Yes, this was my actual childhood Hollywood Video! GameFan was the best at making every game look like a masterpiece thanks to their hi-res photos and creative layouts. To some of you reading this that may seem primitive but for the rest of us that was our childhood and it was actually quite awesome. Not to mention how they made it look like a million freaking bucks! Remember the good old days when all we had were magazines, like EGM and GameFan, to help fuel our imagination of how our hopeful new favorites would play? There was no YouTube to stream instant footage in those days - your imagination did it for you based off a few pages and screenshots in a magazine you held in your very own hands. So to see Double Dragon V get top billing made my expectations for the game soar. Double Dragon V opened up the Planet SNES section - GameFan usually reserved the top spot for the game they wanted to champion most that month. I’ll never forget GameFan’s AMAZING preview. Where have I seen the Dragon Spin before? … Oh yeah “We were here long before you were, SO IN YOUR FACE!” Based off the cartoon that ran 26 episodes (’93-’94) GameFan always made games look like masterpieces Straight down to the blue and red colors and very similar movesets. Also, as a huge World Heroes fan, Billy and Jimmy Lee were Hanzou and Fuuma 2.0.
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And this game was chock full of oddities, which appealed to my penchant of liking the spare parts of fighting game rosters. I always selected the weirdest fighters first whenever playing a new fighting game for the first time. I had a fetish for the Dhalsims and Blankas of the world.
The next thing that caught my eye were all the strange fighters. The thing about it that grabbed me was its cartoony look (which makes total sense since it was based off the cartoon that started airing the year before). EGM’s preview made it look like a promising game. My first reaction: WTF, a fighting game?! After getting over my initial jolt of disappointment, I actually thought it looked pretty cool. I first saw Double Dragon V in EGM issue #59 (May ’94). To be blunt, Double Dragon V gets a lot of hate. But is it really that bad? It was also based off the Double Dragon cartoon, which wasn’t exactly the most faithful representation of the proud franchise. Instead, a very small and obscure firm by the name of Leland Interactive handled the duties of this game. But keep in mind Technos (the original developers of the series) had nothing to do with this. This was a radical change for the franchise. They reappeared for Battletoads & Double Dragon and they made their third and final SNES run in a tournament-based fighter. The first SNES appearance of the Lee brothers came in the form of Super Double Dragon. And that is, of course, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls. It’s been Double Dragon week here on RVGFanatic and it’s time to conclude the week by examining the last Double Dragon game ever released on the Super Nintendo. Pub: Tradewest | Dev: Leland Interactive | August 1994 | 24 MEGS
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