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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!















































