1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0139 Double Dragon

Saturday, July 22, 2017

#0139 Double Dragon

Today I played Double Dragon. An arcade beat em up developed by Technos.

A spiritual successor to Renegade, which wasn't on the list, it's one of the most popular and influential beat em up games, and the first beat em up on the list!

You basically gotta save your smokin hot babe from bad guys and... That's it! Save your Girlfriend from bad guys!

The gameplay is pretty good. It's one of the first beat em ups and it shows. The hit box feels inconsistent, bad guys seem to be hit sponges, and the controls aren't super intuitive.

But it's fun! Picking up the bad guys weapon and using it against them is a good idea, and I love love LOVE the continue system. When you lose all your loves you have the option to jump RIGHT back in and keep going. Really gets you spending your quarters.

I feel it would have been even better two player. Overall though, if you're not a fan of beat em ups, this one isn't going to change your mind. But if you like beat em ups, this one's a dated, but still solid game.

Next up: Head Over Heels

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Why I'm taking this challenge

So! I’ve spent nearly my entire life as a Nintendo Fanboy. A rabid fanboy to the point where when my family got a brand new Playstation 2 back in ‘02 (One of the best consoles ever). I refused to play it. I refused to have anything to do with the company that stole my beloved Nintendo’s thunder! This fanboyism ran rampant in my gaming life through high school and even when I moved out to live with the woman who would one day become my wife. I still didn’t play anything but Nintendo consoles. In fact, it wasn’t until we were gifted an Xbox 360 did I FINALLY play a game on a different console. That was Bioshock, it was also the first shooter I had ever played.It became one of my favorite games of all time. The rest is history, I’ve been playing games on any console I want now.

That’s all well and good, but this means that there is an entire other gaming WORLD that I’ve never played. Never experienced in my life. I love shooters, but with the exception of the half-life series, and System shock 2, every shooter from Doom all the way up until Bioshock, I’ve never played. Not Quake, not CoD, not battlefield.

So, since I’ve missed out on nearly 30 years of gaming, I decided to take a challenge. My lovely wife got me a book called 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die I am going to play through every game in this book. Starting with Oregon Trail (1971) and finish with Bioshock Infinite (2013) I plan to do at least one generation per year. At least. And to help me keep track of what I've done, I started doing small reviews of every game.

At first I wrote these in the starment.net forums, but eventually they became too lengthy to only be posted there, so I created this blog to not only help keep me organized, but so others can follow along as well. It won't be easy, but I think it's worth it to play games that I may otherwise never have played.