Ahh, good old Double Dragon. A mate and I used to be deadly on that. We were a brilliant team, and loved the double-team moves most of all. One of us would grab a bad guy and hold him while the other went to town with the baseball bat, or the dreaded reverse double-elbow strike. Why it hit the guy twice I don’t know, but it did, and it sometimes hit your mate, too >:) Likewise (IIRC) use of the baseball bat had to be judicial and required a delicate touch of the punch button to launch a gentle swing to the midriff, because a more exuberant press resulted in a full-blooded swing that would lay out both foe and ally in one blow. Mwah hah ha!

We used to be able to get through Double Dragon on just one credit each, until the arcade owners paid off the programmers who introduced the spears and moving brick walls near the final boss that resulted in almost instantaneous death, and required you to feed in 20c coins one after the other if you wanted to beat the frickin’ game! (That was back when frickin’ was a four-letter word ;)

Ahh, those were the days. Thanks for the nostalgia :)

As for different machines, I remember a friend at the time having the Dragon 32 and I wanted one too, it was so cool. My mum was persuaded by the salesman to get a C=64 instead. GOD BLESS THAT SALESMAN AND MY MUM.

Also also, Starquake was awesome. I’m coming over all nostalgic, which is the last thing nostalgia needs right now.

Summer Olympiad was notable for having a remarkably high diving board:

http://hol.abime.net/2175

Not one for the belly floppers!