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Nintendo Entertainment System · Nintendo Game Boy
Game dossier
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A platform and beat ’em up adventure through a wizard’s tower
The briefing
Bruce Lee combines platforming and beat ’em up action as the player guides Bruce Lee through a wizard’s tower in search of infinite wealth and the secret of immortality.
The game features twenty single-screen chambers connected by platforms and ladders. Progress requires collecting lanterns while navigating hazards with careful walking, climbing, ducking, and jumping. Later chambers introduce mines, moving walls, and an electrically charged comb-like surface.
Most chambers contain two enemies: The Ninja, who attacks with a bokken stick, and The Green Yamo, a powerful unarmed warrior capable of punches and crushing kicks. Both enemies can be affected by environmental dangers, but return with unlimited lives.
A second player can control Yamo or take turns controlling Bruce. If the player controlling Yamo remains inactive, computer control takes over.
On the twentieth screen, Bruce Lee confronts the evil Fire Wizard.