Super Double Dragon Two-Player Playthrough (Actual SNES Capture)

This is a capture of me and a friend playing through Super Double Dragon for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Double Dragon cartridge. I'm player one (Billy) and Drew is player two (Jimmy).

Back when I was a kid I was a huge fan of Double Dragon II and III on the NES. I would rent those games whenever I got the chance (the third game especially) because of the awesome two-player modes. I also owned the first game on the NES since around 1989. However, I didn't really know anything about the series on the SNES (I only got my SNES for Christmas of 1992, and I didn't become a Nintendo Power subscriber until 1993).

Some time in the early '90s I happened to spot Super Double Dragon in the rental section of my local supermarket, and my imagination started racing with how awesome the game must have been. However, I never got the chance to rent the game. That fact always disappointed me as a kid.

Several years later when I was in high school and the Nintendo 64 was already well into its life cycle, I managed to pick up Super Double Dragon for dirt cheap from Funcoland (now GameStop). After all those years, I finally got the chance to play my dream game. Unfortunately, the game wasn't quite what I expected.

I was a bit disappointed that Super Double Dragon wasn't as fast-paced as the NES Double Dragon titles, and that it didn't have as good of a level design (there is almost no platforming or traps, which I enjoyed in the NES games). The bosses also lacked any sort of introduction or separate themes, making them feel like typical enemies, and the game just used a boring fade transition to go from one area to another. However, I thought that the combat system was pretty good and that the music was just awesome.

Despite the flaws, I played through the game countless times with a high school friend and learned all of its nuances. In between our Double Dragon sessions, my friend and I would also play his copy of Contra III, which is another great two-player game.

At the time, I had this interesting sound system chair called the Intensor, which had speakers all over it that pumped the sound and bass directly into your back. My friend and I would play through Super Double Dragon and just crank that chair up on Mission 3, essentially getting a back massage from all the thud sounds. It was glorious. But after a few years the chair broke, and I couldn't find a replacement.

Even though Drew and I didn't have an Intensor chair for this playthrough, we still had fun. I hope you enjoy the new footage.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a Super Advantage joystick and Drew is using an Asciipad turbo controller.