In the enhanced PC Engine remake of the NES version of Double Dragon II, Bolo is listed and illustrated as an enemy in the instruction manual, although only O'Hara from the arcade version appears in the game instead, taking Bolo's hand-slap and appearing where Bolo appeared in the NES version. Abobo was supposed to have this technique in the first NES game, but it was unused. His signature move is the "Atomic Throw", a body toss which he performs when he is near the player. Except for his appearance in Mission 4, all the Bolo enemies come in pairs, with the second one always appearing in succession after the first one is defeated. In the NES version, Bolo first appears at the end of Mission 3 as the end boss and reappears in Missions 4, 5 and 8. Additionally, Bolo wears jeans and shoes instead of trousers and boots.īolo fights almost identically to his head swapped counterpart O'Hara, with the only difference being his two-handed slap attack (an attack inherited from Jick in the first game) and not picking up heavy objects (just like Jick). These later variants all wear white pants.īolo has a face resembling the standard Zack Abobo, but with long hair, a beard and no scar over his eye. Later in the game, the player will fight three Bolo clones at the end of Mission 3 prior to the boss fight. It's too bad that Tradewest destroyed the franchise with this crap.In the arcade version of Double Dragon II: The Revenge, Bolo first appears at the beginning of Mission 2, bursting out of a brick wall next to the elevator used by the player to enter the stage. Michael Donovan and Scott McNeil were not bad either. He could had used that talent as a Highlander villain instead of playing goody two-shoes Watcher, Joe Dawson (or maybe he could have a double role as well). Jim Byrnes makes a wonderful villain with his deep voice. The anti-drugs messages and voices are the only good part about this show. None of the supporting characters or villains were actually from the video game and the ones that were bore no resemblance with their videogame counterparts. I thought Double Dragon was about martial arts. Instead, they fought with magical swords instead. Billy and Jimmy wore ridiculous looking costumes and they didn't even use their martial arts. The animation was bad, the music was cheesy and the writers has obviously never touched a Double Dragon game in their life. This is one of the worst adaptation a video game could have. Then they wear ridiculous looking costumes. Jimmy is betrayed by the Shadow Master, so he becomes a good guy, teams up with Billy and unleash the power the Dragon Sword together, which splits in two. The Shadow Master kills off Abobo and Willy and replaced them with more incompetent bad guys (none which were actually featured in the videogames). In the series, we learn that Jimmy is actually a pawn of a guy called the Shadow Master (who looks nothing like his NES counterpart). However, Jimmy and Billy's female cop girlfirend, Marian, are kidnapped by the Shadow Warriors and Billy managed to beat the Shadow Bosses' two henchmen: Abobo and Willy and confronts the Shadow Boss, who at the end turns out to be Jimmy (surprise, surprise). It seems that everythings that happens to Billy, also happens to Jimmy (this includes stains on clothes). I don't remember much after that, except that Billy gets reunited with his long-lost twin brother, Jimmy. As a result, the old master advices Billy that he must leave (actually he dies, but they can't use that word in a Saturday Morning Cartoon), so Billy must take the Dragon Sword and protect Metro City (Ed's Note: W.A.M! I though this was based on Double Dragon, not Final Fight) from a group called the Shadow Warriors. Billy Lee is a martial artist who was raised by a wise old master. The pilot episode is loosely based on the NES version of the first Double Dragon (noticed the word loosely). A company called Tradewest took over the franchise in the U.S and they made this abomination of an animated series (among several other abominations) that eventually destroyed the franchise. While it was not the first of it's kind (Technos' Kunio-Kun came first), it was very popular and spawned three sequels at the Arcade and three home versions for the Famicom/NES and even a Super Famicom-only sequel, Return of Double Dragon. Double Dragon was originally an Arcade game by the late Technos Japan Corp., about two brothers trying to save their girl from a street gang.
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