DOUBLE DRAGON HISTORY! - FULL SERIES RETROSPECTIVE - A MOVIE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY!

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[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

You have the passion and erudition of a true historic researcher. Thank you.

[@jadedheartsz]

I quite enjoyed the Double Dragon movie myself, I didn't grow up playing the original games so I didn't get that wounded sense of betrayal that others did.

[@jadedheartsz]

plenty of journalists are fine with shorter games as well. though speaking as someone who isn't in a relationship and does not have family of my own I quite enjoy longer games.

[@liquidninja6654]

You try and project wealth and masculinity but at the end of the day you’re just a run of the mill E beggar like the femme Metal JEsus. Unsubscribed

[@jadedheartsz]

@@reasonnetworktv eh?

[@VIRGOLEGACY]

You really took the time and made a 3 hour video dedicated to Double Dragon I really appreciate you 👏🏾🙏🏾

[@forbiddenera]

If you think about it, it would have taken more time to cut it down 😉

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

@@forbiddenera Word.

[@doctjoe]

I can tell you're a school teacher with the way you review the games. You always make sure to start and end with something positive.

[@fey5aldrich]

I wish I can like this video 500x. So much love was put into it, yet again. Hat's off to you and your work, sir. Just amazing videos.

[@LupusRexRgis]

Those videos kept my sanity during the lockdown days… 😊🙏🤙

[@ShaelRiley]

I like when Big Daddy Top Hat cuts a fierce heel promo on other KZbin creators mid-retrospective. True heat. 🔥

[@ghaleon1103]

22:30 "ascending downwards" is just "descending", lol. Still, brilliant video. I found your channel the other day and have spent many enjoyable hours since watching your feature-length documentaries. Thank you for these!

[@AfroNinja007]

You forgot to cover Double Dragon II on the Nintendo GameBoy, which is one of the best in the series. And it has it´s own unique storyline as well.

[@ronniedarko317]

Forgot the one on Atari 2600 too

[@josephpiedmonte]

Love long form gaming retrospectives, thanks and more please.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

This was one of the first arcade games I ever played bitd. It was definitely the first beat em up I played. It's in my top 5 goat list. But it's only recently that I discovered they made a double dragon film in the 90s. It's actually free to watch on KZbin. You can't take it too seriously. but if you like some good old 90s cheese, then it's a really fun watch.

[@getondese]

I got nostalgic and put in Super Double Dragon while watching this and almost got to the end😄 Great memories and thanks🤘

[@justinlloyd2446]

I could not watch it all in one sitting. The reason being that your passion for the series reminded me of how wonderful Double Dragon is and I kept having to stop watching so I could play some of the games! Double Dragon has a special place in my heart as the original NES release was the first game I ever rented. Wonderful job sir! I always enjoy your content!

[@MrSmokincodz]

Just found your channel and love it! I grew up in the era of DG. Thanks for your hard work.

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Merry Christmas!

[@Sporkguy3]

The more I listened to your description, the more I loved the idea of Double Dragon IV. I want to live in a world where companies can release direct sequels to classic NES games using similar sprites with updated backround art for more powerful systems, all for a few bucks. Sure if they want to charge 20-30 bucks, then put out a game that improves on Double Dragon Neo, but for a few bucks give me Zelda III, Donkey Kong IV, Double Dragon IV, etc.

[@igorlins8194]

Still watching, almost at the end. Enjoying every piece. Thanks!

[@IKARIking67]

Absolutely fire! This is fantastic work man.

[@UsamaThakurr]

Bro you a real one for this damn! That's some serious dedication to edit make a full document of almost 3 and a half hours like amazing ❤️ would definitely watch in chunks you deserve it ❤️

[@aFoxyFox.]

Please don't encourage this, there are so many KZbinrs making sickeningly long, stretched out videos, how does that really help anyone when the same information can be provided in a condensed manner so that we can get on with our days and other activities?

[@UsamaThakurr]

@@aFoxyFox. Well i didn't encourage him I just appreciated his hard work that's it

[@igorlins8194]

@@aFoxyFox. don't watch it, my friend. The content creator will not suffer for you not watching. You will not suffer for you not watching.

[@aFoxyFox.]

@@igorlins8194 That is a fine suggestion, and I didn't watch it, but I think content creators should know that this sort of content isn't necessarily what at least some viewers may actually like or appreciate, and this sort of input may be able to help them, because they may be able to do just as well while saving themselves the time and trouble by creating better ondensed products for easier consumption by viewers like myself.

[@rasterico]

@@aFoxyFox. be a boring world if everyone liked the same things, just because you don’t like lengthy content it doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t make it, I enjoy all content related to my topics of interest, I would wholeheartedly encourage any content creator to make whatever they like and ignore people trying to stifle their creativity such as yourself.

[@lateralus614]

Two was my favorite in the series. I love the work you put into this subbed.

[@psyhodelik]

Incredible works, thanks for this stuff !!

[@lavuntecolquitt]

Been watching this on and off ALL day and it was one EPIC ride. Great art ideas and classic nostalgia. Awesome vid as usual

[@peterd9427]

Double Dragon II is one of the most memorable games for me growing up with the NES! There was just something about it oddly enough.

[@randallrutherford1384]

A current favorite even still!

[@joshhoaglan2635]

Double dragon was a favorite when I was growing up had DD2 next to my console at all times

[@princegroove]

A love letter to all Double Dragon fans of all ages. Well done, Sir. Top Hat! 👍🏼

[@chrisconnors9449]

Wow I forgot how many Double Dragon games I have played as a kid until I seen some of the scenes in this. Well Deserved presentation. Bravo T.H.G Man, Bravo.

[@PureRageFitness]

I remember the excitement when I got the NES Double Dragan when I was a kid. Double Dragon Advance is my favorite. I agree with you on the length of a beat em ups. I don't want it to drag out and get overly long.

[@AsherX9]

With Double Dragon V being based on the Cartoon show….I always wondered why they didn’t put in some of the Dragon Warriors, like Turbo and Tsunami.

[@doom1509]

3hrs and 20 mins of quality background noise as a quality control officer - thank you sir. Liked and Subbed.

[@mrfreeze2446]

Brilliant! Been busy but I'm watching this badboy right now in full 👍

[@ShaelRiley]

I appreciate Top Hat Gaming Man's recent commitment to video length.

[@jaxxh6529]

also double dragon neon also nintendo switch soon

[@cherokeefit4248]

Happy I have the dedicated arcade cabinet in my game room and 2 snes carts of this game 👍🏾

[@zu_1455]

"HEEEeeelllOOO Ladies and Gentlemen! BIG DADDY TOP HAT HERE!......YYYEEEEAAAAAHHHH!"

[@gilavalos2400]

Double dragon advanced for the GBA was the pentacle of the series. It's a solid upgrade to the orginal game.

[@KenMasters.]

It's much better than NEO·GEO's Double Dragon, an SFII knock-off.

[@NavidKhan84]

Love this channel so much….straight nostalgia

[@lukelaser5397]

My god do I love this franchise. I'm surprised double dragon was never brought back as a true classic 1v1 fighting game. Go all out give it a nice offline campaign. People would try it.

[@mikedrop4421]

The retrospective I didn't know I needed until now.

[@zetsumeinaito]

I never encountered a DD arcade game where I lived so I only experienced the NES versions as a kid. I was born in 81, so you think I'd have seen one, but nope, never did. Wasn't keen on a 3D beat em up, so Streets of Rage 4 and Rivercity Girls were far more my jam than the recent Double Dragons.

[@Michel190778]

Great video man, but only for 52:48 you get two thumbs up!

[@Ataru320]

I love your rant about people who just want short games and who don't want to just play super-long games. Considering how I just sold off Persona 5 after only playing 10 hours and getting through one Palace, I think I agree with you: I have a life and can't just spend all my time and focus on video games, so something that's short and fun is just for me. (BTW: saw the new Double Dragon review and after watching that and the Zeebo retrospective by Stop Skeletons from Fighting, I want to see Saber in that game)

[@Level857]

Awesome vid sir! I'm still upset over that Zeebo one I'll never play! It looked soooooo goooood! As far as franchises to cover I think Fire Emblem has had so many games and significant character appearances that would make good for the Top Hat Gaming Man video treatment.

[@nunayadamnbusiness]

Masterful video THG

[@GothicXlightning]

totally love that perfect Thumbnail 💙

[@n.b.l.5709]

Wow, double dragon nes takes me wayyyyy back ;)

[@BellowDGaming]

The true Double Dragon Trilogy story experience is with the nes version imho. DD1 Billy fights Jimmy to get Marion back DD2 Billy and Jimmy take down the Shadow Boss that killed Marion DD3 Their world tour adventure

[@orenmontgomery8250]

1:27:45 Zelda, Street Fighter, and Megaman: "Hold my controller."

[@jamealjordon1376]

Big Daddy Top Hat! Love it, but Kung-Fu Master / Kung-Fu / Spartan X is a take on the Jackie Chan film, the video game version of Wheels on Meals. Jackie Chan is Thomas and Lola Forner is Sylvia. Just a bit of trivia, I thought would have made it in this great documentary.

[@InternetTAB]

you know.. in Ragnarok Online a Bard/Dancer combo can play a song called "Mr. Kim a rich man". knowing about the embezzling makes it really funny

[@gf618]

videos like these need to have the chapter selection thing.

[@scotter140]

This was a great video

[@baltimorebigman5999]

🔥👍🏽 Great video thank you

[@Draliseth]

It pains me how I have never encountered a Double Dragon or beat em up that picked up on the bones of Return of Double Dragon and fleshed it out better. I used to always put myself on the second player port to play as Jimmy. Whoever is playing as Billy in this footage sure does love those shoulder buttons.

[@jayswitchman8608]

Nice work

[@pjthomas9849]

One of my favorite Influencers you are. Idk why Im talking like Yoda 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@muthesquirrel]

DD4 is DD4 because Super was a remake of DD1 (apparently) and DD5 was a third party game unattached to the main series. DD4 is the fourth chapter in the main (NES continuety) series.

[@KenMasters.]

Super should've been DD4 starring Bimmy and Jimmy II, the sons of Billy and Jimmy. Mainly because the Dragons look too different from their arcade counterparts, Technos even kept switching their hair colors.

[@muthesquirrel]

@@KenMasters. Well if they're twins I guess they both have brown hair. Every month they have a fight over who gets to dye their hair that time as they own the last bottle of blonde hair dye on Earth. Winner gets the dye. Same way they decide who's dating Marian, I guess!

[@KenMasters.]

@@muthesquirrel True, they do have naturally brown hair as shown in the failed live-action movie, the Double Dragons are as Asian-American as Bruce Lee. What also makes them look different in Super: · The Lee brothers look much more white. · They fight more like Bruce Lee than the Arcade versions who fight more like Swan and Ajax from The Warriors. · They look like punkers on the cover/manual art, and wear neon-colored DD3 clothes in-game.

[@muthesquirrel]

@@KenMasters. If it makes you feel better I'm pretty sure they're Mexican in the Commodore 64 version of Double Dragon. :p

[@KenMasters.]

@@muthesquirrel You mean that version where they look as dark as Williams and Roper's 2nd arcade skins? The design is so bad, that their waists would sometimes be missing in-game!

[@diego20518]

Excelente!! Do something about openbores double dragon games hahha so interesting too!!

[@supermario9520]

You should do a Video on Double Dragon 2 on Gameboy. The game is unique and also has an interesting back story since it is orignally a Kunio Kun game in Japan. However great work! Subbed and liked.

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

I remember when double dragon advance came out. I preordered 2 copies to play with others. And game informer magazine gave the game a 9!!!🤯

[@DJLNR.]

6:18 I'm sure only double dragon iii allowed team special moves like player one could get a jump boost from player two etc. It's been a long time and I mean that, i actually owned a console back then and had a few games, not as much as few other friends on the same street, not many of us rich or poor had consoles as the typical thought back then was consoles will mess with our eyes and brain's so many didn't own a console and just played at a friends house but yet will talk deeply as if they had one long ago when in reality they use an emulator and imagine what it wouldn't been like. I'll help them out, it was beautiful especially the planet earth at that time, I remember Mario ii coming out, Mario II and Mario III were a work of art, forget graphics, Mario bros can take on any game of this era especially in a playability/longevity sense, I play mario lxiv still..

[@ПашаАндрійович]

Дякую за працю, було цікаво!

[@tomevil6]

Thank you for this !

[@jadedheartsz]

I played the shit out of the 1995 fighting game as a kid as my local bowling alley had it, so whenever my mom took my sister and I bowling I always sunk some quarters into after our game. That was the first Double Dragon game I ever played so I assumed it was a fighting game franchise like Fatal Fury or Mortal Kombat, it wasn't until years later when I watched AVGN that I learned that it was primarily a side-scrolling beat-em-up franchise.

[@jaxxh6529]

in super double dragon china town is the stage where dd1 music plays enemys hideout music is stage 4

[@doom1509]

Super Double Dragon is a staple to my childhood.. one of my favorite coops that I played with my cousins... to learn in my later years that it was basically 50% of the intended finished product was mind blowing...... my inner child was hit with so many mixed emotions.. DD2 was my introduction to these games and we actually managed to finish it on supreme master without game genie...

[@daehan8227]

would definitely love to see Arc Sys bring back Double Dragon knowing that they own DD and the Kunio kun series.

[@ElJibaro718]

Eh. I'm a person with things to do, same as you but I love a long game. I just pick up and play two or three hours a playthrough whenever possible. No big deal for me honestly but I see your point.

[@blaireisenbraun2213]

"including allowing two communist players to split their life meters and share them in equal amounts." HAAAAHAAHAHA! Got me real good with that one. Also loved the South Park foightin' 'round the world reference.

[@lorddeimos3129]

Oh boy these Is one legendary franchise classic i'am played Many of this games in diferent plataforms includes arcade, NES, SNES AND GBA i'loved these awesome saga inmortal 😃👍

[@prawnstar502]

I never had the skills or the quarters to be able to get passed the second level in any double dragon games as a kid

[@ronniedarko317]

Even in 3 hours…u forgot about the one on Atari 2600 lol TRAGIC!

[@tonyhong7998]

I remember double dragon 1 was just so slooooooooooow. When you play it on the emulator, there's some hack that makes it run at normal speed and the game is CRAZY.

[@danielthomas2895]

You forgot about the Double Dragon for XBox Live. That one came with the option to enhance the graphics. Great video though

[@Nic5Cyprus]

This is what movies I watch Any chance for a Kunio documentary?

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

I've already covered many entries in the series, so eventually!

[@larryconnerjr1835]

Super double dragon for snes is one of the greatest beat em ups for snes but it usually doesn’t get put in the Same category as turtles in time or streets of rage but in my opinion it was equally good and fun of a game as those legendary titles!!!

[@wes788411]

I loved Double Dragon III on the NES.

[@zakman6471]

I loved this video

[@FreeeAgent]

I think that it would work out better for you if you broke these extremely long videos into episodes. I personally see a really long video and I'm put off by it, but if it was broken down into episodes it would be more enticing... for lack of a better word. Your videos are great and I always enjoy watching them. It's just a suggestion.

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

There are already individual videos on my channel covering all of these games. This is an omnibus so I can deliver the content to those with the opposite needs to yourself.

[@WhiskeyNixon]

Inanimate objects can't be a personification, but they could be a manifestation.

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. How about you review Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game in a future video? This game just re-released recently on modern consoles.

[@8wealthyone8]

Good program. pls make more!

[@MrDeeBerry]

movie length? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one Edit: that was big man! I heard him!

[@platinumpagoda3079]

Personally I really enjoy DD 4! Set the soundtrack to 8bit, like you said.

[@bazdaniels7420]

My suggestion would be the Renegade and Kunio Kun games. Full history!

[@amsf1]

Double dragon 2 was my fav

[@THEONLYGORE]

we just going to ignore the space helicopter in BT&DD lol

[@driftingmemories5737]

The double dragon twins needs to have a match with Ryu & Ken.

[@THEONLYGORE]

Ironman Offroad and Super Sprint were the first games to offer microtransactions

[@TestYol]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge will come out this year i believe. Would be cool to do the same for that franchise as well... hint hint ;)

[@mikuneverdies6288]

I found a Shiny Pokemon while watching .. I named it Marian XD *ooof

[@arcademcfly1039]

I still have Virgin’s Game Gear port. Bought it used at The Warehouse

[@fiallos1]

Fighting and beatem ups will always be in demand! Just look at final fight, people still play this 30 yr old game.

[@RikouHogashi]

When you think about it DD Advance was like what Sonic Mania is today instead of diminishing the IP over and over again give it to people who GIVE A CARE about it who know what they are doing!

[@joeyboyjoeyboy2]

i have been watching you for a while now, but the "yeaaaahhh" just does not work for me. but happy for those who like it.

[@robertross8243]

Been 45 mins and Ive not seen River City Ransom Mentioned.

[@wes788411]

5:28 It’ll always be Bimmy and Jimmy to me.

[@MikeRavia-xp5ig]

Well marion got shot at the beginning of dd2 arcade but she is in the end credits so she is alive. I always thought the dopple ganggers at the end fight made a copy of marion to bring out the lee brothers

[@Kopie0830]

The new street of rage is indeed addicting, but when you have bills to pay and real world stuff to do, playtime is maximum 30 minutes a day. Unless you live in a farm and self sufficient and comfortable living a slow and simple life.

[@chrisconnors9449]

Speaking of the Warriors.. the Warriors video game was pretty good in its own right.

[@3rdworldgwaming467]

A 3hr video!!....u need more likes mate

[@CharT335]

But which is the very best Double Dragon game to rule them all?

[@KenMasters.]

A. Double Dragon II - The Revenge B. Return of Double Dragon C. Double Dragon Advance D. Double Dragon Mobile One of these must be on top.

[@Pabloplays98]

3 hours of Dan Hibiki, Sakura and Blanka please. Safe

[@milesfelipe7505]

I thought my DD3 game was messed up cause it kept glitching with screen flashes. I see on this video has the same..

[@Windowlesswhitevan]

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