History VideoGame / RageOfTheDragons

''Rage of the Dragons'' is a tag team [[FightingGame fighting game]] released for the Platform/NeoGeo in 2002. It was originally intended to be a sequel to the ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' fighting game released for the Neo-Geo in 1995, but Evoga, the developer of the game, couldn't get the rights to the characters, so the game became more of a homage to the series. This is most evident when one looks at Jimmy and Billy Lewis, who are based on the similarly named Lee brothers from the original ''Double Dragon'' games. Sub-boss Abubo also resembles Abobo from the first game. In May 2020, Piko Interactive acquired the intellectual property of the game.

''Rage of the Dragons'' is a tag team [[FightingGame fighting game]] released for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo in 2002. It was originally intended to be a sequel to the ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' fighting game released for the Neo-Geo in 1995, but Evoga, the developer of the game, couldn't get the rights to the characters, so the game became more of a homage to the series. This is most evident when one looks at Jimmy and Billy Lewis, who are based on the similarly named Lee brothers from the original ''Double Dragon'' games. Sub-boss Abubo also resembles Abobo from the first game. In May 2020, Piko Interactive acquired the intellectual property of the game.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Most of it's gratuitous, but Jimmy and Billy's voice actors have some surprisingly well-pronounced lines. The former's "You asked for it!" when tagging out in particular.

* BareYourMidriff: All the girls save Lynn do this to varying degrees. Pupa and Sonia both wear crop tops, Cassandra wears a suit that bares her midriff, but only from the sides, while Annie [[NavelWindow takes the opposite approach]].

* {{Acrofatic}}: Kang Jae-Mo. The wrestler is large, fat, and can rack up surprisingly fast combos and has lots of spinning attacks.

* CrossOver: Four characters (Jimmy, Lynn, Elias and Mr. Jones) appear in another game produced by Noise Factory, ''[[VideoGame/PowerInstinct Matrimelee]]''. Due to licensing issues, they were left out from the [=PS2=] port.

** [[spoiler: Subverted in Elias and Alice's ending. Alice ''thinks'' Elias sacrificed himself to save her, but in reality Elias left Alice to follow the Lord's command to search for the Black Dragon, and Elias thinks Alice can handle herself now.]]

* IdentityAmnesia: Neither Oni nor Cassandra remember anything about their past before their stay at the orphanage. They're looking for answers to their parents as well as to the source of the powers inside them.

* PsychoExGirlfriend: Psycho Ex-Boyfriend Johann, if one is being completely literal. Sonia, in her backstory, actually got into a torrid relationship with Johann, but it didn't go well to say the least and now she has her sights on Jimmy. Johann's a psycho, and this makes him Sonia's ex boyfriend, but he's not really an example of this ''towards her''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Billy and Jimmy. The colors they wear (and the Blue and Red Dragons' powers they wield) match the personalities of this: Billy wears blue and is much more calm and level-headed, giving advice to Jimmy about not being too hate-filled (and Billy has a steadier romantic life, to boot; he and Lynn have a cute romantic moment in their ending while Jimmy can't get past his previous girlfriend's death and Sonia must continue to chase him). Jimmy wears red and is constantly hot-headed and angry, refusing attempts at cameraderie and brooding over the death of his previous girlfriend, who was killed in a gang fight that Jimmy partially caused due to his conflicts with the gang.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Annie was this in her backstory. She's descended from an archaic family of psychics, and led a secluded lifestyle until the patriarch asked her to be a guide for the dragon hunter Radel.

** Kang trained himself to be a wrestler, which is how he gained his fame in his backstory. In Mr. Jones' backstory, he gained fame for himself both as a fighter and an actor based on his own skills as he traveled from city to city protecting the weak. [[spoiler: And in Jones and Kang's ending, Kang succeeds in his ''real'' dream, becoming a big-shot movie producer by producing the movie whose starring role helps Jones fulfill ''his'' dream, becoming a stylish "Dragon" by starring in the movie and winning an award.]]
** Billy has made a bit of fame and fortune for himself on the street racing professional circuit, which is basically his "day job" when he's not training in martial arts. Lynn has a habit of dodging some of the harsher training to go to the mall and buy clothes; to make money to pay for shopping, she gives martial arts lessons to students in the backyard of the dojo (they appear in her stage and in her ending; they're also ''little kids'' which is why Lynn is qualified to teach them despite still training herself).

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Most of it's gratuitous, but Jimmy and Billy's voice actors have some surprisingly well pronounced lines. The former's "You asked for it!" when tagging out in particular.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Very minor example with Pupa. Her backstory notes that Pupa speaks "broken English," which combined with her wrench wench hobbies and attractive looks actually made her popular among her classmates. Her win quotes are in fact in broken English, but not all of them, and it's not glaring.

** Cassandra: White

* ShoutOut: Mr. Jones strongly resembles Jim Kelly from Bruce Lee's ''Enter the Dragon'' as well as the black man who challenged Bruce Lee in ''Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story''.

''Rage of the Dragons'' is a tag team [[FightingGame fighting game]] released for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo in 2002. It was originally intended to be a sequel to the ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' fighting game released for the Neo-Geo in 1995, but Evoga, the developer of the game, couldn't get the rights to the characters, so the game became more of a homage to the series. This is most evident when one looks at Jimmy and Billy Lewis, who are based on the similarly named Lee brothers from the original ''Double Dragon'' games. Sub-boss Abubo also resembles Abobo from the first game.

* [[TheRainMan The Rain Woman]]: Cassandra is autistic. To be fair, she is portrayed in the game as speaking normally and she is most certainly not an idiot. Her autism is more relevant in her backstory, where it's part of the reason she withdraws from society (the other part is to avoid upsetting Oni or making him jealous).