Shawn Jefferson Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 This is one of my favorite games on the 8-bit. I've got to the wizard screen dozens of times. I always turn the game off after running through once though. Last night, I didn't. I played again. Wow! The green yami is much more agressive and fast the second time around. Also, the screen with all the burning "matches" is harder since there are no safe platforms to land on from one level to the other. Also, there is no extra lives (the yellow gongs.) The third time around I didn't notice much difference, but I didn't play right to the end a third time. Is there anything else that happens the more times you beat it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I can't find any server in kaillera with ATARI800Win games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eplicon Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Winning the game multiple times, other than it being harder, doesn't do anything interesting. I think the most I played it through was four or five times ages ago. Of course, it also helped having around 40 lives to get me through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 (edited) I'm finding this game really tough, I usually always lose the game when I get to the first red room with those bushes that spring up. The combination of those and trying to get rid of the two enemies is hard. I think the furthest I've ever got is one or two screens after that one, once. The controls seem a bit unresponsive sometimes too, like on the rare occasion when I press the fire button to do a flying kick he doesn't do it, then again maybe my joystick is on it's way out? Edited May 29, 2008 by Ross PK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 That is an awesome game; easily one of the most fun for the 8-bitters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 (edited) I do think it's quite good, but I wonder why people think it's so brilliant, like one of the best games for the 8-bit? What is it about this game that makes it so great? Edited May 29, 2008 by Ross PK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 What is it about this game that makes it so great? Not sure today, but it felt "unique" when playing it in that old days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 I do think it's quite good, but I wonder why people think it's so brilliant, like one of the best games for the 8-bit? What is it about this game that makes it so great? As you said it's a good game. But it's great because is "Bruce Lee" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Yeah, I guess the fact you're playing Bruce Lee plays a big part. It is unique too when I think about it, as it's a platform game and a fighter rolled into one. I can't think of any other games that are like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 It is unique too when I think about it, as it's a platform game and a fighter rolled into one. I can't think of any other games that are like that. Wasn't Zorro like that as well? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 It is unique too when I think about it, as it's a platform game and a fighter rolled into one. I can't think of any other games that are like that. Wasn't Zorro like that as well? Tempest Ah yes, Zorro, I forgot about that. Maybe there could be a few games in that style after all. To be honest though Zorro did only use a sword. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobus Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Another interesting feature of Bruce Lee is the ability to rotate the joystick 90 degrees to adapt it to left handed players. I can't recall another game that allowed this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 What is it about this game that makes it so great? For me ... nostalgia mostly. :-) It was the first fighter I remember and you could play two players. It was also a platformer, which was cool 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 Two player is great. It's lots of fun kicking the crap out of each other. I think one of the main reasons I always liked it, besides the martial arts aspect, was that it wasn't that difficult and you could pick it up quickly, play a quick game now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0tki Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Another interesting feature of Bruce Lee is the ability to rotate the joystick 90 degrees to adapt it to left handed players. I can't recall another game that allowed this. Most Datasoft platformers had this - aside from Bruce Lee, this ability was in Zorro and The Goonies. And AFAIK, in Conan too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I'm starting to get it now. Was on it again last night for about an hour and a half to two hours, the more I went through the game the better it got. I guess I was just expecting the rest of the game to not be that different from the red rooms, but it is, there's a lot of variation there in terms of the rooms/enviroments. I really really like the game now. The furthest I got was where there were a lot of those platforms with those small white things running across them that you have to jump over, getting the timing right is really hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13matt Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Yeah, I guess the fact you're playing Bruce Lee plays a big part. It is unique too when I think about it, as it's a platform game and a fighter rolled into one. I can't think of any other games that are like that. Its is sort of a forerunner to prince of persia, but the fighting elements in POP aren't nearly so well developed. Even tho Bruce only has a standing punch and a flying kick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I like the Sumo wrestler! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I like the Sumo wrestler! So that's what the green guy is? I was thinking when I was playing it last night, if that green guy has ever been in any of Bruce Lee's films, or is he just totally made up for the game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMPACK Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 So that's what the green guy is? I think the green guy is a mix of a cow and alien. somebody can make a editor stage for this game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross PK Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 (edited) So that's what the green guy is? I think the green guy is a mix of a cow and alien. somebody can make a editor stage for this game? You know I was thinking yesterday, that it'd be pretty cool if someone could hack into the game and try and make it into some sort of a scrolling 2D beat-em-up. Edited May 31, 2008 by Ross PK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMPACK Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 YEAH!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oswald Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 You know I was thinking yesterday, that it'd be pretty cool if someone could hack into the game and try and make it into some sort of a scrolling 2D beat-em-up. a 3 player option would be easyer and cooler like the hacked ik+ on the c64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iratanam Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 You know I was thinking yesterday, that it'd be pretty cool if someone could hack into the game and try and make it into some sort of a scrolling 2D beat-em-up. a 3 player option would be easyer and cooler like the hacked ik+ on the c64 Hmm... Must visit Google...Didn't know there was a hacked 3 player version on the C64 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 an old school friend of mine dropped in at the weekend and said that he had found his xl and 1050 and the only game he had ever bought, bruce lee! he had managed to lose his sio cable so I sorted one out for him, along with 20 or so multidiscs. Nice that someone that I spent so many hours playing Atari with 20 years ago has re found his roots.The catalyst was him being given a Ps2 and not enjoying thegames as much as the Atari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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