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* [[Evolving Attack]]: The first NES game gives Billy new moves as he gains experience points from fighting enemies.
* [[Expy]]:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130327235428/http://www.gamengai.com/bn_inf.php?id=512 The character illustrations] drawn for the first Famicom/NES game makes Billy and Jimmy Lee look like clones of [[Fist of the North Star|Kenshiro and Raoh]]. While Billy was depicted more or less the same way in subsequent games, Jimmy's resemblance to Raoh was toned down considerably [https://web.archive.org/web/20130327235143/http://www.gamengai.com/bn_inf.php?id=513 after the first game].
** Chin Taimei from the first NES game resembles the Karate Fighter from ''Mat Mania'', a Technos-developed wrestling game, while Abore in the arcade version of ''II'' seems to be based on André the Giant from the ''WWF Superstars'' arcade game also developed by Technos.
* [[Fastball Special]]: In the third NES game, both of the Lee brothers and some of the enemy grunts can perform a Triangle Jump Kick where one character jumps unto his partner. The partner proceeds to launch the first character, who then performs a flying jump kick.
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** The second arcade game replaces the sports car inside Billy and Jimmy's garage with the helicopter from ''Cobra Command'', another laserdisc game also directed by Yoshihisa Kishimoto.
** The series as the whole is inspired by ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', starting from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4eGY8kb4w post-nuclear setting] to the [http://doubledragon.kontek.net/games/dd/images/ddfambox.gif character] [http://doubledragon.kontek.net/games/dd3/images/dd3fam.gif designs].
** The masked wrestler [https://web.archive.org/web/20130327235415/http://www.gamengai.com/bn_inf.php?id=513&type=0 Burnov] from the second game seems to be an [[Expy]] of ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' wrestler [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114203645/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/King_Neptune_kinnikuman.jpg/180px-King_Neptune_kinnikuman.jpg Neptuneman].
** The GBA version includes a freeway battle atop moving semis with suit-clad enemies who straighten their ties between attacks. If it's not a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'', then it should be.
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: The Lee Brothers, along with recurring mooks Williams and Rowper, all take their names from the three main heroes of ''[[Enter the Dragon]]''. The name "Billy" is also a reference to Billy Lo (Bruce Lee's character from ''[[Game of Death]]'') and the female mook Linda shares her name with Bruce Lee's widow Linda Lee Cadwell.
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