showing 3 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Hero | Sega | 1986 | A bunch of seedy punks - complete with mohawks - try to steal your girl. It's a new variation on the old "Boy loses Girl" theme. Only it's more like "Boy loses life, if he doesn't get Girl back." Battle knife throwers, ferocious bulldogs, flying bottles, even the gang leader - whose name happens to be Mohikan. If it all seems hopelessly overwhelming, take heart. You're a high-ranking kung fu master. So you do have incredible martial arts skills in your favor. But then again, you don't have your girl. The punks do.*** [22]*** [52]*** [52] | labelimagesubject |
| Hokuto no Ken | Sega;Tec Toy (Sega) | 1986 | [169]*** [100]*** [22]*** [52]***[b]Description for Black Belt[/b] In this game, you play Riki. Kyoko, your beautiful Japanese girlfriend, has been kidnapped, and in order to rescue her, you must get through a tireless army of enemies. These enemies come equipped with weapons that include whips, knives, swords, and flamethrowers, but Riki has to make do with his well-trained martial arts body. Black Belt is a side-scrolling game that is split into seven chapters. During these chapters, you are fighting Chinese Kung Fu men, wrestlers, jujitsu men, eagles, ninjas, and black women. When you get halfway through the chapter, you will fight a different enemy than one that you encounter before. At the end of each chapter, you have to defeat several bosses before continuing on to the next round. Each type of these has their own personal strengths and weaknesses. Once you touch an enemy or boss, you will lose energy. once you lose all energy, you lose a life, but more life can be restored by getting the cake when it comes across the screen in mid-air, or by defeating an enemy that will come at you halfway and you receive a bonus for doing so. Black Belt is a modified version of the Japanese-exclusive Hokuto no Ken, with the licence removed and new level designs.***Hokuto no Ken, or 'Fist of the North Star', is based on the popular Japanese series of the same name. You're Kenshiro, the Fist of the North Star, and must fight your way through a desolate and apocalyptic world. The game consists of two parts that are constantly changing. First you fight enemies in an open arena much like Final Fight, and then you battle against the boss in the typical 2D fighting way. The game was quite violent (enemies were blown to gory pieces), and therefore there was a censored version released called 'Black Belt.' I have to admit that the 'Final Fight'-like stages are really fun (but repetive), but the boss levels are just plain bad, the CPU fights unfair, and you don't really have a chance to fight with tactics. Presentation is mediocre, with small sprites and lousy sounds and music, yet this game features nice paralax-scrolling. In the end, it's just another unfair game that you actually don't need, unless you're a die-hard Master System fan.***In Black Belt, the U.S. version of the game, the character sprites have been altered and renamed. For instance, Ken is now a generic karate fighter named Riki. [Jacquismo] | labelimagesubject |
| Kung Fu Kid | Sega | 1987 | Get ready to perform the martial arts with the precision of a master. Now is the time to accept your fate as the most courageous man alive. You're the invincible Wang. The most skilled Kung Fu artist in the history of ancient China. Armed with the mysterious and traditional Talisman, your talents are the only defense against the wicked Madanda, the most dreaded creature to ever live. He's just awakened from a sleep of several thousand years and his desire is to terrorize your village and devour its people. The battle will be furious. And nobody knows the outcome for sure. So fight with pride and power to send this unnatural force to a final resting place.*** [4]*** [33]*** [49]*** [47] | labelimagesubject |
