Like the movie it is based off of, it has elements of humor and light-hearted fighting. Gameplay consists largely of three-dimensional platforming mixed with beat-em-up combat.
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A fearsome guardian awaits the player at the end of each floor, and must be defeated before Thomas can continue his progress up through the temple.The game ties-in with the popular animated film, and follows the story of Po, a slacker of a panda who has aspirations of becoming a great Kung Fu warrior. Thomas must kick and punch through the five enemy-packed floors of the temple to reach Sylvia and rescue her. Thomas receives a ransom demand from the mysterious 'X' informing him that Sylvia is being held in the Devil's Temple. Thomas, the game's hero, and his girlfriend Sylvia are suddenly ambushed by a group of unknown assailants, and Sylvia is kidnapped. Data East licensed the game to popular European home computer systems, while Activision (later, Absolute) provided ports to popular Atari systems available at the time. When Nintendo brought the game to North America, they shortened the title to simply Kung Fu, possibly to avoid legal problems with Data East, who held the rights to the game in North America. It was the third best selling Famicom game released in 1985, selling a reported 1,420,000 copies throughout its lifetime. So they licensed the game from Irem and published it themselves. And the red pillars and ceiling tape were inspired by "Goodbye Bruce Lee, his Last Game of Death".īecause the success of the game coincided with the launch of the Famicom in Japan, Nintendo saw the game as a must-have title for their system. The shot of a kidnapping letter and a tied-up girl in a red dress is taken from "Bruce's Finger".
The 5-Floor Pagoda as well as the third boss who mimics the giant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is taken from "Game of Death". Some of the content is actually inspired by several Bruce Lee movies. More of a comedy than an action title, the game's story is taken directly from the movie, but the content differs quite a bit. Known as Spartan X in Japan, the game was actually based upon a movie of the same name which starred Jackie Chan. The player may choose between punches or kicks, high or low attacks, and jumping or crouching. Instead, he has a life bar that decreases every time the player fails to dodge an attack. The main character does not die from one hit. It was one of the earliest games to feature a lone martial artist who must go up against a massive army of less than capable fighters, as well as bosses that require special strategies to defeat. Kung-Fu Master is the undisputed grandfather of the Beat 'em up genre.
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