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The company is probably best known for Moon Patrol, the famous scrolling shooter R-Type and the earliest beat ' em up, Kung-Fu Master.
That same year saw the emergence of martial arts themed games, with Karate Champ establishing the one-on-one fighting game subgenre, and Kung-Fu Master laying the foundations for the side-scrolling beat ' em up subgenre.
Kung-Fu Master, known in Japan as, is a beat ' em up arcade game developed and published in Japan by Irem.
Kung-Fu Master was ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, BeOS x86, Commodore 64, DOS, Java, Linux, NES / Famicom, MSX ( Irem / ASCII version as Seiken Achō ), PlayChoice-10 ( arcade, nearly the same as the NES version ), Sega SG-1000, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Windows.
In 1988, another arcade game by Irem titled as Vigilante was created and released, which is a spin-off of Kung-Fu Master, due to the gameplay being nearly the same, but with a completely different plot added to it that takes place in the urban areas of New York City, where a nameless titular character must save his girlfriend, Madonna (" Maria " in the Sega Master System version ) who was captured by the Skinheads (" Rogues " in the Sega Master System version ).
About a year later in 1990, the arcade game received a completely different Game Boy sequel titled as " Kung-Fu Master " (" Spartan X " in Japan ), which has similar gameplay to the arcade game, but with a completely different plot, setting, set of enemies and stages.
Like Vigilante and the Game Boy version of Kung-Fu Master, Spartan X 2s plot is also quite different and takes place in an urban area, with no mention of Sylvia, but rather " Johnny Spartan ", a member of an unnamed crime-fighting unit who wears a red, short-sleeved jacket, an charges with foiling a group of drug smugglers.
Director Agnès Varda featured the game prominently in a live action film of the same name ( Kung-Fu Master!
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