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Double Dragon
Console: Nintendo Famicom (Japan)
Developer: Technos Japan Corp.
Publisher: Tradewest
Number of Players: 2
Release Date: 1988

In the year 199X, violence ruled the streets of New York. In a world where only the strongest survive, law and order gave way to power, control and brutality.  People gradually began forming gangs as a means of survival.  The world was eventually shrouded in darkness as criminal organizations increased in numbers.

On the outskirts of the city lived two young men, twin brothers by the name of Jimmy and Billy Lee.  The brothers operated a martial-arts school located in the heart of New York City five years ago.  It was a well-known school with over 30 branches and 2,000 students attending.  However, the dojo was destroyed during the nuclear war five years ago and most of the students were killed.  The two brothers were forced to close down the school, but their expertise survived with them.  The younger brother, Billy, was romantically involved with a woman named Marian for over six years, who worked as an acting instructor for the female branch of the school, although his brother Jimmy had feelings for her as well.

One day, Marian was kidnapped and the brothers received a letter from her captors.

"We've got Marian!  If you wish to save her, meet us tomorrow at ten 'o clock.

- The Black Warriors"

The Black Warriors are the dominant gang of the city, led by Willy Mackey.  He was the former head of a biker gang known as the Killers, but after the nuclear war, his organization grew in power.  Billy sets off by himself to defeat the Black Warriors and save Marian secretly without his brother.