Old Games: Encyclopedia Bombastica: Bruce Lee

Whoa, I was just looking at this game's wikipage yesterday... Time to check out that McKenna-Gerstmann-Lee synchronicity.

I grew up playing this game... never knew that those things were lanterns....

Loved that game, great two player fun.

Jumping forever in the Chamber of Fire. No victory could be sweeter.

Any chance of covering the EU gaming scene from back then? There are tonnes of gems from that time that probably weren't all that well known, if known at all, in North America.

Just get rid of the HTML5 options, you guys obviously have no desire to fix the sync problems.

@HrMagni: Yes, that would be fun. It was a shocking moment when I found out that Gary is younger than me...That oxen head in the video really stirred up old memories. I played this game a lot back in the day on the Spectrum!

Later "way of the tiger" also...

I loved this game back in the day. Damn green-diapered buddha.

@Deltan said:

Just get rid of the HTML5 options, you guys obviously have no desire to fix the sync problems.

I've watched all the Bombastica videos on HTML5. No sync problems.

I used to play this on the Apple II when I was like five years old but I could never get past that underground part at the very beginning. Pretty cool getting to see the end after all these years.

Another great C64 game. I feel the desire to pull mine out every year or so.

I love this feature. I kept wondering how far I got through the game as I was watching, remembering the levels as they came and thinking that might be the one, but then I remembered the next one too. I think I never beat the last boss.

When I was really young, I had a baby sitter across the street that would have his C64 set up. I vividly remember playing this game a lot. I of course didn't know it who Bruce Lee was when I was younger, but this was an awesome game for the time. Even though I was busy playing SNES games a lot of the time, I always looked forward to playing the C64 and the games he had. These old-school quick looks are awesome.

Loved that game back in the 80's quicklook made me think of another somewhat similar game Zorro for the c64. Although that has more of an adventure element to it.

http://www.giantbomb.com/zorro/61-32115/

I remember playing this game, even though I don't remember playing a Bruce Lee game quite like this before. Bringing back some memories from the deepest corners of my brain!

I used to play this game to death when I was a kid with my best friend. We would spend most of our time double teaming the ninja (player 2 could be the sumo wrestler) and never went into the underground areas. If you pressed down as the sumo wrestler he would do an awesome war cry. :)

@Jeff thank you for making me laugh on such a shitty day (my iphone was stolen!)

It still seems weird to me that this thing exists. Always nice to discover something new though.

Another excellent feature, Jeff. Thanks!

this actually seems pretty cool. not something I would play personally, but cool.

also, it looks like the "fire" is actually a giant mountain of gold and jewels and stuff

I loved this game when I was a kid. Thanks Jeff!

I really hope that he starts looking at some SNES and Genesis games soon because these extremely old games are boring as hell to watch.

@jmood88 said:

I really hope that he starts looking at some SNES and Genesis games soon because these extremely old games are boring as hell to watch.

I see these as more informative than entertainment, though. I actually never knew this game even existed (and that goes with pretty much majority of games that came out before I was even born), and now I know. I like that. That's just me, anyway.

That said, I'm sure there are plenty Genesis and SNES games that are more entertaining to watch than this, and Jeff will eventually get around them.

I was born in 1979. I was playing this game when I must have been 5 or 6 years old. After watching this I was pretty damn impressed that I made it to the very last boss. What sucks is it never occured to me that I just needed to haul ass on the last level to get past that damn beast!!!

Congratulations you won! We will now proceed to burn you alive.

First game I ever completed, with the worst goddamn joystick ever. Good times. The C64 version looks much more leisurely than the Spectrum one.

I swear I played this game through to finish on my Atari 400 modified to 64k once a week........

Hey, the Bombcast from this week brought me to find this gem.

Didnt realize encyclopedia bombasticas were around this long. Im getting old.