/vr/ - Retro Games

So this started as an arcade game based on a Jackie Chan movie although only very loosely and it was probably an existing beat em up Irem already had and slapped the license on. The Famicom port was supposed to be the first Irem game on the system but Nintendo insisted on doing the port themselves for some reason so 10 Yard Fight ended up as Irem's FC debut. There was a later second printing as just Kung Fu after they lost the Spartan X license; that cartridge is rare and kind of a collector's item. Like a lot of the early NES/FC titles it's fun for about 20 minutes of gameplay but you can't exactly fit much content in 40k of ROM. An entertaining fact about Spartan X/Kung Fu is that it was the first NES/FC game to feature the familiar plot of a group of baddies kidnapping your girlfriend and you have to rescue her. There are a few home computer ports of Spartan X as well (as Kung Fu Master so they didn't have to pay for the license) but you really don't want to play those.

There was also an urban myth with this game that if you beat it 8x in a row Sylvia was revealed as a baddie and you had to fight a boss battle with her; bunch of nonsense peddled by Japanese gaming magazines.