Yoshihisa Kishimoto has passed away aged 64. A Japanese video game developer, who worked primarily for the Technos Japan Corp on titles such as WWF Wrestlemania Arcade and created the most famous side scrolling beat-em up of all time Double Dragon in 1987.
In perhaps the most ninetiest of memories I distinctly recalling watching Ducktales the movie at Alice Springs Cinema and as soon as the credits rolled I was straight up the aisle so I would be first to the play the Double Dragon unit arcade they had outside the entrance doors.
Double Dragon the movie however, definitely didn’t score a cinema release, landing straight to video in Australia after earning certified turkey status in the US.
Mark Dacascos and Scott ‘Bailey Salinger’ Wolf are brothers Jimmy and Billy Lee, who have one half of an ancient ‘Double Dragon’ medallion and are being pursued by big bad Shuko (the T-1000) who has the other half. Alyssa Milano is a platinum blonde pixie cut and denim booty short rocking freedom fighter.
You kids nowadays with your Sonic and Mario adaptations with all their game accurate design and clever Easter eggs, don’t know how lucky you had it. Back in the day we had characters that kinda sorta vaguely resemble the sprites on screen and it was like it or too bad because that was all we were gonna get.
The fights are mediocre and entirely bloodless with Dacoscas under-utilised, the gang brawling element of the game is sort of there, but with hyper exaggerated concepts like a gang of postal workers (although admittedly it is a profession that may have similar homicide numbers in comparisons to your average street thug). The setting of ‘New Angeles’ attempts Dredd style satire that is too toothless to land, basically settling on Andy Dick as a weatherman as some sort of comedic expression of a post apocalyptic hell scape.
Robert Patrick is at least having fun, clearly riding that post T2 fame with this hilarious then as a villain that given his name was clearly mean to be portrayed by an Asian actor?
Oh and Paul Dini wrote the story!!
Yoshihisa Kishimoto has passed away aged 64. A Japanese video game developer, who worked primarily for the Technos Japan Corp on titles such as WWF Wrestlemania Arcade and created the most famous side scrolling beat-em up of all time Double Dragon in 1987.
In perhaps the most ninetiest of memories I distinctly recalling watching Ducktales the movie at Alice Springs Cinema and as soon as the credits rolled I was straight up the aisle so I would be first to the play the Double Dragon unit arcade they had outside the entrance doors.
Double Dragon the movie however, definitely didn’t score a cinema release, landing straight to video in Australia after earning certified turkey status in the US.
Mark Dacascos and Scott ‘Bailey Salinger’ Wolf are brothers Jimmy and Billy Lee, who have one half of an ancient ‘Double Dragon’ medallion and are being pursued by big bad Shuko (the T-1000) who has the other half. Alyssa Milano is a platinum blonde pixie cut and denim booty short rocking freedom fighter.
You kids nowadays with your Sonic and Mario adaptations with all their game accurate design and clever Easter eggs, don’t know how lucky you had it. Back in the day we had characters that kinda sorta vaguely resemble the sprites on screen and it was like it or too bad because that was all we were gonna get.
The fights are mediocre and entirely bloodless with Dacoscas under-utilised, the gang brawling element of the game is sort of there, but with hyper exaggerated concepts like a gang of postal workers (although admittedly it is a profession that may have similar homicide numbers in comparisons to your average street thug). The setting of ‘New Angeles’ attempts Dredd style satire that is too toothless to land, basically settling on Andy Dick as a weatherman as some sort of comedic expression of a post apocalyptic hell scape.
Robert Patrick is at least having fun, clearly riding that post T2 fame with this hilarious then as a villain that given his name was clearly mean to be portrayed by an Asian actor?
Oh and Paul Dini wrote the story!!
