Double Dragon II for the NES by Acclaim
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The Double Dragon series was one of the original and most popular games in the side-scrolling beat-em-up genre.Double Dragon II the arcade game was developed by Technos and released in 1988. It was a sequel to Double Dragon which came out the previous year.
A variety of computer ports arrived the following year including ports for the Commodore 64, PC (DOS), Amiga and Atari ST and these were released by Virgin Mastertronic. The general consensus was that this port was much better than the one done for the original Double Dragon.
The NES version would come the following year and would be done by Technos themselves. Oddly, while the plot basically followed that of the arcade game, most of the levels were completely different. A Megadrive (Sega Genesis) port was released that was pretty much a strait arcade port but it was released only in Japan. There was also a PC Engine (Turbo Duo) version released in Japan but it was a port of the NES version (albeit with improved graphics), not the arcade version.
The NES version was re-released on the Virtual Console in 2012 for the Wii and in 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.