And by “they” I do mean publisher Tradewest and the subsidiary company to whom they farmed the work out, Leland Interactive Media. Yes, in order to revitalize a series that by all accounts didn’t need any revitalization at all, they had jumped on the Street Fighter 2 bandwagon. Oh, what the Abobo’s must look like in glorious Sega fried 16-bit glory! The pipes, the chains, the conveyer belts… It was going to be glorious. I had flashes of a game akin to Streets of Rage 2, only with my old friends Billy (not Bimmy) and Jimmy Lee under my control. What if, after all these years, after seeing the game in countless pawnshops and display cases, what if this was the greatest Double Dragon game of them all? What if it had just simply slipped under my radar after I had lost interest in the series? What if? I admit, they kind of lost me when they made Double Dragon 3 one of the hardest games on planet Earth, but seeing a copy of Double Dragon 5 for Genesis in my local used game store a couple months ago, I suddenly had a flicker of hope. So many of my favorite video game-related childhood memories are tied to the Double Dragon series. I remember one of my birthday parties (ninth, maybe?) when Double Dragon 2 was brand new, and my Dad rented it for us at the good old Acme Video. When I was a kid I loved Double Dragon 1 & 2. Now, I had never played this game until a couple of months ago. What’s the best way to ruin one of the most legendary names in the beat-’em-up genre and effectively derail an entire series? Six words: Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls. Genre: Beat-‘Em-Up Developer: LeLand Interactive Media Publisher: Tradewest Players: 1-2 Released: 1994
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