I bring corrections.
0:30 – “Usually in this game, I will kick the enemies because I find the kick to be a little bit safer because you have more distance.”
Well, duh. The kick has a longer reach. But punching gives you double the points. That’s the distinction. Punches have a shorter reach but you get more points.
THIS is a pro gamer? Didn’t even know the points distinction in Kung Fu? Outrageous.
There’s your “challenge mode”. Do a punch-only run. There may even be advantages to it. I think that you get extra lives when you get a certain score.
I had the game for the Atari 2600. I think it was one of the last games that I had. It must have been a later game on the system. It was the same shit. Punches gave double the points.
I don’t think that I played the NES version until many years later, through emulation. I probably played the arcade version through emulation too.
But there’s another “challenge” for the proprietor of Man Baby Gaming. Play the Atari version. I’ve watched this video and I can assure you that the bosses aren’t as easy in that game as he’s making them out to be in the NES version.
0:45 – “But if you get in a situation where it’s like this and the guys are up on you, it might be a better idea to use punches as they’re a little closer to you.”
No. It has no effect. That’s not even what’s happening. When the enemies grab you, which is what he’s demonstrating, you have to move back and forth quickly. Move the joystick or the d-pad back and forth. He did it unknowingly. The punch had absolutely nothing to do with anything. He only seemed to move back and forth once so that’s apparently all it takes but it 100% was not the punch that killed those guys.
2:00 – He refers to short enemies as “kids”. They’re midgets. Midgets are something of a staple in kung fu movies. I guess. I don’t know. But I’ve definitely seen midgets in kung fu movies and that’s what these enemies are.
5:15 – He was about to say “bullshit” but said “baloney” instead. He really wants that Youtube money.
Wait…at the end of the video, he gets grabbed again but just does a low kick and it seems to work. Let me look this up. I could swear that you have to rock the joystick (or d-pad) back and forth to kill these enemies.
“The only way they can remove any life from your energy gauge is by running up and grabbing on to you. Even this pathetic attempt at aggression is easily warded off by a quick back and forth flick of the d-pad, and the poor bastards just fly off the screen to their deaths.”
That was from GameFaqs. Remember GameFaqs? That’s cool.
So I was right.
I expect a full correction video. Three mistakes in a six minute video? Unacceptable. Especially when you’re presenting yourself as an expert at the game. I’ve only played the Atari version and I know these things.
I also want an apology for the ignorant comments he made in a previous stream about China Warrior, or as Erin ignorantly called it the one time she played the game, on stream, for money, “The Kung Fu” (which is the Japanese title, something she didn’t know, of course, she was just reading what the game was labeled as in the rom list that Mike compiled for her). It’s basically the same fucking game as Kung Fu. Just better. But because it’s for the TurboGrafx 16 instead of the NES, Mike instantly shit on it.
China Warrior is a bad game, no question, but so is Kung Fu.
I wonder why kung fu movies were so beloved by black Americans back in the 1970s. What’s the crossover? Of course, people of any race enjoyed the movies but it had a significant impact on black American culture. A lot of blaxploitation movies involved kung fu. There’s the Wu Tang Clan. Carl Douglas.
I suppose a lot of the movies are about oppression.