Double Dragon coming to XLA tomorrow

I’m with you on this one all the way. Bring on the beat-em-ups on XBLA, and to a lesser extend, it wouldn’t hurt to see a few 2D shooters making their way to Microsoft’s service either.

As a matter of fact, it would be great to see an arsenal of coin-op titles finding a home on XBLA. Not only would that go right at home with the whole Arcade motif they’ve been going for, but it would be a great way to relive many of these timeless classics.

Also, I’m glad to hear Double Dragon is finally on XBLA as well. That was announced quite awhile ago, and the impending release took longer than I expected, but I’m sure it was worth the wait.

The game looks kinda awful though like a PC game, was the arcade version always like that? I only played Double Dragon on the NES and I remembered it more fondly than this.

Double Dragon hasn’t really aged graphically as gracefully as I would have liked, but this is still the same arcade beat-em-up I remember playing from 1987.

That said, I’m more in favor with the original coin-op title compared to the NES installment. The addition of co-op helped sway me to this position, in the NES game you had to alternate between Billy Lee in 2 Player Mode, but having more enemies on screen than just 2 and the fact that weapons dropped from the original opponent disappeared once said enemy is disposed of and in essence couldn’t be used in another brawl brought me to this conclusion.

These reasons alone is why I really found Double Dragon in the arcades to have really left a lasting value on me as a gamer. It had a longer lasting appeal, and with a friend, became instantly replayable and never boring each and every time I played it. These are the kind of memorable gaming moments I’ll never forget.