The History of DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCE - The GREATEST EVER !?

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Today, Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of Double Dragon Advance, was this the franchises return to quality?

Intro
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, Big Daddy Top Hat here! One project I have been working on throughout this year, is the ultimate Double Dragon Retrospective, looking at every game published in said series. We are now deep into the history of the franchise and have looked at many different instalments from over the years. But from where we left off last time, the brand was now in terrible shape and the development house behind the original game, known as Technos Japan had declared bankruptcy and were no more. Things could not be much worse for the Double Dragon series and following various mishaps, the future of the franchise was looking grim to say the least.

This was until the release of a new game in the lineup, known as Double Dragon Advance, released in 2003 for the Nintendo GBA. In today’s video, we are going to look at this game, how it came to be with Technos no longer in the picture and if the Double Dragon franchise finally returned to good form. This ladies and gentlemen is the mad story of Double Dragon Advance, the return of the King. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh.

Under the development leadership of Yoshisa Kishimoto in the nineteen-eighties, the first two Double Dragon titles released in Arcades were truly genre-defining games. The man’s spiritual follow-ups to Renegade or Nekketsu Koha Kunio Kun as it was released in Japan were revolutionary in their play mechanics. Offering two-player co-operative side-scrolling beat em up fun for the first time.

While after this point many Japanese game developers would take influence from Kishimoto's work and build on it, resulting in many high-quality games. Technos of Japan on the other hand began to manage their successful license in a number of questionable ways.


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Gameplay Sources
Double Dragon - Game Archive -    • Double Dragon  Arcade 2 Players Longplay  
Double Dragon 2 – ArronMunroe -    • Double Dragon II - The Revenge arcade...  
Double Dragon 3 – ArronMunroe -    • Double Dragon 3 arcade 3 player Netpl...  
Super Double Dragon – ArronMunroe -    • Return of Double Dragon/Super Double ...  
Battletoads Double Dragon – Kain -    • Battletoads & Double Dragon - The Ult...  
Double Dragon 5 – World of Long Plays -    • SNES Longplay [113] Double Dragon V: ...  
Double Dragon Neo Geo – NintendoComplete -    • Double Dragon (Neo Geo AES) Playthrou...  
Double Dragon Advance – ArronMunroe -    • Double Dragon Advance GBA 2 player 60fps  
Double Dragon 3 NES – NintendoComplete -    • Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones ...  
Renegade - Pete Hahn -    • (Arcade) Renegade - Completed 1 Credi...  
Super Dodge Ball Advance - gilgatex -    • Super Dodge Ball Advance (GBA Challen...  
River City Ransom EX – That Boss Guy -    • River City Ransom EX (GBA) - All Boss...  
Combatribes – ArronMunroe -    • The Combatribes arcade 3 player Netplay  
Double Dragon NES – NintendoComplete -    • Double Dragon (NES) Playthrough - Nin...  
Double Dragon Advance Survival Mode - FSD2000 -    • DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCE- SURVIVAL MODE ...  
Comix Zone GBA - Darkleon The Video Game Musuem -    • Game Boy Advance - Comix Zone © 2002 ...  
Mario Advance - Retro Game Stream -    • Super Mario Advance (Mario 2) - Game ...  

Additional Information Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_...
https://www.ign.com/games/double-drag...