While Double Dragon was sweeping the arcades, the NES and Master system were coming well into their own and both had loyal followings. Within a year of the arcade release, Technos decided to take these games home and the first two home console conversions for the NES and SMS, while totally different, both totally rocked. The SMS version was closer to the arcade experience, but most agreed that the NES version just had some sort of magic about it. Well, it seems that Activision didn't want to be left out of the limelight, so the company decided to release a version of Double Dragon itself. The problem was that Tradewest and Technos did the NES and SMS conversions while Technos licensed the rights to the computer versions to Virgin Software. The only viable consoles left were the Atari 2600 and 7800. The 2600 version was surprisingly well done, and the 7800 version fares pretty well in its own right and is actually a much more faithful game.
