What a shame.Īt a first glance, it would seem we've got good old Double Dragon here: the entire set of moves, two-player mode, use of weapons, interaction with the surroundings and colorful graphics are all there. All I know is a 1MEG A500 version could have done this game justice, but it was too early in the life cycle for a 1MEG version. This is a complete joke, another game that was rushed for Christmas, apparently the programmers had found a way of capturing sprites from the arcade using a camera, but this method was scrapped, and we were left with the Deluxe Paint and mouse job.Īvoid this at all costs, the only half decent version was on the Mega drive and even that was not perfect. Sound effects when they die, sounds like they are throwing up, as for the hit effects I have no idea were they got them from, but it doesn't sound right.

The screen appears and it starts to move, I felt like chucking the floppy out of the window! This is like they took a 8-bit version, and they simply enhanced the colours (cough, cough Amstard CPC version). Imagine my surprise when this poor man's Public Domain attempt booted up! Well actually first impressions were good the intro looked OK and it had sampled arcade music, but for some reason not from the actual intro, but level one stage (and incomplete).Īnyway moving on, it starts to load. I was a real die hard Double Dragon fan growing up, and used to play it at a Caravan Holiday Park in Kent.

I remember getting this in a pack, I think it was called the Hollywood Collection (why Double Dragon was included I don't know).

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