Kung Fu Master

Kung Fu Master is a 1984 arcade game developed by the Japanese company Irem Corporation. It was manufactured under license in the United States by Data East USA, Inc. of Santa Clara, California. It was released in Japan as Spartan X and credited "Paragon Films Ltd. more...

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, Towa Promotion", who made the movie Spartan X (Wheels on Meals) upon which it was based. The game contains elements of Bruce Lee's Game of Death.

Story

The player takes the role of Keiji Thomas, a man in a martial arts uniform and slippers. Thomas's girlfriend, Sylvia, has been kidnapped by "Mr. X", and Tom must fight through five side-scrolling levels full of enemies to rescue her.

Brutally summarized as "rescue girlfriend – hit people", the US and UK version opened with the clumsy phrase "Thomas and Sylvia were attacked by several unknown guys...."

Gameplay

The game was the first beat 'em up. It is cited as the inspiration for subsequent successes like Double Dragon, Final Fight, Captain Commando, and Streets of Rage.

The first level contains standard Kung Fu henchmen and knife throwers. But subsequent levels introduces dwarves, killer bees, fire-breathing dragons, snakes, and butterflies of death.

Each of the five levels ends with a different boss who must be defeated before Thomas can climb the stairs to the next level. The first two bosses are ordinary men armed with a baton and honed boomerangs, respectively. The third is a giant, the fourth a magician and the fifth is Mr. X, a versatile Kung Fu master. Each level must be completed within a fixed time. The timer starts at 2000. If it falls below 330, an acoustic warning sounds. If a boss defeats the player, the boss laughs. Although there are five bosses, the game only uses two different synthesized laughs.

Once the player has completed all five levels, the game restarts with a more demanding version of the Devil's Temple, although the essential details remain unchanged. A visual indication of the current house is displayed on the screen. For each series of five completed levels, a dragon symbol appears in the upper right corner of the screen. After three dragons have been added, the dragons symbols blink.

Level details

In the film, Game of Death, the pagoda is the Buddhist temple 'Pope Jusaw' in South Korea. The inside and outside are displayed in the movie Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (a Game of Death documentary). In the movie, Lee has four companions. The pagoda is guarded by ten karate-guards on the outside.

In the game, the player is alone. The five levels not only feature five different fighting-styles, but require different tactics for successfully completing each level.

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