NES Works #081: Double Dragon (Patreon)
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Another big one this week—one of the biggest ones so far. Double Dragon was a big deal on NES, even if it left a bad taste in the mouth of anyone hoping to enjoy a direct arcade-to-console adaptation. For various reasons (be it Nintendo licensing rules or technical limitations or a combination of both), Double Dragon on NES bears only a loose resemblance to the arcade game, carrying forward characters, setting details, and a general mechanical similarity. Beyond that, however, Technos changed the game pretty radically in porting it to console—or at least, this console, anyway. Was it the right call? That's highly subjective! Bit I do think this version turned out to be a lot more convincing than an attempt to create a direct conversion would have been...