Forum Overview :: Double Dragon IV

Disagree! by Dream Cast 03/07/2017, 8:31am PST The original Double Dragon arcade machine was the first game that ever really and truly BLEW. ME. AWAY. Those graphics! That music! And, oh my God, that cinematic intro! Never before had videogame violence been more effectively sexualized than when Pink Shirt Punk rammed his fist into Girlfriend's stomach and threw her over his shoulder, exposing Girlfriend's delicate undergarments to my thrustful gaze. Even as a little baby in 1987 I had big penetrating dicks for eyes, it was creepy and hot. Of course I had to have the Nintendo port. "Is it my imagination, or does Billy look... smaller?" "I'm pressing start on controller two but nothing's happening," whines my brother, about to get a rude awakening. Of course they had two-player mode figured out by 1992, when the REAL Double Dragon IV came out. This time it skipped arcades entirely and went straight to Super Nintendo, releasing as Super Double Dragon over here, and Return of Double Dragon in Japan. How do I know this was REALLY Double Dragon IV, even though it wasn't explicitly titled that? Because the very next and infinitely worse Super Nintendo Double Dragon was called Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls. Check and mate, Technos! I knew letting you sell me this piece of shit would pay off one day. While Technos was farming out the Double Dragon name for exploitative kids' games in North America, back in Glorious Nippon they were putting the finishing touches on their own one-on-one fighter for the Neo-Geo. Can you imagine a whole belt-scrolling beat 'em up with gorgeous pixel art and exciting play mechanics like Neo Double Dragon? Capcom could, they were pumping them out left and right around this time. I still can, which is why I'm not dropping however many quarters $8.99 Canadian works out to on Double Dragon IV-2 for the Nostalgic Thirtysomething Low-Effort Money-Extraction System (pretend those letters spell N-E-S or S-T-E-A-M or something, whatever you feel like). Eye-fucking every part of that.

They were not bluffing, this is Double Dragon IV. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/04/2017, 4:00pm PST     Disagree! by Dream Cast 03/07/2017, 8:31am PST         An error has been committed. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/07/2017, 10:06pm PST             ^This is exactly the post I want from the President of Technos. by Dream Cast 03/08/2017, 7:26am PST     Just buy Double Dragon Neon. NT by Oom Shnibble 03/10/2017, 10:47pm PST