A Double Dragon cartoon could have done the same, perhaps even better. An audience who already cared about these characters was more than happy to put their game on pause and follow the animated antics for a half hour on Saturday mornings. The Super Mario cartoons, while presenting outlandish and farfetched stories, maintained the same characters and basic setting. Around this time the cartoon aired, which truly signaled the beginning of the end.Ī Double Dragon cartoon, authentic to the games, may have done well. While not a terrible game by any means, it is ultimately unsatisfying and showed that Technos were willing to whore out their creation (Tradewest, the developer behind Battletoads, was the primary force on the project, Technos just signed off on it). The first clue was Battletoads & Double Dragon.
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The decline of the series seems to have come from the fact that it became a franchise and a brand name to be traded on. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
A few were very successful such as Final Fight, Streets of Rage, and a handful of memorable licensed games featuring X-Men, The Simpsons and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The success of the initial games, and their sequels, spawned a whole range of imitators that followed the same basic formula.
What Double Dragon brought to arcades (and, soon after that, home consoles) was a wonderful combination of good graphics, a great soundtrack and, most importantly, fun martial arts action. But it was when Technos released the original Double Dragon in 1987, based on the template of their previous game Renegade, that the genre had a certified hit. Beat ’em up games were a very visceral outlet for aggression and a popular genre in arcades. Before commercialization and merchandising dragged the series down, the Double Dragon games were among the best out there. Does anyone else feel like they got kicked in the brain after thinking about that?
There was a Double Dragon cartoon, action figures, a board game and then a video game based on the cartoon that was based on the original video games, among others. They sure tried though to milk the series though. Activate your Online Access Now Article content If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is included in your subscription. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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