Chinese Hero

Chinese Hero

released on Oct 01, 1984

Chinese Hero

released on Oct 01, 1984

Chinese Hero is an arcade action game developed by Nihon Game (now Culture Brain) and published by Taiyo System in October 1984. Chinese Hero is the first game in the Super Chinese series by Culture Brain. It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System as Kung Fu Heroes in Japan by the company Nihon Game in 1986 and was released in North America in 1989. Kung-Fu Heroes features an overhead view and up to two players may play simultaneously. It is a direct port of the earlier arcade game Chinese Hero developed by Nihon Game at the time the company was involved in the coin-up industry. Kung-Fu Heroes is an NES port of Chinese Hero, and unlike other titles in the series, it does not incorporate any role-playing video game elements in the gameplay.


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Early brawler with some frustrating gameplay, decent graphics, and mixed bag of audio.

Eh maybe it's because I played with infinite lives but it wasn't the worst thing I've played. Kind of wish the hitboxes were better and my god those big monsters have the most obnoxious noise. In fact the voice samples are kind of bad. It's a fairly simple kind of score attack game. It would be the birth of what would become the Super Chinese series so you gotta start somewhere I guess. Can't really see myself replaying it though.

I... Actually had a hell of a lot more fun with this game than expected. Sure its a bit on the clumsy side and theres a real amount of guesswork when it comes to actually making progress once you hit the fourth set of levels but overall its a pretty fun arcade action game where you punch guys in the back of the head to make them explode and jump on gun toting penguins and floor teeth.

Yep. Its very weird. But it somehow manages to still be pretty addictive thanks to some pretty fast action and a rather addictive gameplay loop. I likey more than I expectey.