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Yie Ar Kung-Fu marked the first appearance of many core one-on-one fighting game tenets that remain in use fully 40 years later. Join Leon, Chris O, Chris W and Jesse (as well as contributions from the listeners) to find out which parts of the rulebook Konami wrote all the way back in 1984. There's also time for talk of opponent strats, as well as the lowdown on the game's many conversions, a sequel, plus a not really a sequel.Music featured in this issue:1. Fight Theme by Miki Higashino

edited by Jay Taylor

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Alex79

Cool. Fairly sure this was the very first game I ever played on a home computer.

Anders

I love the podcast and I particularly love it when you cover these vintage titles (those that even more retro than most retro!) Top stuff. Yie ar is a bonafide classic.

Stanshall .

My first fighting game, happy days on the BBC Micro! Been looking forward to this one.

Juli Reed

If I didn’t have my fair share of Jesse & Leon comfort episodes, I’d surely end up in the Yie Ar 🏥

Steve Norman

I wasn’t expecting it but was glad Shao-Lin’s Road got some coverage on the show! I didn’t have access to many arcade games back then but played this one to death at the local leisure centre, and the Spectrum port meant the world to me. To this day it’s one of my top ten games of all time so was the icing on the cake after an excellent look at another old favourite too. Thanks all!