00:00A few months back, I did some videos on Easter eggs, past, present, and future in the Super Mario Bros.
00:09game series by Nintendo and Double Dragon video games by Technos.
00:16These series date from the mid-80s.
00:19I wanted to point out another one.
00:21Yeah, the arcade cabinet before Super Mario Bros. also can be seen in the 1994 Double Dragon martial arts film
00:32starring Mark Dacasko, Scott Wolf, and Robert Patrick.
00:35It's in the fight scene toward the end.
00:37I thought there may be a predictive hint to sequel Double Dragon 3, The Rosetta Stone, released to arcades in
00:461990.
00:47You can see this in Super Mario Bros. 2, the 88 version, which was based on Yumi Kojo, Doki Doki
00:56Panic.
00:56Alright, so for this one, check out World 2-1.
01:01This marked a major setting, turning point in the Mario game series.
01:06First instance of a desert-like environment similar to Egypt.
01:12There are pyramids here, secret chambers.
01:15The enemy boss of this level is Triclod, three-headed cobrat snake, which breathes balls of fire.
01:24Also an inhabitant of Subcon, the Land of Dreams.
01:27His design is based on the mythical Lernian Hydra, a giant multi-headed serpent.
01:33Alright, the clues to Double Dragon 3.
01:37The title, The Rosetta Stone.
01:38In the real world, this was the name of a stone slab inscribed with three different languages.
01:46Ancient Egyptian, hieroglyphic writing, demonic script, also from Egypt, and ancient Greek.
01:53The Great Pyramids had stood for 4,000 years before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799.
02:01Basically, nobody could understand the ancient Egyptians' writing.
02:05This stone was instrumental in deciphering this.
02:09Triclod as well, I thought, maybe a clue.
02:12He has three heads.
02:13It just so happens that for Double Dragon 3 Arcade, controls were introduced for a third character.
02:21Double Dragon refers to the two fighting characters.
02:25Brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee.
02:28Sonny Lee is the third Dragon.
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