Double Dragon NES : Review

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Nintendo were on fire in the 80s and knew a good thing when they saw it. In 1987 the Double Dragon arcade game was smashing records left right and centre, so Nintendo, ever the watchful company, immediately commissioned a conversion for their (at that time) phenomenally popular console, the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game appeared on the console only one year after the arcade game was released,  but to what end?

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Fixing Amiga Final Fight

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In 1991, US Gold released what was the UK’s first available home version of Capcom’s monster hit Final Fight. The game was ported to all the home computer systems (even the 8-Bits), but the one which garnered the most attention was the Amiga conversion.

Many felt that it fell short of what the system could do, but was it an accurate assumption? Or did Amiga fans overestimate the computer’s capabilities?

Let’s find out!

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