To this day I can’t think of the arcade version without smelling molten nacho cheese and rolling hot dogs. So many memories! I first saw and played Double Dragon in the 7-Eleven in my neighborhood, which also exposed me to Shinobi, Super Mario Bros., and Bubble Bobble. DD is one hell of an obscurity and it’s rare these days to find anyone who even knew it existed) (not that I don’t find that elsewhere on VGMpire, just that the SMS is not VGMpire’s childhood. But dammit, Patrick did some major homework and totally took the wind out of my sails □ Since I was that annoying Sega Kid that Retronauts’ Jeremy Parish talked about in his Zillion Micro Episode, it warmed my heart to get that feeling of inclusion here. Knowing that Brett would likely focus on the Nintendo series, I was prepared to drop a bit of knowledge on the Master System version. I saw the Episode title and I just nostalgia-ed in my pants. This morning when I got up for work, not only did you make my day with a much-needed new episode, but completely came from left field with a classic series that pioneered a genre.
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