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Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Yie Ar Kung-Fu is a 1985 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…

20 25 October 1984

Yie Ar Kung-Fu is an arcade developed by Konami, released 25 October 1984 on Wii U, Wii, Xbox 360 and Family Computer.

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What Yie Ar Kung-Fu is

Yie Ar Kung-Fu is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1984. It was published by Imagine Software. It is available on Wii U, Wii, Xbox 360, Family Computer, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Yie Ar Kung-Fu is a 1985 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.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Yie Ar Kung-Fu holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 53 points below the year average. Players rate it 40, 20 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Yie Ar Kung-Fu launched on 25 October 1984, within three weeks of Ghostbusters and Paperboy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Ghostbusters, Paperboy.

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

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When did Yie Ar Kung-Fu come out?
Yie Ar Kung-Fu was released on 25 October 1984 for Wii U, Wii, Xbox 360, Family Computer, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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