![]() The arcade version of Trojan was designed by Takashi Nishiyama, the man behind Kung Fu Master, the original Street Fighter, and Fatal Fury, among many others. ![]() Next: Strider (Arcade) gaming retro nintendo nes famicom irem kung fu master spartan x spartan x 2 retro-bit super retro-cade retro-cade It’s worth playing through once just to see everything, and it’s nice to have it more readily available, but the biggest take-away from the game is probably in how far the genre had progressed in seven short years. Irem itself had more modern and complex brawlers available at the time. A couple of the stages present some new ideas for the series, such as the one that has you walking across the top of an airplane, but when compared to other beat-em-ups of the era, Spartan X 2 falls well short of the expected standard. You’re still moving forward on a single plane, using your basic attacks to knock out the enemies that come from seemingly every direction. While the game is visually quite a bit more impressive than the original, the gameplay really hasn’t changed all that much. The game was designed for and exclusive to Nintendo’s 8-bit console in Japan, but even in its home turf it appears to have been somewhat obscure.Īfter you mind the year it released and give it a good play-through, it’s a little easier to see why Irem may have passed on releasing it overseas. So it’s somewhat curious that the game’s only sequel, Spartan X 2, never came out in the West until Retro-Bit picked it up a couple of years ago. It was an especially big overseas success for Irem and Data East, who published the game outside of Japan. ![]() Based on a Jackie Chan movie, the game’s original 1984 arcade release would eventually be ported to just about every console and computer under the sun. The original Spartan X, or as its known outside of Japan, Kung Fu Master, was one of Irem’s early hits. ![]()
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