NES Longplay [032] Double Dragon

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Played By: BimmyLee83
The classic NES beat 'em up. Smash your way through hordes of baddies to save your girlfriend. Good times. -
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[@djkcel]

I do love how these long plays always let you hear the song at the title before starting.

[@brendanmaher2002]

Bro pure Nostalgia

[@FigureFarter]

And see the attract mode

[@TheTruth27536]

The music between the stages when they show the missions is damn near iconic (and is what led me here). I remember back then I had a cousin come visit and she'd ask me to play it just so she could hear the music between the stages.

[@Chiloh802206]

THE FUKKIN MUSICK . . . . . THE FUKKIN' '8OS . . . . . GOTTA LOVE EM!

[@kylarokorbor528]

Kenneth Pollard the music was really good. A true classic of 8 - Bit graphics.

[@Victorblackpage]

Epic music, epic moves, epic memories, EPIC NES!!

[@dddfff3578]

Japan 1300€.leva.bg

[@dddfff3578]

Asia India ™.yu

[@JohnnyOTGS]

Ah yes. Double Dragon: The original beat'em up. The Lee Brothers are legendary.

[@romanticcancer]

Ah, an old classic. My sibs and I used to sit in the living room and watch our Mom dominate this game. Thanks for uploading this.

[@jeffreyg5718]

That’s awesome!

[@SonicDash57]

"50,000? You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?"

[@Donkey_Lips]

Must be some kind of Wizard.

[@ToThePointCT]

what a movie :)

[@juanhunter6996]

Hey, I know some could call it "cheating", but if you just continuously kick and punch the guys in mission one, you can have all six hearts before you get to mission two!!! I also scored over 100,000 points as well so....

[@Surfer041]

@@juanhunter6996 that's not cheating. That is good strategy.

[@tensaantares]

@@juanhunter6996 *Pro tip*

[@aliciasmo]

I love the music in this game!, outstanding soundtrack!

[@loulou3t]

+Jabasswocky No doubt...

[@cazaresj21]

I loved this game, but could never beat it or reach the boss. The music here was simply AWESOME!!

[@jonathanrecinos5894]

The blocks in stage 4 and that machine gun guy is what really makes this game extremely challenging imo.

[@smugslacker98]

That adrenaline rush when you realize you have reached the final level of a hard beat em up game.

[@lostmic]

I still get PTSD knowing there are no saves and mom can call you anytime to do something lol

[@robh788]

Thanks for that. I never made it past the machine-gun guy as a kid. Looking back, I don't know why she needed rescuing... they set her up pretty plush...

[@JohnSmith-mx8wp]

+Rob Yeah, that machine gun dude got me every time too, musta tried like 200 times to beat him. This player made it look easy.

[@Francophileetnordiste]

Great fuckin' game! A kickass in the Double Dragon series!

[@kencook662]

This was my shit, I can play this all day long

[@LaVeyCharkusVeros]

Another thing I loved about this version was how they decided to put Jimmy as the mastermind behind all the chaos and how the two brothers had to see who was the strongest one in a life of death final battle. Great playthough, I just had wished you had also included the two player VS mode just for completion sake. I'm watching all your other Double Dragon playthroughs too, keep up the good work!

[@jjgator205]

Spoilers 😁

[@gatorhand]

In the end of Mission 2 where you are fighting Chin you can just go down the ladder and as soon he disappears off screen you'll win the battle.

[@haywardjohnson572]

You can also cheat and get a bat when fighting the girls on there when the whip starts to disappear pick it up and will turn into a bat

[@nebularain3338]

What's the point in playing a game about fighting if you don't fight?

[@RyuHoshi1985]

I used to throw his ass off the construction site lmao

[@stewartwatkins6152]

Wow. I haven't seen this in over 20 some years. Thx. Great nostalgia

[@fudgerounds472]

Nice vid, as usual. It took me a long time to warm up to NES Double Dragon, as it was SO different from the arcade game I was used to, but a great cart all the same. HARD.

[@loulou3t]

Ah the simple days of increasing your fighting skills and maximum potential by just earning points instead having to purchase power ups with Xp points and search for chests hidden all over the dam place...

[@dddfff3578]

300€.500€.

[@yancywood7404]

me & my brother take turns playing all morning. until my mother was annoyed by the afternoon we were kicked out by our father. "Go do something instead of staring at the t.v" he'd say. that was are weekends, good memories.

[@Mintcar923]

Abobo always reminded me of George Foreman.. LOL

[@cecilrichardson2494]

Poor Abobo. Cause of death: reverse elbow strike.

[@Mintcar923]

George S Abobo vs Billy my Tyson Foreman sim

[@PetrifEye]

Oh you just have to sit at that intro screen and listen to that music play out. So epic. Brings back fond memories :)

[@xavierlamar2328]

yeah, the music is jamming!!! can't miss it.!! Straight Stone Cold Classic!!

[@ColdPika]

man this took me forever to finaly figure out what the name of this game was called. glad i found it

[@bry954rr]

What a classic. I was never able to get past the cave level. Once i had the 7 hearts spin kick move, i knew it was all coming to an end. Linda, Abobo, Roper, Chin tai, Will brings me back to the good ol days.

[@lastsamurai420]

Should have just grinded first stage and collected all hearts on first stage thats how we did it back in the day

[@xTotalDomination]

LOL! I used to play this game so much when I was a kid! One of the best NES games ever made!

[@Anonymous0ne]

never knew you could actually punch people on the floor. Badass

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

"Never Intention To Harm Another, Do Not Battle As You Can Avoid It... You Billy Lee Are DRAGON MASTER Now!"

[@loum614]

This was was the shit. I think this has the best soundtrack to any other double dragon game

[@cjmosley2123]

The music in this game is awesome.

[@NintendoCapriSun]

Knocking Abobo off the side will always be hilarious to me.

[@littlebirdie3404]

This is my favorite game. Played so many versions of this game on a flip phone the arcade version the new version but I will always love the nes version. :D

[@Syklonus]

The NES version has an incredibly special place in my heart. The lack of two-player mode never bothered me as I was always a lone gamer anyway, and the expanded level design really felt like you were getting your money's worth. It's been over 30 years and I still play it.

[@bigjon7143]

I want my NES back!!

[@TheBlackChrisJericho]

Love this game. Plus it had such awesome music.

[@joshuamcguireakaninjajosh1986]

I've used to beat this game like a hundred times since I was a teenager back then... still good times playing it though I had fun!

[@Sicxej88]

look when he threw the first boss through that hole he cried, in 3:00, maybe was his grandpa or something :v in 10:55 OH NO!!! IT'S THE HULK!!!!

[@chuckthequail137]

3:00 ¿Who cares About Abobo? 10:55 i'll call him: the HULK-Abobo.

[@juanhunter6996]

He was just about to fall off!!!

[@robevans4929]

Haha! So many memories... Amazing how u used to be able to complete a game in less than half an hour

[@johnathonmayfield4434]

awesome 8 bit double dragon game on the nes love the music too classic 8 bit rock.

[@michaelzoran]

Double Dragon is one of the all-time great videogames!

[@LaVeyCharkusVeros]

Then it came the time when I got my NES and a friend of mine too. He happened to go on vacation that summer and when he came back he brought two awesome titles: Ninja Gaiden and Double Dragon. First thing I said to him was if I could borrow Double Dragon (yeah, even before I asked how his trip was) and when I got home and plunged the cart on my NES I was like: "WTF? Are you kidding me? This isn't Double Dragon, this looks more like a midget circus on Cartoonland!"

[@saibascope]

I Have Played Double Dragon Since I was a kid and I never knew you can pound your enemy while they are on the ground.

[@thatdanjamesguy.330]

"Played By: BimmyLee83" "Jimmy and Bimmy" That's pretty good.

[@mightymolecule1477]

You know you made it in life when you unlocked that heart for the spin-kick.

[@loulou3t]

+Jason Segura but that elbow is a beast too tho...lol

[@ohayo3693]

XD

[@grumblekin]

This is completely and totally badass. PERIOD!

[@CrazySandtrooper]

Always remember this from the movie "The Wizard" (with Fred Savage)! =)

[@lastsamurai420]

Omg this is my favorite theme song from childhood almost makes me want to cry

[@rogelioVela1985]

Corey: [shocked] 50,000? You got 50,000 on Double Dragon? -The Wizard 1989 film

[@sclice8680]

I just got this game yesterday. I have to fix the cartridge first though, but I can't wait to play it.

[@NotBoringFilms]

the light rpg element in this game made it better than part 2 in my opinion. omg the soundtrack...so freaking good! nice playthough.

[@tensaantares]

When I saw the second-to-last boss I immediately thought Roper in Battletoads and Double Dragon

[@ssbadazz]

Yeah that is roper

[@tensaantares]

@@ssbadazz 😆 👌 Better late than never (a reply 6 years later)

[@imaboutit]

They use the theme song in "River City Ransom" when you fight the Dragon Twins.

[@RobertLewis85]

Epic game, played it a ton with my buddies as a kid.

[@EnemyAce88]

I would ALWAYS do the hair grab on Chin and throw him off the top of the building at the end of Stage 2. Then I would wait a few seconds and jump off the building myself so the stage-ending music would come on when I was in mid air.

[@alfzombie]

Man, I did the same always! I'm happy to know I'm not the only one tried it!

[@cecilrichardson2494]

I never usually jumped after throwing Chintai. I'd turn to face him and watch him sail into the abyss, thinking (In the voice of Clarence Boddicker), "Can you fly, Chintai?"

[@cecilrichardson2494]

Of course, throwing the Lindas off the cliff with the hair-pull attack was fun, too. Billy Lee schooled her firsthand on how much of a destructive little cuss he could be!

[@afas1976]

I love the intro music, Best double dragon of the four titles

[@Dergaboy]

Such an epic battle at the end!

[@juanhunter6996]

Damn Billy, that elbow is a monster 1-hitter quitter!!!

[@69ridlah]

Bruh ! The music is enough, sooo good.

[@otonanoC]

This game had a Ground-and-Pound attack in the late 1980s. Well done.

[@hassantv100]

Isn't it ironic that the FINAL boss, in the NES version, is your own twin brother?

[@MonsterFlame1]

Double Dragon took so long for me to finally master. Especially Mission 4 with all those fighters to deal with.

[@darylfitz4189]

That chick that you saved in the end…. IT’S A MAN, BABY

[@benhall4141]

Brilliant, loved this game!

[@persona83]

Great playing! I still have some difficult in beating this game. =(

[@ashercornelius7063]

not bad for going from a 16 bit arcade game to an 8 bit councle

[@yavicpe]

best soundtrack intro ever

[@BMORE97]

One of my first nes games i beat. Takes me back

[@mulkytool]

my dog barked throughout this video because the punches sounded like barks to him.

[@maxabeles]

goddamn the melodic riff is so ill on the first level

[@MDthornton83]

I've always loved this game. This was the first game that introduced me to the side-scrolling beat em up genre.

[@theuglyhairmonster2]

Count Dante and all of his Bullshido students sure learnt a lesson this day.

[@TheSpartanfan84]

remember when the little kid from The Wizard got 50,000 just from beating the first 2 enemies...lol

[@ila5045]

double dragon 1 et 2 music comme game play, c'est pour moi les meilleur ♥

[@aaronsclassicgameroom]

It was nice to see you beat Chin the legit way instead of just climbing back down the ladder at the end of Mission 2.

[@justinfelton5323]

The kitty cat under the table. Aww!☺💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙👍

[@LaVeyCharkusVeros]

Even that Jesus gifted elbow smash managed to be programmed and before I knew I was doing something that would make me change the way I played games for the rest of my life: learning the way to get experience points earlier in the game, I learned to kill the first batches of enemies using only punches, that way I was maxed out by the second or third mission.

[@huiostheou]

hahaha I used to play this game as a kid! I always got to the cave and died in there lol.

[@DeepVerma728]

Ohh! I remember this game. The bastard brother Billy would jump up and spin kick my ass.

[@chilipeppers79]

I think you mean Jimmy, that bastard has all your moves too

[@sujoychatterji7759]

Sorry it might be late... Bur does any of you know that why at the end we get Jimmy as a boss..?? Story wise I didn't got the logic

[@curlydahl8937]

Sujoy Chatterji technical restrictions player 1 and 2 can both play as billy but after you beat machine gun willy and jimmy appears player 2 controls jimmy then they fight each other and the winner gets marian.

[@ramosluis4075]

i buy japanese cartridge of dis gm for 15🗽

[@VinnyS9143101982]

I NEVER owned this but when I played my cousins I always send the Mission 1 Boss over the edge

[@DravenWolfe]

It's a Requirement, :P .

[@ajretro6784]

I love those weird mustachioed eyeball statues in mission 4

[@TheTERMlNAT0R]

Epic fight at the end lol

[@AlestesStar]

This game took a lot of flak from fans, but the game play is actually quite a good replication of the arcade machine's. A two player mode would have been great and the Billy sprite is hideously drawn, but apart from that I love this game and all it's little extra bits. Surprised someone hasn't done a two player hack yet.

[@Legoanimationsmaster]

Fun fact. The same backgrounds here in the city were the same used in that old flash game Mario kart extreme.

[@81mookthespook]

i always new when i was a kid this wasn't as good as the arcade version but i always liked it as well its tied as far as the nostalgic feeling it gives me with the arcade version double dragon 2 for the nes seems to be my favorite as far as nes versions go

[@MegaPauln]

Free hearts in second mission.when you climb down the other side of the fence two guys come at you. Wait till guy gets to the end of the steel then climb back up the fence once up walk over the other side don't climb down go back the way and climb down were the guy was and he will be gone.....now start kicking Were he was last and you can get all hearts there

[@user-db6fn6lt5w]

In DD1 for the NES, due to the lack of a two-player mode, Jimmy was the real boss. But I would have done otherwise. In the arcade version, there was a guy who looked like the Dragon Brothers named Jeff. So I'll make him the real boss. I would have done differently with Jimmy. He went to rescue Marion alone and fell into the trap of the bandits. Billy saves Marion and Jimmy :) Very easy :P

[@gabrielsylvestre3708]

Where it all began. And one of the reasons I started to fall into asian stuff. I remember getting so excited when I heard that music and saw that fire in the background and seeing JAPAN at the bottom. I was like,..."I don't know what those scratchy art words say, but I know its from Japan! Whatever it is,..its cool!" I didn't know that that was their language at the time...or maybe I did,...dunno, kinda foggy, but I did know that it was very dark, cut edge, and kick ass. Its been so long, I might have thought it was Gangsta related too. Later I played River City Ransom and then found Renegade in a pile of Nintendo games when they were fading out of "era". And found out they all were linked some kind of way. This was part of the beginning of the "BEAT-EM-UP game era" that I was the first to be into and played all the major ones. Kung Fu was one of my first NINTENDO games as well, which was linked to Jackie Chan some kind of way. Beat-em ups were many and everybody wanted to get in on the quick money making, button smashing, co-op, arcade gimmick of the time. Double Dragon is possibly also the reason I fought 2 twins in the second grade in 1990. The Twin Chins. I actually used a move in the game on them. This was the beginning of my martial arts training. I used this move: 11:49 / 13:12

[@gabrielsylvestre3708]

The Spin kick doubledragon.kontek.net/games/dd/mddnes.html

[@gabrielsylvestre3708]

Spinning Roundhouse strategywiki.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_(NES)/Getting_Started

[@Anonyhouse]

I never leave the first stage until I max out all 7 hearts.

[@renatoaraujo9295]

Beautiful Memories

[@Jumpboots_Jamstrang]

CLASSIC. Does this game remind anyone else of River City Ransom a little bit?

[@ismaelcervera6432]

Abobo get his revenge!!!!

[@TV-Tony]

Damn this dude owned the final level. I almost always get to the last level and have trouble, usually dying on the machine gun guy. So I only beat this once out of every 1000 tries maybe.

[@Maxx_XIII]

Does anyone know why the cave area keeps alternating it's colors randomly around the 10:00 mark? I never understood why that was a thing.

[@Vistico93]

If I remember correctly, the enemies don't die until they get knocked down so if you're careful, you can keep one alive punching him one or two times, letting him recover, and doing it again until you get at least the jump kick in Mission 1.

[@thiago_akhe]

I love this game!

[@Vistico93]

I forgot about that cool Mission intro music.

[@JuicyPlayer]

At least you got 50,000 points right when you got to Willy!

[@carcillian]

Where has all the good 8bit music gone? I think it would be such a cool treat to see more in for fun in these huge triple a games these days. Imagine dropping into a huge raid or boss fight and voom voom vooom it's all old school music all of a sudden. I know you can just play some in the background but...

[@guardian08527]

Going through this game a few times in succession, there is no set pattern to the moving walls. Totally random. Best way Is to just jump kick across the screen. Once in awhile I made it without taking a single hit, other times the CPU decides to rape you with the moving blocks that do ridiculous amounts of damage.

[@TeamMoneyFirstMagic]

You still play this on Nes or another platform ?

[@nopantytalk2541]

Crazy to just realize I never beat this game. Used to beat part 2 a lot tho.