Billy and Jimmy return, pure: Double Dragon II: The Revenge hit PS4 via Arcade Archives

Any player who spent time in arcades can hum it from memory: Double Dragon II: The Revenge, the sequel to the legendary beat-‘em-up Double Dragon and one of the titles that set the standard the whole genre followed.

Through the miracles of digital distribution, the Lee brothers returned to deal street justice on Sony’s then-current console, in a release that kept every element that made the saga great while folding in new moves and skills for its protagonists.

Part of Hamster’s Arcade Archives line, Double Dragon II: The Revenge arrived on the PlayStation Store with meticulous fidelity to the arcade original, plus the modern touches PS4 players expect — shareable media captures and online play. Old-school smacks, preserved in amber: the kind of re-release that needs nothing more than the game itself.

It remains a digital-only release, so it lives on the PS Store rather than on a shelf — one of the rare posts we write without a buy link worth clicking.