Double Dragon II: The Revenge by sinister1 in

[@gamesdonequick]

Runner introduction starts at 2:50. Run starts at 3:26.

[@alexmotts]

Games Done Quick the ninjas on the final stage you can move towards the bottom of the screen where you fall off. If you do it right while they are in mid jump. You can get them to fall off without falling off. Just move close to the bottom when they jump str8 up

[@Kwaj]

This is the best Double Dragon game of the franchise, IMO. Addictive 2 player co-oop, awesome attack moves, recognizable enemies from previous games, great level designs, kickass soundtrack, demanding difficulty, and your girlfriend comes back to life in the end. One of the best NES games to boot.

[@TonyHStanley]

It's 1 of the best games in the series. Neon & Advance are good too.

[@Desi365]

Hundreds of hours of childhood fun with my buddies. The jumping parts sucked though. But the fighting was amazing

[@jo.v-c]

"Our childhoods have been avenged." I felt that. Oh, how I felt that. So many hours my brother and I spent trying to consistently get past those damned platforms...

[@0num4]

Nice run. This is one of my favorite NES games of all time. 1- or 2-players. Tossing the pipe at enemies results in one of the most satisfying noises, ever. I played it so much, that I got the timing down on the super knee almost as good as sinister1...almost.

[@HaroldDuggart]

So I'm not the only person who thought that guy looked like Arnold. Also, the disappearing platforms was as far as I made it until the Game Genie was invented.

[@erintheangry]

I remember discovering the knee purely by accident as a kid. I experimented and found the timing for them and then I practiced it until I could skip across the stage kneeing constantly and made a joke of this game. Those platforming bits are still a life soak though to this day. They always got me as a kid but after unlocking the power of the mighty knee I had the lives to tank it. It was glorious. Hail the knee! Captain Falcon aint got shit on Billy's knee!

[@danclassic7065]

I was never able to master the knee, at least not consistently. Never beat the game as a kid. I came back to it 20 years later. Would put in maybe one run every day or so and see how far I could get. One night, I was simply on fire. I was pulling off the knee move about 95% of the time. I had the platforming perfect too. Got to the shadow master without losing a single life, then pantsed him too. Felt pretty glorious to finally beat the game after 20 years.

[@erintheangry]

I know right? I remember back when I was good enough to beat battletoads on the NES. I owned it as a kid and it wrecked me at the ice and snake levels, then I eventually beat those. Then volkmire's inferno (like a jet version of the turbo tunnel) pushed my shit in. Eventually I beat that too. I really hated those bastardly platforming levels with instant death everywhere. I only ever beat that game twice. Once as a kid after MANY hours of practice, then once more as a teenager to prove to my best friend I did beat it. I tried it again now that I am in my 30's and I got schooled at the snake pit again. Then I come on here and watch some of these GDQ guys do the whole game in like 30 minutes... and 12 using warps and glitches. These guys are freakin nuts.

[@zengram]

i loved finishing of with that knee!!! a lot of memories

[@FreemaN4851]

That abobo with hair looks like Danny Trejo

[@jacksummers269]

OMG! I am in tears. Thanks for the laugh

[@FinalManaTrigger]

LMAO, yes!

[@Lurdiak]

That version of Abobo, and arguably Abobo's design in general, is a tribute to the Chinese martial artist and actor Bolo Yeung, who you might know from Bloodsport.

[@ninjanizzle]

Lurdiak also Bolo is in the classic Enter The Dragon

[@carsilk2492]

I love how the opening theme of every NES game is like a hit of concentrated nostalgia

[@jamesanthonygreen8233]

That was a great review. I loved watching it.

[@tueemsyhu4846]

I just came to see the game playthrough!

[@ПерриУтконос-е5щ]

me too

[@mcfarlanect]

Yes! Sinister1, you're awesome.

[@Snadzies]

I had a turbo controller for the NES growing up. All you had to do was hold down A and B and all you would do is the super knee.

[@Cabroni2]

FINALLY a Real One Player SpeedRun

[@smalliepierre9795]

there is a glitch we discovered by dying on the train track to give unlimited lives

[@zengram]

For me the cogwheels are the hardest part of this game. After i passed that,it's all to the top,baby

[@Ashamaxa]

it's the first time i see the last boss of this game... back then i could only make it to the frikkin disappearing blocks!

[@bradleygardener1254]

I can beat this game regularly and make the wonky jumps but dam you guys are legeneds

[@WegnerTheDeftones]

The blindfolded master Sinister1 beats one of my fav games. Loved it! I’ve only beat it once on the hard mode lol.

[@afficial83]

If you played the game back in the day there was a good chance you didn't even know that knee move existed or how to do it

[@TheRealKaiProton]

Was in the Manual, and it was something simple like Press up on Dpad when rising from crouch

[@erintheangry]

Press both attack buttons on rising. The uppercut is done the same but with just punch. The timing is tight but you can master it quickly with practice.

[@tlaim]

Back when I was a kid, I figured out how to do the knee kick and practiced until I was able to do it 20 times in a row on the first stage.

[@Creativesucks]

I had an NES Max controller and all I did was hold down the turbo A and B buttons and I would knee until I let em go. lol

[@erintheangry]

Awesome. I had to do it manually like a peasant.... but an ass kicking peasant at least.... my poor fingers got so cramped.

[@FairlyUnknown]

G R A S P

[@takeshiC1]

End text reads "If two Dragons soar through the sky, an Angel will fall to the Earth" ... Pritty sure I saw that in OW the other day

[@majdyburaihi7187]

10:31 "this is Arnold and yes he will be back". LMAO.

[@PipScotland]

What happened to Arnie's spawn in the spike roof place?

[@afficial83]

PipScotland he killed him off screen

[@christianguitierrez3753]

First time I actually see the ending and to this day I still don't know how to do the power knee attack lol

[@christianguitierrez3753]

Thanks gonna go try it again 🎮

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

Actually, there's a spot in the first boss (Burnov), that makes possible skip the death scenes without bringing him close to the edge. But there's a small chance to nail, so it's safer just bring him to edge. (And the window frame for the knee is more lenient in the Famicom version, which have 3 difficulties, and in easy, it's about 20 frames)

[@rufnek3124]

just waiting for the ending track. epic

[@napalmwedding]

fairuz wahab BEST TRACK!!

[@chanceaaronblack2792]

beautiful

[@comicsdude3166]

The only double dragon game beat as a kid.

[@baronvg]

Every time he does a tactic, everyone applauds and I just have to laugh. Where were those people when my kid sister and I were playing the shit out of this game in 1991 and doing those same tactics haha!

[@Istreakilaz]

baronvg haha. Isn't that right! Me too but usually all alone or very rarely with my elder brother. I guess my OCD syndrome started from the late 90's

[@Charlesbeers462]

Totally forgot the ending to this. Hard ass game.

[@alexmotts]

I had this game memorized and could beat it without dying once. Ha

[@TheZerosteel]

11:11 i played megaman, this was super easy compared to.

[@trench01]

first time i beat this game with with the knee finsih and i was shocked that it slowed down for the epic Finish. Use to do the knee all the time when younger and now I am rusty when I play it once in a while. Which I could have beaten the same at the same speed but now I dont have the pacience to complete an entire game or practice.

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

Oh, he taked the intentional death of stage 6 (I usually don't do it), but not the stage 2 (kill himself at the ladder is quickier than going down normally).

[@Istreakilaz]

Not too sound boastful, but I think I have the knee perfected, like sinister1. I was about 6 back then and once I discovered it by accident, trying to recreate the tornado, it took me a week or so of 2+ hours each of DD2 and Super Contra to figure out the timings of each moves and enemy spawns respectively. Glad to say, I mastered them and completed the game solely with normal jump and knee move Only. Not a single missed knee, except when hit by the ninjas and throwing knives. And so, my OCD syndrome was born back then. (Ok, edit- checked X2. Still got those magic fingers. And anyone thinking turbo a+b, naah. I hated even pressing turbos, except for bullet hell games like silkworm, when those WERE useful. I didn't even know Holding down both turbos gets you constant knee. I just read that in the comments, still not tested it) (:-p) I take pride in my gaming abilities, even though my dad never consented and told me gaming is trash :'(

[@darringardner6310]

why is it whenever he does the knee strike i screamed .....V-TRIGGER (Kenny Omega reference)

[@ChumblesMumbles]

AKA: everyone goes in the pit, part 2.

[@Ribula1]

Bolo in Brazil literally means cake

[@sickofthelies1627]

"That was a good gear room," and that is why people make fun of this generation...

[@1blueeye]

What does that even mean?

[@crossray2369]

One of my favourite speedruns on GDQ. That moment when he says "Thank you everybody" and then a happy part of ending song starts with transition to GDQ "hub" is just priceless.