The faults lie squarely with Technos for making poor design decisions, such as: you no longer can pick up cool weapons or power-ups to use at will, but must buy most of them in stores. And that's true, although it's ironic because this is arguably the most faithful PC conversion of all three games. That said, you shouldn't expect this PC port to be somehow better than the rest. The arcade version met with only lukewarm response, so naturally the NES version (which is always the best port), is still a lot less fun than the first two games. Sometimes it could also be a good idea not to walk, but just jump, but that's up to you of course.Īsk any longtime action gamer, and most will tell you that Technos' classic arcade classic Double Dragon series took a nosedive with the final game in the trilogy, Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone. In case you don't find out yourself, the Shift-Key and Return act as Fire-Buttons, pressing them together and indicating the direction with the arrow-keys will make your player perform that kickjump I talked about. Well, the surroundings are good, the graphics are really nice for 1990, but as I said above - for a good fighting game your options are just too limited and the need to press 3 keys at the same time to achieve something doesn't really make this a good game. One of the nicer parts of this game is the background story - you are searching for three mysterious stones and are travelling to many different places - everytime you finish that scene that old man comes up to you telling you some more mysterious things. Then you just stay there waiting for them to get up again and send them back to sleep with one of your kickjumps. Of course you can do the same with the enemies you know down, but you carefully have to knock all enemies down to one spot to keep them under control. Mysteriously your player takes off for one of those and then you can let it kick left and right without him landing - although that proved useful I have never EVER seen someone doing this in real life ) Unfortunately the fights often get very stupid - your enemy will knock you down and then wait for you to get up again just to knock you down once again, sometimes it's hard to get back into the game again, especially when there are more than one enemies standing around your unconscious fighter. Let me tell you - forget about the other options, you get along best with only using your kickjump. Your fighting options are somewhat limited, kicking, punching and jumping - aaaalright. now what's this? I guess my memory isn't that good anymore.

Now I digged up a PC version of one of those games and happily I started it up. Oh yeah, I remember the Double Dragon series from my Amiga.

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