Double Dragon is an arcade video game developed by Technos and published by Taito in 1987.
This is a beat’em up genre game.
Plot:
The “Black Warriors” have kidnapped Billy Lee’s girlfriend Marian.
He and his brother Jimmy will have to fight against them to free her.
2 can play at the same time.
There is a time limit not to be exceeded for each level.
There are 4 stages to overcome in Double Dragon and at the end of each of them there is a boss to defeat.
Throughout the game there will be enemies armed with knives, baseball bats, whips and dynamite.
If you hit enemies carrying weapons, you can pick them up and use them to hit them.
The final boss is armed with a machine gun.
Once defeated, Marion will be free.
If you play 2, you will have to fight against each other to win Marian’s heart.
Then the game ends.
Double Dragon is perfectly emulated by MAME.
Double Dragon (Arcade) infos:
| DOUBLE DRAGON (ARCADE) | |
|---|---|
| Year | 1987 |
| Developer | Technos Japan |
| Publisher | Taito |
| Country | Japan |
| Genre | Beat’Em Up |
| CPU(s) | Hitachi HD6309E 3.000000 MHz Hitachi HD63701Y0 6.000000 MHz Motorola MC6809 6.000000 MHz |
| Video | 256 x 240 (H) 57.444853 Hz |
| Simultaneous colors | 384 |
| Palette colors | 4096 |
| Sound | Speaker YM2151 OPM 3.579545 MHz 2 x OKI MSM5205 ADPCM 375.000 kHz 1 Channel |
| Players | 1-2 |
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