Kung-Fu Master (Arcade)

Behold, the game famously known for birthing the beat-'em-up genre!

Mainly based on the Jackie Chan-starring film Wheels on Meals, it's also based on Bruce Lee's 1972 film Game of Death which was the basis for the game's concept.

Regional Differences#

The Japanese version is a tie-in game with the Jackie Chan-starring film Wheels on Meals (called Spartan X in Japan) despite the only explicit connection being the protagonists' names. The International versions drop the license, making them a generic game.

Story#

The iconic awkwardly-written story text in the attract mode's intro is slightly more awkward in the Japanese version.

Here, on the first part's initial line, "KANFU" was changed to the more recognizable "KUNG-FU" on international versions.

The "A" on the third line of the text's second part was changed to the grammatically-correct "AN".

Title Screen#

Japan	US	Europe (World)

The Japanese title screen features Paragon Films Ltd. and Towa Promotion's copyright (the companies who produced the original movie). Since the international versions are not related with the movie, the US title screen replaces their copyrights with a message that Data East manufactured the game and shifts Irem's copyright upwards. The European title screen removes Data East's manufacture message and shifts Irem's copyright a bit downwards.