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Game Boy Works #119: Double Dragon II & Scotland Yard (Patreon)

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2020-08-05 14:00:04

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2024-04

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When is a Double Dragon game not a Double Dragon game? When it's actually a Kunio-kun game. Now you see why I needed to cover Renegade first.

Unfortunately, next episode also features a Game Boy adaptation of a popular 1988 NES hit... but alas, Bubble Bobble was late ’88, so I can't just nip over to NES Works for a one-off like I did with Renegade. Which is big part of the rethinking I mentioned in last week's post...

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Double Dragon II & Scotland Yard retrospective: Mean green streets | Game Boy Works #119

A second Double Dragon release for 1990 lands on Game Boy... except not really. In Japan, Double Dragon II was presented as an expanded remake of the original Renegade—which is to say, Kunio-kun's first adventure. Acclaim and Technos gave it a facelift for western release a year later, turning into a Double Dragon game in name if not in fact. Still, while this "sequel" lacks some fundamental essentials found in the arcade game, it does allow for simultaneous play—so that's something. Also this episode: An equally rocky Japan-exclusive conversion of German board game Scotland Yard. Special thanks this episode to my nephew Speedy Playz for his help with the two-player video capture. Please subscribe to his channel and help encourage him as he learns to create his own video projects! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrBYYIWQIjrUV2-44L4vUdQ/ Video Works is funded via Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite) — support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! And be sure to check out the Retronauts podcast (http://www.retronauts.com), where I (and many others!) tackle a much wider array of classic gaming topics each week.