Double Dragon

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Double Dragon is a "kick and punch everything that moves" style game, in which you take control of Billy Lee or Jimmy Lee, two young brothers that sport high martial arts skills. The Lee brothers were born and raised in a very dangerous city that's now swarmed by gangs that pummel the neighborhoods and jeopardize peace. The story starts when some members of a gang called "Black Warriors" punch and kidnap Billy's love interest, Marian. Furious by the incident, Billy sets off to find them, kick their heads off, eliminate their leader and finally save his beautiful girlfriend. But his journey is very tough, since Billy (and Jimmy) must beat up multiple enemies of various sizes and strengths, depending strongly on his fighting skills plus some weapons he gathers by eliminating armed foes (like knives, baseball bats and more). Billy must also confront big bosses and avoid traps that can instantly kill him.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics on the Atari Lynx look good and pretty close to the original, well, apart from some background details that are missing like the Monroe's and VW Beetle posters for example. In this conversion, the game has large sprites but we would expect them to move smoother, as they lack some frames. Also, the enemy numbers are smaller than the original version, due to the limited screen size and the hardware. As far as the sound, the Lynx conversion has the original in-game music which is so nice to listen to though the sound effects are either non-existent or very bad. But what really disappoints is that the Lynx was capable for more. If the game was faster, with better animation and a wider playing area, it would have been ten times better.