DOUBLE DRAGON HISTORY- The Story of the game that CHANGED a genre!!

[@kittyhoney551]

Thank you for featuring my Marian cosplay at 5:41 I really loved the game when I was a child

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Good work!

[@kittyhoney551]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel Thanks again!

[@songoku9348]

Super Double Dragon is criminally underrated. I have it on SNES mini.

[@willtyrighteous]

agreed!!!!

[@thebrownbaldy]

Yes it is and was fun to play

[@Ottophil]

Crump’s Brother wow

[@robertdanker6193]

Absolutely!!!👍👍👍

[@dfjsorbys]

Class game! And the soundtrack is an absolute snes classic!!

[@joseirimia]

One beat'em up i would like to see reviewed is the punisher.

[@theodorehsu5023]

Billy wears blue, Top Hat, Jimmy wears red (and in the NES version had the alias "Shadow Boss"). They later had an animated cartoon based off of it.

[@dub2536]

@@theodorehsu5023 That's news to me. thx!

[@PANTYEATR1]

i was in elementary school when Double Dragon came out and it's a legendary game! 💪

[@TheErnestotorres1977]

I was in Elementary school too! I remember it being so popular!

[@makaveli4205]

Is the original rygar arcade game a beat em up? Kind of but not really

[@joeyfarris2543]

I was in elementary school too when the original Double Dragon arcade game came out in 1987👍👍🐉🐉

[@gr8gmr]

10:40 I think you mean Billy was the protagonist and Jimmy was the main villain.

[@radamesrivera4193]

Lol I was just about to post the same thing

[@TheDouglas]

I was also going to say the same thing! Marion was always Billy's girl.

[@igorivanov299]

Exactly. Billy wore blue, Jimmy wore red. Blonde hair and brown hair swapped on some ports, specifically super double dragon, though their colors remained the same.

[@TigressOrchid]

This game completely changed my life. And yes. I was 10 yrs old at that time...... I remember the HUGE sounds and music that came from any arcades, this cabinet was installed in. There were around 20x times more kids around this cabinet, then on any other machine....

[@Pro_Skillz]

I remember beating that green version of Abobo with just headbutts to impress a bird i was going out with

[@sometator]

And I bet despite of that you still did not smash...

[@saturn1returns]

Skills 😎

[@hjames78]

"Bimmy and Jimmy" lol☺️☺️🤣. If the actual company that made the game cant get it right why should you? Lol

[@johndripper]

its d angry video game nerd :p

[@Rockmankb]

Double Dragon! The game where you beat up everybody on the street, even your own brother! Glad you finally tackled this! Got the Zeebo version and iOS/Android version on my channel. Gonna do an online 2 player play through of the iOS version soon! Give it a look if you have a chance, sir!🎩

[@klehman215]

Nice Video remember this coming out as a kid and first time going to the Arcade and spending time entire time watching the older kids play Double Dragon. Actually just bought the arcade classic the from the switch eShop last night I think on sale for like $2. Now I can't waitto play through. Probably spend 20 hours of my childhood watching other people play but never had the chance myself. Every time we walk to the arcade there would be a line to play I was too young to be allowed to play.

[@nihlhinz488]

I still play this on the Sega master system. 30 plus years and it never gets old.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

I was out of checking your channel for more of one year due to personal reasons, good sire. I really appreciate your love for videogames and your uniqueness on your approach. You're among the best on video games KZbinrs.

[@mazonemayu]

A childhood fav of mine, my buddy and I put so much coins in the machine, when it came out. I just did a quickie on my mega drive after watching this vid. It is easy as pie, and I can finish it blindfolded, with my hands tied behind my back, but it’s one of those games that instantly put a smile on my face the moment I see the title screen...

[@juiceala]

You forgot the GBA remake... also I believe the game came out for the Atari 2600, which is quite ambitious.

[@tonybrown4985]

juice hedgehog double dragon all so came out on the zeebo best version 😬

[@AngryCalvin]

The Atari 2600 version was on an Activision collection I bought for the PC in the 90s on CD-ROM. Insane difficulty level. I have played a few different versions of Double Dragon. That one is by far the hardest.

[@zabustifu]

Maybe the GBA remake was excluded for not being titled "Double Dragon".

[@dariogonzalez8989]

The GBA remake got its own video.

[@rayfincham1595]

The additional Double Dragon games, 2,3&4 Super Double Dragon. It’s the series that defined my childhood and played them a lot with my brother and cousin. Good times...good times. Great video as always.

[@daveruda]

Part of the appeal was the colorful characters. Red and blue players standing out from the crowd. A distinct look with the nice backgrounds and enemy characters. Not forgetting the crunchy sound effects and catchy music. I got hooked on this the first time I saw it on the arcade.

[@kevinmorin1248]

So many great 10 year old memories playing this game with my cousin in the dingy basement of a local restaurant! So many in fact that I built a full size replica.

[@desdichado-007]

The patriarch of the beat'em up! I'd never played anything like it when it came out, although I was a huge fan of Kung Fu Master back in the day too.

[@juiceala]

Now that you’re doing Double Dragon, PLEEEEASE, do a video on the PC Engine version of Double Dragon 2, it’s criminal how overlooked that game is.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

You can blame NEC/TTI for that. Had they ported it to the US and Europe, it would be better known.

[@juiceala]

Andrew Vrba people are familiar with Castlevania Rondo of Blood, Valis Soldier of Fantasm, Magical Pop’n, and Star Parodier, none of which was released outside of Japan if I’m not mistaken.

[@aweirdredtoad3637]

@@juiceala Because the magic of the internet

[@felatioable]

I love the NES versions - the combination of platform style and beat-em up. Such a big part of my life and so much nostalgia.

[@Skaera75b]

Great video, Mr. Parliament. I appreciate this as it's one of my favourites.

[@xafronicajones]

Patman just did this too. I'm in love with the nostalgia

[@xafronicajones]

@@OriginalMasters patman qc gaming channel too

[@fixxiehartmann5227]

Super double dragon was my absolutly favorite snes game ever and The best snes song ever most epic sound ( truck mission ) super double dragon 😍

[@XX-lt6ky]

Panty shot when they kidnap the girl at the begining, and again when she hugs the dude at the end. Taito is perverts, lol

[@AvoidsPikes-]

That made it worth playing 😊

[@kurtweber4813]

Thanks mate, this what i started on in the 80s. Pumping coins into this baby when i was 10 years old

[@dub2536]

One of my favorite games from the 1980s. Great video! Peace.

[@megagrey]

Oh yeah, I got the SMS version of Double Dragon...

[@jemalale1170]

Mine was streets of rage. Hooked back in 1991. Waking up before school and trying to finish the game. Haha

[@dennismolina9033]

Streets of Rage 2 was and still is the best in the series!

[@kbramlett6877]

Once I learned the elbow punch technique, I was able to beat the arcade version with one quarter / token.

[@jameslewis2635]

Double Dragon was one of the first games I ever played on PC back in the early 1990's. Somehow it was always found somewhere on the school network along with Snake and Starglider. I know that this was not exactly top end gaming (even for the time) but it was about as much as you could expect to run on RM Nimbus machines that had been donated to the school.

[@SolitaireZeta]

Can't wait for you to cover both of Capcom's epic Dungeons and Dragons beat 'em ups!

[@juiceala]

-My favorite video game villain is Mr. X! -But... which one? -Exactly!

[@StreamerSchool]

Yes! Double Dragon! Finally!

[@Sempervivi]

Man, I loved this game so much back in the day. I probably should've named my son Bimmy.

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

I was in a chippy called Double Dragon the other night.

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

The said Chippy's on Upper Chorlton Road heading towards Oxford Road and Chorlton in Manchester

[@RamblinErikk]

There's a Chinese restaurant in Leicester, Leicestershire, called that!

[@saturn1returns]

Sadly none of them would have the said arcade game.

[@TheAxelay]

The Double Dragon franchise lives on forever via the Openbor (Open Beats Of Rage) engine with afew PC games thrown in as well, there are so many DD mods on that engine out there.

[@blzr2bull]

Wow Mr Top Hat, your content has been upped to the highest level in quality and presentation! Thank you! Please keep it up!✊🏼😎

[@presidentsnow7315]

Back in '87, this game was an obsession for kids in the arcade. When I went to an arcade, this was the first game me and my friends would head toward. Up until recently when playing it years later on an emulator, I never realized how short the game actually is.

[@angrytheclown801]

I have it on my PS4. I use it to waste time while I let games install.

[@Mamiya645]

I remember enough from this in the 80's arcades that it really did visually impress next to its contemporaries, as if they allocated higher quality nicer CRTs to it. And that it was quite the slog with two players..

[@dwainDigital]

This was the best on the sega master system

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

The elbow smash is incredibly cheap in this game. You can make it past the first stage without even being hit if you use only this move, and make it to the beginning of the final stage without dying if you master this OP move👌🏾

[@GoreSlasher]

I recently revisited Double Dragon for the NES and the game is still enjoyable today. It even motivated me to figure out and make a video on mastering the death wall in Mission 4

[@Gamer-lq4wl]

Definitely. It's an awesome game you can finish in 15 to 20 minutes, ideal if you are a busy person.

[@benitopulatso6637]

The NES version did have a two player game, it was a one on one fighting mode, similar to a stripped down fighting game.

[@nebularain3338]

That not the same thing as an actual co-op two player mode within a scrolling beat 'em up environment.

[@bongojones2027]

This was the first VG I was obsessed with...So long ago

[@gr8gmr]

Double Dragon will always be the king of beat'em ups.

[@TyCollage]

Don't get more 80's roadhouse than this franchise my friend P.S. Fei, ID I *see* you, respect 👏🏾🏳️

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

I am more of a Streets of Rage and TMNT type guy.

[@gr8gmr]

@@TyCollage Haha! Yeah! Fei for PlayStation All-Stars!

[@gr8gmr]

@@TyCollage Oh and I forgot something else; Billy and Jimmy Lee for Smash Ultimate!

[@sammylane21]

The good ole arcade room must've been like bit music heaven back in the day with classic bit music blasted at max valume, huh??

[@riansillett2771]

It was! Especially games like Outrun and Afterburner, both had amazing music. Double Dragon also had a great soundtrack. I really miss the Arcades

[@GamingDreamer]

2:07 OMG I love this game as a Kid, it was in my bootleg Famicom, there was 5000 games (20 that repeated) and I love this one please make a video about it please my TopHat

[@BaneMcDeath]

OH YEAH! The shadow falls but the power of the Dragon masters will kick their arse. Love it! So many great fighting games and gotta love this one.

[@alvinbautista1450]

If without Street Fighter, no King of Fighters. If without Double Dragon, no Final Fight. 😊👍💖

[@lindamnguni]

The soundtrack is still banger to this day 🔥

[@neat3468]

One thing to also note is that Double Dragon is the first game to use the "double tap" feature in a game. Weirdly, not for running though, but for headbutt, which would always come out by mistake on dodgy old arcade joysticks. You also didn't mention that the gfx style is based on the Hokuto No Ken / Fist Of The North Star style with the barren wasteland and Billy and Jimmy and their clothing basically looking like Shin and Kenshiro. The GBA box art for Double Dragon advance is the biggest nod to Fist Of The North Star by far.

[@cbarger2327]

The two primary influences on Double Dragon are Fist of the North Star and the 1979 movie The Warriors.

[@bigrudd8746]

Great work!

[@DeadlyDanDaMan]

Renegade seriously gets no love. That was one of my favorite games on the NES. More so than Double Dragon.

[@VVc0w]

Great review Mr Top Hat. My introduction to Double Dragon was the third game on the Amiga, not as good as the first two

[@mikeychainsaw9760]

The slow down made the game ill i loved it. Made it feel like I was on a action movie where they do the slow motion action scene

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

What, have you been following me around or something? 100% of like your last ten videos are exactly what I’ve been playing. Love this channel.

[@JKZEROkenjiMB]

Double dragon was my gaming childhood.

[@hdofu]

All I can say is Double Dragon Advance better be getting its own video.

[@robin_the_red_fox4082]

I loved Double Dragon 2 The Revenge on the NES growing up,I also liked the Arcade Game it came from. You doing the rest of the Double Dragon series?

[@devonlavish5787]

Dd 2 nes the best in my opinion ...

[@robin_the_red_fox4082]

Devon lavish Yes, if I was not beating the shadow boss, I was kicking my brother off the ladder for fun while we laughed our butts off

[@PaulNat360]

I’m looking forward to a history video about the Double Dragon 1-on-1 fighting game from 1995.

[@dariusq8894]

For my money, Double Dragon on the GBA is the defacto version to play. At it's core this is a remake of the original game but with elements from the sequels sprinkled such as new moves and more levels. Even some of the original staff were tapped to make sure the game had that classic arcade feel. Because it's a portable game getting 2P is a little more work, but worth the effort.

[@lonewolf9325]

Renegade was inspired by Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-Kun, a 1986 game. That game made the Beat-em Genre, Double Dragon came later. River City Ransom had a Double Dragon Boss Fight with their Theme music.

[@aweirdredtoad3637]

They were all made by the same company, Technos. Nekketsu Kōha Kunio Kun was localized to international markets as Renegade.

[@lonewolf9325]

@@aweirdredtoad3637 Yeah I came to know that later, the company got their spiritual successor as Arc System Works.

[@zackschilling4376]

GBA Double Dragon is the best! I cant get over that slow down in the arcade version. Still a great game, but that GBA version is PERFECT or close to it. Only thing that sucks about it is its pretty pricey especially for a GBA game.

[@shaggydee91]

Indeed! GBA verison is great...The difficulty is a bit high imo...

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man! Can you please do a video on Battle Circuit? This was the last beat 'em up game Capcom made for the Arcade. You really should do a video on that game!

[@StarDragonJP]

Arc System Works also went on to acquire Double Dragon & Kunio Kun years after Technos went bankrupt.

[@walterlucero5757]

Without a mention of Double Dragon Neon, this video kinda feels incomplete.

[@Jcarroz]

Do the modern double dragons (Double dragon neon and others). My favorite one was the Double dragon that was created for the iPhone in 2010~...just wish I could play with a controller

[@KalHimself]

I had that one when I had an iPhone. Great game.

[@Jcarroz]

KalHimself a criminally underrated game. I just wish you could play with a controller.

[@shoto1600]

Another quality video by top hat gaming man

[@juiceala]

Double Dragon is awesome... the arcade originals or the Megadrive ports.

[@WraithTDK]

What the hell? Renegade came first? Holy Mandella Effect Batman, I definitely remember it being the other way around. Also, it seems like the NES port was what they went for the canon of the cartoon.

[@nicotoscani8270]

The slowdown in the arcade version is brutal

[@bedwablackburn]

Oh my Double Dragon! My fave arcade game growing up. Can 2 coin clear the Switch version of the arcade game.

[@TITANONEOONE]

My first and most memorable arcade game as a child

[@NYCJoeBlack]

Please do one on CRIME FIGHTERS, an arcade game that has never received a home console or handheld port, sadly.

[@devonlavish5787]

The sequel was vendetta

[@SilverSoldierCS]

Totally loved playing the arcade version somewhere in the early nineties.. I was so happy I bought/received Double Dragon at home! Tape version..for my C64.. The horrors! Everlasting loading screens... The graphics..!? Superstrong enemies..😂😂🤣🤣 Nowadays I've got DD almost on all my systems (DD fan..😅). It's real fun to see and play all those different versions of DD. 🙂 [fanboy mode off😅]

[@areyouafraidofthedog]

You should do Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. Keep up the great work!

[@TheDimeDrawer]

The Punisher Arcade game next up please Big Daddy Top Hat 👍😎

[@Metaphor9696]

Have you done SNK vs Tatsunoku or Capcom or something like that? It's been a while since I played it, which is why I can't remember what the title exactly was.

[@TheDimeDrawer]

Yes be already has.

[@SEABASSTHEGREAT]

When I hear the patron list read out.... I seriously always think “this guy isn’t stopping to take a breath... sounding like the scatman dance single” 😂🤣🕺🏽

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

This post just gave me a great idea! I am going to start autotuning the credits!

[@d18p]

10:31 Damn you bro, I was drinking coffee and you made me mess up my keyboard. :)

[@DannyTheBarGod]

Double Dragon was life!!!

[@t.cbasey6439]

Bro you check out legend of double dragon

[@darkknight9803]

You should take a look at The Warriors by Rockstar games considering that that game had so many similarities to DD. Hell, there is even an extra mode called Armies of the night that uses Warriors members instead of "Bimmy" and Jimmy and plays out just like DD. Cheers.

[@damienbooker4833]

Now is the time for Double Dragon 2

[@johnathin0061892]

Only really negative thing about the master system version was you couldn't continue on the last stage. The first 3 stages had unlimited continues, making the game very easy until the last level. You also had to remember to finish the last enemy on stage 3 with all your lives in reserve, or else you were out of luck on the next stage.

[@100gendos]

Apparently, in the first Double Dragon for the NES, the dragons are the opponents, because... they are all paired twins.

[@LupusRexRgis]

Great content. Can’t wait for the Renegade one!

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

the first time i knew about the Lee brothers were the comic books, so much cooler than the actual games , but the first one i played was DD3 on nes, and i am one of the few people that think it is the best one in the whole series , it has the best graphics and some of the best music , they even made an enhanced version for the switch and it is amazing with no flickers and extra buttons, making it so much more enjoyable, love the DD series, sadly the fourth one was not that great .

[@JuanGonzalez-xs3vz]

Awesome as always!!!!! I would love to see a video about to WWF WrestleFest

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

It's already on Patreon, coming to the main channel Thursday.

[@billcook4768]

Maybe it’s just an American thing, but Double Dragon is the game that taught me, “winners don’t use drugs.” Or was that Bad Dudes? I always get those two confused.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Bad Dudes had Ronald Reagan, so probably that one.

[@johnathin0061892]

It was Bad Dudes, among other arcade games of the era

[@ShinobiShowdown]

NES version = Single Dragon LOL

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Please talk bout dungeons & dragons:tower of doom & shadow over mystara,the bouncer on ps2,urban reign on ps2,& scott pilgrim vs the world

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

The Gameboy game introduced me to the beat'em up genre. I've since played the arcade game and I still think the Gameboy game is alright. As you say, not anything to write home about but still okay.

[@tgore22]

Double Dragon 2 on GB was much better.

[@conradojavier7547]

Can you review 3 Double Dragon Fighting Game, DD5, That Neo Geo Movie Tie-In, & Rage of the Dragon.

[@danschneider4694]

Played this first in the gba then the Mega Drive emulator. Best version for me is gba my hatest is dd3 nes version so hard

[@devingiles6597]

Top Hat Gaming Man, can you please do a video on River City Ransom?

[@martinevans1206]

This game needs a battle of the ports!

[@BillB808]

Loosers roll at the end there...I saw someone tweet slopes game room that they gave him money from their final paycheck prior to redundancy...and he was just like 'yea thanks buddy' 🤣

[@RamblinErikk]

AT LONG LAST!!!! THANK YOU, Sr. Richard Parliament!!! Education, Education!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[@ReddFoxx1562]

You didn't mention that the NES and Gameboy versions have a 1v1 fighting mode where you can play as the enemies.

[@lonewolffang]

Gond memories of beating the arcade version at the cost of my old man's quarters in his truck. I came forth and told him apologizing to him and he forgave me for telling me the truth about it. I would've never guessed Arc Sysyem Works would work on the Sega version only decades later buy the franchise. My other favorite is Double Dragon Neon.