Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2007I ordered this game from a seller on Amazon, and it wasn't in the best condition. I had to put the cartridge in the system a few times and turn it off and on until it worked well enough to play.
This made me realize, "Wow. This game may one day go extinct." I'm sure its available on some emulators somewhere, or maybe one of those 120 games in 1 deals, but it just loses its significance when its not in cartridge form I think.
So playing this again 20 years after I rented it and finally beating the thing (yeah, I'm going to count Game A as winning because Game B is just too darn hard) was actually somewhat depressing for me. Stuff that I once experienced as brand new is deteriorating with age. As fun as Kung Fu is to play, who's going to go out of their way to hunt this obsolete title down when they have the newest Final Fantasy games flashing in their faces?
This is definitely one of the best games on the most important video game system ever made. Its very, very easy to play. Perhaps one of the easiest to play games you'll ever find, other than Cruisin' USA. Jumping can be somewhat of a pain but other than that the controls are very smooth. Dodging attacks can be extremely tough but the ease of the controls helps you out a whole lot. That's the main thing that makes this such a great game. Quality controls. I even like its classic first-generation NES graphics. Its just like Excitebike.
But, like I said, the newer games with the better graphics and enhanced play control options (lets face it, you can do more things with 8 buttons on a control pad than 2) are now greatly overshadowing simple games like this one. Not that that's a bad thing. Its just nice to feel stuck in time every once in a while...