Great game! This was at our recreation hall at our family's annual vacationing retreat and my cousins and I pumped a lot of quarters into it. Sad thing is that I don't think we ever got by Tonfun. To me, this is one of those defining Arcade games from my childhood.
I remember this game when I was a kid, used to play it a lot. My favorite part was the theme music, especially once you make it to the bosses from Chain and after. People always had trouble once they got to Tonfun and Blues. The good 'ol days.
They had this in sandy bay caravan park in the 80s , many memories of just standing round watching the older kids get onto blues , i remember the first time i got past tonfun was such a buzz lol aahh goid old days
The only place I ever saw this machine was at the local deli by my granddad's place in New Zealand. I played it once and lost badly. I would've been about 7 or 8.
geez, I remember playing this game in 1985 as a kid at the old video game place in the mall in Glendale Az, and then coming home to watch knight rider on Fridays . 'Good times
When Chun Li started saying "Xie xie" ("shay shay") in Street Fighter, I thought it was a tribute to this game! Evidently it's just a common Chinese phrase. Bummer!
No, Oolong is the representation of Bruce Lee. I have a feeling that Blues is a stand-in for Bolo Yeung, considering the shirtlessness (dude was seriously ripped).
I played this game so much back in the eighties, I got the technique down to a T that much, I'd get a "Perfect" in every round, I remember one of the last times I played it, I had not been killed once, going through the stages over and over again, each time after beating the eleven characters it got faster and faster and faster, till eventually it went back to the very first one - OMG it was sooo slow LOL happy days ;)
This was my favorite game when I was a boy. Man I remember being so happy when I finally beat Tonfun after 5 bucks one day. The candy store had the machine set to hard.
Chain fought with a chain, Sword fought with a sword...when I was a kid I saw the name "Blues" and expected someone dressed like the Blues Brothers to try and beat me up with a saxophone. I was pretty disappointed to see what he actually looked like.
An origin behind this final-boss named “Blues”: He was based on Bruce Lee, such as having the same appearance with lightning fast attacks he uses against Oolong, as well as his first name pronounced as “Bluce Ree” when said by a Japanese speaker, hence the name “Blues”. Blues is also a palatte swap of Oolong similar to Thomas’ final-boss Mr. X from Irem’s Kung-Fu Master (1984).
This brings back good memories of when I would go to a bowling alley in the city of Duarte California where I grew up. My friend would always play this game and I would enjoy just watching him play. I was about 10 years old.
I just figured out that “Tonfun” is called that because he uses tonfa, two wooden clubs with a perpendicular handle. A simple looking but very effective and deadly weapon. And he throws kicks too! Nasty!
Great technique a skilful effort in a cracking old arcade game. Nice one made me smile and reminded me of smokey arcades and slush puppies on a Saturday.
I swear one of the best games ever made ....it had so many different moves for it's time ..I've been wanting this game so bad can't find any retro games with this on it
Hilarious! Awesome game konami! Comical and detailed, down to the rattling of the chains. Commodore 64 version was super fast. Nintendo version was a different version but still a still had the same feel.
Hat's off to you my friend, this game is WICKED hard. I remember playing this in the arcades and losing all 3 lives in about 20 seconds...maybe less! Thanks for the gameplay, good stuff!👍 👍
(Posting in my son's profile) I really miss the times when I was a kid ando went to the old dirty arcade here in my hometown. I never watched someone go through every level. Thank you very much for posting this video. Is there some ending cutscene?
I finally found this its been in my mind since i was about 8 years old. Played it with a bunch of kids at a Laundry mat. Can someone tell me if this was just a arcade version because on Nintendo I remember it very different.
Okay, so the red splats are your hits on your enemy. The black splats are the enemy's hits on you. The white splats are where you hit Club's shield, and the hits don't do a thing (except hurt your pride, maybe). So why are the splats _yellow_ when you hit Fan? I never quite heard a reason for this; I can only assume that it's because she's wearing red and they wanted the splats to stand out.
I remember as a boy of around 13 yrs old going to our local WMC at 7pm with my dad and 10p would last me all night. 2 million+ points later it was time to go home.
I was the first one in my neighborhood to beat this game at our local neighborhood store then I lied and said it was a special cut screen and level lol 😂 anyways I was so proud of myself.
A good fighting game with a sense of humor about itself, did you know that if you punch Buchu in the sack his eyes get big and he says "ni hao!" in a high voice? Note: this is as far as I know only the case in the specific version of the game seen here, in others it may not do that.
when i was little, i had this on a game boy advance. it was the only game we even had on it, and i could never even figure out how to even beat the first guy. ahh, good times
I never knew why but the one cabinet I played on many moons ago had two joysticks. You could do little weird moves and I saw some kids take advantage of that. Never got passed the 2nd blues but it was rumored to be game ending.
The one I played on you could just pretty much spam stride punch and beat blues. The really hard one for me was the second go round with tonfu. Thanks for the memories.
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This was street fighter before street fighter. Fun game! Brings back memories.
Nope karate champ was. But the combo system ,speed and different characters was yie ar kung fu influenced
Same here. What I remember the most was being so upset that I had lost my quarter because I sucked at it.
Ironically, both Data East and Konami tried to copy and paste Street Fighter and they didn't established any fighting game franchise.
Yep . the "fire balls" , the " extended arms" of Dalsim ( stick ) etc ...
Street Fighter shouldn't be mentioned in the same UNIVERSE as the ICONIC Yie Ar Kung-Fu!
Blues is really a pain...
Great game! This was at our recreation hall at our family's annual vacationing retreat and my cousins and I pumped a lot of quarters into it. Sad thing is that I don't think we ever got by Tonfun. To me, this is one of those defining Arcade games from my childhood.
The retreat wasn't in San Diego was it?
Who else busted up laughing at Buchu's reaction when he got kicked in the nuts?
The first time I kicked him the balls I dropped the ds from laughter.
Meow!!!! 😂😂😂
Timecode please. I didn't found this reaction
Used to beg my pops to take me to the 7-Eleven around the corner to play this game. Memories.
I remember just about every time I played this, Pole would stunlock me.
wasn´t the commore 64 version?
Haha yes.
Yes, what a pain.
game was bad ass
Fracking Tonfun.
B Spits lol! Yeah he pretty much sucks =P
+B Spits FREAKIN FEEDLE!
Lystic, Tonfun is a ninja.
Maannn I lost tons of quarters to this fast ass ninja
I hate Tonfun with all my heart 🤬
Miss 80's arcades, in my childhood!
I remember playing this at the arcade at Jellystone Park Campgrounds back in the late 80s...good times
Used to play this version at Maryanne's Pizza and Sub Shop on Route 88 in Bricktown, NJ. Sometime around 1986-1987.
And Tonfun was a pain in the ass.
I remember this game when I was a kid, used to play it a lot. My favorite part was the theme music, especially once you make it to the bosses from Chain and after. People always had trouble once they got to Tonfun and Blues. The good 'ol days.
Tonfun was hard asf to beat and blues
Oh my beautiful memories 1980 - 1990 , i love that time
Love this video! Chain always stomped me when I was a kid. Karate Champ and Kung Fu Master were my specialties.
Blast from the past. Fun times.
Much better than the NES version. Doesn't even compare.
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They had this in sandy bay caravan park in the 80s , many memories of just standing round watching the older kids get onto blues , i remember the first time i got past tonfun was such a buzz lol aahh goid old days
I played it at blue dolphin Scarborough. Got on lvl 2 once. I preferred karate champ and double dragon
The only place I ever saw this machine was at the local deli by my granddad's place in New Zealand. I played it once and lost badly. I would've been about 7 or 8.
memories...
thanks for the upload
geez, I remember playing this game in 1985 as a kid at the old video game place in the mall in Glendale Az, and then coming home to watch knight rider on Fridays . 'Good times
I loved this game back in the day. I hope that they do a remake.
Foundation for 2-in-1 & cross-up combos!
Great vid!
Kyle Stroud thanks for viewing
Love this game as a kid used to play it before school and after school 🎒
This game....Kung fu Master....and the Pro Wrestling game with CoCoa Beware, and The Piranha, I was addicted to....so much fun
That darn coco headlock punch !
i never made it past fan back in the day. this game was no joke.
cineman73 totally agree.
I got to Sword one time. He kicked my ass.
I had Blues down to 1 hit. I had 2 left. He did a quick combo Game over. never beat him. Tonfun was very tough to beat as well.
When Chun Li started saying "Xie xie" ("shay shay") in Street Fighter, I thought it was a tribute to this game! Evidently it's just a common Chinese phrase. Bummer!
its "thank you" in chinese
I would hope the chinese say thank you often
1:05 POW! right in the kisser
1:32 Nuncha to the dick!!
Pussy Punch, that must've been a critical hit.
So... That select sound been haunting me for 35 years now
Ive always wondered if Blues= "Bruce"? as in Bruce Lee? i get the whole Feedle = feeble, the small team of weak, one-hit guys..
No, Oolong is the representation of Bruce Lee. I have a feeling that Blues is a stand-in for Bolo Yeung, considering the shirtlessness (dude was seriously ripped).
I loved this game.
Doodlebugdude yup it was mad fun and it was hard too, I still remember it sat in the ice cream shop next to Ghosts & Goblins =0
I played this game so much back in the eighties, I got the technique down to a T that much, I'd get a "Perfect" in every round, I remember one of the last times I played it, I had not been killed once, going through the stages over and over again, each time after beating the eleven characters it got faster and faster and faster, till eventually it went back to the very first one - OMG it was sooo slow LOL happy days ;)
Blues would start pulling out 3 and 4 hit combos like...WTF!!!
5:30 Tonfun blew a 3-1 lead.
This brings back memories of cherry slush, jolly ranchers, comic books and video games in every convenient store!
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GAME FOR YEARRRRRS!!! I played it in the late 1980s as a kid at a store
I played this game at Tony's Pizza in Lodi California back in the 80's!
Great Memories!
Thank God! We Grew Up When We Did!
Raiders4Life!
This was my favorite game when I was a boy. Man I remember being so happy when I finally beat Tonfun after 5 bucks one day. The candy store had the machine set to hard.
pingamalinga the game is just plain hard any way you try it. I used to have this on Xbox360 live arcade and it took me forever to beat Blues.
I never got past Pole in the arcade but I was 8, lol.
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Yeah that game was so fun when we were little. Hard but really fun.
I wish 711 still has arcade games like this in thrir stores!!
Good to see this Kung fu classic on the PlayStation store for the Seasoned and newer gamers alike! 👊😬🇬🇧
This game was so much fun back in the day. I was one of the few who could beat it. Those guys all get really tough the second time around.
Loved this game!!..I couldn't beat blues!!🤣🤣👍❤😊✊
Chain fought with a chain, Sword fought with a sword...when I was a kid I saw the name "Blues" and expected someone dressed like the Blues Brothers to try and beat me up with a saxophone.
I was pretty disappointed to see what he actually looked like.
An origin behind this final-boss named “Blues”:
He was based on Bruce Lee, such as having the same appearance with lightning fast attacks he uses against Oolong, as well as his first name pronounced as “Bluce Ree” when said by a Japanese speaker, hence the name “Blues”. Blues is also a palatte swap of Oolong similar to Thomas’ final-boss Mr. X from Irem’s Kung-Fu Master (1984).
For those looking for this game, it's available on Xbox Live to download. I've had it for several years on my Xbox. It's only like 5 bucks.
This brings back good memories of when I would go to a bowling alley in the city of Duarte California where I grew up. My friend would always play this game and I would enjoy just watching him play. I was about 10 years old.
When I was 15 years old I used to play this game at a nearby campground. Made it to Blues many times but never beat him. He was very quick.
always wondered why they couldnt do a decent port of this onto the NES. It looks so different from the arcade version.
This was the shiznit when I was in Jr High!
Ahh, the memories!
#GodIMissThe80s
I just figured out that “Tonfun” is called that because he uses tonfa, two wooden clubs with a perpendicular handle. A simple looking but very effective and deadly weapon.
And he throws kicks too! Nasty!
This game was THE premiere arcade fighting game of the 80's (Punch-Out a close second).
I've beaten blues twice, piece of cake, after about 1000 attempts.......
Great technique a skilful effort in a cracking old arcade game. Nice one made me smile and reminded me of smokey arcades and slush puppies on a Saturday.
Matthew Sparkes they used to have this in an old ice cream parlor in my old neighborhood. Thanks for viewingツ
I always had a hard time with Club. That shield was horseshit! Thanks for posting. I remember this arcade game in a laundromat in my town.
Big Newt thanKs for viewing.
I was in 9th grade 1985 and my friend plathis game almost every lunch. Should bring this back same 1985 graphics- same nl, no changes
I swear one of the best games ever made ....it had so many different moves for it's time ..I've been wanting this game so bad can't find any retro games with this on it
Hilarious! Awesome game konami! Comical and detailed, down to the rattling of the chains. Commodore 64 version was super fast. Nintendo version was a different version but still a still had the same feel.
Brilliant game from back in the day great cover for box game too
Somebody make a 2-player versus variation of this game, pleeease
Watch the lets compare video, where they compare the different versions. Someone did make a two player version.
Hat's off to you my friend, this game is WICKED hard. I remember playing this in the arcades and losing all 3 lives in about 20 seconds...maybe less! Thanks for the gameplay, good stuff!👍 👍
Ah, the memories with this game. I remember it like I played this on the Nintendo DS.
Thanks, I forgot all about this game. Wow.
(Posting in my son's profile)
I really miss the times when I was a kid ando went to the old dirty arcade here in my hometown. I never watched someone go through every level. Thank you very much for posting this video. Is there some ending cutscene?
+Pedro Tizzo the game just loops again, back in those days it was really more about how awesome the game was not the ending =)
And Blues starts to pull out 3 and 4 hit Street fighter combos the second time around!!
+jamaynex And you can't move nor get out of it.
Still better than the Nintendo version, which only has 5 opponents and a bonus stage then it loops.
"Oolong wins. Flawless victory. Fatality."
I finally found this its been in my mind since i was about 8 years old. Played it with a bunch of kids at a Laundry mat. Can someone tell me if this was just a arcade version because on Nintendo I remember it very different.
When 80's arcades was booming
What is that yellow arrow all abou?
Okay, so the red splats are your hits on your enemy. The black splats are the enemy's hits on you. The white splats are where you hit Club's shield, and the hits don't do a thing (except hurt your pride, maybe).
So why are the splats _yellow_ when you hit Fan? I never quite heard a reason for this; I can only assume that it's because she's wearing red and they wanted the splats to stand out.
I remember playing this game at my dentist office as a kid. Brings back memories…
I also never beat fan :(
I remember as a boy of around 13 yrs old going to our local WMC at 7pm with my dad and 10p would last me all night. 2 million+ points later it was time to go home.
Do they have a 2020 update version of this game ???
Played this in the arcade on the corner of my street back in the 80’s
I wish this game had a 16 bit sequel :D - and maybe have Bruce lee as a playable char....
+Aloan Moreira hell yea
Aloan Moreira
Martial Champion was originally the sequel to this.
love how e. honda's sumo torpedo looks 'nothing' like buchu's special...
No one on this planet earth can beat me in yeiar kung fu record i still own to this day
Once Blues does that small 1 hop.. BRING IT!
Why wasn't Blues a player-two option?
I was the first one in my neighborhood to beat this game at our local neighborhood store then I lied and said it was a special cut screen and level lol 😂 anyways I was so proud of myself.
A good fighting game with a sense of humor about itself, did you know that if you punch Buchu in the sack his eyes get big and he says "ni hao!" in a high voice? Note: this is as far as I know only the case in the specific version of the game seen here, in others it may not do that.
when i was little, i had this on a game boy advance. it was the only game we even had on it, and i could never even figure out how to even beat the first guy. ahh, good times
Brilliant game this. Probably one of the first decent fighting games in the Arcades I'd say. Enjoyed this on my Zx Spectrum too👍🏻
I never knew why but the one cabinet I played on many moons ago had two joysticks. You could do little weird moves and I saw some kids take advantage of that. Never got passed the 2nd blues but it was rumored to be game ending.
The one I played on you could just pretty much spam stride punch and beat blues. The really hard one for me was the second go round with tonfu. Thanks for the memories.
Michael Gembicki yup Tonfun is really hard too, I used to get a good beating from him!
Played this game when the commadore 64 came out.... Loved it
TONFUN was close!
The game that future players of Street Fighter II got their skills from. 🥋
Nome?
This is the first game i ever played when i was 8. Later i bought it on xbox 360 and its the only game i ever got 100% achivments on.
The BBC version of this was pretty cool. Not much loading and only a couple of characters missing.
The first fighting game of history
1:36 Does the guy actually say “xie xie” when you punch him in the balls?
Could never understand. What does that mean?
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It means "Thank you" in Mandarin.
One of the punching sounds like the bully classroom selection sounds and the music sorta sounds like the sumo minigame
LOL. Stole so many quarters from my dad to play this game.
Can any of you move the nunchucks like nuncha?...I have been trying since 1985
Fantastic Amstrad/Schneider version!
Mortal Combat eat your heart out :P
GuTTs1975 lollllツ
I spent loads of credits on this game as a kid. You have no idea how difficult it was.
@@jramjee100 I remember it on my old C64, didn't know there was also an arcade machine.
I remember dumping quarters into this game
club always gave me the most trouble back in the dayLOL
Never actually played this game in an arcade but I had it on my gameboy and this shit was so badass :'(
does this game have a two player mode?
Pole was always a nightmare to play against
Bo, sword, club, axe, blues, greens, uzi, chain lightning, AK47, nuclear bomb.... nothing can hurt you when you can jump like that ;)
Jumping over them then a vertical jump drew them in and sorted the spacing problem giving you a good opportunity to land a hit 💪
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