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"While most companies who resorted to the tired Mortal Kombat template of gore and brutality, Kaneko actually put a great deal of work into this game to balance it out and actually assure that there is some value in playing it, and they also make very good use of Jackie himself creating 3 different versions of him based on fan favorite characters of his movie past. Too bad he's an absolute a-hole throughout the game though. As you fight him, you'll lose and lose and lose and lose, and after each fight he'll laugh his ass off and mock you while speaking Engrish."

Jackie Chan: The Kung-Fu Master is a fighting game created by Kaneko (the same company that created Blood Warrior) in 1995, and weirdly enough, tried to follow the steps of Mortal Kombat. That's right, it's a gory Fighting Game with digitized sprites that includes Jackie Chan!

How did they manage to release this without destroying Jackie Chan's image? There is blood and gore as long as Jackie Chan is not in battle.

Despite the game's unusual premise, it's surprisingly good. With a roster of six characters and three unusable Purposely Overpowered versions of Jackie Chan, good music, good graphics and smooth gameplay, it's one of the best Mortal Kombat imitators out there.

The game received a Updated Re-release called Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire, which saw changes to the game's engine, the 3 aforementioned versions of Jackie Chan made playable, and palette swaps for some of the returning cast otherwise.

This game is very obscure because it was No Export for You, and the Copy Protection was so well done that people were unable to play it on an emulator until late 2008.note 


This game provides examples of:

  • As Himself: The entire cast with the exception of Mysterious Lion, who is played by Sam Wong, are named after, or are, their actors and actresses.
  • A Winner Is You: All you get for finishing the game is the credits, some images of Jackie Chan on some sort of film set, congratulations from the dragon himself, and, in The Kung-Fu Master, a To Be Continued teasing two new characters and another version of Jackie Chan. The teaser was removed in Fists of Fire, and the game never had an actual sequel.
  • Bloodless Carnage - If Jackie Chan is present in any given fight, the blood spurts and graphically violent finishing moves are removed.
  • Copy Protection - The game's rom was dumped in 2000, but it took 8 years to understand how to break the copyright protection of it.
  • Gorn - A given for a Mortal Kombat clone, with blood spurts and fatalities in any fight that does not involve Jackie Chan.
  • Final Boss: The below mentioned evil versions of every character also serves as the character you selected's final boss.
  • Finishing Move: There aren't any dedicated ones, but certain special moves will finish foes off ala Mortal Kombat X 's Brutalities. Jackie has these too, but naturally none of his are graphically violent.
  • Graceful Loser: When defeated, Jackie Chan stands up and congratulates his opponent.
  • Multi-Slot Character: Out of the nine characters, three of them are Jackie Chan. Each of them use different fighting styles based on the movies they're based on: there's Jackie Chan from Drunken Master II, Jackie Chan from Spiritual Kung Fu, and Jackie Chan from Project A.
  • Palette Swap - Three characters in the Updated Re-release get palette swaps, allegedly due to dying in the first game and returning as Jiangshi. Every character also has a hidden evil version of them that can juggle longer than their normal counter part, but is otherwise simply a palette swap as well.
  • Purposely Overpowered - The three versions of Jackie Chan are supposed to be boss characters with more powerful moves than the regular characters. In practice, particularly when balanced a bit more in the Updated Re-release, they're not nearly as bad as Thorsten with his low pokes and long backdash.
  • SNK Boss - Jackie Chan himself, being the three boss characters in The Kung-Fu Master, is much more powerful than the regular characters. Demon Thorston is also extremely powerful, combining his already great normals and backdash with juggles that can stun the opponent easily.


Alternative Title(s): Jackie Chan In Fists Of Fire

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