Retro Corner: Double Dragon (NES) Review

I have another old review to give you once again as it's about the first Double Dragon on NES. If you were unaware, a small company called Retroism(who has an Amazon store) seemed to have acquire the rights to Super Double Dragon. According to their Amazon page, Retroism will rerelease this game on July 19th complete with a custom art cover for the box. It will also come in a red cartridge similar to what Capcom did for the Street Fighter II anniversary cart. Another bonus about this rerelease will have the extra stuff the US game didn't have. Retroism is also using the Japanese name of Return to the Double Dragon instead of using the Super title. I never got a chance to play Super Double Dragon because I didn't even know it existed until a few years ago. I thought the series died off for a while in the early 90s only for it to get brought back by WayForward in the early 2010s.

To celebrate the rerelease of this classic Brawler, I will link my review to the inaugural NES game. The first two Double Dragons on NES is what got me into the Brawler genre. It was before I played The Simpsons and X-Men from the Arcades and even Streets of Rage 2 on the Genesis. The NES ports are really infamous because of their ridiculous difficulty that had some questionable level design. Back then it was the developers versus the player mindset when designing any game. The original title released first in the arcades and its where this style of gameplay worked better. You would have to insert more quarters if you wanted to continue thus making them profit off it. The Arcade version is still difficult and hasn't aged well either. However, Trade West should've considered the console market at the time when they developed the NES port.

Double Dragon (NES) Review