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.
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....
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!
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Yo les quiero contar algo aterrador que nos paso a mi hermano y a mi. Cuando eramos chicos viviamos en la capital de buenos aires y teniamos el sega q jugabamos muy bien. Cuando alquilamos este juego , como todo jugador se aega que tenias un tiempo para pasarlo antes que el transformador se caliente se acuerdan? Ajja Bueno la cuestion es que llegamos la final del juego y los matabamos a todos y volvian a salir mas y mas hasta que se lleno la pantalla de jugadores y empezo a titilsr la pantlla y a temblar fue muy rara la sensacion que tuvimos, se estaba poniendo muy diabloico y no terminaba que del susto tuvimos que apagarlo. Luego dd unos años me lo pase el juego recordando la anecdota pwro el final no era como nos paso a mi y a mi hermano. Nunca lo pudinos explicar
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
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.
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
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.
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?"
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!
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!"
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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
![NES Longplay [013] Mega Man 2](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KvkHhpz2FrY/mqdefault.jpg)
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I do love how these long plays always let you hear the song at the title before starting.
Bro pure Nostalgia
And see the attract mode
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.
THE FUKKIN MUSICK . . . . . THE FUKKIN' '8OS . . . . . GOTTA LOVE EM!
Kenneth Pollard the music was really good. A true classic of 8 - Bit graphics.
Epic music, epic moves, epic memories, EPIC NES!!
Japan 1300€.leva.bg
Asia India ™.yu
Ah yes. Double Dragon: The original beat'em up. The Lee Brothers are legendary.
"50,000? You got 50,000 on Double Dragon?"
Must be some kind of Wizard.
what a movie :)
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....
@@juanhunter6996 that's not cheating. That is good strategy.
@@juanhunter6996 *Pro tip*
The blocks in stage 4 and that machine gun guy is what really makes this game extremely challenging imo.
That adrenaline rush when you realize you have reached the final level of a hard beat em up game.
I loved this game, but could never beat it or reach the boss. The music here was simply AWESOME!!
I still get PTSD knowing there are no saves and mom can call you anytime to do something lol
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!
Spoilers 😁
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...
+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.
I love the music in this game!, outstanding soundtrack!
+Jabasswocky No doubt...
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...
300€.500€.
No 2-player, but I always liked this one. The controls are way better than the weird slow-as-molasses arcade original's.
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.
That’s awesome!
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.
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
What's the point in playing a game about fighting if you don't fight?
I used to throw his ass off the construction site lmao
Great fuckin' game! A kickass in the Double Dragon series!
This was my shit, I can play this all day long
Abobo always reminded me of George Foreman.. LOL
Poor Abobo. Cause of death: reverse elbow strike.
George S Abobo vs Billy my Tyson Foreman sim
man this took me forever to finaly figure out what the name of this game was called. glad i found it
Oh you just have to sit at that intro screen and listen to that music play out. So epic. Brings back fond memories :)
Knocking Abobo off the side will always be hilarious to me.
Timestamps:
0:00 Title Screen/MISSION 1
3:03 MISSION 2
5:26 MISSION 3 Part1
9:02 MISSION 3 Part2
11:32 MISSION 3 Part3
12:14 MISSION 4 Part1
14:27 MISSION 4 Part2
16:08 MISSION 4 Part3
18:32 Final Boss:Jimmy Lee
20:00 Ending
Wow. I haven't seen this in over 20 some years. Thx. Great nostalgia
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.
"Played By: BimmyLee83"
"Jimmy and Bimmy"
That's pretty good.
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.
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.
Should have just grinded first stage and collected all hearts on first stage thats how we did it back in the day
The music in this game is awesome.
yeah, the music is jamming!!! can't miss it.!! Straight Stone Cold Classic!!
You know you made it in life when you unlocked that heart for the spin-kick.
+Jason Segura but that elbow is a beast too tho...lol
XD
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!!!!
3:00
¿Who cares About Abobo?
10:55
i'll call him:
the HULK-Abobo.
He was just about to fall off!!!
awesome 8 bit double dragon game on the nes love the music too classic 8 bit rock.
Love this game. Plus it had such awesome music.
I want my NES back!!
LOL! I used to play this game so much when I was a kid! One of the best NES games ever made!
never knew you could actually punch people on the floor. Badass
Isn't it ironic that the FINAL boss, in the NES version, is your own twin brother?
Yo les quiero contar algo aterrador que nos paso a mi hermano y a mi.
Cuando eramos chicos viviamos en la capital de buenos aires y teniamos el sega q jugabamos muy bien. Cuando alquilamos este juego , como todo jugador se aega que tenias un tiempo para pasarlo antes que el transformador se caliente se acuerdan? Ajja
Bueno la cuestion es que llegamos la final del juego y los matabamos a todos y volvian a salir mas y mas hasta que se lleno la pantalla de jugadores y empezo a titilsr la pantlla y a temblar fue muy rara la sensacion que tuvimos, se estaba poniendo muy diabloico y no terminaba que del susto tuvimos que apagarlo.
Luego dd unos años me lo pase el juego recordando la anecdota pwro el final no era como nos paso a mi y a mi hermano. Nunca lo pudinos explicar
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.
Double Dragon is one of the all-time great videogames!
Haha! So many memories... Amazing how u used to be able to complete a game in less than half an hour
"Never Intention To Harm Another, Do Not Battle As You Can Avoid It...
You Billy Lee Are DRAGON MASTER Now!"
CLASSIC. Does this game remind anyone else of River City Ransom a little bit?
double dragon 1 et 2 music comme game play, c'est pour moi les meilleur ♥
When I saw the second-to-last boss I immediately thought Roper in Battletoads and Double Dragon
Yeah that is roper
@@ssbadazz 😆 👌 Better late than never (a reply 6 years later)
This was was the shit. I think this has the best soundtrack to any other double dragon game
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
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.
Omg this is my favorite theme song from childhood almost makes me want to cry
Always remember this from the movie "The Wizard" (with Fred Savage)! =)
I just got this game yesterday. I have to fix the cartridge first though, but I can't wait to play it.
Epic game, played it a ton with my buddies as a kid.
Corey: [shocked] 50,000? You got 50,000 on Double Dragon? -The Wizard 1989 film
The kitty cat under the table. Aww!☺💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙👍
the light rpg element in this game made it better than part 2 in my opinion. omg the soundtrack...so freaking good! nice playthough.
As a Kid I never could beat the machine guuy boss :(
This game had a Ground-and-Pound attack in the late 1980s. Well done.
They use the theme song in "River City Ransom" when you fight the Dragon Twins.
I've always loved this game. This was the first game that introduced me to the side-scrolling beat em up genre.
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
Damn Billy, that elbow is a monster 1-hitter quitter!!!
2:59 One hell of a way to end a level...
he failed no nut
best soundtrack intro ever
goddamn the melodic riff is so ill on the first level
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.
Man, I did the same always! I'm happy to know I'm not the only one tried it!
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?"
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!
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!"
my dog barked throughout this video because the punches sounded like barks to him.
This is completely and totally badass. PERIOD!
not bad for going from a 16 bit arcade game to an 8 bit councle
El que rescata ese juego es un duro
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.
I love the intro music, Best double dragon of the four titles
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
Fun fact. The same backgrounds here in the city were the same used in that old flash game Mario kart extreme.
Double Dragon took so long for me to finally master. Especially Mission 4 with all those fighters to deal with.
One of my first nes games i beat. Takes me back
That chick that you saved in the end…. IT’S A MAN, BABY
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.
This shit was only 20 mins lmaooooooooo bro I couldn’t beat the third stage
I NEVER owned this but when I played my cousins I always send the Mission 1 Boss over the edge
It's a Requirement, :P .
Beautiful Memories
remember when the little kid from The Wizard got 50,000 just from beating the first 2 enemies...lol
Ohh! I remember this game. The bastard brother Billy would jump up and spin kick my ass.
I think you mean Jimmy, that bastard has all your moves too
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
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.
i buy japanese cartridge of dis gm for 15🗽
I love those weird mustachioed eyeball statues in mission 4
Bruh ! The music is enough, sooo good.
Such an epic battle at the end!
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.
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
The Spin kick
doubledragon.kontek.net/games/dd/mddnes.html
Spinning Roundhouse
strategywiki.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_(NES)/Getting_Started
I forgot about that cool Mission intro music.
hahaha I used to play this game as a kid! I always got to the cave and died in there lol.
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.
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...
I never leave the first stage until I max out all 7 hearts.
Great playing! I still have some difficult in beating this game. =(
Never beat this game... That damned cave stage.
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.
You still play this on Nes or another platform ?
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
@romanticcancer good to see my mother isn't the only one who plays(or played) videos games. She put me on the first Nintendo in 88
the vs mode here was awesome also