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Double Dragon: Neon will be 'free' for PlayStation Plus members

Here's reason to high-five. WayForward's take on the Double Dragon franchise is coming soon. And best of all, it will be included in PlayStation Plus' "Instant Game Collection" when it launches.
Andrew Yoon
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Here's reason to high-five. WayForward's take on the Double Dragon franchise is coming soon. And best of all, it will be included in PlayStation Plus' "Instant Game Collection" when it launches.

The game will be available on PS3 on September 11th for $9.99. (Presumably, it will be 800 Microsoft Points when launching on Xbox Live Arcade.) However, PlayStation Plus members will be able to download it for "free" as part of their membership until January.

Here's the retro throwback in action--in bro-op, of course:

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    August 31, 2012 1:30 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Double Dragon: Neon will be 'free' for PlayStation Plus members.

    Here's reason to high-five. WayForward's take on the Double Dragon franchise is coming soon. And best of all, it will be included in PlayStation Plus' "Instant Game Collection" when it launches.

    • SkeezPimp legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 1:43 PM

      What's up with the gay-five admist explosions? Damn that game looks terrible. They can keep it.

    • bouxdag legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 2:18 PM

      That song is great.

    • [deleted] 1575822246 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 2:32 PM

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    • Dark Drakonis legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 3:25 PM

      THEY BETTER NOT TOUCH BATTLETOADS !!!

    • catman1027 legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 6:06 PM

      Wow the movement looked really slow.

    • vitek r legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 6:18 PM

      the animations are really bad. i am not feelin it with this one.

    • dignan legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 6:29 PM

      I've never seen so many people around an arcade game than when Double Dragon hit the arcades, great times :(

      • vitek r legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        August 31, 2012 6:36 PM

        that was Mortal Kombat II for me. man, those were epic times. I see it as a strange parallel to what we do now in this information age of gaming. Except it was happing face to face.

        I remember seeing the crowd around the MK2 machine, watching. A guy is tearing up the computer, and some kid squeezes through and pops in his tokens. . He waits until the player is about to lose a match, then hits start - thus "saving" him. It was an act of courtesy, and almost everyone at my arcade did this. It was like the "GG" of the time, but far more meaningful and intimate.

        • dignan legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          August 31, 2012 6:49 PM

          the arcade crowds were pretty damn massive in the age before PvP fighting games, the only crowd that came close was Dragon's Lair.

        • dignan legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          August 31, 2012 6:51 PM

          I remember playing MK2 with a jacket over my hands, people would beg to know the moves!

      • Vorlonesque legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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        August 31, 2012 7:25 PM

        For me it was SF2 or SF2CE (its been so long I can't remember exactly)...they had shit loads of SF2 cabs and tons of people playing them when my Mom took me to the Morgantown Mall to see the batmobile (it was actually some copy some dude made and was touring the country with to coincide with the release of Batman Returns as I remember...but I could be wrong)...and they had a great arcade and just shitloads of folks were playing that. I also remember going to the Babbages or EB (think it was Babbages)...and seeing Contra 3 (which just came out) on an SNES kiosk and playing that and thinking how awesome it would be to get an SNES (that I was saving up for).

        • Vorlonesque legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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          August 31, 2012 7:26 PM

          Actually it would have been out for a while...since Contra released months before Batman...and I remember being at the mall in summer (and seeing Batman Returns either that night or one soon after).

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