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Yoshihisa Kishimoto: The Man Behind Double Dragon...

http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/12/3495124/the-man-who-created-double-dragon

Very cool article I found from last month. It's an interview with the man himself and it briefly overviews his career with the Double Dragon franchise.

There's some interesting stuff in the article like why there was so much inconsistency with the franchise, which ultimately led to its demise. He's a one-hit-wonder for sure, but I have to say this was one of the first arcade games I played as a kid and have some good memories playing it with my older brother. Good times.

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Nice, Double Dragon Neon was a great game very well done. Got me back into the franchise anyone else play it? Was nice to play a updated 3D side scroller for a change instead of all this other rehashed madness with 3D. I think the industry just forgot about the side scrollers nice to see someone hasn't. Wish they would do a Legend of Zelda as a side scroller like Link but that's some wishful thinking. I lost all interest in the series after they wend 3D and never looked back. (It was just never the same)
 
Wish he would elaborate more on the sequels. While I didn't think part II was awful barring reusing most of the levels from the first one. Part III OTOH is a complete kindergarten-made mess.
 
Wish he would elaborate more on the sequels. While I didn't think part II was awful barring reusing most of the levels from the first one. Part III OTOH is a complete kindergarten-made mess.

DD > DDII NES > DDII > DD NES > DDIII NES > DDIII

Or something like that. :D
 
Great article, thanks for sharing!

"Also, over the years the company made a lot of money and started spending it on real estate and even bought a racing team, so it was spending less and less on game development. Ultimately, I got fed up with the way it was handling its finances."

So that's why they went belly up (well that and Double Dragon getting worse over the years)...

By the way, for beat em ups, there's no better list than this racketboy list. I highly recommend Shadow Force, which was Technos' last great game. It's a beat em up with 6 buttons, so it has more combat depth than a usual beat em up.

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/the-best-undiscovered-beat-em-ups
 
DD2 on the NES is by far the best game in the series, I have no idea if he was behind that one but I suspect he wasn't.

The arcade games (not including DD3) were also very good, but not half as good as the absolute masterpiece on the NES. How funny was it making the bosses get sucked out of the helicopter! And when it backfired and you or your partner were sucked out instead it was even funnier.
 
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DD2 on the NES is by far the best game in the series, I have no idea if he was behind that one but I suspect he wasn't.

The arcade games (not including DD3) were also very good, but not half as good as the absolute masterpiece on the NES. How funny was it making the bosses get sucked out of the helicopter! And when it backfired and you or your partner were sucked out instead it was even funnier.


Yeah they brought that part back on DD Neon, enemies getting sucked out of moving vehicles. It's still fun but much harder not to let yourself get killed in the process.
 
DD2 on the NES is by far the best game in the series, I have no idea if he was behind that one but I suspect he wasn't.

Nope. Hiroyuki Sekimoto who worked for Technos at the time. He did Super Dodge Ball, DDII, River City Ransom and World Cup Soccer. All had very similar design styles except DDII, which was just awesome in itself.
 
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