Double Dragon and Speedball II to Hit Xbox Live Arcade
- Scribbled on May 4th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Action, Microsoft Xbox 360, Press Release, Retro, Sports, Xbox Live Arcade
According to two seperate sources, arcade title Double Dragon will be making its way to next week’s Xbox Live Arcade, while the Commodore Amiga classic Speedball II has been announced.
Kotaku reports, “Clive Kabatznik, CEO of Silverstar Holdings, let slip in a just released press release that the classic arcade brawler Double Dragon will be showing up next Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade”, while Yahoo Biz published a press release about the old Bitmap Brothers futuresport title for the Amiga.
Double Dragon, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is a nostalgic co-op/competitive beat-em-up arcader, but Speedball II is a true hidden gem from the sadly forgotten Amiga lineup. It is a cross between soccer, Cyberball (another future XBLA title) and Blood Bowl, with lineups to manage and a schedule to maintain. Keep an eye out for this one. It had appeared with no fanfare on the Nintendo GameBoy Advance; hopefully, it’ll get the recognition it deserves this time around.
May 8th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
[...] issued out a press release today confirming that Double Dragon will indeed be out this week as part of the Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays program, [...]