But he returned in a very unexpected crossover: 1993’s Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team. Actually, in retrospect, he looks a lot like Danny Trejo.Ībobo sat out of the next few Double Dragon games, as the Lee brothers busied themselves fighting mummies and chubby clowns. In a game filled with giant enemies, there was a guy named Bolo who looked exactly like Abobo, but with long, black hair. You just can’t mess with perfection!Ībobo sort-of-but-not-really appeared in the sequel, 1988’s Double Dragon II: The Revenge. He has a giant, bald head almost the size of his bulky torso, and a black arch on his face that is apparently a mustache merged with a frown! While the NES version had its own quasi- fighting game mode with everyone redrawn with a bigger and better sprite, Abobo looked exactly the same. With orange-brown skin, Abobo is still bigger than everyone else, but also looks inhuman. This is post-nuclear war, so I suppose this tracks.īut it was NES port that really delivered the ultimate form of Abobo, whose appearance was seriously altered for the 8-bit console. Later, we face off against an Incredible Hulk version of Abobo. Soon after, we fight Jick, an Abobo clone who closely resembles Mr. His initial form is as a bald, pale guy with a mustache. Weirdly, Abobo has various forms in the game.

The only guy more dangerous than Abobo is Willy, the final boss, who brings a machine gun to a fist fight. He has longer reach, takes more hits, can’t be thrown, and is able to throw Billy and Jimmy like ragdolls. From the moment he appears on screen, it’s clear Abobo is meant to stand apart from the rest. While the cannon fodder is mostly made up of normal-sized guys, out walks Abobo, who makes his entrance by punching his way through a brick wall. Off they go to lay out everyone in that gang with their bare fists and occasional barrel/whip/knife/baseball bat. (They kind of workshop that name from game to game.) Billy and Jimmy Lee are two martial arts brothers whose mutual friend Marian is captured by gang members. A dystopian, lawless, post-nuclear war version of New York City has been overrun by a gang called the Black Warriors or Shadow Warriors or Black Shadow Warriors. Abobo’s journey begins in the original Double Dragon, Technos’ 1987 arcade hit.

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