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Yie Ar Kung Fu Longplay (Arcade Version)
Simply an iconic fighting game from the 80s...
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Konamivember- Prepare for the battle of your life in Yie Ar Kung Fu!
Konamivember- Prepare for the battle of your life in Yie Ar Kung Fu!
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DJ No. 2 - Konami Lofi Beats To Chill To | Ship To Shore PhonoCo. | 2023 | Purple & Blue Swirl
Lofi arrangements of music from Konami games Gradius, Ganbare Goemon, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Twinbee and Salamander
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157.) Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Release: October 25th, 1984 | GGF: Action, Arcade, Fighting | Developer(s): Konami Industry Co., Ltd. | Publisher(s): Konami Industry Co., Ltd., Imagine, The Hit Squad, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., Microsoft Game Studios, HAMSTER Corporation | Platform(s): Arcade (1984), Amstrad CPC (1985), BBC Micro (1985), ZX Spectrum (1985), Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1986), Commodore 64 (1986), Electron (1986), Game Boy Color (1998), PlayStation (1998), SEGA Saturn (1998), Game Boy Advance (2002), Windows Mobile (2007), Xbox 360 (2007), Windows (2010), Project EGG (2014), Nintendo Switch (2019), PlayStation 4 (2019)
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actually used my tv after not having used it for like the past few months -_- anyways it was awesome i listened to two of the records i had gotten awhile back and played famicom and then watched one of my fav movies the young master by jackie chan :D the records i listened to were reach out by burt bacharach which was great and well tempered synthesizer by wendy carlos which was also great and my first time hearing both and was excited to hear well tempered synthesizer cause of how her music isnt on streaming or youtube so ya but it was great but obv not as good as switched on bach like as an album didnt have the mind blowing sequencing and variety that switched on bach has. like on SoB going from the big triumphant sounding stuff to more lush calming sounds and then to the opening of side 2 thats all insane and buzzing is so beautiful but WTS was more same and obv coming after switched on bach lacked the wow factor and like could never knock u off ur feet the way that album did simply for being the first of its kind. the games i played while listening were donkey kong ice climbers and dragon buster. donkey kong and ice climbers for the first record and then more ice climbers and some dragon buster for the second record. wanted to play dragon buster with WTS cause i thought the classical but synthy sound would go really well with a fantasy gamelike thatbut in hindsight i think tower of druaga wouldve gone better.anyways excited cause im planning next on playing yie ar kung fu while listening to goldfinger soundtrack. not crazy abt enter the dragon in comparison to return/way of the dragon or his other stuff but that mix of spy elements w/ martial arts films is sooo good.
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Annon-Guy: When it comes to fighting game rosters, I understand diversity is an important fact along with having likable characters (or characters you love to hate like M. Bison), but why is always nessasary to have a Shoto/Rushdown (Sol and Ragna), a grappler (Potemkin and Tager), a powerhouse (May and Azreal), a speed demon (Chipp and Taokaka) and the token freak character (Faust and Arakune)?
It's not.
See a game called Buriki ONE for a good example.
Another good example is The Rumble Fish.
Really, it depends on what kind of game you are going for.
A game about Martial Arts can do a ton of things.
Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Beastorizer (Bloody Roar), even Battle Arena Toshinden did things a little differently, Power Stone also comes to mind.
But, if I had to point out the most blatant example of a fighting game that did things on its own terms:
Games like Fighting EX Layer, Fate/Unlimited Codes… their control schemes actually go out to simplify a lot of what you'd consider "basic" fighting game character tropes.
Another game that comes to mind is Dissidia Final Fantasy… not only the game mechanics, but also the basic input notions in that game are fundamentally different, but also equally fun.
A lot of competitive players look down on Arena-style fighters (like Saint Seiya or Naruto or the JoJo games). But really, there's some good ideas in how they manage their movelists in those games.
Street Fighter only made "the first big mold" that standardized most generic fighting game rosters. But they weren't the first fighting game in existence.
Games like Yie Ar Kung Fu… MMA games… Boxing games… lots of ideas surfaced over the years.
I'd say games like Tekken and Soul Calibur fall under some of the most robust movelists out there, not to mention roster diversity.
Still, it's not like there aren't simplistic and intuitive games out there… A.R.M.S. is one… Punch Out is another…
You should study these kinds of games more… you'll learn a lot.
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On Evolving Tastes
1989: "I know of no other games than Super Mario Bros. 1 through 3, Tetris, Doctor Mario and Mickey's Mousecapade. This will last for a few years, until my aunt will introduce me to bootleg 300-in-one cartridges. Ironically, I'll only ever touch Yie Ar Kung Fu, Macross, Mappy, Dig Dug and City Connection."
1990: "Dad's discovered that a store near his office sells Tengen cartridges for a fraction of officially-licenced titles! He gets me Gauntlet on the super cheap, thinking I'll play it once and forget about it, but Gauntlet becomes the one game I play the most often."
1996: "Man, Earthworm Jim and Myst are going to dominate this summer vacation! I might even work in some time for a few Mortal Kombat tourneys!"
1999: "I got over my giant snob self and gave Quake and Half-Life a shot. Something's shifted, for sure. I'm not sure, but I might actually like a few shooters..."
2001: "I am a grown-ass man and I cannot stop playing The Sims. Please send help, I'm nurturing an unhealthy God complex."
2002: "I'm really mad at myself for not finding out about Vampire - The Masquerade: Redemption until two years after its release."
2004: "Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines has consumed me."
2005: "Study? Yeah, sure, I do - but Unreal Tournament 2004 is where it's at - whenever Black & White 2 doesn't consume for weeks on end."
2006: "My Dad introduced me to SimCity 3000 several years too late, which is introducing me to the wacky world of PC retrogaming. I now use his beige croaker of a clerical machine to work on Isometric metropolises while snapping my fingers to some real-ass Jazz bops."
2007: "I resisted for two years, but finally caved in to Guitar Hero. It's also the best excuse I had to get a Slim PS2."
2008: "I used my paycheck from my first Real, Adult Man Job at the campus to get myself an XBOX 360 and Fable II! I'll spend years playing it while ignoring the game's obvious flaws!"
2009: "I kinda hate myself for it, but I splurged on a PS3 after a friend showed me Super Stardust HD."
2010: "Fuck you, getting myself a Wii for the express purpose of playing the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Also, ow, this exact fucking thing will also send me off to my first serious GP appointment as an adult, for a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome diagnosis. I'll spend two years wearing a wrist brace and playing through all three games in short bursts. The tendon responsible for retracting my right thumb is on permanent fire and every gameplay session puts me through a physical gauntlet, but every new gameplay component the series introduces makes me feel like a kid again."
2011: "Skyrim. Just - Skyrim. I'll perpetrate my first and only acts of professional truancy to devote entire weeks to my quest log. It helps that this winter was particularly Siberian, so I had plenty of excuses to stay home and slay dragons."
2014: "I power through Destiny on the PS3 and spend about four months being extremely hooked onto the game's universe and lore. I'll design character after character even after finishing the main quest four times, because I finally discovered what Halo stans have been enjoying for years - which is an approachable and still complex Fantasy/Sci-Fi shooter that hasn't yet lost its narrative compass...
Luckily, I also find out about Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and realize I have a thing for Uruk-Hai labelled as "The Friendly". I'll spend a year at the pace of an hour or two per day trying to populate my two camps with nothing but Friendlies."
2015: "As is usually the case, I come into this a few years too late and discover the joy that is Saints Row: The Third. GTA never grabbed me, while Volition's total lack of self-seriousness delights me. I buy Saints Row IV immediately after finishing my first run-through, and find that Volition's writing team is the only thing that keeps me going. If it weren't for JB Blanc's mouth-watering portrayal of Emperor Zinyak, I'd be playing a fun, if average third-person shooter."
2016: "Bigger job titles means more disposable income, which means my first custom-built tower PC after years of prebuilts - and a PS4! Destiny 2 and GTA 5 are big ones on there, but the first one disappoints me with how it gatekeeps the lore behind high-skill activities that are unfriendly for players with navigational or reflex-related issues (i.e. moi) and the second turns absolutely turgid at any moment that doesn't feature Trevor Philips.
Seriously, who do I have to call at Rockstar to let them know I don't give a rat's ass about Michael DeSanta's midlife hoodlum crisis?!"
2017: "Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, baby! Copy and paste my fixation from 2014, except now Friendlies are voiced by JB Blanc. Thank fuck for apartments, 'cause I wouldn't have wanted my folks to see me aggressively blush any time a Friendly crossed swords with me, claiming to want to be my pal."
2020: "Welp, guess it's nothing except slaying demons and building an island commune on my brand-new Nintendo Switch... Oh, and wouldn't you know it, Cyberpunk 2077 just came out, and in such a state that I won't seriously touch it until September 2022..."
2021: "What's happening to me? Why am I so psyched about Power Washer Simulator? Why did I spend nearly as much time in Mechanic Simulator 2021 as I did in Skyrim? Why do I persist in being hyped for House Flipper despite reports of horribly unoptimized code?"
2022: "I might as well embrace it: I have no hair on top and grow a mo' in an afternoon, I can only maintain a very mild case of fitness and there's fifteen to twenty pounds I just can't get rid of no matter how hard I try. I am a Dad, now. I have the Dad Bod - the real one, not the one perpetuated by misaligned kiddies who'd call British Pop Music starlets Daddy - and I am now oddly hyped for Construction Simulator. I've finished Cyberpunk four times, played through Elden Ring twice, and I'm at the point where I'd honestly be excited by a game that finds some way to simplify the act of grading papers.
I dream of a twist on Papers, Please where one plays as a lecturer and where the goal of the game is to grade papers while avoiding interpersonal or professional scandals, as well as meeting faculty quotas..."
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UK 1987
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Nintendo Switch Online: Every NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, Sega Genesis, And GBA Game
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Nintendo Switch Online: Every NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, Sega Genesis, And GBA Game
Nintendo has been slowly beefing up its library of games available to Nintendo Switch Online and Expansion Pack subscribers.
What began as a library of just 20 NES games has grown to include dozens more. Plus, Nintendo has since introduced SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and even Sega Genesis games, giving players a chance to play some fan-favorite classics and some deep cuts, too. It’s hard to predict when new games might arrive as the company has maintained a somewhat inconsistent cadence in doing so, but that’s okay because this list is all you need.
As Nintendo adds new titles, we’ll be sure to update this list to include them. If you’re looking for something specific, use this story’s Table of Contents to jump to the different consoles quickly. Here’s every NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, Genesis, and GBA game added to Nintendo Switch Online.
NES
Added September 19, 2018
Balloon Fight
Baseball
Donkey Kong
Double Dragon
Dr. Mario
Excitebike
Ghosts ‘n Goblins
Gradius
Ice Climber
Ice Hockey
The Legend of Zelda
Mario Bros.
Pro Wrestling
River City Ransom
Soccer
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tecmo Bowl
Tennis
Yoshi
Added October 10, 2018
The Legend of Zelda SP
NES Open Tournament Golf
Solomon’s Key
Super Dodge Ball
Added November 14, 2018
Gradius SP (Stage 5)
Metroid
Mighty Bomb Jack
NES Open Tournament Golf SP (Japan only)
TwinBee
Added December 12, 2018
Adventures of Lolo
Adventures of Lolo 2 (Japan only)
Dr. Mario SP
Metroid SP (Ridley Battle)
Ninja Gaiden
Wario’s Woods
Added January 16, 2019
Blaster Master
Ghosts ‘n Goblins SP
Joy Mech Fight (Japan only)
Ninja Gaiden SP
Zelda II: Adventure of Link
Added February 13, 2019
Blaster Master SP
Kirby’s Adventure
Metroid SP (Mother Brain Battle)
Super Mario Bros. 2
Tsuppari Oozumou (Japan only)
Added March 13, 2019
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (Japan only)
Kid Icarus
Kirby’s Adventure SP
StarTropics
Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Japan only)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link SP
Added April 10, 2019
Kid Icarus SP
Punch-Out!
Star Soldier
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Added May 15, 2019
Clu Clu Land
Clu Clu Land: Welcome to New Cluclu Land (Japan only)
Donkey Kong Jr.
Star Soldier SP
Vs. Excitebike
June 12, 2019
City Connection
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
TwinBee SP
Volleyball
Added July 17, 2019
Donkey Kong 3
Mighty Bomb Jack
Wrecking Crew
Added August 21, 2019
Downtown Nekketsu Koshinkyoku: Soreyuke Daiundokai (Japan only)
Gradius SP (Second Loop)
Kung Fu Heroes
Vice: Project Doom
Added December 12, 2019
Crystallis
Famicom Wars (Japan only)
Journey to Silius
Route-16 Turbo (Japan only)
Added February 29, 2020
Atlantis no Nazo (Japan only)
Eliminator Boat Duel
Shadow of the Ninja
Added April 20, 2020
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light SP (Medeus Battle) (Japan only)
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light SP (Triangle Attack) (Japan only)
Added May 20, 2020
Added July 15, 2020
The Immortal
Added September 23, 2020
S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
Added December 18, 2020
Nightshade
Smash Ping Pong (Japan only)
Added February 17, 2021
Fire ‘n Ice
Added May 26, 2021
Ninja JaJaMaru-kun
Added July 28, 2021
Super Mario Bros. 3 SP
Added February 9, 2022
EarthBound Beginnings
Added March 30, 2022
Dig Dug II
Mappy-Land
Added May 26, 2022
Added July 22, 2022
Daiva Story 6 Imperial of Nirsartia
Added March 16, 2023
Added June 6, 2023
Mystery Tower
Added September 5, 2023
Joy Mech Fight
Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day!
Added October 31, 2023
Devil World
The Mysterious Murasame Castle
Added February 21, 2024
R.C. Pro-Am
Snake Rattle ‘N’ Roll
SNES
Added September 5, 2019
Brawl Brothers
Breath of Fire
Demon’s Crest
F-Zero
Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics
Kirby’s Dream Course
Kirby’s Dream Land 3
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Pilotwings
Smash Tennis
Star Fox
Stunt Race FX
Super Earth Defense Force
Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
Super Metroid
Super Puyo Puyo 2
Super Soccer
Super Tennis
Added December 12, 2019
Breath of Fire II
Kirby Super Star
Star Fox 2
Super Punch-Out!
Added February 19, 2020
Pop’n TwinBee
Added May 20, 2020
Operation Logic Bomb
Panel de Pon
Wild guns
Added July 15, 2020
Donkey Kong Country
Natsume Championship Wrestling
Shin Megami Tensei (Japan only)
Added September 3, 2020
Super Mario All-Stars
Added September 23, 2020
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong’s Quest
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (Japan only)
Mario’s Super Picross
The Peace Keepers
Added December 18, 2020
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble!
The Ignition FActor
Kunio-kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen’in Shugo (Japan only)
Sugoi Hebereke (Japan only)
Super Valis IV
Tuff E Nuff
Added February 17, 2021
Doomsday Warrior
Prehistorik Man
Psycho Dream
Shin Megami Tensei II (Japan only)
Added May 26, 2021
Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (Japan only)
Joe & Mac
Magical Drop II
Spanky’s Quest
Super Baseball Simulator 1.000
Super Mario Kart SP
Added July 28, 2021
Bombuzal
Claymates
Jelly Boy
Shin Megami Tensei If… (Japan only)
Added February 9, 2022
EarthBound
Super Metroid SP
Added March 30, 2022
Earthworm Jim 2
Harvest Moon
Super Mario World SP
Super Punch-Out! SP
Added May 26, 2022
Congo’s Caper
Rival Turf!
Umihara Kawase (Japan only)
Added June 9, 2022
Kirby Super Star SP
Kirby’s Dream Course SP
Kirby’s Dream Land 3 SP
Added July 22, 2022
Fighter’s History
Kirby’s Avalanche
Added March 16, 2023
Side Pocket
Added June 6, 2023
Harvest Moon
Added September 5, 2023
Kirby’s Star Stacker
Added February 21, 2024
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
Killer Instinct
Added April 12, 2024
Amazing Hebereke
Super R-Type
Wrecking Crew ’98
Game Boy
Added February 8, 2023
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Game & Watch Gallery 3
Gargoyle’s Quest
Kirby’s Dream Land
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Tetris
Wario Land 3
Added March 16, 2023
Kirby’s Dream Land 2
BurgerTime Deluxe
Added June 6, 2023
Kirby Tilt ‘N’ Tumble
Blaster Master: Enemy Below
Added July 26, 2023
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Added August 8, 2023
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Added September 5, 2023
Quest for Camelot
Added October 31, 2023
Castlevania Legends
Added March 12, 2024
Dr. Mario
Mario Golf
Mario Tennis
Nintendo 64 (Expansion Pack Required)
Added October 25, 2021
Dr. Mario 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Mario Kart 64
Mario Tennis
Sin and Punishment
Star Fox 64
Super Mario 64
WinBack
Yoshi’s Story
Added December 10, 2021
Paper Mario
Added January 20, 2022
Banjo-Kazooie
Added February 25, 2022
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Added March 11, 2022
Added April 15, 2022
Mario Golf
Added May 20, 2022
Kirby 64, The Crystal Shards
Added June 24, 2022
Pokémon Snap
Added July 15, 2022
Pokémon Puzzle League
Added August 15, 2022
Wave Racer 64
Added October 12, 2022
Pilotwings 64
Added November 2, 2022
Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Added January 27, 2023
GoldenEye 007
Added April 12, 2023
Pokémon Stadium
Added August 8, 2023
Pokémon Stadium 2
Added August 30, 2023
Excitebike 64
Added October 27, 2023
Mario Party 3
Added December 7, 2023
1080° Snowboarding
Harvest Moon 64
Jet Force Gemini
Added February 21, 2024
Blast Corps
Added April 24, 2024
Extreme G
Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls
Sega Genesis (Expansion Pack Required)
Added October 25, 2021
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Contra: Hard Corps
Dro. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
Ecco the Dolphin
Golden Axe
Gunstar Heroes
MUSHA
Phantasy Star IV
Puyo Puyo (Japan only)
Ristar
Shining Force
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Streets of Rage 2
Strider
Added December 16, 2021
Altered Beast
Dynamite Headdy
Sword of Vermillion
Thunder Force II
ToeJam & Earl
Added March 16, 2022
Alien Soldier
Light Crusader
Super Fantasy Zone
Added April 21, 2022
Shining Force II
Sonic Spinball
Space Harrier II
Added June 30, 2022
Comix Zone
Mega Man: The Wily Wars
Target Earth
Zero Wing
Added September 15, 2022
Alisia Dragoon
Beyond Oasis
Earthworm Jim
Added December 12, 2022
Alien Storm
Columns
Golden Axe II
Virtua Fighter 2
Added April 19, 2023
Flicky
Kid Chameleon
Pulseman
Street Fighter II’: Special Champion Edition
Added June 27, 2023
Ghouls ‘n Ghosts
Crusader of Centy
Landstalker
The Revenge of Shinobi
Game Boy Advance (Expansion Pack Required)
Added February 8, 2023
Kuru Kuru Kururin
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
Added March 8, 2023
Metroid Fusion
Added May 26, 2023
Super Mario Advance
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Added June 23, 2023
Fire Emblem
Added September 22, 2023
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
Added January 17, 2024
Golden Sun
Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Added March 29, 2024
F-Zero Maximum Velocity
Be sure to check back monthly to see if Nintendo’s dropped any new games onto Nintendo Switch Online.
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Martial Champion
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 12/17/93 Genre: Fighting
Konami established the fighting game genre with Yie Ar Kung-Fu alongside Karate Champ. Many of us older gamers loved it as it offered something different from what we were used to at the time and it would go on to inspire many copycats. But oddly Konami did not stick with the genre they more or less started and it would…
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Konami’s “Shao-Lin’s Road” Now on PS4, Nintendo Switch via the Arcade Archives
Konami’s “Shao-Lin’s Road” Now on PS4, Nintendo Switch via the Arcade Archives | #gaming #PlayStation #RetroGames #NintendoSwitch #RetroGaming
Turn right on Yie Ar Avenue.
Publisher Hamster has announced that Shao-Lin’s Road is now available on Nintendo Switch and PS4 as part of the digital Arcade Archives series.
Originally released in Japanese arcades by Konami in 1985, Shao-Lin’s Road was later ported to the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, Shao-Lin’s Road is a follow-up to Yie Ar Kung Fu
Players take control of…
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Arcade)
Developed/Published by: Konami
Released: 25/10/1984
Completed: 07/05/2022
Completion: Beat Tonfun.
Trophies / Achievements: n/a
I suppose the history I mentioned in the last article doesn’t seem that interesting (that Yoshiki Okamoto designed Gyruss before departing for Capcom, where he’d later design Street Fighter II) until you consider that Konami created the template for the modern 2D fighter just over a year later with Yie Ar Kung-Fu–so there’s a alternate history out there I guess where Konami paid Okamoto fairly and he goes on to make the most important 2D fighter of all time there. Yes, we could all be playing Yie Ar Kung-Fu 5 now… probably not actually; I’m not even playing Street Fighter 5 now.
Anyway. Yie Ar Kung-Fu has it all. Crouching! Jumping! Varied attacks! Unique characters! Health bars! Ok, it didn’t invent the 2D fighter–you can probably argue Karate Champ did that–but Karate Champ didn’t have health bars or different characters, so there.
It is still all terribly basic, though, with moves done by pressing a button and a direction, movement feeling extremely stiff, and enemies who don’t seem to have any intelligence at all (yet still seem to be able to wail on you like crazy.) It’s one of those games that you know are just so important, but it’s absolutely because of what came after rather than what it is, leaving you with a game that, while playable, I guess, is ultimately kind of forgettable.
Will I ever play it again? No, yeah, it’s so forgettable that I’m already at the “will I ever play it again?” stage of the article. I don’t think I will? Even if I could beat the “final boss” Blue, the game just loops. And I’ve seen him, so that’s fine I think. However! The different NES version is coming up in mid-1985 thanks to the Switch’s Famicom library, so, uh, there’s that to look forward to I guess.
Final Thought: Interesting to consider actually that Konami never managed to maintain momentum in the 2D fighter space. Until looking it up I didn’t even realise they had a Street Fighter II competitor, Martial Champion! I suppose there’s TMNT: Tournament Fighters and the wonderful Rakugakids. Man, Rakugakids! Now there’s something unforgettable.
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also rly rly had a huge urge to play mighty bomb jack today. its so fun and evil i love how u get addicted to those games so quickly. like its rly relentless and like even tho u kno u dont stand a chance of winning its rly fun to see how far u can get. especially i love the controls in bomb jack like u have a great control over him that makes it really fun to just maneuver around enemies and tight scenarios. gonna def play it again once i do my closet thing like as a celebratory gaming sesh. also need to remember to find a lil coffee table for my consoles.. dont wanna risk having them on the floor anymore cause dendys so crazy. i think mini coffee table thingy will be first on my list before writing/laptop table for my chair. also wanted to get a full body mirror and still do but dont kno where id put it >:( i think ideally would be right behind my chair like right by my piano so that i can take selfies with the natural window light but thatd make things cluttered af. am thinking maybe i could just like set it up when i wanna take selfies lol. my room can have such awful lighting tbh. tho thats def on my list just not a priority or not a huge one since idk where id even put the thang. but ya famicom is great i love mighty bomb jack and space invaders and spartan x and yie ar kung fu :) makes me wanna idk the last two and bom back rly make me wanna like create things lol. idk like write my own lil martial arts or superhero comic thingy. just smthn fun and dope. lol
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