Yie-Ar Kung Fu
| Yie Ar Kung-Fu | |
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Promotional sales flyer
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami (arcade) Imagine (computers) |
| Composer(s) | Miki Higashino |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Famicom/NES, MSX, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron |
| Release |
Arcade
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| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | One or two players (alternating turns) |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| CVG | 34/40 (BBC/C64/CPC/ZX) |
| Crash | 92% (ZX) |
| Sinclair User |
  (ZX) |
| Your Sinclair | 8/10 (ZX) |
| ACE |
(C64/CPC/ZX) |
| Award | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Crash | Crash Smash |
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. Along with 1984's Karate Champ, which influenced Yie-Ar Kung Fu, it is one of the games that established the basis for modern fighting games.
Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Chinese: 一二功夫; pinyin: yī èr gōngfū; literally: "One Two Kung Fu") features the protagonist Oolong (Chinese: 烏龍; pinyin: Wūlóng, Japanese: ウーロン Ūron; see oolong) (renamed Lee for the MSX and Famicom ports), controlled by the player. Oolong must fight all the martial arts masters given by the game (11 in the arcade version; five to 13 in the home ports) 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".
The player faces a variety of opponents, each with a unique appearance and fighting style. The player can perform up to 16 different moves, using a combination of buttons and joystick movements while standing, crouching or jumping. Moves are thrown at high, middle, and low levels. 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 lying on their sides. Feedle disappears. There are only two female fighters, and the rest are male. When a player gains an extra life, the word "" (Mandarin for "thank you") is heard.
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