C64 Longplay - Bruce Lee (HQ)

Video from the C64 game "Choplifter"
The video is downloadable at
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[@bichomaldito]

Funny how this game seemed to last FOREVER when I was a kid. And now I realize it's only 10 mins. xD

[@RZORrz]

im not sure its realtime playing, this 10mins can be merged from "better parts"- where he was able to accomplished ;)

[@blondieresource767]

@@RZORrz It's absolutely realtime. Longplays always are and also this is about the same time it takes for me to play Bruce Lee through. Also note that it's his second round completing the game (so the first 10 minutes or so of gameplay are cut) evidenced by having 68k points in the beginning and also the room at 8:00 is more difficult than on the first round.

[@Chris-xi8cl]

8 year old me agrees with you. This game was fun, but felt very difficult then, I would love to try it again 35 years later.

[@AE-bm4no]

@@blondieresource767 further evidence is that the green sumo appears instantly and is even higher difficulty than his easier version. he attacks much faster.

[@CrazyGaming-ig6qq]

So true. The reason was because you could never beat these old c64 games, they were hard AF! It's funny how the first games were basically designed as the perfect speedrun games, you had to train them for looong time, dying again and again, and all the levels reset once you had no more lives, so you had to start over.

[@CrazyGaming-ig6qq]

The sound fx for this game was on another level.

[@sensibleb]

This was one of the first games I had for my C64. I had the cassette version, which took TWENTY TWO minutes to load. But totally worth the wait.

[@WilliWepster]

The C64 learnt me more patience than a Zen master ;-D

[@CritzGiggles]

I haven't played this game in about 20 years... but I remember every single bit of it from when to time movement, to when the AI enemies kill themselves on various things

[@stevenking2980]

It was mind blowing at the time.

[@werre2]

I got stuck staring at this thing with childhood memories flashing by

[@CKevni]

So many memories playing this as a very young kid.....Those were the days...

[@perryellis1423]

This was the game back in the day on my commodore 64

[@luckylucanio8758]

One of my favorite games of all time! This and Pitfall 2 were the first games I beat. Thanks for the memories!!!

[@perryellis1423]

Yes pitfall!!! 🙂

[@skynetintex5878]

...and what about H.E.R.O?@@perryellis1423

[@YATESAsphalt8]

Load Runner I even liked better....

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

one of my favorite games. And impressive for that time to have a 2P function in it as well where player 2 can play as the green giant :D

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Michel van der Linden I always made my little sister be the green booger guy. She got mad on the levels where he wasn't there.

[@mannersbit]

Thanks for sharing. This was one of my favourite games. The game was frozen always at the same part, close to the end, so I never had the chance to see how much was left. But now I see, I was not that bad :)

[@peters8341]

One of the most fun games I've ever played, a lot of C64 actually, just a fun gaming computer

[@BorysBe]

Finally, I saw all the levels! After all these years...

[@waynedaly100]

you can collect the free life 9 times, just go off the screen and come back again and again....

[@raakone]

With me it was just five times. There's been a remake done of it where it's one 1UP per "round", but...that version, things do not get tougher, and certain sounds are missing. In the C64 version, Round 2 is where things go to max hardness....enemies respawn instantly, and the "Electrified Comb Room" has ZERO safe spots.

[@TheGreatIndoors1979]

I love how the main purpose of your enemies were comic relief.

[@dgwaters]

My brother and I played this CONSTANTLY in the 1980's. Even though the graphics are a bit primitive, from a design standpoint, they are a work of art!

[@RostockIndustrial]

My favorite game for the C64. The twoplayer mode was fun as well. Remember the endscreen was the first time I encountered the word "congratulations". Looked it up and learned a word that day :-)

[@josephkarl2061]

2:35 onwards was the reason I enjoyed this game so much. I never got tired of blowing up the baddies on mines.

[@kummer45]

Now doing the part in 8:02 is just a cakewalk. Back then this was almost impossible for me to time up and synchronize the time falling down with the electric charges. This part was ahead of its time.

[@endeckerBM]

Loved this game as a kid. I was great, I played it over and over, but I'd say you are slightly better :-)

[@mresturk9336]

7:56 Wow, they got through the second playthrough mode version of this room. I never could clear it. You have to not only have the timing of Bruce's controls perfect but also carefully time your rather slow falls as not to drop directly on a death beam.

[@joergfuchs8130]

Great game, I play it for 35 years on C64 (with Trainer) I made so much fun. Great gameplay. And very fast👍

[@dunkingsteven6781]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I wish I could play these games again.

[@1Jorgoff1]

great game! the ninja and the green monster are like stan laurel and oliver hardy ahahaaha

[@peterphoenix6471]

he's a sumo...

[@judyhopps9380]

I remember on the C64 that player 2 took over the sumo, for double teaming the ninja

[@Murgoh]

@@judyhopps9380 Yes, I guess you were supposed to play against each other but me and my brother always co-operated.

[@rickstaism]

Yep and then stand there holding down to make the mating call to the moose...

[@chessrookiesarea]

Wow, that was a good game. I remember that this 8bit ninja always scared me to hell back then.

[@majmage]

Definitely one of the better games. Pretty sure a second player could control the bad guys in this game? I seem to remember having fun with my brother while playing it.

[@Wompratz]

Yep, a second player could control the green sumo, whom my friends and I used to call 'Hoshi'. 😅

[@queenielein]

I played this as a child and I remember clearly that I had no idea what the f*** all those strange pixels were supposed to mean.

[@DerSchmu]

Not yet. But this game was even old when I played it. :)

[@miguelpanta]

we nailed this like 28 or so years ago

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

7:57 Hardest room. Timing had to be perfect. 8:54 Second hardest room. Again, timing was important.

[@raakone]

Especially since this guy is playing the second loops, so 7:57, the "Electrified Comb Room" as I call it now, or "The Blue Room", as I used to call it, has ZERO safe spots.

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

@@raakone good point about the landing spots.

[@stevenking2980]

Was a crazy cool game back then. Thanks for showing us.

[@jmp01a24]

The extra life thing (7:33) can be done at least 6-7 times in order to boost up the player lives number. Just came back to me when seeing this vid.

[@alexplotkin3368]

This game was great!

[@ceranegliocchi]

One of my favorite c64 game but I never finished. After 30 years I look the end thx 👍💕

[@chrisferguson5381]

Never made it that far had lots of fun kicking the crap out of the Ninja LOL

[@Crazycupmuffin]

I used to LOVE this game!!!

[@gakigook]

I managed to finish the game, I remember it very vividly now, after viewing this video, cool stuff

[@waynedaly100]

Great game I loved this and Zoro

[@spearPYN]

One of the best games for c64

[@KenMasters.]

spearPYN, it should've been an arcade release.

[@rikk319]

All those jitte and chinese swords everywhere, and flying blades...Bruce was a badass to dodge it all. All with an immortal Yamo and an endless supply of ninja chasing him.

[@tinke79vittu]

@McLarenMercedes I think it refers to the yellow suit he wore in many of his movies

[@kcsledge95]

I used to love how the ninja would come running right at you and all you had to do hold the button down, he'd run right into your punches three times and fall.

[@d7samurai]

yeah.. i laughed out loud just now, watching bruce give that ninja a punch right on the nose that sent him flying backwards right into a mine - that blew him to smithereens.

[@swinetastic]

Easiest final boss EVER lol

[@The_Real_DCT]

I would think the final boss of Vanguard was even easier since he just sits there doing nothing, at least this guy has a attack.

[@raakone]

This "Wizard" WAS the easiest final boss, but lost to a the beating heart thingy at the end of Operation C on the Game Boy, (the goldfish at the end of the Tube Race level in Earthworm Jim don't count as it isn't a FINAL boss)

[@El_Guapo74]

I never got past the final screen and you just run straight at it???? God damn

[@NFITC1]

Haha. Yeah. I remember getting to it and just blazing it without thinking and got to the end. :) This game was crazy hard to me as a kid and that room really threw me off.

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Yeah, he shoots at you but you can outrun them.

[@solidaz80]

I was clocking this game when i was 5...the one C64 that i had on lock, winter games too

[@Rheinmetall1]

Another favourite game! It's funny that the game shows Bruce Lee as a yellow man. :-)

[@bluestar9486]

I remember a bug where if you jumped to a particular spot Bruce would get stuck doing some kind of jig in mid air and the game would freeze

[@raakone]

Yes, there were a few spots like that!

[@CorwinLiz]

Once I got good at beating this, there was never ending fun to be had playing against my brothers, even if some areas all you could do is stand there and yawn over and over as the sumo.

[@AlexBell13]

Man wish I was this good back in the day... :-)

[@BrewsterAcoustic]

@lowpinglag Me too, only C64 game I completed. Didnt US Gold become Ocean?

[@hercufles]

Man I used to waste my time with this game :) Great memories.

[@kupamon]

the green fat guy scream was more bad-ass in the atari 800 version!!

[@d.t.simonbelmont]

Filmnstuff should review this!

[@kummer45]

I want a full construction of this game in Unreal engine 5.1 with current graphics with extended game play of the classical platforming scheme.

[@lucmoi8356]

un super jeu pour l’époque like

[@Halligen1972]

Evergreen! Graphics: 6.5/10 Gameplay: 8.0/10 Music/FX: 5/10 Playbility: 8/10

[@racefaceec90]

i would love a modern update to this classic game (i know there is ultimate bruce lee which is awesome btw ;-). would love to be able to play this online with 2 other people controlling the other characters.that would be perfect :-)

[@bugpadzero]

Looks like the same graphics team behind the C64 version of “Zorro”

[@heinzmeier5341]

Bei 8:00 war meistens Schluss :(

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Well played! A classic game! JW3HH

[@Crazycupmuffin]

@BorysBe haha that's just what i was thinking. I spent countless hours trying to beat it and always thought i got close. Now i realize i only made it about half way through haha.

[@nospampp]

brilliant moves there at 1:05 ! couldn't have done it better when i was 12 :)

[@napalmhardcore]

I'm not sure if the C64 version was different, but in the Atari version the second player took control of the green guy. If you didn't move him after a few seconds the computer would take over control of him. I remember having arguments with my brother because the computer would take over control and kick him off a ledge when he wasn't expecting it lol.

[@DC180]

I luved the multiplayer co op when you could be the buddah or ninja and assist bruce lee. My bro used to get pissed off because there was no friendly fire.

[@raakone]

I noticed you started this at the second "round"......where bad guys immediately respawn when killed, and there's literally NO SAFE SPOT TO STAND in the ELECTRIFIED COMB ROOM (you know what place I'm talking about, eh?)

[@rsnilssen]

what difficulty is this? theres a few discrepancies from what I remenber, like the electricity room, as far as I remember the electrfied floor didnt extend all the way to the edges on any but the lowest floor

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Rune Nilssen I think 5 yrs is long enough for you to wait for a reply :) Think this was on medium difficulty. Not sure what easy was (maybe no bad guys). Hard was the green booger guy could go up ladders to follow you. Made it tougher for sure.

[@connycontainer9459]

You could play the green guy with a second joystick if I remember correctly. Which was fun multi-player or cheating when playing alone.

[@norcuron12]

as i was a kid, i thought: if half naked guy is the bruce lee, the black is ninja, then green must be bolo young. i played it many months in a row 20 years ago...

[@rikk319]

Green guy's name in the game was Yamo. That statue of the horned pig on the top level my brothers and I always called 'Yamo's Mama' :P

[@endeckerBM]

By the way, I think the guy's name is Ron Fortier, not Ron Frontier.

[@ThanksIfYourReadIt]

My brother loved this one :D

[@r4d213ck1]

2.06 jak trzymasz dżojstik w dół i fajer to to coś zacznie ruch w dół

[@TheCodedtestament]

This game is almost as great as the kungfu legend himself. Whaataa! whoaaa! Even now, this is better than the Xbox version in terms of gameplay

[@javierguerra8066]

What does "HQ" mean? Horrendous Quality?

[@MystikWizard]

The Emperor at the end was a big letdown. All you had to do was high tail it full speed to press the button and destroy him. Virtually no effort put into him.

[@peterphoenix6471]

yeh but bruce looks so hilarious running that fast......totally worth it!

[@luckylucanio8758]

The final boss reminds me of Vanguard. Easy as hell to beat him LOL

[@chrisferguson5381]

Was there a 2 player mode

[@lorrainedowning2623]

I don't think so.

[@jezhy]

Yes it is. You're playing as a Green Yamo, which makes life a lot easier.

[@olynxmano]

Alien Bruce ;)

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

When things were much better, when there was variety in games, although didnt look the best. Pitstop 2 good 2 player as well Now the graphics are much better, but all the games are the same 42, but blessed I grew up without facebook, instagram etc.

[@xenomorph1078]

9:09 😂

[@barrygoldwater360]

If you had 2 joysticks, the other person could jump in and play the black ninja!

[@earthwatcher2012]

Is there a way I can play this on a Mac?

[@earthwatcher2012]

Still waiting.... ;-(

[@captainviggo4575]

earthwatcher2012 Use a C64 emulator like Vice.

[@traceyleech1904]

Wow, whoever played this granddad's game, you must now be at least age 40. :)

[@TokyoJoe703]

Tracey Leech I am exactly 40. This game was awesome and still is

[@shawbros]

I was damn good at this game. Pissed a couple of my friends off by constantly killing them on it.

[@Netreek]

The green guy was something like a sumo-wrestler or so I think. however this game had really absolutly nothing to do with the Bruce lee movies *laughs* And I am sure Bruce Lee would have NEVER EVER given his name for that. Even though it was fun to play back then. If you would try to make a Bruce Lee game in todays times I guess it would look somehow like Sleeping dogs.

[@lbsearches]

Green Yamo!

[@TokyoJoe703]

Is Green Yamo yawning or shouting? I always thought he was calling for ninja. The spectrum version was better than this. The final room was piss easy

[@rikk319]

I thought it was his battle cry or challenge to Bruce.

[@aivokallo77]

Try naming easier boss fight in the history of video games.

[@melissarainchild]

I wasted way more then ten mibnutes on that one;....

[@knight2000-NC]

mostly easy game

[@elmexx5813]

poor ninja was always the punching bag =) thnx for the upload