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Here’s another post with some info on the latter games made of Double Dragon. To start, here’s a recording of Super Double Dragon (or, as the title goes in some versions, Return of…):

Sometimes, I wonder if Technos did better at this when they made it for home consoles than they did making it for arcades. Well, almost. Because the next game they made for home consoles was Double Dragon 5, and that was a fighting game, and not a good one at that. Here’s a recording of that below:

This was extraordinarily wooden for a fighting game, and if it flopped in sales, I’m not surprised at all.

However, they did much better when they released their Double Dragon fighting game based on the abysmal movie for the Neo-Geo system in 1995:

This time, it was much better done, but by that time, you could say that it all but became undistinguished from a lot of other fighting games of its sort. However, I will say that it was a lot more fun than having to watch a pointless movie that seemed to think it could use Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 as its drawing card. And the animation is a lot more colorful too.

Later on, Technos sadly went bankrupt, and their properties were bought by another source, but in a special honor, a third-party developer for the Neo-Geo made a fighting game called Rage of the Dragons that was inpsired by it, in the last days of the console. If I ever have time, I’ll search for a video of that game too.

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