I was walking through Troy today and I found myself walking down a classic 8-bit video game alleyway like none other:
![](http://jstookey.com/images/2009/game_alley_sm.jpg)
(Check it out in Google Street View). I thought that at any moment one of those second story doors would open up and some dude dressed like a bird would poke his head out and drop sticks of dynamite on me like in Trojan on the Nintendo (Which is a fitting title since the picture was taken in Troy, NY):
![](http://jstookey.com/images/2009/trojan1.png)
If anything happened I felt secure knowing that one of the garage doors would open and the Double Dragons would come and help me out:
![](http://jstookey.com/images/2009/ddragon.png)