Best Technos
Double Dragon is a 1987 arcade game developed by Technos Japan and an influential example of the side-scrolling beat 'em up. Players control martial artists Billy and Jimmy Lee as they fight through urban stages to rescue Marian from the Black Warriors gang. Its simultaneous two-player cooperative m...
Why this score?
Major co-op brawler milestone with huge influence and arcade popularity; later reputation notes stiffness, balance issues, and uneven home ports.
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Double Dragon II: The Revenge is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up arcade game developed and published by Technos Japan in 1988. As a sequel to the influential original Double Dragon, it introduced a revised combat system where attack buttons correspond to the player's facing direction rather than specif...
Why this score?
Solid sequel with co-op and combat additions, but arcade version is less iconic and less fondly remembered than the original.
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