Kung Fu - Mode B Playthrough (Actual NES Capture)

This is a capture of me playing Kung Fu for the NES. This is not an emulator. This footage was captured directly from my front-loading NES using a real Kung Fu cartridge.

Kung Fu is one of the earliest games that I can remember owning for my NES back in the late '80s. The game is said to have started the beat 'em up genre, which includes games such as Double Dragon, Final Fight and Streets of Rage.

The NES version was actually a port of an arcade game, Kung Fu Master. But back during the NES era, I didn't know that. I just thought it was a cool fighting game, and I played it a lot. I liked how each floor was different and had a distinct boss. I later learned that this was taken from one of Bruce Lee's films.

In this video I played through the game on Mode B, which is the hard mode. Unlike Donkey Kong's Mode B, Kung Fu's Mode B is brutally difficult. Some enemies can take away half your life bar with a single hit, and the game swarms you with multiple enemies at a time, including multiple knife throwers. You can see an example of this on the fifth floor.

I completed one cycle (five floors) and then stopped because the game keeps repeating, similar to Donkey Kong.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and a composite connection at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the NES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using an NES Advantage joystick.