![]() While you can’t jump punch, a jump kick will allow you to approach enemies while also potentially damaging them, and by pressing jump and kick simultaneously, you can do a backwards jump kick to help if you’re surrounded. In two-player mode, a successful grab can hold an enemy in place while your partner whales on them, but there is partner damage so a degree of caution is required whenever the two twins are trying to fight near each other. Your basic punch can quickly combo into a few hits on opposing enemies, but a kick can cause foes to bend over in pain, the player able to grab such enemies if they’re close enough and hurl them away for some decent damage. A punch button, kick button, and jump button are all you have on the cabinet, but pressing them together or with certain directions can influence which actions you take. Billy and Jimmy head off on a rescue mission, beating up whatever members of the Shadow Warriors crop up to stop them from saving Marian.īilly and Jimmy, sometimes referred to as Hammer and Spike in American marketing of the game, both bring the same set of skills to the table. These details aren’t really shown well in the game, the action instead starting with the easily understood small scene of some thugs coming up to Marian, Billy’s girlfriend, punching her in the gut, and carrying her off. The local gang known as the Shadow Warriors hardly want a populace who can stand up to them, so they move to get their revenge on the brothers. The title Double Dragon refers to two martial artists twins, Billy and Jimmy Lee both running a dojo where they teach locals the means to defend themselves. A tilted plane for the action with eight way movement, two player co-op, picking up weapons, and having to defeat on screen enemies to keep moving forward are all present here in the first Double Dragon game, and while the home ports may hold a higher place in the hearts of many, the arcade version was what kicked off a golden age of beat ’em ups. However, it is quite clearly the game that really helped codify what we now easily recognize as a beat ’em up. The beat ’em up certainly suffers from this since it has some similarities to typical sidescrolling action and platforming titles, but no matter how loose your definition of one is, you can’t really say Double Dragon was the first. It’s very hard to get people to agree on the first game to introduce a new genre, especially since many genres have nebulous and subjective qualities that can often be applied to games in other genres. ![]()
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