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[[File:DD2_flyer_6572.jpg|frame|Beating the punks, saving the chicks. Just another typical day for Billy and Jimmy Lee.]]
[[File:DD2_flyer_6572.jpg|frame|Beating the punks, saving the chicks. Just another typical day for Billy and Jimmy Lee.]]


'''''Double Dragon''''' is a series of side-scrolling [[Beat'Em Up]]'s that helped popularize the genre back in the late [[The Eighties|1980s]] and early [[The Nineties|1990s]].
'''''Double Dragon''''' is a series of side-scrolling [[Beat'Em Up]]'s that helped popularize the genre back in the late [[The Eighties|1980's]] and early [[The Nineties|1990's]].


The original 1987 arcade game, developed by the now-defunct Technos Japan Corp. and distributed by [[Taito]], featured a rather simple and standard premise: twin martial artists Billy and Jimmy Lee must save their lady-friend Marian from the clutches of the Black Warriors, a ruthless gang that controls the city.
The original 1987 arcade game, developed by the now-defunct Technos Japan Corp. and distributed by [[Taito]], featured a rather simple and standard premise: twin martial artists Billy and Jimmy Lee must save their lady-friend Marian from the clutches of the Black Warriors, a ruthless gang that controls the city.