ruipx]

@@tavaresmelton4019 That was also great.

[@ericbrock4755]

Spent so much money when i was 13 on this game back in 88

[@Danne778]

@@ericbrock4755 Me too !! Summer 1988 in SWEDEN !!

[@TheCoolProfessor]

It's been over thirty years since I played this game and the final level with that amazing anthem at the end still gets my blood pumping!

[@stilllearning588]

So many memories with this game. 36years ago . Take me back to the savoy in Galway. Great times. Unbelievable game

[@BigA_DaTrucka]

Facts.. I never get tired of this game

[@SucculentChineseMeal]

Before Final Fight, before Streetfighter 2, before TMNT...there was this gem, absolute pinnacle of childhood arcade memories right here

[@wertpollwert]

For sure brother. There were some other classics that spawned after DD, streets of rage was one I can remember. And fists of fury. As good as the late-comers were, everyone shifted to console around that time.

[@wesleyjordan8349]

The music track in this game ROCKS!!!

[@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor]

won an award for best video game music

[@joshuatranter6337]

Wesley Jordan the music is awesome.

[@ahmednawaz5183]

want to setup my ring tone

[@KingBoaner]

I'm only here for the soundtrack.

[@dash8brj]

@@KingBoaner Me too ;)

[@danieltemelkovski9828]

Such a classic. First arcade game I can legit say I got hooked on. I'd leave for school early so I could play in the morning, then skip karate class at night so I could play it again.

[@putin7765]

Lots and lots of memory in this game...my olden days, I wish I could return those golden days..my school days.

[@tomservo3401]

I will never forget that growl Abobo makes when he throws you.

[@TheHolyGhost777]

+Worg Or Abobo's name.. hehe.. I remembered while watching. From 27 years ago! WOW!

[@aarons1811]

Urrrr...

[@verityvinyl8540]

Anybody ever play the old flash game "Abobo's Big Adventure?" It was a riot!

[@ldhare1974]

Damm i loved this game as a kid, made me smile to see it again. When did i get so old....... Thanks for posting

[@nothosaur]

I played this game back in the 80s. The flaw is that the elbow strike is too powerful. You can go through the whole game on one life using only the elbow strike. Man with a bat? Elbow him. Huge green giant smashing through a brick wall? Elbow him!

[@shinakumaforu5107]

nothosaur Yeah no doubt the elbow was beast. I beat the game that way too. But you still had to know how to play in order to beat the game.

[@nothosaur]

Shin Akumaforu It took some practice. The best part of the game was the great idea at the end. The two players had to fight each other. That was unique.

[@shinakumaforu5107]

nothosaur Yeah that was the best part of the game lol. With practice you could cheat against your opponent an keep kneeing them in the head. Made my cousin mad everytime. He use to cheat on me though with elbow stand over me after I get knocked down and get elbowing before I get up to knock me back down.

[@AB-rl4ry]

greatest game of all time!!!!!!!!!!!

[@BookieKillah]

*+StaySkeptic* When you say _"...finish off the guy in front of you."_ ...? That would be a VERY interesting cheat mode...

[@hieroglyph321]

So many memories ... I can literally still smell the chips from the chip shop where we used to gather to play this arcade game. Thanks for the memories .... Kevin, if you're out there, hit me up, LOL ...

[@actanner]

Jesus Christ i just watched this entire video. what the hell am i doing with my life...

[@kaliyuga4312]

It's really weird when nostalgic joy and self-disappointment are so evenly matched. I feel like a loser, but also a winner for making it to the end of the video

[@kaliyuga4312]

@Chris Warren Why did you reply so aggressively? Are you a strong independent woman who feels the pathological need to always give an opinion? Whatever happened to you is no reason to behave like such a rude idiot. If your boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever broke up with you, grow some balls and stop being so jaded. Stop being an angsty dickhead, you think you're typing the truth, but you come across as a spoiled bitch. P.S. Was I right about you getting dumped? Or did you break a nail? Update me as to why you were so edgy and rude

[@youtubesuresuckscock]

Double Dragon's music is frighteningly good. Have to hold myself back.

[@mantharock]

Me too

[@jestnutz]

@@kaliyuga4312 damn... damn.. . . well said

[@kyliechaffey4368]

I'm sure we payed off the fish and chip guys mortgage playing this game. All day every day during summer.

[@lordsphinxter]

Kylie Chaffey .....and after school 😂

[@unnamedchannel1237]

I seen a kid throw a chair through the fish and chip shop windows cause he lost the game lmao

[@dragonvania]

the last trick vs the final boss was awesome, holy shit, i never thought in that idea when i was a kid. nice work

[@Allie8062]

its been 30+ years since I played and yet I still remember everything

[@TheWonderingEnglishman]

Sat with a 3 year old watching this on the big TV- he loves Double Dragon

[@usny2011]

I like when the garage door opens up and an engine sound can be heard although he doesn’t take the car. Must be some kind of KIT…

[@OtomoTenzi]

If he really used the car to run over his enemies, that first stage would be literally over in less than a minute.

[@johnnyvain544]

man i remember when the arcade by me released this game ....so many ppl were crowded around it watching and taking turns to beat it...and thinking "man, gaming cant ever get any better than this !!"

[@elaineisthatyou]

I remember being thrown on the final boss's balcony when I played as a kid. No one believed me and I could never do it again. In fact, I thought maybe I had dreamed the whole thing until I saw this video!

[@luthandolukhozi5977]

I also did not know you could get on that top balcony. I wish I knew as a kid the easiest way of killing the boss on the top balcony...

[@projectpat006]

You can technically grab the gun but the game locks up when you do that

[@thechest77]

I can't believe I'm watching this, I should be Xmas shopping. The nostalgia is killing me. The useless flying kick and the all-powerful super elbow. Oh and the music is incredible - especially when mission 2 kicks in.

[@djouletube]

I played so much to that game. I loved it ! Definitly a master piece ;)

[@williamgatesenson]

this game was intense. the kids who played it were bad ass mofuckas

[@Austinc5904]

im one that played it on mame and played super double dragon first years ago. does this count

[@Icebasketboy]

I remember that hardcore shit, like I won that game on my own and it was worth it... Still don't mind playing it

[@fromashestoangels378]

I was one of them. Its had to have been at least 20 years since I last played it. Probably longer really but I bet I could still pick up the controller to this day and rock it beginning to end with the starter life. Double dragon, skate or die, contra, mike Tyson's punchout, ghosts and goblins, ninja gaiden, and so many more were the bomb shit lol

[@demarcotolson3763]

I always tried to flip them off the edge

[@TigressOrchid]

:D

[@iguanna41]

I was addicted to this game in 1989 i could complete the game with 10p that's just one credit just elbow from start to finish for an easy complete took me half of 89 to realize this.

[@peposo7]

That's what I didn't like about this game. It was the only technique that actually was reliable, and the weakest. I would get bored easily after the 20th elbow, and still havent reach the first Abobo.

[@soundgardener4940]

Today's Special: ELBOW SURPRISE (all you can eat). - P1 & P2 ('The Elbros') Proprietors, Double Dragon Restaurant

[@danieltemelkovski9828]

10p? Lucky bastards. It was 40 cents in Australia, which was nearly 20p back in the late 80s.

[@OikPoinFive]

Sound Gardener elbow macaroni

[@denislisul5893]

My tactick also, it was elbowing from start to end! :)

[@Chuloloc]

Awesome. Arcade classic. Hail Double Dragon.

[@lotusmojo]

this is therapy for me, it takes me to a part of my life I was plentiful happy...

[@Κώστας-β1ο]

1987...❤ 80's For Ever😊

[@abdulhafeez7184]

90's will never come back😢

[@GaryBeltz]

At least not in the original form. They try to make anniversary editions of games, but they end up falling flat somewhere. For example, as much as I liked DD Neon, it wasn't the best one I've ever played.

[@donkryders8954]

Love this game it was my favorite arcade game I spent lots of quarters .

[@scottchavez1688]

Im hooked on watching these, I was a huge video game kid in the 80s. Won MOST games, at the cost of most of my allowance lol. Before I watch this I remember the elbow thrust was key when there was more than one! Let's see....

[@MikeyWikey20]

OMG! I SPENT SOOOOO MANY QUARTERS ON THIS GAME BACK IN THE DAY. I COULD BEAT IT WITH ONE QUARTER, BUT AFTER I DID, I'D PLAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. THEY DON'T MAKE GAMES LIKE THIS ANYMORE. IF I COULD FIND THE ACTUAL ARCADE GAME, I'D BUY AND CONSTANTLY PLAY IT. THANKS FOR THE POST

[@note2owns]

Check EBay. I saw a couple of the original Double Dragon arcade machines on there.

[@dantedelgadillo7090]

Dante Delgadillo but the double dragon is not the arcade game, so you might try to find the arcade double dragon rom

[@dantedelgadillo7090]

Dante Delgadillo but i have heard of arcade roms for computers 2, and my dad is a computer engineer, and like he used to play this games 2 (old games) he game me the 3 emulators (atari, nes, and snes) with all its roms ;)

[@TheD2D21]

XBOX 360 used to have this in the Arcade LIVE but they took it down. I'm sure because of some feminazi crap of violence and women degradation; I was so mad. That was one of the things that led me to leave Microsoft XBOX for good!

[@jellyboy123]

apparently the boards very expensive this day and age.

[@westie420uk]

Can anybody remember an arcade game like Double Dragon where you could power up a super punch? The top half of your character would ‘flame up’ and your next punch would do massive amounts of damage. It was a 2 player beat em up scroller like Double Dragon. I remember at some point in the game you were on top of a moving train.

[@brians8794]

that was Bad Dudes

[@darkwolverine007]

so many memories of playing this in my town, the first that came was in an arcade machine with only 2 buttons (not 3) so we had to fight all the way with only kick and jump button... was so relieved when it came with all 3buttons and actually one can use the elbow strike to fight ;)

[@mercurry718]

I remember my sister and I went to the arcade and beat this game...I will always remember that .we are still close to this day .

[@cjfeather]

Taken back to my childhood growing up as a kid I would go to Skegness a few times a year and this was for a few years at least the game I went to spent a fortune playing this as my parents was in the pub part drinking... They was the days best days of my life lol

[@SOSYS1005]

I used to waste my time in the 90's, my favorite arcade game, thanks a lot for the video.

[@Silverhands]

If this doesn’t make you want to hit the gym like it’s 1987!!.

[@dorpth]

The brawler that set the genre's unofficial rule that the final level must have marble statues, red carpets, or both. (sneaky exploit on the final boss)

[@philipgreenaway5631]

Ah brings back memories. Played this when it first came out. Never got to the final mission in arcade. But got banned from playing it lol

[@10dev785]

huge part of my life as a kid. The music, the idea....thank god I had a chance to see then and NOW...

[@bigslim5700]

Takes me back to the days when arcades were the place to be. Trying to get the highest score on games to get braging rights

[@victorlionheart1764]

Brings me back to my childhood.♥️

[@HarleyFirestorm]

One of the best arcade games ever, see a few real fights break out after the final two player fight when the other person would quickly grab the other players joystick and make him fall into the spike pit lol.

[@BossOrca]

😅

[@nvincenti]

87 what a year..I used to play double dragon at the bar near home!

[@ginobilicanalla]

TRE-MEN-DO!!! A casi 30 años de haberlo jugado me vengo a enterar que se podía realmente subir al balcón. Gran aporte!

[@israellopez4179]

asi no puede disparar la metralleta

[@82DAVID28]

ginobilicanalla siempre fue un rumor yo tampoco me pude subir... Pero es VERDAD!!!!! Se podía!!!

[@moguelmadrid669]

No inventes ahora me entero...jajaja a jugar de nuevo.gracias por compartir

[@anyupumpkin]

Yo lo intente y jamás pude sólo lo vi una ves y después de tantos años lo volví a ver

[@claudinhoalejo4278]

Juega como aprendiz. ..yo la sabia dejar tildada a la makina cuando subis donde esta el capó pero no lo tenes q matar y bajar y la máquina quedaba sin terminar el juego...hacia q el dueño apaagara la máquina jajjjajj

[@vamtheanomaly]

Hard to believe that i first played this in an arcade almost THIRTY years ago @ age 17!

[@I_Cypher_I]

Only arcade game I ever beat as a kid. I still remember the way the cold winter air smelled that day outside of the 7/11

[@clivegameinnmg7055]

this was one of my most favorite arcade games. Damn

[@garadelibra]

Que jugada fue esa contra el jefe ultimo, se libro de los disparos, maravillosa estrategia😊

[@jkovenski]

Best opening scene to a game ever...

[@verityvinyl8540]

It was short, simple, explained everything you needed to know about the premise of the game... I don't see how an opening scene for any game from 1987 could be better.

[@GavinByrne1808]

That soundtrack brings me back

[@stephenworldwide]

What a boss. When he gets himself thrown onto the terrace at the end to beat the final boss where he's standing.... Damn, that's good.

[@margsww9148]

I loved this game , my brother and I used to team up and clock it. I remember telling a boy I could beat the game on my own and of course he didn't believe a girl. I walked off with his pocket money, won that bet! Where are the Roundhouse kicks?!

[@warrentooley6157]

Never seen that trick at the end. Where Billy Lee ends up on the roof.

[@scientist_einstien02dotmdl69]

it can also be jimmy

[@beachimsolo7913]

마지막 보스 레드카펫에 들어갈때 나오는 음악.. 지금 들어도 닭살 돋듯이 좋네요.. 30년 전을 추억해 봅니다...

[@republicofusa9903]

How nice of the girl to sit there hanging on the rope where the entire time she could have gotten free and helped you fight the goons. At the end she yelps and magically is freed from her ropes, how convenient lol. I remember playing the 2 player mode where you got to the end and then you had to duel. Whoever you were playing you could just reach over and hold down on the opponents controller and he would fall off the edge for an easy victory. This game seems like it had issues, it was like it was in slo mo at times.

[@danieltemelkovski9828]

Pull down on the controller, haha, I never saw anyone do that. You could beat the other player up along the way throughout the game, though, which was very popular where I played. Sometimes you'd get some kid who wasn't used to that and he'd get upset.

[@gr8gmr]

I doubt Marian would want to be the middle of that kind of fight. Can you blame her? The leader even has a gun.

[@mikea5205]

Gets supplexed to the 2nd floor, "while I'm here, let me start punching on the final boss"

[@johnskg-qi4yz]

Thanks for the trick at the end. I didnt knew that. I m still playing it and feel good 😊👍

[@Theshark15z]

I always found it hilarious when the enemies are defeated, it sounds like they are puking their guts out.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

3:05 best DD music ever

[@SteveFusionX]

ojideagu amen.

[@ricardosampaio4056]

@@SteveFusionX da terceira missão é show de bola! O contra baixo e foda dessa música!

[@Neovelipureunity]

I remember playing this game in the arcades bk in the day .dope game

[@TheGhostofMrArthurs]

fucking lost it when Abobo went "baaaaaaaah" as he chucked the guy overhead

[@jakesmith2758]

Yea that was pretty funny LOL!

[@poopsyko]

Tim Arthurs same here and especially the way they look when they get hit hahaha you see them jumping holding their stomaches with their backs facing you hahahaha

[@helltioeverygames]

Was scary for us when we were kids haha.

[@bluejayhawker]

We had one in a grocery store on the east side of our town growing up. I can still hear it.

[@nameless.greyceo]

the best game ever to play on co op with a friend, co op is the best going through all that adventure with a best friend saying "you take them on the left" or "I'll help you" haha co op games are the best, wish I could go back in time to when I was 10 and do it again with my best mate

[@crashingblow3753]

Double Dragon: The one that started it. Final Fight: The one that popularized it. Streets of Rage: The one that perfected it. The holy trinity of the beat 'em up genre.

[@neitabeel]

joguei muito quando era criança, foi o primeiro jogo de fliperama que eu joguei. Saudades!

[@robertpeterson9761]

At 12 years of age, when I first went to an arcade this was one of my old favorite games, now I'm 49 and I just beaten the game for the first time, and already playing double dragon 2,and yes I will beat double dragon 3 since I'm near the arcade

[@Murat531454]

16:04 on arcade it was IMPOSSIBLE to get passed those without getting serious damage

[@OtomoTenzi]

I've seen most players just try to jump right through the spears and avoid getting stabbed like maybe 75% of the time... What I really HATE is those stone blocks that come out randomly and hit you in the very beginning of that final stage. Depending on what difficulty the game was set at, they will either not come out at all as you walk right by or they might suddenly keep on hitting you until you die! 😝

[@GaryBeltz]

@@OtomoTenzi At least in this version, it's easier to see each brick coming out. In the NES version, the bricks are these white squares that just kind of pop out of the wall, and it's difficult to see how close you are to the next brick while waiting for it.

[@OtomoTenzi]

@@GaryBeltz Yes, that's true!

[@gangstacrew1564]

20:36 that uppercut up the arse!! 😂😂😂

[@jtomally9681]

Did you know that if you set the overclocking to 200% there will be no slowdowns?

[@feardrinker]

My friend and I used to beat this during our high school lunch break. One quarter each, then run back to class. Fantastic beat 'em up game for all time.

[@theultimutblitz1214]

Didn’t the final boss come down usually and shoot his machine gun?

[@dmcmusiclover2995]

Yes, but not if Abobo lifts you up to where Willy is.

[@mabinthapa6926]

Late nights in vacation with cousins. No money can buy those precious moment.

[@wawirochi]

great job !!

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

The music for the bad bosses at the end of each stage used to scare me, as did the big muscly men. The music in general though, I love, especially the one for the second stage

[@haamurabaigreygate19]

Classic.. My fav aspect of DD games were the holes/pits/death-traps. Nothing like knocking a lopar or abobo- or a boss over the edge to oblivion with a few hits! This and DD2 on the NES had some great pit potential but Super DD on the SNES unfortunately had just ONE pit. A major flaw in an otherwise awesome DD game..

[@futuretrunks5795]

I love how you can kick ass in this game as a player!

[@snoop7cav]

dam sooo many good memorys of playing this in my local chip shop or fried potato shop for all you americans lol we love our fish and chips NOOOOT CRISPS LOL here in the uk and a good blast on double dragon there was always crowds around the machine i feel sooo old that place was always busy when they got DD

[@leeshaw3184]

Man I second that. Such a great game man I feel old.

[@mosj9876]

i 3rd that.the older games seemed harder too.

[@glammetalrenegade408]

Let me forth that, brothers!

[@mosj9876]

paul lowcock I want this on my computer so bad.!

[@glammetalrenegade408]

Mos Melendez I have it on MAME.... just look for a 'MAME installation' tutorial on youtube and download a Double dragon rom and youcan play the original arcade game on ur laptop,,, its really easy to do.

[@WMB6022]

The meanest sucker punch to a woman I’ve ever seen in a video game. Reminded me of that brutal scene from “True Romance”.

[@antichrist666uk]

First time in over 30 years I have seen how you finish the end of game boss like that.

[@Jagrat321]

I'm a 2000's kid and still this is one of the best games I've ever played

[@Intrestingchoices-wr5ty]

Old memories of my childhood. Enemy was fast and my man was slow. It was a hard game for me.

[@simpson81323]

Slow but with the all you can eat ELBOW bro

[@neonknight-1522]

Probably the owner of the arcade box made the enemies easier

[@hanscakestealer8546]

This and operation wolf were the two games my big brother and I would go play at the local store growing up, good times.

[@herbertysilva80]

Emoção pura,só pra quem viveu!

[@ONEHANDLimitBreak]

kkkkkkkkkkkkk eu vim ver pra fazer video dos jogos q memarcaram joguei isso tinha 6 anos de idade kkkkkkkkkkk

[@toralbonds3330]

The best part of this game is when it starts off when my man punch her in the stomach and picked her up and walked away.🔥The beginning part,I use to rock this game on the arcade back then.

[@Wutevadude]

He stabbed two guys with one knife lol

[@JoeyDrones]

Good old days man. This Arcade game was one of the Top number one game when it cake out. It was hard to beat the big Boss. You made it look easy

[@Woltato]

such an awesome classic game. I recently visited some arcades and was thoroughly disappointed to find that none of them seem to have this game any more. The retro section had space invaders, pac-man and donkey kong and that was it. They're also great classic games but I personally feel that any retro arcade worth speaking of should have a double dragon machine. I was in Scarborough. If any one can recommend a better place for retro arcade in the UK then I'd be most greatful

[@markburrows8648]

+Woltato did you ever play aliens? when I was a kid I used to get a load of 10 pence pieces and play those 2 games and sometimes WWF lol . But I cant find them anywhere now :(

[@DonJuan19755]

Great game

[@PoorTheatre]

Whoever composed these music deserved a Grammy , an Oscar, and a Pulitzer Prize.

[@alexojideagu]

It did win an award for the music

[@neonknight-1522]

Its awesome

[@TurkTechOfficial]

18:53 he found a bug :D

[@kennethpeaks3477]

Other than Contra, this is the most iconic opening music.

[@WonderBoy-10]

tutta la mia infanzia :) che ricordi.... BY ITALY

[@helltioeverygames]

Third game was on italy based,so great stage.

[@giannisola_sta_robot6932]

30 anni fa..........

[@juegosalpaso6488]

Love Double Dragon

[@dimitris90schild92]

90s FOREVER...BEST ERA OF OUR LIVES...❤

[@ShinobiEngineer]

(ONE OF THE) BEST ARCADE EVER ! ! !

[@reggieking1045]

I remember starting gaming on the zx spectrum as a kid and when i saw double dragon in the arcades i was amazed by the graphics! Kids these days growing up on the ps4 ps5 era don't know how good they've got it!

[@OtomoTenzi]

...But would they live long enough to tell it tho? 💀

[@pablovelasquez493]

Toda mi infancia en 22 minutos! Hermoso!!!

[@fc-pl9kr]

one of our favorite things to do when playing 2 players was to get the last enemy into a full nelson and then the other player would whip that enemy tons of times to rack up free lives. That was how we tried to finish the game with a single quarter. If you held the whip facing the edge of the next screen you can bring the whip to the next stage in some areas.

[@paulbarnes755]

Classic arcade beat em up.