Double Dragon (NES) Playthrough

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  • @NintendoComplete
    @NintendoComplete  4 місяці тому +81

    Poor Marian. It can't be fun being gut punched out of nowhere and carried off like that, slung over someone's shoulder.

    • @alextamaranian2384
      @alextamaranian2384 4 місяці тому +1

      Poor Abobo than receive kicks in his balls.

    • @fivespot83s24
      @fivespot83s24 4 місяці тому +5

      Doesn't she just get straight up merc'd in the next game? 😬

    • @chaosgreyblood
      @chaosgreyblood 4 місяці тому +3

      Or outright murdered like both in the arcade game and the NES version.
      Only difference is that she's resurrected in the NES version.

    • @Dorian_Scott
      @Dorian_Scott 4 місяці тому +1

      Thoughts on the upcoming remake?

    • @DamienCooley
      @DamienCooley 4 місяці тому +2

      Don't knock it 'til you've tried it 💥

  • @TheAmazingLSB
    @TheAmazingLSB 4 місяці тому +53

    I really love the music in this version of Double Dragon....

    • @Dorian_Scott
      @Dorian_Scott 4 місяці тому +5

      That first stage theme is living rent free in my head.

    • @torachan23
      @torachan23 4 місяці тому +2

      Very nostalgic

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 місяці тому +8

      I loved how they used the main theme for the build-up to the last boss fight in River City Ransom.

    • @rjcupid
      @rjcupid 4 місяці тому +3

      @@NintendoCompleteThat was one of my favourite moments that I ever experienced playing the NES - when that song starts and the “Dragon Twins” appear right before the final boss. River City Ransom is the best.

    • @jmag579
      @jmag579 4 місяці тому +2

      @@Dorian_Scottthe arcade version was better IMO

  • @MatthiaGryffine
    @MatthiaGryffine 4 місяці тому +26

    I never beat this game but the music is so iconic

    • @classicgunstoday1972
      @classicgunstoday1972 4 місяці тому +3

      Let me guess: the damn wall in Mission 5

    • @hydetannen4819
      @hydetannen4819 Місяць тому

      Dude, I forgot how awesome the music is for this game! 🤟🏼✌🏼

  • @BalancedSpirit79
    @BalancedSpirit79 4 місяці тому +6

    I remember beating this game only once. I spammed elbows on the machine gun guy and the final boss. So amazing when I finally won. Classic beat-em-up.

  • @spoonshiro
    @spoonshiro 4 місяці тому +7

    Always forget about that bizarre two player versus mode. Six characters to pick from but you can only play mirror matches!

  • @rjcupid
    @rjcupid 4 місяці тому +33

    I’ve said this before, but if this game would have been 2-players it would have been one of the best NES games.

    • @Arendvdvenk
      @Arendvdvenk 4 місяці тому +3

      Agreed

    • @chaosgreyblood
      @chaosgreyblood 4 місяці тому +5

      As has been established with a few other games like Bad Dudes and POW: Prisoners of War

    • @mattyice5696
      @mattyice5696 4 місяці тому +3

      It was one of the best games

    • @metalpunk7945
      @metalpunk7945 4 місяці тому

      110% agreed!

    • @Truangel777
      @Truangel777 4 місяці тому +3

      I won’t argue with that. River City Ransom scratched that itch a little later.

  • @9b8ll
    @9b8ll 4 місяці тому +3

    This music kicks so much ass! Also, I love the plot being simple. Thugs snatch your girl, and you start going on a rampage and kick all of their asses to win her back. I love it!

  • @Aurochhunter
    @Aurochhunter 4 місяці тому +4

    Incredible, I was thinking of Doulbe Dragon earlier today, probably around about the time you posted this video.

  • @pixelgoat7317
    @pixelgoat7317 4 місяці тому +9

    Oh man, the Mode B "Victory Music" sounds ominous as hell. Gives me 'Bad Ending' vibes lol!

  • @michaelr9839
    @michaelr9839 3 місяці тому +3

    This game has been therapeutic for me since 1987. Long live DD!

  • @senseicorey9979
    @senseicorey9979 4 місяці тому +9

    Not a damn person in this game can keep their hands up. Dudes throwing reverse punches straight from the hip and EVERYONES getting head shots

  • @PhoenixFlamez07
    @PhoenixFlamez07 4 місяці тому +8

    The happy times I remember playing this on the game boy back in the day

  • @orenges
    @orenges 4 місяці тому +10

    Was re-watching old playthroughs of this

  • @SolCresta3405
    @SolCresta3405 4 місяці тому +27

    The game that started it all.

  • @mattyice5696
    @mattyice5696 4 місяці тому +10

    You got 50,000 in double dragon?! No way! This brings me waaay back.

  • @thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307
    @thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307 4 місяці тому +6

    Fun fact: Double Dragon 3 was the the Origins of the first microtransactions in video games in which you entered a Shop and used the Credits you put into the Arcade to buy Weapons and extra lives. So No Mobile games didn't do it Double Dragon did it first in 1990.

  • @SomeOrangeCat
    @SomeOrangeCat 4 місяці тому +8

    There's a good reason this is the version that gets included in all of those compilations and not the Master System version.

    • @dz4265
      @dz4265 4 місяці тому

      Master system is more sorta accurate to the arcade and has 2 player co op. And none of the level up move gameplay changes

    • @SomeOrangeCat
      @SomeOrangeCat 4 місяці тому +1

      @@dz4265 Arcade accuracy doesn't matter much when you mess up the basics though. Hit detection being key among them.

    • @gjergjaurelius9798
      @gjergjaurelius9798 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@SomeOrangeCatyeah that hit detection is way of in double dragon for sms. And why does jimmy have blue hair?🤔😂

  • @lukedaniell
    @lukedaniell 22 дні тому

    The thumbnail! Kicking Abobo in the family jewels!! 😂
    When we were kids, we'd always try to pause at this exact moment, and then start cracking up.

  • @ejsvirtualgarage
    @ejsvirtualgarage 4 місяці тому +7

    Taking into consideration that this was Technos Japan's SECOND EVER NES GAME (Renegade was released first), this was a good effort.

    • @drl5002
      @drl5002 4 місяці тому +1

      I recently found out they also made super dodgeball, which explains why the characters look similar. Will in double dragon looks like Sam in super dodgeball, Rowper looks like Mike, and Abobo looks like several characters including one named Boris.

    • @Dorian_Scott
      @Dorian_Scott 4 місяці тому

      @@drl5002 Those games, in addition to River City Ransom, Nintendo World Cup Soccer and a few others, were Americanized Kunio-kun games.
      Heck, there was a Kunio Game Boy game that got changed into a Double Dragon game for the English release.

  • @geocloser
    @geocloser 4 місяці тому +9

    A hard but fun game indeed

  • @edwardgaines6561
    @edwardgaines6561 4 місяці тому +14

    There are now rom hacks of this game where you can play as Tyris Flare, The Mask, or even ED-209! Times have changed! 😅

    • @Frank-J.J.-StylesX77
      @Frank-J.J.-StylesX77 4 місяці тому +1

      And yes I heard about them they really Fuck Shadow Warriors Up real clean by ED-209 😂😅

    • @dz4265
      @dz4265 4 місяці тому +1

      Was actially fan game built up not hack.

  • @knuclear200x
    @knuclear200x 4 місяці тому +7

    When I was a kid, I'd show new players that they could "put Adobo on the slidey thing and they'd win already"

    • @SonicSlicer
      @SonicSlicer 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, but it was a huuuge flex back in the day to beat him without the conveyor.

    • @knuclear200x
      @knuclear200x 4 місяці тому

      @@SonicSlicer among kids, the easy way is the best way. Otherwise, you were accused of wasting time

    • @SonicSlicer
      @SonicSlicer 4 місяці тому

      @knuclear200x true enough lol, but I would go, yeah? So what? You can't do it, can you? This was a common enough thing with my friends growing up, and especially my cousin, it would irritate him to no end and I loved every second of it.

    • @classicgunstoday1972
      @classicgunstoday1972 4 місяці тому

      No doubt influenced by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with the conveyor belt rock crusher fight with the big guy

    • @SonicSlicer
      @SonicSlicer 4 місяці тому

      @@classicgunstoday1972 could be, or it could be a reference to the showdown between Sarah Connor and the Terminator in OG Terminator in '84 as well in the hydraulic press.

  • @Dorian_Scott
    @Dorian_Scott 4 місяці тому +9

    This port is a classic. It may not be as close to the Arcade original as the Master System version was and the lack of a co-operative mode is admittedly lame, but the excellent soundtrack and the surprisingly in-depth combat + level up system more than make up for it.

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 місяці тому +3

      Definitely. I prefer how this plays to the Master System game.

    • @Dorian_Scott
      @Dorian_Scott 4 місяці тому +1

      @@NintendoComplete Same. The Master System port had really poor hit detection.

    • @dz4265
      @dz4265 4 місяці тому +2

      Its like a rpg beat em up. Then mighty final fights does it later. The Target Renegade game reuses the blue brother sprite.

  • @JerBuster77
    @JerBuster77 4 місяці тому +7

    Bimmy looks great.

  • @Frank-J.J.-StylesX77
    @Frank-J.J.-StylesX77 4 місяці тому +3

    😂🤣 3:32
    Abobo’s: This is Madness
    Billy: This is SPARTA

  • @purpledonatello
    @purpledonatello 4 місяці тому +4

    Lol I wish the headbutt be as powerful as the back elbow. I had fun playing around the combinations. Punch punch head butt. To this day very difficult to complete this game in their face legimate without some sort of running away.

  • @krystalfan
    @krystalfan 4 місяці тому +7

    50 thousand? on double dragon?!

  • @kprogatons
    @kprogatons 3 місяці тому

    I still remember playing this on my Uncle's Famicom and it was nostalgic to see this again😊

  • @dafranchisekidd02
    @dafranchisekidd02 4 місяці тому +3

    Childhood moments relived

  • @alexandres8846
    @alexandres8846 4 місяці тому +3

    the trilogy of double dragon nes games is best.

  • @darkerfalcon3747
    @darkerfalcon3747 4 місяці тому +4

    Billy: Jimmy. You are a nasty traitor!

  • @az_esteemed
    @az_esteemed 4 місяці тому +5

    As kids back in the 80s, we didn’t care about dumbed-down arcade ports. We just wanted to beat bad guys to a pulp, and have fun doing so. SO many memories of this classic brawler. 🥹

  • @Sleepies
    @Sleepies 4 місяці тому +3

    Video thumbnail: The weak spot of Abobo

  • @ceemer6935
    @ceemer6935 4 місяці тому +2

    I'm used to the Pal version. The music seems too fast for me.
    But...but this one of the best games on the NES with its even superior sequel...

  • @ИгорьН-г3ф
    @ИгорьН-г3ф 4 місяці тому +1

    don't still know how do you fkn do this))) awesome)

  • @az_esteemed
    @az_esteemed 4 місяці тому +1

    Nothing screams Double Dragon like Billy kicking Abobo right in the nards. Cheeky thumbnail, Alex. 🤭

  • @christianboyce2070
    @christianboyce2070 4 місяці тому +1

    That Thumbnail is Wild!

  • @thecunninlynguist
    @thecunninlynguist 4 місяці тому +3

    Classic. Great nusic...good gameplsy (minus the platforming). As a kid i thought the series was an NES original...wasnt aware of the arcade games..never even saw them in the wild. Only arcade version i saw was the NES playchoice 5 one.
    I would argue the NES porte of DD 1/2 are better than their arcade counterparts

  • @Zaxares
    @Zaxares 4 місяці тому +2

    Oh wow, I had no idea there was a move where you could crouch over a fallen enemy and smash them. :O How do you pull that off?

  • @nightowl3582
    @nightowl3582 Місяць тому +1

    The NES music sounds way better than the Master System version.

  • @JimHawkwind03411
    @JimHawkwind03411 Місяць тому

    15:35 - “50,000? You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?” - Corey Woods, The Wizard (1990)

  • @TheNei
    @TheNei 4 місяці тому +1

    Good time!
    Very cool game!!

  • @sherondjones3207
    @sherondjones3207 3 місяці тому +1

    This my favorite game

  • @Mia-dt3gl
    @Mia-dt3gl 4 місяці тому +2

    Woo, Double Dragon! 👍

  • @maineeventmark5749
    @maineeventmark5749 4 місяці тому +2

    The thumbnail of Jimmy kicking Abobo in the balls 😂🤣🤣

  • @spoonshiro
    @spoonshiro 4 місяці тому +2

    A slightly odd version of a classic but still a lot of fun

  • @polskasausage762
    @polskasausage762 4 місяці тому +2

    I was never able to complete this game i could never get beyond l3 going into the caves. I've only learned you could do that as an adult 😢

  • @kiddthomas3375
    @kiddthomas3375 3 місяці тому

    i remember when i finally beat this!!! i got this game in my collection

  • @stephennovotny6157
    @stephennovotny6157 4 місяці тому +2

    Great game 🎮 👏 👌 👍 🙌 💪

  • @alistairrobinson3865
    @alistairrobinson3865 Місяць тому

    Absolutely sick tunes 🙏

  • @Miller54K
    @Miller54K 4 місяці тому +1

    There's a bug at 5:00 where if you go back up the ladder, walk to the left, then back right, then bad guy will have disappeared. Then if you punch or kick where he was, you still get XP. You can max your character and get infinite lives doing this.

  • @Ultra-Gamer81
    @Ultra-Gamer81 4 місяці тому +2

    Oh yes classic game that I sill love!

  • @KareemHillJr
    @KareemHillJr 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm surprised it took you this long to get to Double Dragon.

  • @BreakdancingMiracle
    @BreakdancingMiracle 4 місяці тому +3

    Wow, I soon as I saw the nunchucks dropped I remembered this game! 😂

  • @Deined
    @Deined 4 місяці тому +3

    I just watched your original playthrough vid of Double Dragon last night, and I must say that the gameplay and showcasing of everything is a good deal improved from the last one. 😄
    I gotta ask, though: why didn't you ever have Billy do his Pin attack in your old vid like you did in this one?

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 місяці тому

      Thanks, I'm glad to hear it! I have no idea about why I didn't in the old one. It was put up so long ago.

  • @MrChosenone10
    @MrChosenone10 4 місяці тому +1

    I love renegade and all 3 new double dragons

  • @chaunseybillings5381
    @chaunseybillings5381 4 місяці тому

    Man I miss nes days my childhood

  • @Soddarkryder
    @Soddarkryder 4 місяці тому +3

    Billy be like: ¬¬

  • @jeremywilliams5141
    @jeremywilliams5141 4 місяці тому +2

    At 6:16. You know you don't have to fight that guy, right? After he shows up, you can climb down the first two ladders and that ends the mission. It's an old-school trick.

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 місяці тому +5

      Haha I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.

    • @az_esteemed
      @az_esteemed 4 місяці тому

      Make the choice of either the straight shooter or “See ya, next mission.” ✌🏼

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607
    @nehemiahpouncey3607 15 днів тому

    Like how there's three ways of defeating chin.
    1) face him toe to toe.
    2)knock him off the ledge.
    3)climb down the ladder an forfeit
    The battle.

  • @heyitsmetrousers4399
    @heyitsmetrousers4399 3 місяці тому

    Flashbacks ❤

  • @naasj3226
    @naasj3226 4 місяці тому +3

    I am really bad at this game I couldn’t beat mission 3

  • @MikhaelIsmael
    @MikhaelIsmael Місяць тому

    How do you save your score on retro blast

  • @felixs1340
    @felixs1340 14 годин тому

    I always had trouble timing the kicks are on those big guys

  • @Clovershroom
    @Clovershroom 4 місяці тому +2

    Someone actually made a proper 2 player rom hack of this game. It's a bit on the janky side, though.

  • @Killpopkulture
    @Killpopkulture 4 місяці тому

    Been playing Revenge with my son lately.... nice 🤌

  • @Alysa-Aiday
    @Alysa-Aiday Місяць тому

    I knew it! The gauntlet prior to facing Jimmy Lee is alphabetical;
    Abobo
    Chintai
    Linda
    Roper
    Willy

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607
    @nehemiahpouncey3607 15 днів тому

    I'm amazed Nintendo let the marian gut punching part slide.
    Despite during this time they were mr
    Censorship.

  • @ryanlinn9347
    @ryanlinn9347 4 місяці тому +1

    Hey, Alex You Should Do A Playthrough Video of Blaster Master Boy.

  • @moyesito1982
    @moyesito1982 4 місяці тому

    Me pregunto si sabe del truco para obtener todas las habilidades desde el nivel 2 de una manera rapida🤔

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607
    @nehemiahpouncey3607 15 днів тому

    Like how jimmy is the bad guy.
    Guessing he joined em.

  • @moseslalmuanpuia8988
    @moseslalmuanpuia8988 4 місяці тому +1

    Wish the enemies didn't constantly interrupt your punches in this game. It ruins it for me.

  • @scottl.1568
    @scottl.1568 4 місяці тому

    Fuckin' good old days 😎

  • @usafa2000
    @usafa2000 24 дні тому

    YOU HAVE TO GO IN ONE OF THE HOLES MADE BY ABOBO!? WHAAAAAAT?! 🤯

  • @SuikodenClive
    @SuikodenClive 4 місяці тому

    Dang, Abobo has a huge head.

  • @irone9143
    @irone9143 2 місяці тому

    Volskwagen it's pleasant for the trip

  • @Sick_and_Tired850
    @Sick_and_Tired850 18 днів тому

    Didn’t do the heart glitch with the baseball bat 😢

  • @andresleon4833
    @andresleon4833 4 місяці тому +1

    Classic

  • @supanutjetkrongsuk3932
    @supanutjetkrongsuk3932 4 місяці тому

    Good song a game.

  • @GodeCynningaz5386
    @GodeCynningaz5386 2 місяці тому

    How is it that a simple game like this is better most of the rot that comes out these days?

  • @alexfernandez9290
    @alexfernandez9290 2 місяці тому

    🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @VXA1PSTART
    @VXA1PSTART 4 місяці тому +2

    You haven't made this video yet?? Im sure you have.

    • @NintendoComplete
      @NintendoComplete  4 місяці тому +1

      The old one was like 8 years old and really needed an update.

    • @VXA1PSTART
      @VXA1PSTART 4 місяці тому

      @@NintendoComplete oh ok 👍

  • @ShinjiIkari1
    @ShinjiIkari1 4 місяці тому +1

    YOU GOT 50,000 POINTS ON DOUVKE DRAGON!?

  • @本庄繁長-x1h
    @本庄繁長-x1h 2 місяці тому

    冒頭の音楽は熱血物語の龍一龍二を思い出す。

  • @Something9008
    @Something9008 4 місяці тому

    If you like this version but don't want the leveling system try the gameboy port.

  • @mrpalmer3978
    @mrpalmer3978 2 місяці тому

    You can beat the 2nd boss simply by going down the ladder and leaving lol

  • @mnemonichotpocket
    @mnemonichotpocket 4 місяці тому +1

    Abobo smash

  • @eugenehills8371
    @eugenehills8371 Місяць тому

    Marian Kidnapped

  • @Sleepkirby6472
    @Sleepkirby6472 4 місяці тому

    A.K.A The game that had a fan make the muscle man his own game titled "Abobo's Big Adventure".
    (But for the love of god do not play it. Seriously. I already have enough trauma from that game's Contra level. I don't want to relive it again.)

  • @eugenehills8371
    @eugenehills8371 Місяць тому

    Marian Love ❤️❤️😘

  • @eugenehills8371
    @eugenehills8371 Місяць тому

    Billy Lee Jimmy Lee

  • @nehemiahpouncey3607
    @nehemiahpouncey3607 15 днів тому

    Anybody remember the stairway to
    Heaven cheat?

  • @gaga437
    @gaga437 Місяць тому +1

    This game men were allowed to beat women aint realize that as a kid 😂

    • @nehemiahpouncey3607
      @nehemiahpouncey3607 15 днів тому +1

      I'm amazed Nintendo let that slide.😂

    • @gaga437
      @gaga437 15 днів тому

      @nehemiahpouncey3607 right lol