Kung Fu Heroes, known in Japan

Japan

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 as , is a 1986 video game developed in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 by the company Nihon Game

Culture Brain

, formally known as , is a small Japanese video game developer and publisher founded on October 5, 1980.Culture Brain's first arcade video game was Monster Zero, released in . In North America, Culture Brain is mostly known for its six video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and its three...

, and released in North America

North America

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 in 1988. It features an overhead view and up to two players may play simultaneously. It is a direct port of the earlier arcade game

Arcade game

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Chinese Hero

Chinese Hero (arcade)

is an arcade action game developed by Nihon Game 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 1986.-Gameplay:The player controls the main character...

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

Chinese Hero

Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword is a wuxia manhua series created by Hong Kong artist Ma Wing-shing. It is also referred to as Blood Sword, Blood Sword Dynasty, A Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword and A Man Called Hero....

, and unlike other titles in the series, it does not incorporate any console role-playing game elements in the gameplay.

Story

Monsters have taken Princess Min-Min captive and have stolen the 10 treasures of the nameless land the game takes place in, leaving everything in sorrow. Kung-fu Masters Jacky and Lee return from training and must set out to rescue the princess and find the treasures.

Gameplay

The player controls one of the characters, Jacky or Lee, and each level pits the player against countless enemy warriors. The goal is for the player to defeat enough enemies so that the door at the top of the room opens allowing the player to exit the room and proceed to the next. Enemies' attacks and weapons vary throughout the game. There are quite a number of BONUS levels which players can enter.

External links

• Kung Fu Heroes at GameFAQs