When it was introduced in arcades back in 1985, Yie Ar Kung Fu brought something a bit different to the virgin territory known as the 'fighting genre'. While Street Fighter II will always be ...

Here’s a nifty tidbit, as spied by Destructoid: Konami’s Yie Ar Kung Fu, almost 35 years old and one of the first games to set forth the standards of the fighting games genre, is available now for ...

Bomberman Live and Yie Ar Kung Fu will be this Wednesday, 18th July's Xbox Live Arcade releases, Microsoft said late on Friday while we were busy sneezing somewhere over the Atlantic, wondering how ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Last fall, Microsoft tried to woo more Japanese gamers to try the Xbox 360 at the Tokyo Game Show. As part of its effort, the company showed off a ...

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as ...

Long before Street Fighter II and Soul Calibur, there was another fighting game that had me captivated. Yie Ar Kung-Fu came to arcades in 1985 and was unlike anything before it. For the first time, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Arcade Archives: Yie Ar Kung-Fu Yie Ar Kung-Fu is an action game released by Konami in 1985. The main character, Oolong, joins a high-level kung-fu contest ...

Yie Ar Kung Fu might not be liked by gamers seduced by the better known early fighting gems like Street Fighter II, but you still have to look back at it as being one of the first true fighting games.

Aw. This one takes me back - to a time when cheeky chappies Ocean [a.k.a. Imagine] used to lovingly port all of Konami's arcade hits to every 8-bit format going. Sadly, for every Green Beret, Hyper ...

Yie Ar Kung Fu is an accurate emulation of an arcade game that you might not remember and probably won't care about either. Yie Ar Kung Fu is one of those arcade games that has largely been lost in ...