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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).

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).

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).

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.).

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.

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00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future of movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:05There are a lot of strange and interesting Easter eggs in the original Double Dragon arcade game from 1987.
00:14Here I'll mention another one.
00:16I did some previous videos.
00:18I cited some examples of where I thought you could see some hints to the warp whistle trick that's shown
00:26in the wizard.
00:27And these included some popular movies.
00:30The game Double Dragon is also featured in the wizard.
00:34While playing this game again, I think I found a scene which may hint at the first warp whistle you
00:42can obtain in Super Mario Bros. 3.
00:45And I think this probably predates even the developmental phases of that game.
00:51The first warp whistle you can find in level 1-3.
00:57Alright, so you progress through the stage.
00:59Toward the end, you'll come across a white block.
01:03So the trick here, you have Mario squat or duck down 5 seconds.
01:09Something unexpected happens.
01:11Mario will fall behind the block and drop down to the ground level.
01:17If you run quickly to the right, you'll see the jagged vertical area which transitions into a darker screen with
01:27the bonus box.
01:29After doing the white block trick, Mario will move behind this black area.
01:34The character is transported to a mushroom house where the first warp whistle is obtained from a treasure chest.
01:42So now I'll talk about where I think you can see this Easter egg in the Double Dragon arcade game.
01:50It's at the start of Mission 2.
01:52There are remains of the corner of a building.
01:55There's apparently a vertical shaft that's exposed.
02:00Note the color of the bricks of the remaining wall on the inside.
02:05They are brown, very similar to the color scheme and style of bricks used in the Super Mario Bros. games.
02:13Here you'll see the character Williams.
02:16He's perched up on a ledge, ready to pounce on Billy.
02:22He eventually drops down in front of a green chain link fence.
02:27Here, I think, is another future reference to Nintendo's Super Mario World from 1990.
02:34The technique is similar to the white block, the way that it's implemented in this game.
02:40You have Mario jump up on the fence.
02:42There's a smaller square area in the fence.
02:45This is cut out.
02:47And tap the action button.
02:49The fence will rotate 180 degrees and put Mario on the other side back to Double Dragon.
02:58And moving to the right, there's another key clue to the first Mario 3 warp whistle.
03:06A large block.
03:08The color is not exactly white.
03:10It looks kind of like Parmesan cheese.
03:12But below this is a pit.
03:14And then farther to the right are some beams used in the construction of modern buildings.
03:20And the whistle, of course, is a common feature on a locomotive engine, a train.
03:28At the end of Mission 2, you board an elevator.
03:32When you go down, you can see how it moves.
03:36It looks like a railway track on the side of the wall of the building.
03:42In a previous video, I mentioned this Easter egg.
03:46You can see it in the 1989 video game Road Trip Adventure film The Wizard.
03:54This comes via a reference to the Double Dragon arcade video game.
04:00The Wizard starred Fred Savage, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Bo Bridges, Christian Slater.
04:07When stepfather Sam decides to have Jimmy committed to a mental institution,
04:13he runs away from home with half-brother Corey.
04:18In the minute with Jenny Lewis' character, Haley, on the road,
04:21they discover Jimmy's talent at playing video games.
04:25They come up with a plan to hitchhike cross-country
04:29to try to get Jimmy into the video Armageddon game tournament.
04:35Contemporary video game titles are shown in The Wizard.
04:39Many relate to releases via the Nintendo Entertainment System home console.
04:45At 19 minutes, 4 seconds, the trio play Double Dragon.
04:50The section of the game is stage 3.
04:54Part of this level involves a bridge that has collapsed in the middle.
05:00Jenny Lewis' character is playing.
05:02She gets knocked off the bridge into the river.
05:06My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
05:08There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
05:11I analyze these for possible references to future media.
05:15These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
05:19Hidden in the subtext of the work in question,
05:21I also use an unconventional method where I look at the likenesses of the actors.
05:28What I found is you can take the likenesses,
05:31match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
05:34and show past, present, and future information about actors
05:38and other personalities that may resemble the personalities
05:41in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
05:46My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com
05:54Thanks for watching.
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