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Title: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: Kreese on December 05, 2007, 12:45:30 pm
(http://img307.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/1/0/5/6/pal_ontheweb-img600x420-11959939531.jpg)

(http://img155.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/1/6/7/0/mmh0868-img340x255-1163332544spaltan.jpg)

Is there a Japan release of Kung-Fu, or is that cart released in another country?
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: manuel on December 05, 2007, 12:53:55 pm
Kung Fu = Spartan X (in Japan)
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: Kreese on December 05, 2007, 01:05:37 pm
Yeah, but what are the other cart? A Pirate? A release from another country? Or is Spartan X released in Japan even as Kung-Fu?
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: FamicomFreak on December 05, 2007, 01:09:35 pm
Quote from: Kreese on December 05, 2007, 01:05:37 pm
Yeah, but what are the other cart? A Pirate? A release from another country? Or is Spartan X released in Japan even as Kung-Fu?


Looks like a pirate
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: UglyJoe on December 05, 2007, 01:20:03 pm
I think there were some official Hong Kong ports of some games.  They all had funky labels like that.  There's a couple of them on |tsr's NES Archive, but the whole atarihq domain seems to be down right now.  I'll post a link later if the site comes back up.
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: satoshi_matrix on December 05, 2007, 02:55:47 pm
either way, Kung Fu pretty much sucks. Its only worth keeping around if on a multicart, the game only version is pretty worthless.
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: UglyJoe on December 05, 2007, 03:46:12 pm
No way!  Kung Fu is great!  It's all about learning patterns and perfect execution.  I played it for about a week straight and  I was able to loop through the game like 3 times on one set of lives. 
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: 133MHz on December 05, 2007, 04:25:15 pm
Quote from: UglyJoe on December 05, 2007, 03:46:12 pm
No way!  Kung Fu is great!  It's all about learning patterns and perfect execution.  I played it for about a week straight and  I was able to loop through the game like 3 times on one set of lives. 


Maybe he's talking about the value of the cart, not the game itself.
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: hehaji on December 05, 2007, 08:17:18 pm
Kung-Fu is original Japan not Hongkong port. This cart is very rare and very high value. It made limited ediition.
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: JC on December 05, 2007, 08:29:01 pm
We've chatted about this before: http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=418.0

Hope that helps. :) The carts pictured above are legit.
Title: Re: Spartan X - Kung Fu - confusion!
Post by: djdac on December 06, 2007, 07:47:09 pm
did they ever release Kung Fu 2 in the U.S.? I remember seeing it in magazines back in the day, but never ever saw the game in stores.