Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

  Yi Ar Kung Fu  will be going 40 years old this April 22. I couldn't help but think of younger me, wondering if the game ever ended. Spoilers: It was pretty much another of those endless games! It was all about getting the highest score possible. It was beating five opponents, the fifth is defeated, the gong is beaten, and you PLAY ALL OVER FROM THE BEGINNING with higher difficulty! So yeah, I tried doing A LOT of crazy stuff over here. I tried to unleash a Fireball -- never mind this game was by KONAMI! I would pretend that the protagonist Lee was the Great Kung Lao -- fighting five challengers in the  Mortal Kombat  tournament. Of course, that wasn't the case. I remember reaching up to Level 15 -- all before I got my high score! Either way,  Yi Ar Kung Fu  was another game that I enjoyed as a child. However, I got really spoiled by the PSX up to the PS4. The hit boxes in  Yi Ar Kung Fu  are expected to be not that good. Come on, it's a NES game...

Here's a bit of the 90s kid. I remembered owning the Family Computer back then and I remembered this game by Konami. I thought this game actually ended but it never did. The game has the protagonist Lee (presumably based on Bruce Lee) fighting five bosses. He fights one boss per round where he goes against Wang, Tao, Chen, Lang and Mu. Once Mu is defeated, the challenge starts all over again which is nothing more than trying to gain the highest score you can before you're inevitably defeated for good.