![]() Double Dragon on the SMS has bland, featureless screens with little or no thought to actual interaction between characters and scenery. Yes, the colours are brighter, the characters more detailed and the intro screen is much better, but play the game a while and you will realise that whilst some degree of thought has gone into the NES screens, the same cannot be said of the SMS version. The idea for this Head 2 Head came from a conversation on Twitter with Danny Major ( well worth a follow!Īt first glance, the Sega Master System seems to have this one licked, but first appearances can be deceptive. ![]() The game was then released in 1988 on the NES and Master System followed by releases on Atari 2600, 7800, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC464, Amiga, Atari ST and MegaDrive. This episode features the home version of the arcade smash hit Double Dragon, originally developed by Technos Japan and distributed in Europe and North America by Taito in 1987. The aim of Head2Head is not to say which console I think is the greatest (all consoles have their own particular strengths and weaknesses), but rather to examine the same game released for rival consoles and to say in the fairest possible way which I think was the best at the time. Number four in our new series of face-offs between classic games on rival consoles.
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