Double Dragon – Retro Reflections

Chalgyr's Game Room writes:

Having recently had a chance to play the classic Double Dragon arcade games with the Double Dragon Trilogy on Steam, I felt it was probably time to take a look back at the game on the NES. This was one of my favorite titles growing up, even if it was something of a pale imitation of the arcade original.

It has probably been twelve years since I fired up the NES version of this game. After having played the arcade version recently, the first thing that jumps out at me is how stiff the characters in the NES one felt. I expected the visuals to be less impressive and I recalled that the move set was far more limited (more on that in a minute), but the stiffness somewhat surprised me.