He was 64.https://web.archive.org/web/20260406150936/https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-has-passed-away
rip
>>12492541Didn't he also create Kunio-kun?
>>12492556The title of the thread literally says that, yes.
>>12492561I glanced and only saw the Double Dragon part.
The arcade double dragons suck
>>12492576The arcade DD1 has a choppy framerate, it's objectively not a great game but Technos were a small company without Sega or Namco's budgets.
>>12492580Still that's unfair, it was innovative as it was the first beat-em-up with three dimensional movement unlike the Spartan X kind where you just walk in a straight line. DD made it that you can actually move up and down and even climb objects.
RIP
>>12492541RIP in peace , my dude. Thanks for my favourite game of all the time.
>>12492541SadFlorent Gorges a famous french video game historian made a great autobiography about himIn his youth he was a furyo delinquent like the ones on Kunio kun
>>1249254164? Damn, chain smoker like all japan is my guess.
>>12492541BARF!
>>12492603>chain smoker like all japan is my guess.this has always seemed so strange to me. i thought they were all health conscious? or is that just more a demand to be thin than actual health?
>>12492541RIP legend. One of my favorite vidya memories is walking up to the 7-11 with the other neighborhood kids and crowding around the Double Dragon arcade like it was the most important thing in the world, which it pretty much was at the time.
>>12492541RIP! DD2 is my jam
>>12492541RIP to a great designer.>>12492609They have a better diet than most western ones but they still drink and smoke like crazy. It seems like whenever I hear of a sudden Japanese celebrity death it usually involves cancer or something alcohol related.
>>12492541fucking RIP.
>>12492603>chain smoker like all japan is my guess.Don't Asians have lower rates of lung cancer even with the smoking due to genetics? I swear I saw some news piece on that years ago.
>>12492636Traffic accidents and cerebral hemorrhages too
>>1249254164 is WAY too young. I heard someplace it was suicide, is that true?
>>12492609> i thought they were all health conscious?GAME DEVELOPERS? No no, they live worse lives than Manga artists. 80 hour week minimum sometimes going as high as 100 hour workweeks during crunch time, eating the cheapest snack food and living on a diet of coffee and alcohol for years.
>>12492563Retard.
Japanese devs have been dropping like flies lately, always fairly young too (for a Jap). RIP.
>>12492683Miyamoto has been absorbing their lifeforce.
>>12492541F
>>12492541Loved the games and the memories, RIP Kishimoto the Great
>>12492603My dude, there are countless things that can kill you in this world, from zero on. Don't expect to live forever.
>>12492636Japanese food is low in saturated fat but it's really really salty and they have a high rate of strokes from that.
>>12492659weren't the NOJ people surprised to learn that Rare's employees did a strict 8 hour workday? because they were used to spending 16 hours a day and sleeping in the office with hammocks to complete a project.
>>12492730their food is all salted and pickled, it's guaranteed to give you a stroke or stomach cancer
>>12492541rippy bippy king
>>12492560Not this though, not this.
>>12492659video games and music albums are like sausages, you don't really want to see how they're made
>>12492609Nah, Japanese weren't clairvoyant when it came to the health risks of cigarettes. They chainsmoked indoors for years and lots of the old folks probably still do it.
pneumonia... rip
did you know they consider desserts and sweets to be chick food and it's unmanly to eat them?
>>12492541Rest in peace
>double dragon movieS
>>12492749I 'member "discover" river city ransom one night while I was sad and poor, and felt genuine joy for a moment.
>>12492636They rarely eat red meat which is bad and feed on rice which is worse and use vegetable oil which is worse, plus they overwork to ridiculous extremes.
>>12492734Shitty governments meant shitty exploitive work conditions
RIP legendWhile on the subject of DD, ain't it funny how many time they've remade the first DD game?
you people are retarded, man dies and you're trying to diagnose the life choices of the average japanese as if that matters in terms of an individual. fucking shameful.
i hate to do it but...who?
>>12492541RIP
Aww.>>12492603Potentially, but there's other ways to get sick and die. Iwata had a tumor, which he had removed, but apparently complications from that held on and he died sometime later, at age 55, which isn't even old.There was also the author of Yu-Gi-Oh, who drowned at age 60, possibly while trying to assist some kids pulled out to sea in a current.Treasure the life you have, lads.
>itt we pretend we played his games and they were good
>>12492960Found your selfie.
Why do no Japanese men live to 80?
>>12492993Overworking
>>12492960I've never played the Double Dragon arcade game but I did play the NES and DOS PC ports.
>>12493004And meat consumption.
>>12493010Meat is good for you.
>>12493004This, which works in tandem with no sleep.
>>12493010okay PETA
>>12493031hey lois
>>12492541Didn't he base Kunio off himself when he was younger?
BIMMY?!BIMMY AND JIMMY?!HOW DO YOU MAKE A MISTAKE LIKE THIS?BIMMY ISN'T EVEN A REAL NAME!
>>12493089WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
>>12492960>noooo nobody on /vr/ could have actually played double dragon or river city ransom, those are such hidden gems!
>>12492556>didn't i google to become an instant expert on something without actually reading the post i replied toYou did. It was hilariously humiliating.
>>12492541Major FLoved Kunio and DD so much growing up. Played most of the games that didn't come to the states too.RIP
>>12492576fuck you
I need to send a message pouring my heart out to the creator of my favorite game before this happens to him too
>>12492541Damn, 64 is too young to die. Rest in peace
RIPDouble Dragon was one of those games that got ported to every console and computer in existence and is a retro game that basically anyone who grew up in the era probably played at least once. I love beat em ups and his games were hugely important in the development of the genre
>>12493131If you played them then you are just pretending that they were good.
>>12492636>they still drink and smoke like crazyNot really, no. Only older people. Both smoking and alcohol aren't popular with the younger crowd, alcohol companies have been trying to target the youth to lure them in but it hasn't worked. Efforts are being made to phase out smoking and it's becoming target to more laws and regulations for where and when you can do it.>>12492912The only thing that's true in your comment is that they eat rice. Holy shit how are you so out of touch?
Great games. Not always polished, but fun, fast paced couch co-op.RIP
>>12493190>Double Dragon was one of those games that got ported to every console and computer in existenceMost of them awful, too.
lmao double dragon was ass, what are you guys are smoking
>>12493208>>12493293It was revolutionary and deserves some slack for that when comparing it to other beat-em-ups. It came out over 2 years before Final Fight. And it's still a fun game, even if it's simple and a bit janky.
I played DD2 when I was like 7 yo, and it had been released for exactly that amount of time.Fuck you, I had a ton of fun. Great game.
You were responsible for the best experiences at that farmland daycare, you beautiful motherfucker.https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1775519712818424.mp4
>>12492541F.
F
>>12492601>In his youth he was a furyo delinquent like the ones on Kunio kunit's dead, this counter culture, right? I mean, you see it still romanticized in media, but it just doesn't exist anymore, right? It was dying already in the 90s when the biggest anime still refrencing it, yuyuhakusho, was wrapping up?
>>12493208It was good when it came out because there wasn't much else like it. No pretending required.
>>12492541Rest in peace. I have great memories of this series. Loved the few crossover games too
>>12493423Go to the street next to the Toho cinema in Kabukicho at night time, you'll see the Toyoko Kids which is the modern counter culture. It's entirely different. They're all teenage runaways, they live in the sidewalk and just sit around acting violent out of boredom, and they occasionally sell sex and somehow manage to get their hands on drugs.
>>12492541Fuck my parents are at this age. RIP.
>>12493492dude you just made me really sad and worried now
>>12493516your bad juju will stain your own spirit, sinweaver
>>12492541what the FUCK happened on Double Dragon III anyway? What a piece of shit game
>>12493528It was outsourced while the in-house team was working on some other game (Combatribes?)
>>12493154Not nearly as humiliating as challenging the narrative on Apple IIs in Japan.
>>12492541I played Rosetta Stone and one day convinced my brothers to play, we made it to the last boss and ran out of continues in the last phase. The game was difficult, and after getting so close we agreed we were satisfied. But we had a lot of fun that day, I'll always remember that mummy.
>>12493545Exactly, also East Technology never made a single good game, so they were a really bad choice for outsourcing (then again, Technos made a huge bunch of bad decisions that killed them in the long run, and Kishimoto already left before that)>>12493594>>12493154These two are a pair of huge faggots that already tried to ruin threads with their unprompted garbage, check the archive.
>>12492601and to think. all Shiggy did as a kid was explore caves.
>>12493621The japanese version is more doable but just a tiny little, by making enemies less strong, I once reached towards Noriam/Cleopatra but only cause I used the NES MAX for Turbo.
>>12493545>It was outsourced while the in-house team was working on some other game that sounds like SNK when they gave Micronics the NES ports of Ikari Warriors I and II because their NES guys were too busy with other projects. the results were not pretty.
>>12492541Why are all these japanese devs dying at like 50-60 years old?
>>12493681as anon said, stress, long working hours, and shitty lifestyle habits
>>12493681mustard gas
>>12492609Japanese aren't generally more healthy than other countries, they just eat less. Their culture doesn't revolve around gluttony.
>>12493636>Exactly, also East Technology never made a single good game, so they were a really bad choice for outsourcing (then again, Technos made a huge bunch of bad decisions that killed them in the long run, and Kishimoto already left before that)The funny part is that Combatribes could've been easily rebranded as Double Dragon III and no one would've noticed anything.Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed that Technos stopped their attempts to salvage it with the NES port that they did in house. It could've been great if it got PC Engine CD treatment like DD2 did.>>12493671It's more like that one time Capcom asked random American arcade game makers to DO a Street Fighter III as a tie-in to the movie. Obviously, the game got rebranded by the time of release and Capcom made their own SF3, but it's still funny.>>12493671>that sounds like SNK when they gave Micronics the NES ports of Ikari Warriors I and II because their NES guys were too busy with other projects.I'm more surprised to hear that SNK had NES guys in the first place, because I don't remember making anything for it themselves, aside from Crystalis. Micronics were also behind that one awful Athena port IIRC.
>>12492749They have whole rooms in buildings and walled off gazebos outside where they hotbox ciggerates like crazy, those japs love their ciggys.
>>12493739https://nescartdb.com/search/advanced?developer=SNKSNK did most of their NES games themselves. They outsourced Athena and IW1 and 2 to Micronics because their NES team was busy with other stuff.
>>12493710Another big factor is probably just them walking more than other countries. Even just burning an extra 50 calories daily can help make the difference between putting on extra pounds or not over time.
RIP. Loved DD NES as a kid.
Here comes the /v/ retards
>>12492541F>>12493843Have you even played Double Dragon?
>>12493865Listen to some tunes and chill outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4rLtxzle6khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3c2xbYWKY0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKFW1A1kkkI
Kill yourself /vpol/fag
The death of the IP count became the death of 4chan
>>12493868In my family it was thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn_BQY9wZpk
>>12492541fuck, that's a big ol' F.
RIP. those were some good games...
>>12492541\|/ (ー人ー)
>>12493228>alcohol companies have been trying to target the youth to lure them in but it hasn't workedI mean, it's literal poison and alcoholics are the reason we have almost zero public seating in many countries.
rip legend>>12492576Gameboy Double Dragon is god tier
vax status?
Rest in peace.
>>12494491Meant to post this image, but that one's good too even if he didn't work on the game.
why sticky that?it's just depressing
https://x.com/rpl5t62/status/2041434760074150239
>>12493936Loved the SMS version of DD, but never got to play it 'until '95. I didn't even know the SMS existed, one of my neighbours bought it at a yardsale, I got to play it when I was over there. I remember telling friends about it, that Sega had a console like the old Nintendo, none of them knew about it either. I wonder if they even believed me at the time.
When I was a kid I only had two games.Super Mario Bros 3 and Double Dragon 3 on the NESToday I know it suck balls, but kid me didnt care and played the shit out of that game. I still bust it out and try (and fail) to play it nowadays.Godspeed.
Is NES DD2 the best Double Dragon game?
>>12492601Post a translated PDF file, no AI shit, please.
>>12494729All home system ports of DD2 are pretty good other than the Mega Drive one.
Sticky removed
>>12492541Kunio still deserves more recognition.Rest in peace King.
>>12494729Double Dragon on Neo-Geo is the best Double Dragon game. It's a fighting game and not a beltscroller though.>>12494864Mega Drive one is the only LITERAL port though. The other ones are basically different games with the same premise (and better for it).
>>12492541R.I.P. to a legend who built an impressive genre.
I know it's not /vr/ but what did you guys think of RCR: Underground?
>>12492541Rip. I know ppl who still play Nekketsu Soccer League 6x6 every Friday.
>>12493594The jury's still out on whether that cope is worse than that copers original cope, or even the fools who got baited by that cope.I say each is infinitely more pathetic than the other.>>12493636>These two >And all of a sudden, for no particular reason, all the people I was calling samefag are multiple people. Like the voices in my head.
Question: Why did someone make a hardware vs. emulation spam thread and it wasn't immediately deleted on sight?
>>12495242*Goal 3
lol imagine being the janny on a board where a sticky doesn't hit the post limit
>>12492541Tons of Japanese figures have died in the last few years before reaching 70. Why? Overwork or smoking like chimneys in the 80s and 90s? Likely both?
>>12495495they also have a horrible diet
Come on, you can stop repeating the same post again and again.
>>12495497True
>>12495535As anon said, Japanese food is low fat but it's very salty and pickled so it's not especially healthy and will probably cause you to stroke out or get stomach cancer.
>>12495384board seems to have been forsakenits been allowed to go to complete shit in recent months
>>12495538We used to have a janitor who deleted frog and Wojak thread OPs.
>>12495541Opposite side of that is he deleted every post he didn't like as well as any post linking to them so so no one would realize that anything was deleted in the 1st place. I still think it was better but at least now when I put effort into replies I won't come back later to find they were delete because the guy I replied to was replying to a guy that was deemed a troll or whatever and the entire chain was wiped. It inspired more interesting shitposting as well, now it's just threads like "can you believe they released 3 different resident evil roms on the playstation x" or "sunflower man is my favorite pokemon"
>>12492541You were my perfect friend...
>>12495743>he
>>12496559>has
>>12496586>no
>>12495289What thread is that?
>>12496586>cope
>>12492734>Rare's employees did a strict 8 hour workday?I heard the opposite - that Rare dudes had insane crunches to finish their games in time. Was it a lie?
