Double Dragon II's story is surprisingly dark and tragic, especially for this era. There's no girl to save this time. She's dead and your kicking everyone's ass just because you're pissed off.
Let me get this right tho, the girl in the first game was messing around with both brothers? That's why you fight your bro at the endto see who gone lay the pipe afterwards. It seems she was messy cause she was with the two bros and she was hooking up with the plug himself that's why he had her kidnapped and you had to go fight for her and find her. Then in chapter two the plug came back and took her out permanently cause one he couldn't take a as whooping and let it go, two he was too drowned in the pussy so if he couldn't have her no one will...
@@isaacalvarez534 No that's not what was happening at all. Marian was with Billy, but Jimmy had feelings for her too which were not returned. She was kidnapped becasue the Black Warriors Boss wanted to learn the secrets of their martial arts style. It's really not hard to understand if you read a manual or two.
Loved DD1... hated this one as a kid. The kicks and punches BACKWARDS to the way you were facing was the dumbest thing I've ever experienced. Seemingly the developers agreed because in DD3 they went back to the old system.
God that stage 2 music takes me back! My cousin and I once spent about $5 each out of Christmas money and beat this in an arcade. Felt like a fortune to spend but we did it!
I remember always seeing a large group crowded around one of these DDII arcade machines one summer when I was a kid. Turns out it would give away free lives each time you would bang the side of the casing by making one of those “Yah!” sound effects.
Yeah, the girl died in the beginning. The girl in the ending was supposed to be her, in a photograph. Unlike the NES version, she stayed dead. It's supposed to be sort of a tragedy, with a little bit of Eastern philosophy thrown in as you fight your dark, vengeful half.
It reminds me of that sayin: "Be careful whe ya fightin' against monsters, ya don't become a monster yaself. Also, be careful when ya stare at the darkeness, the darkness will stare back at ya".
Excelente arcade games, recuerdo mucho este videojuego, era uno de mis favoritos, ahora lo descargue por PlayStore y soy feliz jugando como si fuera en mi niñez jajaja buenos recuerdos 😬🕹️🔴⚪🔵
Si tienes la oportunidad de jugarlo en mame version reciente comprobaras que tiene nivel de dificultad hardest pruebalo y veras lo dificil que es terminarlo solo para masters
here in DD II these Punch-combo attacks are a lot 100% far more vicious and effective than its predecessor DD (1987)...nice BGM sound at the end in the still picture Thanks!
That opening theme tune is uber fucking catchy!! It really helps get the blood flowing to prepare you to smash faces, crush skulls and just overall fuck up some bad dudes.
double dragon is on its last legs ..its themes of 80's postivism and groin kicking are running hollow in the go go 90s. maybe a laetner cut will soothe the old boy over ..
By far the best Double Dragon game in both the arcades, and of that era I.M.O.! I much preferred this to the N.E.S. version, which while was good in it's own right (along with having more to it in general), just had too much annoying platforming elements (along with the first to a lesser extent) to make more that, than of a pure beat em up fighting game. That of which made it very difficult to play with two people, and made that far less of a draw than it should have been as well. That and how you could only fight two enemies at once, with both of them always having to be the same character too.
Every time you put a quarter in the arcade version or double dragon 2 The revenge sound like the voice of the great late Bruce Lee the greatest martial artists of all time especially since he master of the nunchucks when he break out the nunchucks you don't have a chance in hell
Damn, imagine getting to the end of stage 2 and trying not to laugh as Suspenders Schwarzenegger tries to beat the shit out of you in complete seriousness.
I played this a lot on the Amiga 500. Had an easier control scheme but they totally changed the music. It still sounded good and looked far better than the Amiga version of Double Dragon 1 though. The title screen music was amazing too.
Nes was better in many ways yes. But i find the graphics and difficulty more appealing on arcade version, hence i said its the greatest. But i understand your comment, nes was much much more fun, more missions, flying awesome knee kicks hehe, and ofcourse the fact you could kick/punch people literally into the air, GREAT times indeed ... nes was kinda better yes :) PS: the dd trilogy on pc is a must have imo, NO LAG! .. walk as far as you can and see your screen fill with alot of enemies!.. awesome
Powbits Testpow Yeah I got that trilogy, but I have it for my smart phone and it plays pretty good. I already own the nes versions of dd2 and dd3 on some cheap handheld sold on amazon that feels cheap as hell, but plays fairly well. The arcade version of dd3 is horrible however.
DD3 arcade is terrible yes. The nes version is definitely the greatest dd3 out there :) Cool that you still have the physical hardware of the 80-90's .. great times.
Great game but I say the whole format when The Dragons defeat the Black Shadow Warrior and bring Marian back to life will always be the far better format. This version is great though. Just needs resurrection ending. Hail Double Dragon 2.
I don't get the ending though... Who's the crying blonde? The girl who gets killed in the beginning? Also wanted to say that this game has one of the best soundtracks ever!
+Anton Zandt The blonde is Marion aka Billy's girlfriend. She cried in the end because it was an homage to her death. She was not brought back to life like in the NES/PC Engine version.
Mmm as a kid I just thought it was cool you fought your own shadow, now as an adult I guess there is more meaning to it. After Billy defeats the boss again and he fulfills his revenge he is only left with complex feelings he must now struggle with. Now that the rage is gone he possibly feels guilt thinking he may not have done enough to protect her, or maybe he thinks the violence he used in the first game to rescue her is the reason she is dead now. But in the end he defeats his own shadow because he must realize that he is not the bad guy, he was not the one to take the first shot, the other guys are the ones who killed her and therefore her dead is really on them only. I'm not saying Billy comes clean out of the ordeal, but all he was doing really was just protecting her.
+Terramorfo AV I always loved throwing fools off the side of the screen at the beginning of Level 3! Works in the original DD also...which means that this is basically an expansion of the code used in the first game :)
Who is the masked man and why he disappeared after defeated and how he grows back into his clothes? :) Used to be just to have fun playing this game. Now looking back at this game again there left so many question marks.
As a kid I thought it was kind of cool how this was basically a mirror image of the first one with mainly cosmetic changes, harvester instead of bridge etc (didn't know of course that its because it started out being developed as an upgrade rather than sequel). Spend the next 30 years complaining about lazy game developers who do the same :).
Figa l"animazione dei personaggi quando vengono picchiati i soldi che ho buttato giocando al bar arrivavo massimo al secondo livello,poi finivano i soldi
At the time, I didn't like the NES version to be that different, but now I see the NES version of DD2 is a way better/funnier game than the arcade conterpart.
persona83 A lot of Nintendo games seem to have good quality & enjoyable gameplay, I guess it's logical to strive for that if you're trying to sell it to people to play on their home consoles, arcade games mostly seem very difficult, probably to keep taking money off you
Yeah, sure. But the case is that most home consoles had totally different versions of well known arcade games, back in the day and that was very frustrating because I wanted the very same game on my home system. There are tons of examples, but even the most faithful NES games based on arcades (like, say, Spartan X/Kung Fu Master or Trojan) were very similar to the coin ops without being as difficult. In other words: they could have made similar games but with toned down difficult, so the children would not get frustrated of so. At least to me, at the time, it was very disappointing to have a completly different game from the beloved arcades I was used to, even if the home port was obviously better (Double Dragon II case). It simply had to be identical. :P
Here's how the music converted between the Arcade and NES versions: Arcade Level 1 = NES Level 2 Arcade Boss Theme 1 = NES Level 7 Arcade Level 2 = NES Level 1 Arcade Boss Theme 2 = NES standard boss theme Arcade Level 3 = NES Level 5 Arcade Boss Theme 3 = Not in NES Arcade Level 4 = NES Level 8 Arcade Willy Theme = NES Level 5 boss theme Arcade Final Boss Theme = NES Level 6 (highly remixed) NES Level 3 = Not in Arcade NES Level 4 = Not in Arcade NES Clone Battle Theme = Not in Arcade NES Final Battle Themes = Not in Arcade
It's got three 8-Bit CPUs (Hitachi 6309 & 2x Zillog Z80), but that don't really matter the Intellivision was the first 16-bit home console while looking like crap compared to the 16-Bit consoles like the Mega Drive or SNES. Arcade graphics of this era are designed differently from consoles.
+Azzen Daar (Guitch5) i downloaded this on my phone today it was the trilogy which also included double dragon and double dragon 3 that final boss on double dragon 2 is a pain in the arse hitting him isnt a problem for me i just hate it when he disappears and uses his black hole to paralyze u so he can attack u i just beat the final boss but i hate him so much
Double Dragon took place in a post-apocalyptic future, but it never seemed all that post-apocalyptic...other than the police never showing up to break up the massive fights, I suppose.
Double Dragon II's story is surprisingly dark and tragic, especially for this era. There's no girl to save this time. She's dead and your kicking everyone's ass just because you're pissed off.
Especially with the dark duplicate of the Lee brothers at the end. ;*(
The RRRevenge!
In the NES version Marian is brought back to life if you beat the hardest mode.
Let me get this right tho, the girl in the first game was messing around with both brothers? That's why you fight your bro at the endto see who gone lay the pipe afterwards. It seems she was messy cause she was with the two bros and she was hooking up with the plug himself that's why he had her kidnapped and you had to go fight for her and find her. Then in chapter two the plug came back and took her out permanently cause one he couldn't take a as whooping and let it go, two he was too drowned in the pussy so if he couldn't have her no one will...
@@isaacalvarez534 No that's not what was happening at all. Marian was with Billy, but Jimmy had feelings for her too which were not returned. She was kidnapped becasue the Black Warriors Boss wanted to learn the secrets of their martial arts style. It's really not hard to understand if you read a manual or two.
Brings back a lot of memories. this was one of my favorite big arcade games aside from golden axe. Hard to find nowadays.
I loved Golden Axe. I sucked at it though.
Baby girl are you talking serous ?????
If you got a Steam or Apple account you can buy it from there
Loved DD1... hated this one as a kid. The kicks and punches BACKWARDS to the way you were facing was the dumbest thing I've ever experienced. Seemingly the developers agreed because in DD3 they went back to the old system.
The music on this game is awesome. Definitely one of my favorite arcade games of all time.
My favorite to this day
Without question, the best game in the DD franchise.
Gracias era mi juego favorito cuando era niño. Estaba enganchado en las maquinas recreativas y todo fue por este maravilloso juego.
This was one of the greatest games that I played when I was young...and may the guy with the gun BURN IN HELL!!!
God that stage 2 music takes me back! My cousin and I once spent about $5 each out of Christmas money and beat this in an arcade. Felt like a fortune to spend but we did it!
that run was total awesome! You did the game without dying once- hell yes!
I watched both a Double Dragon and a Double Dragon II arcade playthrough with no deaths... that's impressive !
I love the Giant Rodney Dangerfield Boss in Level 2
Ah that's who he reminds me of
He looks more like a Mike Judge character
Arnold Schwarzenegger gene spliced with Andre the Giant
@@nickr4837 Heh, the devs later removed the Arnold genes and resprited him fully into Andre the Giant for their WWF arcade games.
Great game one of my favorites. DD 1 is the only one I could beat with one quarter at Pizza Hut. Pizza and Awesome games.. good child memories.
+EAGLS021 Bro, I saw you beat DD3 with only one quarter at the Pizza the Hutt. Don't be modest ;)
Peter piper pizza is where I played it
You are a Grand Master. You beat the game without losing a life and the way you handled each opponent is flawless.
This game inspired Capcom’s 1989 arcade game Final Fight, which is part of the Street Fighter franchise and has been ported to various consoles.
That laugh at the end of stage one... Had nightmares about it lol
I remember always seeing a large group crowded around one of these DDII arcade machines one summer when I was a kid. Turns out it would give away free lives each time you would bang the side of the casing by making one of those “Yah!” sound effects.
I love the punch sound effects in this.
They're even louder on the original pcb
Man, you are a true master !! Thanks for uploading this. Keep the good job.
One of my all time favorite arcade game.
Yeah, the girl died in the beginning. The girl in the ending was supposed to be her, in a photograph. Unlike the NES version, she stayed dead. It's supposed to be sort of a tragedy, with a little bit of Eastern philosophy thrown in as you fight your dark, vengeful half.
It reminds me of that sayin: "Be careful whe ya fightin' against monsters, ya don't become a monster yaself. Also, be careful when ya stare at the darkeness, the darkness will stare back at ya".
Excelente arcade games, recuerdo mucho este videojuego, era uno de mis favoritos, ahora lo descargue por PlayStore y soy feliz jugando como si fuera en mi niñez jajaja buenos recuerdos 😬🕹️🔴⚪🔵
Si tienes la oportunidad de jugarlo en mame version reciente comprobaras que tiene nivel de dificultad hardest pruebalo y veras lo dificil que es terminarlo solo para masters
here in DD II these Punch-combo attacks are a lot 100% far more vicious and effective than its predecessor DD (1987)...nice BGM sound at the end in the still picture Thanks!
That opening theme tune is uber fucking catchy!! It really helps get the blood flowing to prepare you to smash faces, crush skulls and just overall fuck up some bad dudes.
double dragon is on its last legs ..its themes of 80's postivism and groin kicking are running hollow in the go go 90s. maybe a laetner cut will soothe the old boy over ..
Great game with rocky sounds.
Un clásico el double dragón!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Honestly the final boss of the nes version is a lot more epic plus the theme helps a lot
Well yes
By far the best Double Dragon game in both the arcades, and of that era I.M.O.! I much preferred this to the N.E.S. version, which while was good in it's own right (along with having more to it in general), just had too much annoying platforming elements (along with the first to a lesser extent) to make more that, than of a pure beat em up fighting game. That of which made it very difficult to play with two people, and made that far less of a draw than it should have been as well. That and how you could only fight two enemies at once, with both of them always having to be the same character too.
Such compelling plot and story line. Also, who could have seen the simple doubling of the same villain as you progress would be so new and refreshing?
lol @ 6:30 Duke Nukem really let himself go...
I know right lol
My favorite DD right here =)
LOOOOVE THIS :-)
Every time you put a quarter in the arcade version or double dragon 2 The revenge sound like the voice of the great late Bruce Lee the greatest martial artists of all time especially since he master of the nunchucks when he break out the nunchucks you don't have a chance in hell
I almost forgot about Abobo with hair LOL. I had fun with this in the arcades, but I enjoyed the nes version more. Thanks for posting!
Got a whoopin for this game back in the day for this game! 😆 Stayed in the arcade after the street lights came on.
Damn, imagine getting to the end of stage 2 and trying not to laugh as Suspenders Schwarzenegger tries to beat the shit out of you in complete seriousness.
I remember these games taking so much longer in the arcade
I gotta admit though the end battle with your dark self is quite disturbing & genuinely creepy, especially if you play this alone..
Cheeky Crissy so too is humans masturbating aka sex w selves. Sick.
xD
Fight your demons
I played this a lot on the Amiga 500. Had an easier control scheme but they totally changed the music. It still sounded good and looked far better than the Amiga version of Double Dragon 1 though. The title screen music was amazing too.
Arcade game version of dd2 is the best! bravo for finishing the game with 1 life! kewl
Powbits Testpow Arcade version is good, but every one knows the nes version was the real sequel and far better.
Nes was better in many ways yes. But i find the graphics and difficulty more appealing on arcade version, hence i said its the greatest. But i understand your comment, nes was much much more fun, more missions, flying awesome knee kicks hehe, and ofcourse the fact you could kick/punch people literally into the air, GREAT times indeed ... nes was kinda better yes :)
PS: the dd trilogy on pc is a must have imo, NO LAG! .. walk as far as you can and see your screen fill with alot of enemies!.. awesome
Powbits Testpow Yeah I got that trilogy, but I have it for my smart phone and it plays pretty good. I already own the nes versions of dd2 and dd3 on some cheap handheld sold on amazon that feels cheap as hell, but plays fairly well. The arcade version of dd3 is horrible however.
DD3 arcade is terrible yes. The nes version is definitely the greatest dd3 out there :)
Cool that you still have the physical hardware of the 80-90's .. great times.
Powbits Testpow dunno where you from, but here in Argentina we were so poor that always HAD to play with one life.
Effing love this game!!
The best in all of the Double Dragon games
Great game but I say the whole format when The Dragons defeat the Black Shadow Warrior and bring Marian back to life will always be the far better format. This version is great though. Just needs resurrection ending. Hail Double Dragon 2.
I don't get the ending though... Who's the crying blonde? The girl who gets killed in the beginning? Also wanted to say that this game has one of the best soundtracks ever!
+Anton Zandt The blonde is Marion aka Billy's girlfriend. She cried in the end because it was an homage to her death. She was not brought back to life like in the NES/PC Engine version.
blackice Ok, thanks. That's kind of sad... I like the NES version better overall.
Anton Zandt
Yeah, it was quite sad. I would have killed those fuckers MK style had they done to my woman.
+Anton Zandt plus the final boss is more epic
thehellslayer300 I've always loved that fight and its soundtrack is so dramatic... I love it.
In just about all of the other versions, Billy and Jimmy Lee were in their traditional blue and red garb. Here, it's black and white.
That’s pretty damn impressive. I couldn’t do that.
ITS a amazing AND fabulous videogame an memorable games
Mmm as a kid I just thought it was cool you fought your own shadow, now as an adult I guess there is more meaning to it. After Billy defeats the boss again and he fulfills his revenge he is only left with complex feelings he must now struggle with. Now that the rage is gone he possibly feels guilt thinking he may not have done enough to protect her, or maybe he thinks the violence he used in the first game to rescue her is the reason she is dead now. But in the end he defeats his own shadow because he must realize that he is not the bad guy, he was not the one to take the first shot, the other guys are the ones who killed her and therefore her dead is really on them only. I'm not saying Billy comes clean out of the ordeal, but all he was doing really was just protecting her.
Now available through Steam and Apple Store
I had the PC version , on CGA graphics both players & the bad twin all looked exactly the same as each other
Saudade dessa época dos fliperamas só jogo legal
Used to hats that level 2 bosses laugh....
Dammit... he sounds confident. Again. 😭
awesome run, man! the cpu always has the advantage. good thing you got those glitches nailed down! great vid!
+Terramorfo AV I always loved throwing fools off the side of the screen at the beginning of Level 3! Works in the original DD also...which means that this is basically an expansion of the code used in the first game :)
+leewelk hell of a throwback! i really enjoyed this perfect game!
Yes, I agree buddy :)
Love the music
way better than the first one
If only i knew it was this simple when i was 8 in 88😂😂😂
I've utilised these knees in steet fights. They work!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The soundtrack sounds soo badazz/!
walking into a video arcade with this dude in your entourage would be like heading to the Bellagio with Rainman at your hip.
‘Fucking what, cunts??’
Wolverine without his hood looking enemies @ 01:23
Same haircut as Logan but brown haired instead of black haired
Anyone think the NES version was better? After you fight your double there's the main boss, no Willy though, it seems.
+thesnare100 I, too, prefer the NES version. Amazing adaptation of this game.
+thesnare100 Try the PC Engine version! It's an upgraded version of the NES game :)
Also Known As Amazing? The NES game is mediocre
Too bad PC Engine version has shitty music.
*+thesnare100* That's what everyone always used to say about me...
I had the Amiga version, unlike DD1 it was almost a perfect arcade port, hold the music.
The Amiga port was awesome! It was missing a few moves but for the system is was a stellar conversion.
graphics lagged so bad on this game. it was ridiculous. but that was the tech we had back then
So many quarters lost on this back in the day
july 20, 1988. the game must have been released that day as it is celebrated in the ending photo 23:02
So we got the "tasa maki mule kick!" But no knee of doom???
I'm new with video games, this was my favorite one, but what do I need in order to play it, I mean, what kind of device, and where can I get the game?
romnation.net
There you go to download the pc emulator and all the games you want, including DD2 of course
Who is the masked man and why he disappeared after defeated and how he grows back into his clothes? :) Used to be just to have fun playing this game. Now looking back at this game again there left so many question marks.
Yuhan Zhang he was known as "The armor plated guy"
el mejor juego del de 1988 en ese año se estreno este juego
As a kid I thought it was kind of cool how this was basically a mirror image of the first one with mainly cosmetic changes, harvester instead of bridge etc (didn't know of course that its because it started out being developed as an upgrade rather than sequel). Spend the next 30 years complaining about lazy game developers who do the same :).
テクノスジャパンも良い会社だったのにねぇ…。くにおくんとダブルドラゴンで当てたけど、その後が続かなかったね。
Figa l"animazione dei personaggi quando vengono picchiati i soldi che ho buttato giocando al bar arrivavo massimo al secondo livello,poi finivano i soldi
Good memories
Its funny cause the NES final Boss way way more fun to play and the music was like 100000x better.
I agree.....Still love the NES version even today.
At the time, I didn't like the NES version to be that different, but now I see the NES version of DD2 is a way better/funnier game than the arcade conterpart.
persona83
A lot of Nintendo games seem to have good quality & enjoyable gameplay, I guess it's logical to strive for that if you're trying to sell it to people to play on their home consoles, arcade games mostly seem very difficult, probably to keep taking money off you
Yeah, sure. But the case is that most home consoles had totally different versions of well known arcade games, back in the day and that was very frustrating because I wanted the very same game on my home system. There are tons of examples, but even the most faithful NES games based on arcades (like, say, Spartan X/Kung Fu Master or Trojan) were very similar to the coin ops without being as difficult. In other words: they could have made similar games but with toned down difficult, so the children would not get frustrated of so.
At least to me, at the time, it was very disappointing to have a completly different game from the beloved arcades I was used to, even if the home port was obviously better (Double Dragon II case). It simply had to be identical. :P
CLASSIC FOREVER!!!!!!!!
De algo es seguro es un juego nostálgico
Eu tô jogando do nintendinho agora mesmo já tô salvando e tem muita coisa nesta versão que estou jogando q é melhor q do arcade inclusive o salvamento
El mejor juego que jugue.
Doesn't the theme kind of remind you of Easy Lover by Phil Collins...??
Time index, please...
Here's how the music converted between the Arcade and NES versions:
Arcade Level 1 = NES Level 2
Arcade Boss Theme 1 = NES Level 7
Arcade Level 2 = NES Level 1
Arcade Boss Theme 2 = NES standard boss theme
Arcade Level 3 = NES Level 5
Arcade Boss Theme 3 = Not in NES
Arcade Level 4 = NES Level 8
Arcade Willy Theme = NES Level 5 boss theme
Arcade Final Boss Theme = NES Level 6 (highly remixed)
NES Level 3 = Not in Arcade
NES Level 4 = Not in Arcade
NES Clone Battle Theme = Not in Arcade
NES Final Battle Themes = Not in Arcade
I lost lots of money playing this arcade at the fliperama in the neighborhood. My mother wanted to kill me all the time.
FURI color at the end....lol
my best game
Good times..........
Esse jogo muito bom 😁 🤔
There's many slow downs in every stage
Arcade must have had much stronger hardware than the NES! What were the hardware specs for the arcade version? This looks 16 bit.
It's got three 8-Bit CPUs (Hitachi 6309 & 2x Zillog Z80), but that don't really matter the Intellivision was the first 16-bit home console while looking like crap compared to the 16-Bit consoles like the Mega Drive or SNES. Arcade graphics of this era are designed differently from consoles.
The stages are almost identical to the first game.
Jesus! The story is point blank dark, your girlfriend is gunned down by several machine gun bullets to the chest. my god!
Eu ainda estou tentando será 😁😁😁😎🤳👏
Stage 2: Final Boss: Chabelo
Billy Lee look like Bruce Lee
Take my Knee !!!
+Azzen Daar (Guitch5) i downloaded this on my phone today it was the trilogy which also included double dragon and double dragon 3 that final boss on double dragon 2 is a pain in the arse hitting him isnt a problem for me i just hate it when he disappears and uses his black hole to paralyze u so he can attack u i just beat the final boss but i hate him so much
Bit prophetic that, given recent events in both Sports and Politics...
Rebellion Gamester "I am not Jimmy Lee...Anymore. Mwa Ha Ha Ha."
Very funny.
se ve fácil pero al final el tiempo se hace poco
14:46 Gerrardo!
ダブルドラゴン2迄はよかった
ちゃんとテクノスジャパンが作ってたから
でも3以降他社が開発に絡んでいるので何か別物になってきてしまったのは残念です
但し外国人受けする内容で俺個人的にはおもしろいと思うが
Lol @ the ending screen, they look nothing like Billy, Jimmy, or Marian.
They NEVER look the same from game to game.
i m playing it on mame32 but graphics are not that clear if someone can help me how to fix it???
Double Dragon took place in a post-apocalyptic future, but it never seemed all that post-apocalyptic...other than the police never showing up to break up the massive fights, I suppose.
good to know nes version vs this haha
This guys take morphine!
are you double dragon 2 arcade pcb?