Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (video game)

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Developer(s)	Virgin Interactive
Publisher(s)	Acclaim Entertainment
Platform(s)	Sega Genesis, Game Gear, Atari Jaguar, Sega Master System, Super NES
Release date	1993
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single player, up to 3 players multiplayer

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a multiplatform fighting game based on the film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, which is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of Bruce Lee.

[edit] Gameplay

Players control Lee, and must defeat a sailor, a chef and a martial arts master amongst others to progress through the game, recalling major action scenes from the film. However, the video game leaves out valuable plot information from the film and most of the romantic content between Bruce Lee and his future wife.

Players can use a variety of martial arts moves to defeat their enemies and build up a chi meter, which can help unleash special moves on their opponents. Cheat codes are absent from the game and it takes an expert player to last 30 minutes without using one of the three continues that the game offers the player. If the player loses all their lives they must fight Death (who takes the form of an armored Asian warrior) to continue. They face Death again at the end as a final boss.

The game supports up to three players simultaneously, playing through the game co-operatively, or against each other in a battle mode. Oddly, the additional players only control clones of Lee, albeit with slightly different colored trousers.