Yie Ar Kung-Fu – Cane and Rinse No.635

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast, Volume 13, Issue,
0:11.0	and today we're talking about Yi-a-Kong-Fu.
0:16.0	Joining me Leon Cox in this issue, Chris O'Regan.
0:19.0	Hello.
0:20.0	Chris Worthington.
0:21.8	Ye'a. And Jesse Fuchs.
0:24.9	Howdy.
0:26.9	Hello at one and all. Welcome to this show about this seminal fighting game.
0:32.3	If you don't know, it's very old, listener. It may be older than you even.
0:37.4	Y'R Kung Fu is a single player early 2D one-on-one, but single player, yes, fighting game from the arcades.
0:46.9	The title, and I'm not sure I ever knew this, Y'R Kung Fu or Yi Er, is really how you're supposed to say it, but we just read it because
0:55.5	we didn't have anyone explaining these things to us, is a Mandarin Chinese phrase,
1:00.9	Yi-ur-gong-fu, simply meaning one-two kung-foo.
1:04.8	So now you know, if you didn't before.
1:06.5	Maybe everybody knew that except me.
1:08.4	I don't know.
1:08.7	I had no idea.
1:10.1	Okay.
1:12.1	Yeah, I thought, I think as a kid, I thought it was maybe like the sounds of the combatants doing, you know, Kung Fu movie moves.
1:20.8	Yeah, it sounds like when you scream when you kick a guy.
1:22.4	Yeah.
1:22.9	That's what I do.
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