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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami (Arcade) Imagine (PC) |
| Composer(s) | Miki Higashino |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, NES, MSX, Commodore 64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Electron |
| Release date(s) | Arcade
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| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | One or two players (alternating turns) |
Yie Ar Kung-Fu (イー・アル・カンフー Ī Aru Kanfū) is a 1985 arcade fighting game developed and published by Konami. It was considered by many gamers in Japan to be the basis for modern fighting games.[1] It pit the player against a variety of opponents, each with a unique appearance and fighting style.[2][3] The player could perform up to sixteen different moves,[4] using a combination of buttons and joystick movements while standing, crouching or jumping.[5]
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Chinese: 一二功夫; pinyin: yī èr gōng fū; literally "One Two Kung Fu"; "Yie Ar" is pronounced "ee-ar") features the hero, Oolong (written 烏龍 Wūlóng, and ウーロン Ūron in Japanese), controlled by the player. Oolong must fight all the martial arts masters given by the game (eleven in the arcade version; five to thirteen in the home ports) unarmed to win the title of "Grand Master" and honor the memory of his father. On his side is a variety of punch and kick blows reachable by combining the joystick with one of the buttons (punch or kick). He also has the greatest jumping ability of all the game's fighters, with the exception of "Blues".
Regardless of the move that defeated them, male characters(save Feedle) always fall unconscious lying on their backs with their legs apart (players flail their feet), and female characters always fall demurely lying on their sides. Feedle disappears. There are only 2 female fighters, and the rest are male.
When a player gains an extra life, the word "xiè xiè" (Mandarin Chinese for "thank you") is heard. This is sometimes mistaken for the word "sushi".
The martial arts masters are listed below (in fight order):
Yie Ar Kung-Fu was subsequently widely ported to platforms including the MSX, NES, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro. It was released on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on July 18, 2007 with updated graphics[6] and for the Nintendo DS in Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits. In recent years, this game was re-released on some TV game products.
Yie Ar Kung-Fu was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in July 2010.
A sequel, Yie Ar Kung-Fu II, was released a year later. The sequel was released only for home computers and was never ported to the arcades. Another fighting game by Konami titled Martial Champion was originally planned to be released as Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2. In fact, Jin, the protagonist of Martial Champion, was modeled after Lee, the protagonist of the NES and MSX versions, and after Ryu from Street Fighter II.
The MSX and NES port has many differences from its arcade counterpart. The hero is called Lee and faces only five opponents:
After Chen's defeat, there is a bonus round where the hero must hit objects thrown at him to score points.
This version was relaunched for the Game Boy Color (as a part of Konami GB Collection Vol. 4), Saturn and PlayStation.
There are two hidden characters in the GBA game Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced. To have access to them, the player must input the famous Konami Code at the title screen. The fighters are:
The characters are available in the special two-player mode found on this collection.
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