The Double Dragon video game ('88 Famicom / NES version) has a cameo in a scene in 1989 video game / road trip adventure film The Wizard at 19 minutes 4 seconds. In-game footage from Mission 3 "Woods" can be seen at the area where a bridge has been collapsed in the middle. The Wizard also reveals one of the best known secrets in Nintendo video games. The first world (Grass Land) fortress location of the second (of three) warp whistles hidden throughout the video game Super Mario Bros. 3 ('88). <br /><br />An easter egg concerning the first Mario 3 warp whistle may be encoded in Mission 2 of Double Dragon arcade. The technique where you have the character squat on the white block, which allows him to drop & move behind the foreground layer of graphics in stage 1-3). <br /><br />At the start of Mission 2 in Double Dragon there are the remains of a building, a vertical shaft, partially demolished and the brick inside wall resembles the brown blocks in the original Super Mario Bros. game (1985). <br /><br />Enemy Williams is perched on the ledge ready to drop down on the player (Billy). I thought this may hint at the same action involved using the white block trick in Mario 3. A green chain link fence is also here, this could be a future nod to the fence scaling trick in Super Mario World ('90) where Mario can rotate 180 degrees to the inside of a fence (a similar technique to the white block, which places the character behind the foreground graphics layer.). <br /><br />Back to Double Dragon, moving right there is a large off-white color block (perhaps another clue to the Mario 3 secret). Finally, at the end of the level there is an elevator which runs along the side of a building (it looks like a railway track). A whistle is of course, standard on a locomotive engine. <br /><br />#thewizard #doubledragon #supermario #nintendo #fredsavage #lukeedwards #taito
