Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (Actual SNES Capture) - Jimmy Lee Playthrough

This is a capture of me playing through the Quest Mode in Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Double Dragon V cartridge. I'm playing on normal difficulty.

I've been a massive Double Dragon fan ever since I first played the series in the late '80s/early '90s. I think I received the original Double Dragon for the NES for Christmas of 1989. It was the first Double Dragon game that I ever owned or played, and it was a lot of fun. I spent countless hours punching and kicking my way through bad guys, but I wasn't able to beat the game until I was around 12 years old.

Although the original Double Dragon was great, I had way more fun with the two sequels on the NES: Double Dragon II: The Revenge, and Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones. I was especially fond of the third game in the series, and I would rent it as much as possible from my local video rental store.

I was also a fan of the Double Dragon cartoon series that aired on UPN from 1993 to 1994. Although the first season was entertaining (for a 9-year-old, anyway), the second season really went downhill about halfway through. The cartoon then got cancelled before a third season could be made. Even though the cartoon series was admittedly cheesy, I enjoyed watching the re-runs several years later due to the nostalgia factor.

Anyway, by the late '90s I started earning enough money to buy my own games, so I began acquiring various titles from Ebay such as the NES Double Dragon sequels that I had always wanted to own. I also figured that I should just go ahead and pick up every Double Dragon game released for a Nintendo console, so I picked up a complete copy of Double Dragon V for the SNES.

I had been aware of Double Dragon V back in the mid '90s, but I didn't have any interest in it back then because it was a tournament fighter and to me, Double Dragon was supposed to be a side-scrolling beat 'em up. Also, I didn't exactly agree with making a Double Dragon game based on the cartoon series.

When I finally managed to play Double Dragon V, I found that it was just a lackluster Street Fighter II clone. The music wasn't too bad, but the controls felt a bit weird, and the special moves had an unnecessary delay to them. The animation also felt a bit choppy. The game wasn't necessarily terrible, but it wasn't great either.

For this playthrough I completed the Quest Mode using Jimmy Lee. This mode is similar to the Tournament Mode, except you get little cut scenes added between the fights. I lost a few rounds here and there, but I didn't have to use any continues. I'm only playing on normal difficulty because this game isn't fun enough to warrant the added effort for a higher difficulty level.

Interestingly, if you take a look at the left side of the Dusty's Garage stage (12:33), you'll see a Baja 1000 poster in the background. This was a little homage to the SNES game Super Off Road: The Baja, which was released the prior year and based on the Baja 1000 race. The same developer, Leland Interactive Media, made both games, so it slipped in a reference to Super Off Road.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a standard SNES controller.