![]() I recently went back to replay Battletoads & Double Dragon for the first time in well over 20 years. My friends and I didn’t think it was the greatest game ever but we enjoyed it relatively enough. We couldn’t beat it - it’s damn hard - but we sure had a blast trying. I fondly remember playing the SNES version at a friend’s house one Saturday night. It first came out for the NES in the summer of 1993 before receiving Genesis and SNES ports in late ’93. Hell, even Sonic and Mario have teamed up! Who would have thought this back in 1991…īut the earliest gaming crossover I can remember playing was Battletoads & Double Dragon. SNK, Super Smash Bros., Street Fighter X Tekken, Kingdom Hearts, The King of Fighters and Capcom vs. Other notable crossovers include Capcom vs. In the gaming world there have been lots of memorable crossovers. Still waiting on the ultimate triple threat, though Fans finally got that movie 10 years later in 2003. Who could ever forget the classic ending to Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday? Seeing Freddy’s iconic claw dragging Jason’s goalie mask to the depths of Hell stirred much water cooler talk about a future Jason vs. The two titans are set to have their rematch in 2020 but real fans know it first happened nearly 55 years ago (August 11, 1962). I had no idea such a movie existed and it absolutely blew my mind. I remember my very first exposure to a crossover was when I spotted a VHS copy of King Kong vs. If you were anything like me growing up then you probably at some point too daydreamed about two of your favorite franchises crossing over. But the real question is… did it live up to expectations?ĬROSSOVER CRAZE More amazing than your eyes can believe! Two years later, Double Dragon and Battletoads joined forces to take on the Shadow Warriors and the Dark Queen’s army. Rare developed Battletoads in response to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze that was going on around that time. Many of us remember it for its wackiness and of course the infamously difficult biker section. It thrilled (and terrorized) many NES gamers. In June of 1991, the Battletoads arrived on the scene courtesy of Rare. Credit the mastermind Yoshihisa Kishimoto for giving us one of the most beloved genres of all time. It perfectly captured the spirit of the late ’80s but more importantly it was a fun 2-player game that would spark an endless line of classic contemporaries - Streets of Rage and Final Fight just to name two. ![]() Developed by Technōs Japan, players control the ass kicking Lee brothers as they seek to rescue love interest Marian from the evil clutches of the nefarious Shadow Warriors. Similar to Doom, Double Dragon is often referred to as the granddaddy of its genre. Pub: Tradewest | Dev: Rare | October 1993 | 8 MEGSĪlthough not the first arcade beat ‘em up ever released, 1987’s Double Dragon set the standard for the genre in many ways. ![]()
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