Discover Kung-Fu: The Way of the Exploding Fist (also known as Way of the Exploding Fist, The Way of the Exploding Fist), an excellent game of 1985 runnable on Amstrad CPC system. With side view, fixed / flip-screen perspective, the publisher Melbourne House had wonderful ideas around fighting, martial arts.
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Good animations mixed with a deeper set of moves than most fighters of its day.
Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 9: Piko Interactive Collection 1
Well here's another oddity in the Piko pack, a rather legendary (well legendary in Europe anyway) home computer beat-em-up that was set to have a NES port but never released... Until Piko got the rights, got the prototype and fixed it up for an actual release.
Jury for me is still out if it was worth it but I'll be honest, usually these sort of pre-Street Fighter II fighting games do not do it for me. This? I'm never going to call it amazing but it does work a bit.
Mostly because the controls are shockingly quite intuitive with everything being done via tilting the controls or using a button while tilting the controls to achieve different attacks. It takes some getting used to, the Evercade manual certainly helped for once in understanding what did what as my fighter 'Stirmaster' began his journey through fightdom.
Its not perfect control-wise though and sometimes it can feel a little muddy. The game's other big problem is you've basically seen and done everything after just a few bouts and it sort of slogs from that point onwards which is a shame.
So yeah. Gameplay is ok, solid enough but just needed a tiny bit more variety to make it work properly.
Well here's another oddity in the Piko pack, a rather legendary (well legendary in Europe anyway) home computer beat-em-up that was set to have a NES port but never released... Until Piko got the rights, got the prototype and fixed it up for an actual release.
Jury for me is still out if it was worth it but I'll be honest, usually these sort of pre-Street Fighter II fighting games do not do it for me. This? I'm never going to call it amazing but it does work a bit.
Mostly because the controls are shockingly quite intuitive with everything being done via tilting the controls or using a button while tilting the controls to achieve different attacks. It takes some getting used to, the Evercade manual certainly helped for once in understanding what did what as my fighter 'Stirmaster' began his journey through fightdom.
Its not perfect control-wise though and sometimes it can feel a little muddy. The game's other big problem is you've basically seen and done everything after just a few bouts and it sort of slogs from that point onwards which is a shame.
So yeah. Gameplay is ok, solid enough but just needed a tiny bit more variety to make it work properly.