I play and rate EVERY Double Dragon game ever made

[@flophouseplays]

Want EVEN MORE? I recently played 25 weird PlayStation games I've never heard of! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpOroGCundaorqc

[@yakumoyomi5765]

I appreciate all the long "variety" videos.

[@weeseet]

Not only a video you can fall asleep to, one that will still be going in the morning

[@weeseet]

@@TestAcct46 Absolutely.

[@vitcawolfbane]

That's what I do with the worse ever playlist. Something about Matt's voice in bed is like warm milk

[@martinrc80]

Same

[@assembled_101]

its like late night G4. :DDD

[@EirkenElite]

Are you still watching? Yes No

[@kainhighwind2]

12:50 "Get down here and fight like a man!" "I don't suppose I could convince you to come up here and fight like a spider?"

[@WatchmeplayNintendo]

I certainly did not expect to see an obscure Spider-Man 90s cartoon reference.

[@dwschiu]

As for the Double Dragon Zeebo ending (8:01:33), it translates as follows: Willy falls lifeless as his power leaves his body. The Kingdom of the Shadow Knights has been dismantled by the two brothers. They restored the so much needed hope to New York City. In the years to come, a better future will continue to be built thanks to (their) triumphant and brave success, which resulted in the vanishing of our heroes. The vanishing of Billy, Jimmy and Marian still remains a mystery. The brothers left nothing behind, but the legend of their sake.

[@frankiebecchi5307]

It's perfect until it seems to stumble in the last sentence

[@melon3109]

"Machine gun Willy...guess what he likes to use as his weapon. Its a sword! (Nah, its his name sake)" ...h...his willy!?

[@wraithcadmus]

To answer the question at 3:43:38 - The Spectrum has a *fixed* 16-colour palette: Black, Blue, Red, Magenta, Green, Cyan, yellow, and White, and then half-intensity versions of those for 15 usable colours (as half black is still black). The problem is you can only use two colours in the same cell, an 8x8 region of the screen. This is why everything looked 'background coloured' in DD1 for the Spectrum, and why DD2 just went monochrome for the playfield.

[@phantomspaceman]

That answers one question, but not why this version looks like the Double Dragons are Terrance and Philip.

[@wraithcadmus]

@@phantomspaceman Because it was made on a budget of 37p by two guys in their bedrooms.

[@darkfalzx]

@@wraithcadmus That describes pretty much every ZX Spectrum licensed port... except maybe Robocop.

[@wraithcadmus]

@@darkfalzx Great soundtrack on RoboCop though, ended up licensed for a washing machine ad.

[@Brunty023]

One of the editors here... Thanks for the big opportunity to assist with editing this BEHEMOTH, Matt! Editor lore: I had played quite a few of the Double Dragon games myself. DD1 on both the arcade and DD1X360, the iOS remake (from a school classmate that had it) and DD Neon!

[@Gliscor101]

Editor gang rise up. Soon we shall inherit the earth.

[@BongoSeason]

Came to the comments to find someone thanking you all and glad I didn't have to scroll far.

[@Davethe3rd]

Say, kind editor(s): Would you guys be willing to do a cut playlist of this video in separate videos per game? It would be easier to have a playlist of videos than one large video that literally lasts half a day... Who has a connection this good for this long?

[@ThingsOnDemand]

@@Davethe3rdI do

[@thomasjohnston9795]

When discussing Abobos design, one of the guys who worked on the fan game Abobos big adventure then went on to work on the river city girls games and got to redesign Abobo! In Big adventure it was based on the NES sprite so for cutscenes they interpreted it by giving him big mustache with black eyes and bought that design to River city girls, becoming the official canon design!

[@chancepaladin]

freaking awesome game, so fun

[@mauricerobinson3184]

Wow Matt! I personally thank you for all of the time and effort you put into all of your videos. This video is a gem of gems!

[@flophouseplays]

Ty!!!!

[@stuarthough8440]

@@flophouseplays in double dragon the boss in mission who wears green is called jeff

[@expostfact0]

Marian being punched and kidnapped is to Double Dragon what the scene of Bruce Wayne's parents being murdered is to the Batman series.

[@ThorgisArcade]

As someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with Double Dragon this was a great way to see the series throughout the years. Congrats to you on pulling off such a monumental feat.

[@Pink_Elephants_on_Parade]

Happy to see you here. As the king of retrospectives for fighting games would you consider doing beat'em ups for retrospectives?

[@zdavisgenki243]

Took me a few days, but I watched the whole thing. This is a serious accomplishment to have made this massive video, it was great. Thank you, Matt! Since you ask for recommendations at the end, I would love to see more projects like this, but only for series/genres you're really passionate about. When you love a series, it shines through in the video and I love hearing your background knowledge and personal history with the games. I also like that you rated the games, makes it easy to know which ones I should check out. Thank you for such a great 11 hour video!

[@LawrenceMilesHasMovedToBluesky]

The ZX-Spectrum could be a wonderful thing, but as an owner, the first thing you learned was never to buy any game that claimed to be based on an arcade machine.

[@CyricZ]

Matt seriously thank you for all the work you do. It's so appreciated. :D

[@emilysong2000]

Matt, I knew that you were quite the content creating machine, but a ten-hour+ Double Dragon video is quite possibly your most awesomely ambitious and amazing video project yet... ...and I, and the rest of your Flophouse fans, are here for it!

[@Dumaiu]

3:20:52 "DOUBLE DORAGON 2" -- That was amazing. Most creative detail: Lady Liberty's head on the Empire State Building like a shishkebab.

[@str8duval]

If anything this really shows how Double Dragon is probably the most mismanaged IP in gaming history.

[@melon3109]

Does anyone else wish they could laugh and experience joy the same way Matt does?

[@ace94d]

The Double Dragon PC-Engine opening cutscene is truly the greatest thing.

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

On the Rare Replay commentary about the stuff they made for Battletoads, they talked about Battletoads and Double Dragon and went "Well, we didn't really know anything about Double Dragon, they just gave it to us, and we weren't going to give them top build all of a sudden as a result." Which explains why the game is essentially a Battletoads game and they really fudged the Double Dragon lore. Though given how Technos would just hand out the game to everyone, I wouldn't be surprised if they ran across a version that called Machine Gun Willy "Roper". 5:30:30 No, but the Vulture made a cameo in the ending cutscene of the 2021 game.

[@muthesquirrel]

The 'mi' in 'Mibobo's name stands for 'midori', Japanese for green. While you never see it, other Abobos of various colours are also named like that as well as the famous afrobobo, but I think Mibobo is the only other one named in game. :p

[@AndyDo]

"Guess what weapon he likes to use...it's his namesake." Great. Gotta fight someone brandishing their willie.

[@ThingsOnDemand]

Criminally underrated comment

[@ace94d]

also man is it just me or is the Double Dragon Zeebo game actually SICK? I like the art!

[@TrillNye69]

saw new flophouse, clicked, saw 10 hours LOL Gonna be coming back to this throghout the week. Thanks Matt!

[@LargeAlbatross]

When I was little I imagined Linda had one of those chains that keeps you from stealing the pen at the bank.

[@danbauer3669]

16:16 "Up there we have our bad guy, Machine Gun Willy. Guess what he likes to use as his weapon..." His willy?

[@adamfrazer5150]

"We need something to pad the runtime." "Bring me one man and a motorcycle."

[@theycallmejojo6090]

I love how the second boss of the nes port of the first game dies from the sheer shock of Billy rejecting him.

[@wesmurphy2533]

The music for stage 2 of the NES version of Double Dragon 2 is one of my favorite pieces of game music ever.

[@ArcadeMcfly-q1c]

Easy Lover...

[@asleeptimetv]

This is some great content. Thank you for putting it together! The plush mascot seen at 8:49:00 is a Poring from Ragnarok Online: an early 2000's era South Korean MMO developed by Gravity, one of the company names shown on the title screen. It's basically what a Slime is to Dragon Quest. EDIT: Beaten like a short Gameboy Battletoads Linda

[@PsyrenXY]

5:23:15 TWO suited guys?? What are you gonna do, cause inflation?? 5:30:38 Look at this nerd, tapping on his computer, making content for his KZbin channel I cried

[@kymryan7504]

I see a movie runtime of 3 hours and I am like oof what a slog.... Matt releases a 10 and 3/4 hour double dragon video and I am so very happy to see it :) Thanks for the hard work mate

[@guybrush_bbm]

The amount of time I've fallen asleep to this is staggering, such a comfort watch. Thank you for all the work you put into this video and I hope to see more 10+ videos to fall asleep too

[@deathsceane]

Even though the title screen says "reprogrammed by Sega" on the Master System version apparently it was also worked on by Arc System Works who would later become the future owners of the franchise.

[@npiper]

5:07:19 Matt in the Mad Max universe the world outside of the Australian outback is actually basically business as usual, like in Beyond Thunder Dome some of those kids from the crashed airplane couldn't have been there more than a year or two not to mention that there was a city for Max to send them back to.

[@anome5940]

The wildest thing about this 10 hour journey is that one of the best games in this series is stuck on the goddamn Zeebo

[@Joe90h]

The wildest thing about this 10 hour journey is that Zeebo video was a year ago...

[@FormalGibble]

And that there's another great one stuck in iOS hell.

[@krodmandoon3479]

The fuck is a Zeebo?

[@mediocre_sandwich2113]

@@krodmandoon3479yup.

[@WRILLI4M]

​@@krodmandoon3479Zeebo was a Brazilian video game console, created to supposedly compete with the 7th generation consoles, iirc. With a hardware based on mobile devices, it unsurprisingly failed, but the DD game made for it was unexpectedly good. Nowadays, it's hard AF to purchase a zeebo with DD installed, even here in Brazil. However, there's an emulator called Infuse that runs DD perfectly, with controller support, no less.

[@MrTomFTW]

ZX SPECTRUM TECH TALK (RE: the colours) The Spectrum had a palette of 7 colours (with bright/dark modes for each). However it was not designed to be a gaming computer, with no dedicated graphics hardware, no hardware sprites etc. Furthermore it only had 48K of memory which was not enough to store the program code AND display a separate colour for each pixel independantly. So the Spectrum architecture was such that the screen was split into 8x8 pixel segments. Each segment had two colours - a PAPER and INK attribute. Which explains when games have colourful backgrounds the "sprites" (which remember are software, not hardware sprites) take on the PAPER attribute for that segment as they pass over them. This was known as attribute clash or colour clash, and for those with nostalgia for the system is actually part of it's charm. Developers had a couple of different methods of working around this limitation. Some games made sure the game characters moved around in those 8x8 blocks (which meant choppy movement). Some had big black borders around their sprites, but the most popular method as the system aged was to just make the game monochrome as we saw in Double Dragon 2 and 3. Hope this makes sense 🙂

[@SpacemanHardy]

Technically Matt didn't play *EVERY* Double Dragon game, because there are still the Tiger Electronic handhelds. They're not really worth playing, but they do exist.

[@flophouseplays]

They're also not technically video games. That's saying a calculator is a video game.

[@YourEvilHenchman]

At first, it took me a while to realize that no, this is not a compilation of older material, this is an entirely new video that is fully 10 hours long, Consider my shock and awe upon that realization. I've been watching this off and on over the last week, and now I'm almost through (currently on the DD Neon part, really makes me wanna replay that game) and I gotta say it was definitely worth it. This video is genuinely a monumental task worth commending you on. Thanks Matt for all the hard work you put into this and *all* of your stuff, and also a big thanks to all the talented editors who put their time into making this video as awesome as it could be.

[@johnnychcr]

"Insipid Abobo Commentary..." I spit my coffee from laughing so hard, good job.

[@Cryptbomber]

I've been watching this for almost a full week and I'm only halfway through. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

[@Orochi_Otaku]

Double Dragon Advance felt like the "Creme de la Creme" of Double Dragon games for me just for the controls and move variety alone with the next closest contender being Super Double Dragon and Battletoads/Double Dragon.

[@Misconduct24]

Those are my 3 favorites of this list as well. Played a ton of Super and BattleToads and Double Dragon with my brother as well. Matt's criticism of that game is fair I believe.

[@The_PolterGhost]

Noting that in the bizarre Battletoads canon, the Battletoads are real human beings sucked into a VR game they were playtesting. I guess both universes exist in the same video game world, or maybe all video game worlds are connected like it's Wreck It Ralph. In short, why am I thinking about this at 4 AM?

[@Johannes_Tube]

I found this hugely entertaining, nice work! At one point you were wondering about the Atari ST: It was designed to be a low cost alternative to Macintosh computers at the time. It never gained much traction in the US but was extremely popular in Europe. The ST was pretty much designed with office and productivity software in mind, and even had a MIDI interface built in which made it the computer of choice for low cost music production in the 80s and early 90s. The first version of the popular Cubase DAW even came out for it. To keep the cost down, it was never designed with games in mind. But as it was so popular, there was a huge number of games made for the ST regardless.

[@EnoughMold]

I've actually been hoping you'd do a big video on the Double Dragon series but I did not expect a Gigantic Video with literally all of the games! This Rocks!!

[@freezestar22]

I think the big thing I learned from watching all of this is that a lot of companies had no idea what to do with Double Dragon, even Arc Sys who seems to be using it to prop up the massive girth (to borrow a phrase Matt uses) of Kunio-Kun/River City Ransom, like a new leg on a broken chair.

[@zachariahscott6648]

I will just keep this in my video library, so that oneday when I do not have to go to work, do any chores around the house and nothing to watch on TV, I will give this 10 hour video my undivided attention. 👀

[@VJMorales]

I finally finished watching the video. My heartfelt congratulations to everyone involved in making this.

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

Y'know, Arc System Works having the rights to the Double Dragon ip is some kinda full circle, since the SMS Double Dragon was one of their first games.

[@apostlenik809]

My headcanon regarding the twins' hair color is that they always try to accomplish their missions incognito, maybe wanting to confuse the enemy and make sure they never know which brother is which, and so they keep dying their hair, but being martial artists they aren't particularly smart about it and always keep swapping their natural colors to the point where they probably don't know whose initial color belonged to whom.

[@ThingsOnDemand]

Hollywood missed its chance and passed over reknowned action-comedy schlock megastars The Barbarian Brothers to star in the big-screen adaptation of Double Dragon and instead went with a future Party of Five alum and the Iron Chef chairman.

[@L1f35aGl17ch]

In the first arcade game it's clearly Scott Hall and Scott Steiner on the wanted poster

[@gazerofdusk]

I chipped away at this off and on for a couple of weeks but I made it to the end today. Excellent vid! While it feels like there were more misses than hits here, you can tell you were really vibing with the hits. Even then, you riffing on the Double Dragon II remake was fun too lol

[@justinc.5591]

The NES Battletoads/Double Dragon is actually the original. That’s why it’s so similar to the 16-bit versions: it wasn’t a downport, the others were up-ports!

[@muthesquirrel]

I think you're a bit confused by the Sonny thing in DD3. Roney is not Sonny, Sonny is a yellow palette swap of the Lee brothers you use in 3P co-op, cos DD3 has 3 player instead of just 2, so there are three versions of each character based on what player you are. Billy, Jimmy, and Sonny Lee. Chin Seimei, Sinme, and Taimei. Masao, Kunio and Akira Oyama. And finally the big guy set is Roney, Jonny, and Sunny Urquidez.

[@Waltnice23]

Awesome video. As a Double Dragon fan, I learned a lot. My favorite version is the return of Double Dragon. Thank you. I appreciate the hard work you did. I give you 5 Bimmy's.

[@biggestbobo]

Holy shit why does turbografx port of DD II go so hard

[@dreamshade]

I am shocked that the final boss of Double Dragon Neon wasn't voiced by Stephanie Sterling. That is exactly her Skeletor voice.

[@EtherealMoon]

This is the first time I've seen a 10-hour video from a consistent content creator and it's not a compilation... You're insane.

[@Oneof48]

I'm a bit behind, but I can confirm that having found an xbox 360!in decent condition, and having previously owned the 360 version of Double Dragon, it is indeed still a cat sat on top of the bin. Owning the full game allow the graphics filter to be switched to "original" on the fly and it is clearly a cat.

[@jonathanboetto8849]

On Sunday, I scoffed at the idea of watching ten straight hour of Double Dragon... but here I am, a week later, and I just keep coming back to it. More than halfway through now. The fact that it's a full-fledged playthrough video with fully edited gags throughout really is a stunning feat...

[@bargaintuesday812]

Looking forward to your inevitable Double Dragon Gaiden video!

[@PaperMacheThief13]

The NES version of DD2 does have the jungle. It's right after the secret base. Great video so far! A bit over 3 hours in and loving it!

[@shawnking6753]

9:07ish, gold statue man, missed opportunity for a quote. "oh you're the biggest man in the world now.And you're covered in gold"

[@worldofthought8352]

Holy crap it is a ten hour video! This is going to be a blast.

[@thomasderosso5625]

Thank you for both teaching me about Double Dragon games I'd never heard of, and taking me back to one summer day when a friend and I blew through Double Dragon Neon! You gave me nostalgia about something that gave me nostalgia!

[@killerb255]

1:31:59 The Sega Master System version was my first Double Dragon! (and I’ve beaten the game many times!) I can tell you some of the major differences vs the NES: 1) 2 player co-op. 2) Infinite continues for Missions 1-3. 3) No continues for Mission 4 (unless you get at least 9 total lives for either Billy or Jimmy before Mission 4, then the game will somehow let you continue on Mission 4). 4) Mission 3 is MUCH easier than the NES version-there are no hidden paths in Abobo busted walls unlike the NES version. 5) The Sega box in Mission 2 :) 6) No kitty in Mission 1 :( 7) Like the arcade, if both players are alive after the Willy fight, they have to fight each other for Marian (the instruction manual calls her Mary Ann LMAO). 8) Speaking of Willy…bullets insta-kill

[@truemperahzentertainment6133]

Sega version is the best version Genesis and Master system rocks.

[@WRILLI4M]

Actually, it's possible to get back the infinite continues in mission 4 by doing a set number of that twirling jump kick right at the start of the stage. I've done it once, and I remember it working.

[@BurninBluber]

This video has honestly given me a newfound appreciation for this series. Double Dragon Advance is sick. No idea how I slept on it for this long.

[@TheBabylonBurning]

Lmao I love how, only a couple of weeks after Matt makes this excellent video and his accompanying What Happened on DD, a new DD game is announced. He's got that magic. Sooo can you do a full playthrough of the Strider series next pls?

[@MrColonsay]

Currently hour four and I am still having a blast chipping away at this video, appreciate the deep dive its been really cool seeing all the different versions and ports of Double Dragon over the years

[@stevem9895]

Took me a week but I finally finished this video. Great job! Your dedication is insane! I give it 5/5 Bimmys!

[@BigBossJelly]

I love how as soon as you do this Double Dragon Gaiden gets announced lol

[@DandyCaballero]

My man's literally said, "I'm playing all of this for you guys" I refuse to watch anything else until every single second of this has been seen

[@allfodas]

Matt: "I love Double Dragon" Also Matt: [gives most games a rating of less than 3 out of 5 Bimmies]

[@flophouseplays]

Because most of the games I rated are bad ports.

[@allfodas]

@@flophouseplays I know! It's hard to be a Double Dragon fan 😁

[@silverwolf761]

Catching someone with the flying knee in Double Dragon 2 is one of the most satisfying things in gaming

[@mr.awesome6011]

Finishing the Shadow Master with a flying knee IS the most satisfying thing in gaming.

[@silverwolf761]

@@mr.awesome6011 Hell yes it is

[@TheGhostnappa]

it makes me so happy that double dragon advance and super double dragon are available on ps5 switch and xbox now i just bought both of them and even though they are punishing as hell there still so much fun

[@Ice-Climber]

50,000? You got 50,000 in Double Dragon?!

[@emperormegaman3856]

3:20:15 the dying shadow master dude prophecy. They rose to the heaven by defeating him, so that created a miracle and Marian was resurected (an angel will appear). Also as you noted in the begining, this game did not show Marian being shot, it's entirely possible that what the shadow warriors did was indeed curse her.

[@gatechmole]

5:24:25 In Japan, W is commonly a stand in character for "Double". So the Dragon coiled around a W is literally just referencing the name "Double Dragon"

[@extremelyuncanny2621]

12 days in and I am still checking back in. Love the work here, Matt and editing crew

[@TheSkullivan12]

1:54:45 I was not expecting a Critical Role reference on the Flophouse today, but I am *here* for it.

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

Holy crap, that's where she ended up after the Calamity?

[@GhoulRUSva]

BRUH That Double Dragon remake for iOS is fucking incredible! WE NEED THAT SHIT IN THE WILD!!! I hope somebody will find a way to emulate this or straight up makes a fan-port of it

[@garou119]

Double Dragon is one of my favorite franchises ever! Despite the varying quality of the individual titles, the good ones shine like gems here and there. I've been waiting for years for ArcSys to do a real game with DD (4 barely counts) now, and you, Mr. McMuscles, just made that wait 10 hours shorter. Thank you for that.

[@davidhahn4854]

This will be my in office watching this week. Switching it up from watching classic Unsolved Mysteries ALL DAY FOR 12 YEARS!!! Rip Robert Stack.

[@Colegotrox3k]

wow Matt, thanks a lot for your hard work. The quantity and quality of your content is astonishing

[@carsondoesstuff3487]

The antithesis of short form content and I am HERE for it

[@silverroddo1468]

We need to popularize DD fan-fiction, to build fan lore since these ports are basically fan-games in terms of varied lore; you know like they way legend is told via the telephone game-where the story changes from storyteller to storyteller. Also, fan-art, no none of that ai-shit, human-hand-drawn art even if the art isn’t jank, but i’ll take jank, jank has personality. Anyway, i wanna see DD memes that depict Bimmy and Jimmy baptizing their child with Bepis in a holy Beptizmal. Then after years of this, eventually we’ll get to Sonic levels of relevance.

[@ZimMan2]

So I had to really dig to find "Roney's" name in katakana, since I was so certain that the name was a transliteration error, and finally, finally I found a Japanese wiki and confirmed his name is supposed to be "Rooney," which I did not realize was a gender-neutral name.

[@Highretrogamelord]

Wow, that is an insane amount of dedication! Absolutely amazing! Massive respect!

[@Highretrogamelord]

And now I finished it. Wow, took me longer than I thought it would be. But it was a really fun video!

[@chipgarrett3139]

All right. Looked at the watch time and said no way. 3 hours in and no way I'm stopping now. Great video for chilling and relaxing.

[@nmaster64]

Man I would love for a new DD game that retells the story of the first few games and straightens out the canon. It could be framed as a story-time with Marian, after the River City Girls come to her asking about all these crazy rumors they'd heard about her, Billy, and Jimmy's past exploits. Leaves a lot of opportunity to reference all the crazy discrepancies while making more sense of it in the end.

[@Endocrom]

Days worth of Flophouse content in one video! Much appreciated. UGG-LEE! HOME-LEE!

[@atarichild81]

Took me three days to watch this entire masterpiece. Thank you for your service.

[@JVeg199X]

I finally made it to the end, and I can safely say I’d watch you play 10 more hours of Double Dragon!

[@cybercop0083]

The Amiga version of DD1 is set in the otherworld from Coraline, where everyone has buttons for eyes! Sick! Wicked sick!!

[@kassi420]

Double Dragon Advance is so underrated also when you said 36 years I was like... "it's not that old" then I realized I'm 41...

[@seb24789]

So did Matt making a 10 hour video summon Rise of the Dragons?

[@tretrefairman]

That's what I was thinking!

[@fable23]

Since you were wondering about it, I can tell you that the Shadow Boss in Battletoads and Double Dragon is... weird. He has, like, combination Samus morph ball and Koopa powers. He can roll himself into a spiky ball by encasing himself in his shoulder pads, and then he bounces around trying to kill you. It's certainly an... _interesting_ interpretation of the character.

[@TheHolySwordOfLight]

Can you do a Double Dragon video with only fan-made games now?

[@TwinOpinion]

It us us over a week, but we finally got thorough it... What a great trip down memory lane. Thank you. BY THE CODE OF THE DRAGON! 💪

[@mbizzlesnizz]

I love the GBA version - you can get some sick combos ((1) super knee -> super knee [or] super uppercut -> super knee and (2) super uppercut -> headbutt x 2 are my fav)