Yie Ar Kung Fu

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Company: Konami

Release Date: Jul 18 2007

Genre: Fighting

Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Chinese: ????; pinyin: yi èr gongfu; lit. 'One Two Kung-Fu') is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Konami. It first had a limited Japanese release in October 1984 before having a wide release nationwide in January 1985 and then internationally in March. Along with Karate Champ (1984) which influenced Yie-Ar Kung Fu it is one of the games that established the basis for modern fighting games. The game was inspired by Bruce Lee's Hong Kong martial arts films with the main player character Oolong modelled after Lee (like Bruceploitation films). In contrast to the grounded realism of Karate Champ Yie Ar Kung-Fu moved the genre towards more fantastical fast-paced action with various different characters having a variety of special moves and high jumps establishing the template for subsequent fighting games. It also introduced the health meter system to the genre in contrast to the point-scoring system of Karate Champ.

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