Weird NES Double Dragon Ad
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- Eddie MountainGoat
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Weird NES Double Dragon Ad
I recently managed to get my hands on the short-lived and under-appreciated N-Lords comic series (any other fans, here?).
While I’ve been enjoying it for its usual cheesy, 80s goodness, I noticed an ad in issue #3 (November 1987) for the then-unreleased NES port of Double Dragon. At first, I didn’t pay it much notice. It looks like any other promotional ad, circa the time. But on second glance, this is not the game we know. It seems Tradewest initially planned to take the game in a very different direction, than the arcade version. I’m guessing that before they did, the folks at Technos stepped in, and set the record straight.
[Until I can find a better scan somewhere, you’ll have to make do with my old AF14. I kept it as clean as I could. Sorry.]
The first thing you’ll notice is the artwork from the arcade bezel – but take a closer look. The tattoos have been switched! Billy is now Spike, and Jimmy is Hammer (which might explain why that’s the way they made it, in the Sega Master System storyline).
Then, there’s the write-up. There’s some really weird stuff in there, like wielding the dragon sword, and explicitly referring to Marian as a cop! Remember, this is 1987 – the original game was still tearing it up in the arcades, and nobody had even thought of licensing it for comics or a cartoon.
Finally, I had a look at the screenshots. I took some better scans of just those, here.
Billy, Jimmy, Marian, Abobo, Willy and what looks like early versions of Williams and Roper are all there, but … different.
Chin and Linda are not shown, but given that Chin wasn’t in the arcade game anyway, and Nintendo didn’t like to portray violence against women, maybe that’s not surprising.
So there you have it. Double Dragon on the NES might’ve turned out to be a VERY different game.
While I’ve been enjoying it for its usual cheesy, 80s goodness, I noticed an ad in issue #3 (November 1987) for the then-unreleased NES port of Double Dragon. At first, I didn’t pay it much notice. It looks like any other promotional ad, circa the time. But on second glance, this is not the game we know. It seems Tradewest initially planned to take the game in a very different direction, than the arcade version. I’m guessing that before they did, the folks at Technos stepped in, and set the record straight.
[Until I can find a better scan somewhere, you’ll have to make do with my old AF14. I kept it as clean as I could. Sorry.]
The first thing you’ll notice is the artwork from the arcade bezel – but take a closer look. The tattoos have been switched! Billy is now Spike, and Jimmy is Hammer (which might explain why that’s the way they made it, in the Sega Master System storyline).
Then, there’s the write-up. There’s some really weird stuff in there, like wielding the dragon sword, and explicitly referring to Marian as a cop! Remember, this is 1987 – the original game was still tearing it up in the arcades, and nobody had even thought of licensing it for comics or a cartoon.
Finally, I had a look at the screenshots. I took some better scans of just those, here.
Billy, Jimmy, Marian, Abobo, Willy and what looks like early versions of Williams and Roper are all there, but … different.
Chin and Linda are not shown, but given that Chin wasn’t in the arcade game anyway, and Nintendo didn’t like to portray violence against women, maybe that’s not surprising.
So there you have it. Double Dragon on the NES might’ve turned out to be a VERY different game.
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Amazing!!!
The brothers have the idle stance from the crappy ddV game!!
Honestly I can't believe it that ad is from 1987!! Many years before the cartoon and the movie, but having elements from both!!
The brothers have the idle stance from the crappy ddV game!!
Honestly I can't believe it that ad is from 1987!! Many years before the cartoon and the movie, but having elements from both!!
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It is amazing.......that DD would have even been announced for the home system within 1987 as DD was red hot in arcades. Let alone be using the 1994 DDV characters.
Then again, I can't help but love April Fool's related retro game stuff. And we have seen some pretty different promo game art(ie: the "Dragon Ninja" spring 1988 Ninja Gaiden
ads, which came out months before the arcade game and a full year before the eventual NES NG release)
Then again, I can't help but love April Fool's related retro game stuff. And we have seen some pretty different promo game art(ie: the "Dragon Ninja" spring 1988 Ninja Gaiden
ads, which came out months before the arcade game and a full year before the eventual NES NG release)
http://www.youtube.com/user/badicalpower/videos
(my adult swimlike animated series)
(my adult swimlike animated series)
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This just crazy interesting and a real head scratcher if it's true. Is it possible that American developers who were involved in early 8bit conversions of Double Dragon somehow realized their vision years later in DDV/DD Animated Series? There has to be a reason but I'm stumped!
May you live hapilly forever...
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Re: Weird NES Double Dragon Ad
mechapop hit it on the head - hope everybody had a great April Fools Day!!
The similarities to the cartoon are intentional, but can I ask what elements from the movie you saw?
Die_In_Fire wrote:Many years before the cartoon and the movie, but having elements from both!!
The similarities to the cartoon are intentional, but can I ask what elements from the movie you saw?
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Eddie MountainGoat wrote:mechapop hit it on the head - hope everybody had a great April Fools Day!!Die_In_Fire wrote:Many years before the cartoon and the movie, but having elements from both!!
The similarities to the cartoon are intentional, but can I ask what elements from the movie you saw?
The fact that Marian is a police officer
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Die_In_Fire wrote:Eddie MountainGoat wrote:mechapop hit it on the head - hope everybody had a great April Fools Day!!Die_In_Fire wrote:Many years before the cartoon and the movie, but having elements from both!!
The similarities to the cartoon are intentional, but can I ask what elements from the movie you saw?
The fact that Marian is a police officer
You know I'm not sure because I've repressed most of the movie as a traumatic mental experience- but wasn't Marion a community activist/vigilante gang leader in the Double Dragon movie?
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Yes Marion was in the movie. Her group was called the Power Core if I am not mistaken.
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