Yie Ar Kung Fu

**hansolo77** · February 2, 2017

February 2017 GOTM Winner: ExedExes - 258,900 (link)

Yie Ar Kung-Fu Leaderboard

POSITION	USER NAME	TOTAL SCORE
1	ExedExes	258,900
2	rtkiii	166,600
3	patrickfx	130,800
4	Cynicaster	127,700
5	Floyd Turbo	121,600
6	millerbrad	94,400
7	Luigimaker	93,000
8	hansolo77	92,500
9	RedDog	84,700

Last Updated by hansolo77: 02-24-2019

Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Yie Ar Kung Fu:

ROMSet: Yiear
Lives: 1
Cabinet: Upright
Bonus Life: 30000 80000
Difficulty: Normal
Flip screen: Off
Upright Controls: Single
Service Mode: Off
Special Rules: None

The green coloured default values match the Twin Galaxies settings.
The red coloured values need to be changed!

# you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide:
# you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide:
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**hansolo77** · February 2, 2017

You voted, here it is! A game I've never heard of, but that doesn't mean it's not popular! While researching the game, I soon learned that it was actually a very popular game in the UK when it was released, and is one of the precursors to Street Fighter and many other games in the fighting genre. It was so popular that it was ported to lots of home consoles, and re-released in combo collections packs and even remastered for the Xbox360/etc. Hope you guys enjoy!

Yie Ar Kung-Fu (イー・アル・カンフー Ī Aru Kanfū^?) is a 1985 arcade fighting game developed and published by Konami. Along with 1984's Karate Champ, which influenced Yie-Ar Kung Fu, it is one of the games that established the basis for modern fighting games.^[3]

Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Chinese: 一二功夫; pinyin: yī èr gōngfū; literally: "One Two Kung Fu") features the protagonist Oolong (Chinese: 烏龍; pinyin: Wūlóng, Japanese: ウーロン Ūron; see oolong) (renamed Lee for the MSX and Famicom ports), controlled by the player. Oolong must fight all the martial arts masters given by the game (11 in the arcade version; five to 13 in the home ports) to win the title of "Grand Master" and honor the memory of his father. On his side is a variety of punch and kick blows reachable by combining the joystick with one of the buttons (punch or kick). He also has the greatest jumping ability of all the game's fighters, with the exception of "Blues".

The player faces a variety of opponents, each with a unique appearance and fighting style.^[4]^[5] The player can perform up to 16 different moves,^[6] using a combination of buttons and joystick movements while standing, crouching or jumping.^[7] Moves are thrown at high, middle, and low levels. Regardless of the move that defeated them, male characters (save Feedle) always fall unconscious lying on their backs with their legs apart (players flail their feet), and female characters always fall lying on their sides. Feedle disappears. There are only two female fighters, and the rest are male. When a player gains an extra life, the word "xiè xiè" (Mandarin for "thank you") is heard.

- Quote from Wikipedia (link)

**RedDog** · February 3, 2017

The game begins. How powerful is your Kung Fu?

55,600

**hansolo77** · February 4, 2017

I played this a bit to get familiar with it in the hopes of posting a score this month. I suck once I hit the 2nd stage.

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**RedDog** · February 7, 2017

Cowards...all cowards! Is there no one to challenge the might of my Kung Fu?!?!?!?!?

I laugh in your general direction. HA HA HA HA HA HA

**patrickfx** · February 8, 2017

I will, soon. It was one of the game that I was looking for in arcade when I was young. But not enough money to play because it was too difficult in that moment.

So, stage 4 is not too bad I suppose!

Some tips to share

**rtkiii** · February 9, 2017

Funny thing is....this is not the game I thought it was LOL Looks cool though.

**RedDog** · February 10, 2017

On 2/7/2017 at 9:19 PM, patrickfx said:

Some tips to share

The controls for this game are a bit different than other fighting games. You expect that in order to do a move you would press a button and joystick direction at the same time. Actually, you press a button and then a direction. Because of this scheme, you can press and hold a button and then move the joystick in different directions to chain moves together. Pressing the punch or kick button alone actually does nothing.

The one thing the game lacks is the ability to defend, so the best way I have found to win is to string combo attacks that have similar ranges.

**hansolo77** · February 10, 2017

That's probably my problem with stage 2 and beyond. I didn't think to press the button first, I was doing it backwards. I'll definitely come back and try to post a score here soon on this. My server kinda went down and is taking priority at the moment. Thanks for the tip @RedDog!

**Cynicaster** · February 14, 2017

127,700

Never played this one before. Not a huge fan, to be honest. I can see how this would have a nostalgic appeal if I had played it in the 80s, but to me, the "one on one fighter" type game is defined by Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken. It's kind of hard to start with those games and then go back to this one and try to appreciate it.

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**hansolo77** · February 16, 2017

And here comes Cyn, showing RedDog who the BIG dog is...

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**hansolo77** · February 17, 2017

Here's my entry...

Score: 92,500
Stage: 4
Initials: HAN

I got a 30k bonus for beating the first guy without getting hit (perfect). Not as good as Cyn though, but I'm happy with it (for now.....).

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**patrickfx** · February 18, 2017

On 14/02/2017 at 3:26 PM, Cynicaster said:

127,700

Never played this one before. Not a huge fan, to be honest. I can see how this would have a nostalgic appeal if I had played it in the 80s, but to me, the "one on one fighter" type game is defined by Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken. It's kind of hard to start with those games and then go back to this one and try to appreciate it.

Hummm! Never play and you got 127,700, stage 9. Me, I did arround that too after 10 games and realize my setting was not set for 1 play per game !!!

**RedDog** · February 19, 2017

Those are some pretty darn good scores. I may have to do a training montage just to hope to come close.

**hansolo77** · February 21, 2017

"It's the... Eye of the Tiger..."

**Mame Offender** · February 21, 2017

I will be Paulie, score wise for this one...

**patrickfx** · February 21, 2017

27 minutes ago, Mame Offender said:

I will be Paulie, score wise for this one...

MO, what that mean. Sorry, I miss some sense in english :wacko:

So, there is my score tonigh. 130800 stage 9. I'm myself surprise, I start to play with 3 lifes for practice, then go back to 1 live and boom, no mistake until stage 9.

But still bonus on 30,000 and 80,000 that's good. Is it me or I think there is a bonus live at 110,00 too (80k + 30k)

**hansolo77** · February 21, 2017

I suppose a bonus life at 110k is possible. I never made it that far to confirm. Nice entry there Pat.. will it be enough to hold the lead? We only have 1 more week to find out!

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**patrickfx** · February 21, 2017

Well! Until cinycaster and MO play again 😭 i know they can do a lot better.

**ExedExes** · February 25, 2017

OH HAI

Who's this returning to GameEx?

Why it's me, your old pal Exed.

Apologies for not being here the past few months, so much has been going on and this month is the Yolympics competition in which I'm a team captain for the 2nd year in a row (and not doing all that great, really)

But THIS game I couldn't pass up. I've played it on the Game Boy Advance (and the GBA version gives you 3 lives to start and a hidden third "history" after you complete the first two) Even with one life, it's still no problem (and extra lives become available later on)

ExedExes - 258,900

**hansolo77** · February 26, 2017

There goes my shot at 3rd place lol

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**RedDog** · February 28, 2017

Well, I went to the mountain seeking the great master and after a whole lotta training montages, this is the best I could do...

84,700

I've never gotten a score as high as Ex put up. Some people just have natural talent. I guess I will just have to settle for my good looks.

**hansolo77** · March 1, 2017

It's the control scheme that blew it for me. It's hard to play when you're used to other fighting games requiring you to press the button AFTER you make your joystick move. This one is in reverse, so it threw me off. Your score was still pretty good considering. I'm coming into this game having never heard of it or played it. Meanwhile, our better scorers have some experience going into it. It's all good though, it's just for fun!

Our February GOTM contest is now over, but you don't have to stop playing this game! We have our winner, but we look forward to receiving more submissions and the eventual dethroning! Join me in congratulating ExedExes in his supremacy!

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**patrickfx** · March 2, 2017

Good job exedexes

**millerbrad** · July 8, 2017

Barreling toward that Top Ten section on the overall leaderboard!!

94,400

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