Double Dragon

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Double Dragon is a "kick and punch everything that moves" style game, in which you take control of Billy Lee or Jimmy Lee, two young brothers that sport high martial arts skills. The Lee brothers were born and raised in a very dangerous city that's now swarmed by gangs that pummel the neighborhoods and jeopardize peace. The story starts when some members of a gang called "Black Warriors" punch and kidnap Billy's love interest, Marian. Furious by the incident, Billy sets off to find them, kick their heads off, eliminate their leader and finally save his beautiful girlfriend. But his journey is very tough, since Billy (and Jimmy) must beat up multiple enemies of various sizes and strengths, depending strongly on his fighting skills plus some weapons he gathers by eliminating armed foes (like knives, baseball bats and more). Billy must also confront big bosses and avoid traps that can instantly kill him.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The Amiga version offers up to 32 colors on screen. The sprites move a bit faster than the PC (DOS version), much like the Atari ST. On each level one can see most of the original's (the arcade version) details. The game's sound on the Amiga features a wonderful, digitized electric guitar intro music and some basic (and not so realistic as in the arcade) sampled sound effects (almost the same as on the Atari ST version) but no in-game music (a significant detail missing that, at least the Amiga could easily include)! Overall, it seems that Double Dragon looks like a direct ST port. But this doesn't mean in any way that the game is bad. On the contrary! Double Dragon is addictive!