Kung Fu Kid

{{Short description|1987 video game}}

{{About|the Sega Master System game|the 2010 film|The Karate Kid (2010 film)|other uses|Kung Fu Kid (disambiguation){{!}}Kung Fu Kid}}

{{Infobox video game

|title = Kung Fu Kid

|image = Kung Fu Kid Coverart.png

|caption =

|developer = Sega

|publisher = Sega

|released = {{vgrelease|JP|May 17, 1987{{cite web |title=Software List |url=https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |website=Sega Hard Encyclopedia |publisher=Sega Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621034428/https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |access-date=May 15, 2023 |archive-date=2019-06-21 |language=ja}}|NA|October 1987{{cite news |title=Availability Update |work=Computer Entertainer |date=November 1987 |page=14 |url=http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/newsletters/video_game_update/computer_entertainer_nov87.pdf#page=14}}|EU|January 1988{{cite web|title=1 Mega Cartridges |url=https://segaretro.org/images/3/38/SMSGamesCatalogueUK.pdf|work=The Sega Master System Game Catalog (1988)|publisher=Mastertronic|accessdate=24 September 2024}}}}

|genre = Beat 'em up

|modes = Single-player

|platforms = Master System

}}

Kung Fu Kid, known in Japan as {{nihongo|Makai Retsuden|魔界列伝}}, is a 1987 beat 'em up video game developed and published by Sega for the Master System. It is the follow-up to Dragon Wang for the SG-1000.

Gameplay

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Players control Wang as he faces an onslaught of enemies using his martial arts skills and wall jumping technique.

Reception

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Computer Gaming World criticized Kung Fu Kid{{'}}s "incredibly contrived play-mechanics" (including a lobster that would give the player extra powers) and the "tiny and cartoon-like" graphics, and mocked the Engrish documentation that stated that the player would fight "the unnaturally evil one".{{cite magazine | title=Video Gaming World | magazine=Computer Gaming World | issue=52 | date=October 1988 | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1988&pub=2&id=52 | accessdate=24 April 2016 | last1=Worley | first1=Joyce | last2=Kunkel | first2=Bill | last3=Katz | first3=Arnie | pages=48–49}}

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