The new Double Dragon is a summer surprise!

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Double Dragon helped popularize the beat 'em-up genre in 1980s arcades, but over the following decades, the series fell into irrelevance. Recently, the publisher handed the rights to an indie developer with a knack for pixelated combat. The result is Double Dragon Gaiden, a clever twist on the genre with a small army of playable characters. In the second half of the episode, Frushtick and Plante pick their combined six favorite beat 'em-ups! Subscribe to our newsletter at besties.fan for a full list of every game, movie, TV show, and book discussed on the podcast along with links and bonus materials!!

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, good to see you.
0:09.6	My name is Christopher Thomas Plant.
0:11.5	My name is Ross Frostick.
0:13.0	Welcome back to the resties, where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.
0:19.1	This week we're talking about double dragon guiding, rise of the dragons, a new double dragon
0:26.8	game.
0:27.8	In the greatest surprise of all, a good double dragon game.
0:32.2	They did it.
0:33.5	After decades of ups and downs, we are at a place of good trouble, trouble, double dragon
0:40.9	games, trouble, trouble, toil and trouble.
0:45.3	You have something that you want to talk about.
0:48.1	Okay, so, yeah, real quick, you know, you get to a certain age and it's a good idea,
0:55.6	especially if you have children to get your, I guess, a state figured out so that if
1:01.6	something untoward were to happen, nothing would be the problem, you know.
1:07.2	So I found myself in a lawyer's office, very recently, figuring out like pretty basic
1:12.5	boilerplate estate, you know, will stuff.
1:16.3	And so I'm leaving.
1:18.2	And I, you know, these days I don't spend a lot of time in offices, but it's a picture
1:22.5	like a very traditional lawyer's office with very traditional, lawyerly looking people,
1:29.4	hammers, gavils, hammers, you know it.
1:33.0	And so I'm leaving the office and I'm in the elevator and there's another guy in the
1:39.3	elevator with me.
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