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BRUCE LEE

PUBLISHER
US Gold, under licence from DATASOFT.

AUTHOR
Ocean's in-house development team.

YEAR
1984

CATEGORY
Platform

DESCRIPTION
A collect-em-up platform game with a bit of kung fu thrown in for
good measure!

CONTROLS
Keyboard, Kempston, Protek, Sinclair.
SHIFT/BREAK - Restart game
SYMBOL SHIFT - Sound on/off
ENTER - pause
Q - Up
A - Down
O - Left
P - Right
Z to M - Kick/Punch


INSTRUCTIONS
Guide Bruce Lee to discover Immortality by beating the evil
wizard and his minions. Bruce must explore the play area picking
up lanterns, which will open up new areas for him to explore. The
evil wizard's troops attack you in the form of The Green Yamo
(fat guy) and The Ninja (little guy). However, Bruce can dispatch
these by kicking or punching them (stand still and fire for
punch, run and fire for kick).

Later screens get more complicated with killer bugs, swords,
moving walls and mines to contend with!

Two players can play, either taking turns at being Bruce or with
one playing controlling Yamo! Great fun!

INLAY CARD TEXT


CHEATS
Use the Multiface to enter :
POKE 51795,0 Infinite lives for player 1
POKE 51803,0 Infinite lives for player 2

SEQUELS/PREQUELS
None

SCORES RECEIVED
Unknown.

URL
Care should be taken as there are a few snapshots of this around
which crash after the first screen. As far as I know, this
version works :

ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/platform/brucelee.zip


GENERAL FACTS
This game is named after and stars Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee. The
sprite even looks a bit like him.  Except not as dead.  The plot
is original and there is no attempt to tie the game in with any
of Bruce's movies, which is probably a good idea!

As far as I know, Bruce Lee is a perfect conversion of the Apple
II original.

The game is actually very easy.  However, the two player mode
gives it a whole new lease of life - forget the lanterns and beat
each other up!

This is one of the many early US Gold games that was handled by
Ocean.  It looks and plays like a typical 1984 Ocean game - not
that that's a bad thing!


NOTES
Bruce Lee is fast, fun and playable. Although it's pretty easy,
the two player mode increases its life and I still find myself
coming back to play this even now. Well worth a go!