Double Dragon II: The Revenge Two-Player Playthrough (Actual NES Capture)

This is a capture of me and a friend playing Double Dragon II: The Revenge for the NES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was captured directly from my NES using an actual Double Dragon II cartridge. I'm player one (Billy) and Drew is player two (Jimmy). We're playing on Supreme Master difficulty.

As I've said in my other videos, I grew up owning the first Double Dragon game on NES and I loved renting Double Dragon III from my nearby video store. On a few occasions I managed to rent Double Dragon II as well (probably when Double Dragon III wasn't available).

Although I favored Double Dragon III at the time, I still felt that Double Dragon II was an excellent game. I loved the two-player mode and all the crazy aerial attacks (especially the Cyclone Kick), not to mention the crazy bosses and excellent level design. There were some really memorable parts such as the helicopter stage where enemies get sucked out the door and fall to their deaths, as well as the spiked ceiling stage where you can't jump and have to fight on the ground. But overall, I just loved how Billy and Jimmy felt so much powerful than they did in the first game.

Later on when I was in high school I managed to pick up my own copy of the game from Funcoland (now GameStop) and I beat it for the first time. The game was so good that I kept playing through it over and over again every day for weeks on end, and I even got my friends to join me a few times. The game never got old.

The NES version of Double Dragon II is one of the best games in the series, and arguably one of the best two-player games on the NES. It's definitely more forgiving than Double Dragon III, but the platforming portions can be really difficult. So while Drew controlled Jimmy for most of this playthrough, I had to take control of his character to get us through the platforming sections in Missions 6 and 7.

Drew and I died a couple times, but overall, I think we did well. The NES Max works really well with this game since it will pull of the Hyper Knee attack most of the time if you simply hold down the turbo buttons, so I recommend that controller if you have this game on the original hardware.

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

I'm using an NES Max turbo controller and Drew is using a standard NES controller.