Grab your barrels, because Arc System Works pumped out a new trailer forDouble Dragon Collection. The six-pack of classic beat ’em ups is coming to Asia as a physical release on Switch, and you can see a flurry of fists in the overview trailer.
While the physical release is Asia-only, Arc System Works will bring two of the “long awaited missing entries” to consoles and PC digitally. Those titles werepreviously announcedas new ports of 1992’sSuper Double Dragonand 2003’sDouble Dragon Advance. They’ll be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam.
Brawl through time
If there was ever a totally idiosyncratic trip through the history of beat ’em ups, this is it. 1987’sDouble Dragonis a seminal entry in the genre. The style developer Technos inserted in is all its own, even with theKunio-kunlegacy behind it.Double Dragon II: The Revengecame in hot the following year and built on what the first established nicely. For those who wanted a beefier challenge,Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stonesthrew its hat in the ring in 1991. Not to be confused withDouble Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, which had players insert actual money to buy from the item shops in its initial arcade release.Who said microtransactions were a wholly modern concern?
Double Dragon IVand the aforementionedSuper Double DragonandDouble Dragon Advanceround out the new trailer. The latter two will be sold separately, but if you want all six together it should be fairly easy to import the set, which has full English support.
TheDouble Dragonseries is very much still active. Developer Secret Base recently releasedDouble Dragon: Rise of the Dragonstomixed results. That’s kind of the name of the game for the series as a whole. There are ups and downs, and you’ll experience plenty of them at once in theDouble Dragon Collection. The six-in-one set hits Nintendo Switch on Aug 04, 2025.
