Yie Ar Kung-Fu Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]

[@brazilmugenteam]

Man, I played this A LOT back on the day. One of the first arcades I ever played.

[@johannesvanlaken7797]

amen

[@moyza_]

Me too - in the original cabinet, no less! I remember seeing SF II and thinking "whoa, they copied a lot from Yie-Air Kung Fu, didn't they?" 😄

[@runnerba]

I´m too

[@johnwilburn]

There was an arcade at the beach that had this when I was a kid. Loved it!

[@thomasbruns6103]

This game was everything.

[@JudsonThomas]

I’m not sure what made me happier... 1. Remembering this game. 2 googling random searches to try and remember the title 3. Finding said game and title. 4 going down memory lane watching this video. Or probably 5. Reading everyone’s comments and Seeing there are at least 45 other people in the world that feel exactly how I feel about this game!!! Love you all!!! This was the first arcade game I ever played and I will never forget how much I loved it... but dang I sucked at it and used to rage too lol 😂. All the best everyone

[@yankees29]

I went through the same thing about 4 years back. Took a few minutes of googling to figure it out.😂

[@RIDGEMATIC]

Walking to the corner store to watch the big kids show me how to beat tonfun was LIFE!!!

[@Miles8586]

I could never pass the first stage, made me so mad 😂 I was also 10 and had the reaction time of a turtle

[@astraloutlaw6549]

If you have a PS4, you could perhaps relive those memories. They actually have the game on PS4, and I was playing it recently. You'll have to look up 'Arcade Archives' to find it.

[@montycircus7705]

The title translates to "One Two Kung Fu", which would have been a perfect and much more memorable name for it in the West.

[@megatron8461]

January 1985-I’ve played yie ar Kung fu in many bowling alleys. It was intense!

[@carlmunn3814]

Fun fair use to come around every year on a Field by my junior school arrrrrrrrr the memory’s . I was the best at this every 1 would gather round and watch me . Shame I was no gd at any thing else 😂😂😂 I could get to blues second time around . Arrr bring bk them memory’s

[@mackaready1]

I’ll never forget the times playing this game with my buddies. Twelve years old at the corner store in NE Philadelphia. Little corner store at Englewood and Loretto Sts.

[@BlackArroToons]

The first arcade fighting game I ever played as a kid, and also the most challenging of them all. Very tough game.

[@j-rockeastwood2013]

Im 45 years old and watched this while im at work. I never had enough quarters to go this fire. Awesome

[@faithfulfly3456]

I've been searching for this game for years. I use to go to the movies a lot as a teenager during the late eighties. This game was in the lobby and I'd play it so much. One day it was gone and I've missed it every since.

[@Bobaklives]

Hearing that intro tune, I can smell the pizzeria where I played this in the 1980s 😊

[@Tigerman1138]

I remember this game. I called it “Air Kung-do.” It is like the great grandfather of 1x1 fighting games. Karate champ Street Fighter Street Fighter II Mortal Kombat… And more.

[@dysmorphiac]

This was a bit after karate champ. But since karate champ has the same movesets for both characters, we could Say that this one is the grandfather of the 2D fighting game genre

[@synthonaplinth5980]

That double hand strike while doing the splits was one of the coolest moves in this game.

[@evanhanley6437]

Played this a lot on Konami's Arcade Classics on the Nintendo DS. One of the most influential and famous fighting games of all time. It truly was ahead of its time. It was also the first fighting game to use actual fighting styles and have the announcer say perfect.

[@JoseBronxRican]

All good except the last: the "announcer" (the protagonist?) is saying "xie xie", which is Mandarin for "thank you".

[@jasonlee7816]

1985 Yie Ar Kung Fu arcade game wasn’t ahead of its time it had the same or similar hardware (technology) as the 1983 Gyruss arcade game, 1984 Hyper Sports arcade game, 1984 Mickie arcade game, 1984 Road Fighter arcade game, 1985 Shao Lins Road arcade game, 1983 Track & Field arcade game

[@ShallRemainUnknown]

@@jasonlee7816 Arcade "game", as in software, not hardware. He's saying the game itself has some innovative aspects.

[@ramilleallen1101]

@@jasonlee7816 it was definitely ahead of its time. it was the best fighting game until sf2 was introduced in the 90s

[@DanielSong39]

@@ramilleallen1101 Yeah I think Kung Fu Master started the age of beat-em-ups which ruled until Street Fighter II came out WWF Superstars was pretty good though, I guess it's not quite the same as a 1V1 fighting game

[@locutus442]

Oh the memories playing this game. I loved playing this game back then.

[@davidpatsko1237]

Excellent job! I remember playing this at Mr. Hero's restaurant on Denison Avenue across from the old roller skating rink in Cleveland, Ohio. You have excellent strategies, especially against Tonfun & Blues. Thanks for great memories

[@angelshadowofficial9218]

The few quarters I could get my hands on in a day all went to this classic. The sounds alone brought me back to those times❤

[@RIDGEMATIC]

This is one of my favorite KZbin videos EVER, all I can say is thank you SOOOOOO much!!! 💪🏾

[@ArttuTheCat]

An timeless arcade classic. I played this arcade version on my XBOX 360. I also finished it once on the Commodore 64. And you, AL82, longplayed 💪🦵✊👊 as the great Kung Fu warrior. 😺👍🕹️

[@fbiunit6977]

What was the arcade version in?

[@RIDGEMATIC]

I literally only got the 360 because I heard this was on it. By far my favorite game ever!!!

[@zerobyte802]

In the C64 version, Pole was brutal.

[@werdgawd]

This was street fighter before street fighter was street fighter lol

[@manny8479]

THANK YOU for this! This was my go to game back in the day! It’s hilarious to see how easily you destroy them now. Great stuff!

[@psterud]

I loved this game as a kid. It was a nice step up from Karate Champ. Great memories.

[@zachgaskins3731]

It's interrupted by another strike sound but @ 0:17 if you punch Buchu in the groin to counter his roundhouse, his eyes bug out and he remarks, "ni hao?"...literally him shouting "HELLO!?" in shock.

[@waltercalderon5762]

Took me back to 1985 man, thanks! I remember everything about this game and had been searching for it on KZbin with no luck because I couldn’t remember the exact name. This was our street fighter before Street Fighter! Memory Lane is such a wonderful place!

[@stevo6203]

This was the first arcade game i played. it was built into an arcade machine that you would have to sit inside of. Man this is my childhood lol. This and Commando were my jam.

[@jesusnodal8948]

I definitely played this a ton of times!!! Good times when I was a kid!!!

[@johannesvanlaken7797]

Easy times man, no responsabilities 🙂

[@FloridaHeat72]

On of the best fighting games in the 80s

[@faby6515]

It may not look like it, but this game was brutal in terms of difficulty. Pole alone could sweep you

[@WanderlustZero]

The sprites have so much character. 80s graphic design #1!

[@cigoLxeL]

I feel like not enough people are noticing how hilariously perfect that thumbnail is. You nailed him right in the schmeckle, and that look of stunned horror his eyes tells us that the full sensation is only just now reaching his pain center.

[@davefarris1255]

I could never get past Blues. I had no idea the game just looped endlessly 😂

[@glenbaker8412]

Yeah, bit disappointed. I came here for the ending 🤦‍♂️

[@sjake8308]

A lot of games back then looped endlessly.

[@shannonmoore2460]

Went on vacation with aunt and uncle one summer must have been 85 to Russian River in Northern CA, the little town of Gurrneville had an arcade, I'd spend hours there while my aunt would shop. Loved this game!

[@EdH447]

The precursor to Street Fighter...... great memories.

[@azerothcitizen4207]

I loved this game back then, and I still play it in emulators :)

[@gregkilby7043]

Wasn't this one of the first arcade games to feature a health bar? First played this at Lowestoft whilst holidaying in the Norfolk Broads (east England) in 1985!

[@robertrodriguez787]

I thought that was Kung Fu Master

[@MalamiteLtd]

​@@robertrodriguez787 It was either that or Namco's "Dragon Buster"

[@pablot-r9402]

For me, my first exposure to this awesome & challenging arcade cabinet was mid 80s at Houston's Willowbrook Mall at Aladdin's Castle arcade (right across from the food court Haagen Dazs ice creamery and movie theater entrance) and remembering thinking it was comparable to Data East's Karate Champ in terms of a variety of techniques you could use, as well as reaching "zero distance" on your opponent and not getting hit until either you or the opponent launched a technique. Having capacity to take damage made this one of the first true "fighting games", with others like Punch-Out (same release date year) offering the same kind of "fight until you're KO'ed" arcade fun experience! Great memories in many arcades (malls, corner stores, eateries, indoor & outdoor amusement parks, bowling alleys, hotel lobbies, arcade games were just everywhere).

[@josephtaylor3857]

"Oolong wins. Flawless victory. Fatality." :)

[@henriklarsson7770]

Id rather play this than any of the modern 3D fighters. I loved this in the arcades and i wish i could turn back the time.

[@City2x]

I played this game like crazy on my c64.

[@aalloy6881]

I remember seeing this in 7-Elevens back in the late 1980s...Also the Goonies NES game and Tiger Road.

[@LTDANMAN44]

HAHA I COULD NEVER GET PAST THE 3RD GUY. THIS IS AWESOME

[@Hawkeye_-eq5lh]

Thanks for the memories. Bought this for my C64 on release with pocket money.

[@St.James2nd]

This and Karate Champ were the first fighting games I can remember

[@moyza_]

People need to accept that this 1985 8-bit game has better sprites then the first, 1987 Street Fighter.

[@zerobyte802]

And better gameplay😂

[@jimmysong1347]

yeah, it was my favorite game back in 1980's. I joined Kung fu class because of this game.

[@tonyploma2330]

Loved this game but could never get past tonfun. Watching this person beat him so easily just repeating the same move makes me wish I knew that back then. Really enjoy watching all these old games we use to play

[@persona83]

Loved this game back in the day. Wish the NES version was more like the arcade version.

[@ArttuTheCat]

Let's not forget the MSX version. That was as same as the NES. 😺

[@solarflare9078]

@@ArttuTheCat But better. The NES version is a rather mediocre port of the MSX version.

[@GFYM_Finance]

Maryann's Sub Shop, Bricktown, NJ, summer of 1987. I'd live there and play this game all summer (with some guy named "Mid" who'd always have sunglasses on get the highest scores on the game, and "fuck you" Rob, who'd aways slam the joystick and yell "fuck you!" after his character died. Great times!! ❤

[@FuzFuz]

I love this game.

[@mrp6459]

Brilliantly simple game. Would even be good in 2024!! I just wanted to put all my money in the arcade into this !! And ‘Gauntlet’!!

[@e11aguru]

Oh, that's how you beat Blues. I played the arcade machine a ton as a kid and always thought he was impossible.

[@nzrichie4125]

I remember putting a lot of 20 cent coins into this game

[@davcar23]

I used to play this game when I was 13 in 1984... before going to my TKD class, I would be late all the time.

[@raul110104]

The first game that showed you how to do the moves was mind blowing for me as a kid😊

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

What an awesome game, I used to walk to my local bowling alley whenever I had a couple of spare quarters to play this and Punch-Out!!

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

such a great game from 1984.

[@Bloodreign1]

1985 was it's year of release. I remember it from a laundromat that is still around, but every game, except a Ms Pac Man with a dying monitor, are long gone.

[@Big_Chico]

Wow this is nostalgic which is crazy bc when I was playing this on the GBA it was already nostalgic to people lol.

[@gregoriodelatorre4922]

Yo pasaba dos veces la tercera vez llegaba hasta Tonfun que Increíble Tonfun ,no moria

[@Doraemon_Tupiniquim]

You are the master of Kung Fu Bro 👍

[@anthonyt1t5]

This definitely feels like the ancestor to the street fighter games.

[@rivafussball6719]

Wow spent my whole pre teens & all my pocket money playing this game on arcade in the 80s

[@robertedwards9]

Dis game was AWESOME wen I was a Youngen 😁👌🏾💪🏾🤙🏾💯💖🎯🔥🔥🔥

[@aminekostone1411]

I love this game so much I have the arcade board!!!

[@whatspopular3268]

I remember playing this when I was about 10 at the local take away/fish and chip store in New Zealand. We nick named the store the top shop because it was on a hill. We use to laugh because there were other shops with arcade games but they didnt have this one. 2 yrs later or so the street fighter with fighters Mike Gen Birdie thingd were changing.

[@DanielSong39]

Yeah I see where Street Fighter II gets its ideas from Huge step up from Karate Champ

[@_Iamdmoney]

Played this all the time in the hood at the candy store. I just always remembered after chain was where shit got interesting

[@anasaid2009]

Waaaaou , it reminded me my childhood , we alway had the fighting for this arcad game who’s the one who play the 1st 😂😂😂

[@ps-lover8380]

I played nes version back and the day now I can play this version in arcade archives

[@derekabdullah7618]

I own the record of that Konami Kung Fu game played at 3 hours straight on one quarter back in 1993 the last time I saw it in Chicago Illinois 59th place I haven't seen it since old school arcade game they are hard to find

[@anaximander66]

Whoever is playing this is a badass, very hard game

[@pajeetsingh]

Like the design of shuriken throwing ninja girl. After defeat, she just lays down with her face shown.

[@miguelangelvelazquez8878]

Cuando era niño jugaba este videojuego

[@bricefunk146]

I have play at this game in arcade room, very good remember 😃

[@zenzen1011]

Lol

[@fikretgucer9820]

Sene 1985 ortaokulu asar cafeye bu oyun için giderdik hey gidi günler hey

[@Containmentbreach087]

Remember playing this at the bowling alley on base

[@TheStandardBearer]

This arcade game was fun, but challenging for me.

[@yankees29]

It was a tough game. I remember getting deep in them not being able to beat one of them.

[@Knh55-u5l]

Used to play this , great fun n loved the music

[@raulcrespo.9]

Played this game on ds, fan a tonfun were very hard, I reached Blues once, but he gets rough when his life is at half. A friend of mine was able to beat blues. I had the theory that Blues is Oolong's father

[@leroyvisiongames2294]

The game's plot is that Oolong's father died and he's fighting to avenge him

[@joejohnson538]

Love this game ,My local grocery store had it spent many of quarters, Btw is the first boss the first version of E Honda?? (Street fighter??)

[@maestrolodahl8681]

Well frakking played!! :D :)

[@christopherhill6790]

man i loved this game as kid \

[@christianwootton100]

Fan was the toughest one for me to figure out. After that I could play on "one quarter" til I got bored.

[@alyours2889]

Along with Karate Champ, Exciting hour (coco savage wrestling game) and maybe 1 or 2 others...true forefathers of Street Fighter and other modern fighting fames!

[@dpitt1516]

My all time favourite arcade game followed by 1942 !!!!!!!!!

[@elburto5387]

I never got past fan lady as a kid

[@markf5931]

It's not the same without the "biu biu biu biu...."

[@Protocultor]

8:51 wait, you can wavedash in this game? Awesome!

[@vampyr69]

I could never get that ground kick right!

[@АлександрСмирнов-с3э]

Where can I to download this version of this game?

[@frodofraggins]

Watching this, I'm pretty sure I never got beyond the chain guy.

[@alg678]

Used to watch the teenagers play this in Safeway when I was a kid in the 80s.

[@superjustinebros3504]

Let me tell you fighter fellowers about this game before Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, or any fighting games in the future, this was the first game that features health bars which the game tells you to defend yourselves from being opponent's attack hold left or right to evade the attack but except Yie Ar Kung Fu.

[@madkaco]

Eu fiquei tão bom nesse Game que o dono da casa de fliperama devolvia a minha ficha e só deixava eu jogar de novo depois das outras crianças jogarem! 😂

[@tdickensheets]

39 years ago

[@yellowsatan]

Looks so much nicer than the commodore 64 version...

[@renatoaus]

é muito a minha infância no fliperama da Praia Grande hehe

[@tozukiyaniko5131]

What console/platform was this version of Yie Ar Kungfu made for ?

[@TokyoTraveller]

Anybody else notice that the star lady was throwing little swastikas at Player 1?

[@jeffbilling2515]

Blues is a nightmare!

[@valjeanlee7060]

You know how many quarters I spent on this..

[@internalwarrior2410]

Sounds very similar to Sega master music.. I wonder if they use the same music chips

[@jgoodman75]

I seem to remember that you could hit buchu in the nuts and his eyes would get big

[@KenMasters.]

Konami should've first made the NES/MSX version, with this Arcade version titled as *Yie Ar Kung-Fu II.*