/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2787226]

This guy walks up to your GF and punches her in the gut before taking her away. What do you do?

[Anonymous No.2787231]

Become aroused.

[Anonymous No.2787237]

>>2787226
Thank him for saving me a wire hanger.

[Anonymous No.2787253]

>>2787226
I'm not a bad enough dude to do anything right away. But after a while I'd probably call my ninja friend Guy and my girlfriend's father, Zangief.

[Anonymous No.2787257]

>>2787253
>Hold on Blaze, we're coming for you
>Your days of terrorizing this town are coming to an end, Metal Gear

[Anonymous No.2787270]

>>2787253
>Zangief
Mayor of River City

[Anonymous No.2787273]

>>2787226
Alert reddit/twitter/tumbler

[Anonymous No.2787291]

"Marian? Aww man, not this again!"

[Anonymous No.2787317]

>>2787226
Stand around not doing anything? I dunno this question is really hard

[Anonymous No.2787349]

>>2787226
I only hovered over this pic now and saw this was a perler. I noticed the thumbnail looked particularly crappy earlier but I didn't wonder why, and now I know.

Thank you for reading my blog.

[Anonymous No.2787362]

>>2787226

Finish fixing my car

[Anonymous No.2787367]

>>2787349

taking credit for easy as autism pixel art via your blog? wigga puhleez.

[Anonymous No.2787460]

Anyone here who knows about Double Dragon's lore? WHY was she was just standing there while a group of thugs walked up to her? WHY was she kidnapped? How did Billy and Jimmy know about this kidnapping happening if they were just leaving the building? If they got out of the garage just seconds after she was kidnapped, why couldn't they just run after Williams and take her back?

This game's lore, man. It's deep.

[Anonymous No.2787468]

>>2787317
Kek

[Anonymous No.2787470]

>>2787317
>Stand around not doing anything?

He's clearly dancing ya dingus.

[Anonymous No.2787472]

i'm on my way

[Anonymous No.2787487]

Well that climb was tiring, especially barefoot. Let's do this thing.

[Anonymous No.2787492]

>>2787487
Fuck. Yes.

[Anonymous No.2787493]

>>2787226
Shoot him repeteadly in the face with spread gun.
You picked the wrong game, motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.2787728]

>>2787460
>Billy
I think you mean Bimmy

[Anonymous No.2787917]

unsheath my katanas and sneak up behind him and slice him to death then go back to /r9k/ and shitpost

[Anonymous No.2787927]

>>2787472
HAHA TIME FOR SMUG WALKCYCLES

[Anonymous No.2787931]

>>2787460
>WHY was she was just standing there while a group of thugs walked up to her?

She was whoring herself out, Jimmy's not her bf but her pimp.

[Anonymous No.2788037]

>>2787728
Reminder that the cannon ending to Double Dragon is that Jimmy kills Billy.

Double Dragon 2 never happened.

Double Dragon 3 is the direct sequel to DD1.

Bimmy was not a typo, he is literally Billy's substitute.

Skullmageddon from Double Dragon Neon is Billy re-incarnated.

DEEPEST

[Anonymous No.2788180]

>>2787226
Kill him with my gun, get girl back, move on with life.

[Anonymous No.2788189]

>>2787317
>>2787362
It's not that they stood around doing nothing. Billy and Jimmy just couldn't get out of the garage on time, 'cause the game would've crashed if they were more than five people on-screen.

[Anonymous No.2788196]

>>2787460
>WHY was she was just standing there while a group of thugs walked up to her?
She tried to fight back, but the animators forgot to give her any fighting animations.
>WHY was she kidnapped?
Supposedly the Black Warriors want to know the martial arts secrets of the Lee brothers and held Marian captive as ransom.
>How did Billy and Jimmy know about this kidnapping happening if they were just leaving the building?
They probably hear her screaming while they were still in the garage.
>If they got out of the garage just seconds after she was kidnapped, why couldn't they just run after Williams and take her back?
Because the Black Warriors took off on their bikes. You can actually hear their engines roaring off-screen.

[Anonymous No.2788202]

>>2787226
I'd make it to the end of the road and before i climbed the ladder (after beating the shit outta 4 lindas) i'd climb up the wall somehow. Just keep going up and then end up at the bottom again. Cause I'm fucking magic

[Anonymous No.2788406]

im comin fo YOU nigga

[Anonymous No.2788413]

>>2788196
>>If they got out of the garage just seconds after she was kidnapped, why couldn't they just run after Williams and take her back?
>Because the Black Warriors took off on their bikes. You can actually hear their engines roaring off-screen.


oh please


next you're gonna tell me in DD2 after they shot marian they took off in a helicopter because of the noise in the beginning

[Anonymous No.2788430]

snap off some of his component beads

[Anonymous No.2788458]

I cook some omelette, with lots of hot sauce.
Then I eat it, pick my nose and fart a lot.

[Anonymous No.2788489]

I GRAND UPPER his ass

[Anonymous No.2788752]

>>2787460
>why couldn't they just run after Williams and take her back?

>_<

[Anonymous No.2788754]

>>2788413
>next you're gonna tell me in DD2 after they shot marian they took off in a helicopter because of the noise in the beginning
Well, that's literally what happens in the NES version, except they actually got to the chopper on time in that version.

[Anonymous No.2789002]

So I managed to get Double Dragon Neon on Steam, since it was only a buck. I figured what the hell, might as well give it a shot. However, I feel like the game is Double Dragon in name only, in fact it feels, looks, and sounds more in line with a TMNT game. Especially the jump kick, however it's not the be-all-end-all of offensive options in this game like in TMNT. It only has three enemies and three characters, all of whom only have a passing resemblance to the character's they're based on. Also, the guys don't have nearly as many offensive moves as I remember in the DD games, in fact they have only a few.

What was the deal with this game? Was it meant to be a different game, and then slapped the Double Dragon name last minute on it? I mean it's a good game, funny as shit in some parts, but it's no Double Dragon.

[Anonymous No.2789032]

>>2787317
> ¬_¬

[Anonymous No.2789048]

>>2789032

[Anonymous No.2789096]

>>2789002
Neon only exists because Majesco/WayForward conducted a poll over which IP they wanted to reboot after the success of A Boy & His Blob on the Wii and Battletoads & Double Dragon got the most votes. Apparently they couldn't get the Battletoads license, so they just made it purely a Double Dragon parody. I don't think they ever have any real intention of making a serious Double Dragon reboot like they did with Contra 4.

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the original Kunio-kun/Double Dragon creator, had some minor involvement in Neon's development, which basically amounted to giving the team some old concept art to use as reference (pic related) and telling them not to give the Lee brothers pompadours.

In all fairness, it's not like Double Dragon was the most consistent franchise ever (even judging purely from the Technos-produced games), but Neon is hardly how I would've rebooted the franchise.

[Anonymous No.2789110]

>>2789048
Why does he have three eyes?

[Anonymous No.2789550]

>>2789096
SO IT'S A GIANT FUCK YOU TO THE DOUBLE DRAGON FANS?

[Anonymous No.2789594]

>>2789550
I wouldn't go that far. Neon is stupid, but it's not without its merits. If any game was a "fuck you" to fans, it was that shitty Korean remake of Double Dragon II that was on XB360 a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.2789598]

>>2789594
>If any game was a "fuck you" to fans

That would be the x360 Bomberman.

Also, what is it with Double Dragon never getting a proper remake? Every time it's a couple of fans trying to make a DD game but never the original people who did it. With the case of Rage of the Dragons, they couldn't even get the rights.

[Anonymous No.2789620]

>>2788754
thatwasthejoke.png

[Anonymous No.2789648]

>>2789598
>That would be the x360 Bomberman.
I would have no idea, but Wander of the Dragons was legitimately awful.

>Also, what is it with Double Dragon never getting a proper remake? Every time it's a couple of fans trying to make a DD game but never the original people who did it.
There was Double Dragon Advance in 2003, which was made by Atlus under the supervision of Muneki Ebinuma (the lead planner of Super Double Dragon). That's a close as the series got to a full fledged remake of the original and it's the definite Double Dragon game in my book.

There was another Double Dragon remake for smartphones made by Brizo (the same people who did the rare Zeebo version) that has a nice art style, but you have to put up with shitty touch controls.

>With the case of Rage of the Dragons, they couldn't even get the rights.
The weirdest thing about Rage of the Dragons is that even though they couldn't get the Double Dragon rights, it still ended up having a crossover with Power Instinct, which was an Atlus property. I wonder if that was the reason Million broke up with Atlus later on and went to Arc System Works, since Million actually wanted to bring Evoga/Noise Factory to court over Rage of the Dragons, but they didn't have enough money to pursue the case.

[Anonymous No.2789674]

>>2789648
Thats some cool info about ROTD, thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous No.2789745]

>>2789096
>not to give the Lee brothers pompadours.

Huh. Looking at the official artworj, it does look like they just have normal hair, if a bit poofy, but the game graphics inadvertently made them look like pompadours. Especially in DD2.

[Anonymous No.2789870]

>>2789745
As far as the early games are concerned, they likely did the promotional art after the in-game graphics, which was pretty common back then. The only piece of Double Dragon promo art where the characters actually looked like they do in the game was in the Japanese poster for the first arcade game (see >>2788196
), which was actually done by the original pixel artist. Everything else was pretty stylized and I think these sketches (>>2789096) were actually for an unmade game (possibly from the Double Dragon/Kunio-kun crossover game that never got made, pic related).

[Anonymous No.2789927]

>>2787487
I expected some animation you Cambodian.

[Anonymous No.2790308]

>>2789594
>Neon is stupid, but it's not without its merits.

It could've been SO much more instead of a generic beat'em up with generic enemies replacing most of the unique enemies. Hell, DD2 has a guy that essentially looks like Ahnold, I bet they would've had a field day doing a Schwarzenegger like boss. But hey, it has one of the best credit songs I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-O_u_y5r1o

As it stands, it comes off more like fanfiction and something that would've been made on Newgrounds. The cassettes also had some balance issues, for example Training Wheels DRAMATICALLY increases your HP, making the others essentially useless.

[Anonymous No.2790336]

>>2790308
>Hell, DD2 has a guy that essentially looks like Ahnold, I bet they would've had a field day doing a Schwarzenegger like boss.
Indeed. He was my favorite enemy in the arcade version just for his absurd design alone. I like how they reused his animations for Andre the Giant in WWF Superstars.

I'm surprised Neon didn't have more enemies from the later games either. It's just Williams, Linda and Abobo from the first stage, and then a bunch of random new guys from the second stage and onward. Rowper gets a namedrop and that's about it.

[Anonymous No.2790358]

>>2790336
I was actually talking about this guy, then again, that's probably what he had to look like in the NES version.

I also read the article with Kishimoto, and I guess you can say WFT was trying to stay true to the series' inconsistency. And where is Rowper mentioned, anyway?

[Anonymous No.2790363]

>>2790336
>training wheels
Well, with a name like that is that really unbalanced or intentionally broken?

[Anonymous No.2790375]

>>2790363
Good point. With how the later enemies being able to shave off your HP, and being able to knock you into pits, it could be anything really. Without it, Giga Skullmageddon would have every attack of his be an IK, especially since he has so many multi strike attacks.

[Anonymous No.2790417]

>>2790358
>I was actually talking about this guy, then again, that's probably what he had to look like in the NES version.
His name is Abore and I think he's supposed to be a combination of the suspender guy from the arcade version (he has a similar moveset at least) and another enemy that looked like him who was an Abobo clone (pic related).
>I also read the article with Kishimoto, and I guess you can say WFT was trying to stay true to the series' inconsistency.
Indeed. The NES versions in particular have changes like Jimmy Lee being the Shadow Boss in the first game, Machine Gun Willy being replaced by some Vigo-looking dude in the second game, and Cleopatra actually being a possessed Marian in the third (although that last one was just in the localization). They weren't even consistent about Billy and Jimmy's hair colors in the games.
>And where is Rowper mentioned, anyway?
The tapesmith mentions him when you talk to him. I don't remember which stage, although I think it might be triggered randomly.

[Anonymous No.2790480]

>>2790417
Yeah, I can't help but feel that DDN was just full of miss opportunities at least, especially considering how well they did A boy and his Blob and Contra 4.

[Anonymous No.2790493]

Neon was fucking awesome, wtf

[Anonymous No.2790561]

>>2790493
I loved Neon, but it wasn't the revival that DD needed.
I mean, the whole neo-80s retrowave thing is fucking great, and fits the game. But gameplay-wise? It's not so... DD-ish. It feels like it was supposed to be something else, but then they slapped DD in the end, so they forgot a lot of basic DD mechanics.

[Anonymous No.2790610]

>>2790561
It felt more like a game made for a generation of kids that had never touched a Double Dragon game before, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.2790638]

>>2790561
I would've preferred if they had done a period piece set in the '80s over some self-satire filled with obvious jokes.

>>2790610
Probably explains why half of /v/ have such a hard-on for Neon.

[Anonymous No.2790648]

>>2790638
>Probably explains why half of /v/ have such a hard-on for Neon.

I've never seen /v/ talk about this game much to be honest, not even when it was on sale last week. Then again, the console version came out in 2012, while the PC version came out in 2014, so the discussion was probably too late. Then again, it was probably buried under Hotline Miami, which inadvertently started the whole neo 80's trend.

[Anonymous No.2790881]

>>2790648
Maybe it's just me, but I always seen it spoke highly of every time it gets brought up on /v/. At any rate, it was flavor of the moment for a while when it launched on consoles.

[Anonymous No.2791008]

>>2789927
>note to self: static gifs have trolling potential

[Anonymous No.2791560]

>>2790881
I mean it is a good game, I have fun co-oping it with friends on Steam, but certainly not as good as it could be. This has had the least amount of effort put in it relative to the other Wayforward reboots (Duck Tales, Contra, aBahB), and a lot of missed opportunities.

[Anonymous No.2791572]

>>2791560
They finally added online co-op for the PC version? I remember it launched only with local co-op.

[Anonymous No.2791579]

>>2791572
I'm assuming they did, which seems even more bizarre if you're implying the console versions had online co-op. The PC version looks to be a total mess of a game, too, it will freeze on multi-core processors, suffers from memory leaking, and will not boot up on any PC without a dedicated video adapter.

[Anonymous No.2791597]

>>2791579
>if you're implying the console versions had online co-op.
Nope. Local only on PS3 and 360. It was supposed to be patched at some point, but they never got around to doing it.

[Anonymous No.2791631]

>>2791597
Funny, considering how publishers work, the console versions will get the tip top treatment while the PC version just sits and rots. Then again, the people who ported the game, Abstraction, said that they were under contract by Majesco to work on the game for a short period, which explains why the game hasn't been fully fixed. Likely the same thing happened with WayForward, Majesco just gave them the bare minimum of allotted time to fix things.

[Anonymous No.2791717]

>>2791631
Didn't Majesco underwent some financial troubles around the time Neon came out or were they just being cheapstakes?

[Anonymous No.2791718]

>>2791717
A bit of both, really. They still exist, however apparently only 5 people still work there now. I guess that's the curse of being a publisher with no development studios.

[Anonymous No.2791725]

>>2791718
That's shame. Hopefully, Double Dragon will get better treatment under Arc System Works' hands now.

[Anonymous No.2791731]

>>2791725
I hope so. Maybe they'll even get PC versions 10 years down the line, as was the case with the PS2 HnK game.

[Anonymous No.2791738]

>>2791731
>Maybe they'll even get PC versions 10 years down the line, as was the case with the PS2 HnK game.
Was that really confirmed? I see nothing online.

[Anonymous No.2792179]

Simple.


Do elbow smash

[Anonymous No.2792336]

>>2787226
idkfa
iddqd

[Anonymous No.2792372]

>>2790480
Yeah. Another enemy type from the arcade Double Dragons I liked was the Mr. T lookalike from the very first game. It always annoyed how none of the console ports actually had him, they just reused the bald Abobo and made him black instead. Only the GBA version had him and even his design in that version is off.

[Anonymous No.2792634]

>>2792372
you're so damn nit picky

[Anonymous No.2792635]

>>2787226
I spend the next twenty eight years of my life constantly going back to this asshole, all of his friends, his boss, his bosses boss, and the entire company.
One by one I dissemble them from reality with kicks and thrusts.

[Anonymous No.2792694]

>>2792634
What's wrong with wanting to beat up Mr. T in a side-scrolling beat-'em-up?

[Anonymous No.2792781]

>>2792372
Didn't they recolor Rowper for him in the NES version? But fucking hell, I could easily have seen them doing Mr. T throwing barrels ala Donkey Kong, as cliche as that would be. It would be perfect, but we didn't get that. I admit that the bad guy sounding like Skeletor was a good touch, but still somewhat out of character for a DD game.

[Anonymous No.2793572]

>>2792781
>Didn't they recolor Rowper for him in the NES version?
Not really. Rowper had black and white variants in the arcade version too, as did Williams and Abobo. Some of the colors are different, but that could be attributed to the obvious hardware differences. In terms of enemy roster, the arcade and FC/NES version of Double Dragon 1 mostly differed in their boss characters.

The arcade version had head swaps of other characters as bosses, plus Machine Gun Willy as the final boss. The Mission 1 boss is the Mr. T version of Abobo, the Mission 2 boss is an evil Lee brother wannabe, and the Mission 3 boss is Mr. T with green skin.

The NES version ditches the head swaps completely, promotes Abobo to boss status (he was just a big mook in the arcade version) and introduce a new enemy character, a Jackie Chan lookalike named Chin, as the Mission 2 boss. It also made one of the Lee brothers into the main bad guy, turning the optional sibling battle that occurred when both players defeated Willy together into a mandatory event.

Also, the Lee brothers' hair colors were different between the two versions. On the arcade, Player 1 was the blond haired guy in the blue suit and Player 2 was the brown haired in the red suit. On the NES, Billy has reddish brown hair and a blue outfit, while Jimmy has blond hair and a red outfit.

[Anonymous No.2795416]

>>2790336
Hey, that guy looks like the Two Crude Dudes guy. Are they related?

[Anonymous No.2795895]

>>2795416
Different developers though. Double Dragon was by Technos. Two Crude was by Data East.

[Anonymous No.2796408]

Double Dragon wouldn't fly today.

>omg a gril gets punched how turrible
>rescuing a gril from danger is also sexist as fuck check yr privilege cis whyte mail pigs

[Anonymous No.2796834]

>>2796408
Probably explains why Neon ended up being self-satire.

[Anonymous No.2796839]

>>2796408
>Double Dragon wouldn't fly today.
Yes it would. Now please go back to /v/ with your sensationalist bullshit.

[Anonymous No.2797586]

How's the Arcade Archives versio of Double Dragon for PS4? I heard some games in that series have better emulation than their MAME counterparts.