10 Greatest NES Video Games Of 1985
4. Kung Fu
Ah... now we're starting to rub shoulders with the great and the good.
Kung Fu was wildly popular. A forerunner to the incendiary beat-up genre that would explode with Double Dragon, Golden Axe and Streets of Rage a few years later. Get ready to punch, kick and jump through literally hundreds of enemies who walk towards you in a convenient line as you battle through a temple, taking out the several end of stage bosses before you finally confront the evil Mr. X!
It's actually a challenging game that requires quick reflexes to defeat, and possesses many features that would become hallmarks of the fighting genre.
Unlike all the other Nintendo developed titles on this list, Kung Fu was an arcade port of Irem's Kung Fu Master and featured our hero, Thomas, in five stages of martial arts action.
Once completed, it simply starts again on a more difficult setting once giving it increased replay value. An addictive actioner that is remembered fondly by lovers of its kind and no doubt inspired plenty of uncoordinated western kids to badger their mums into getting them an ill-fated karate lesson at their local freezing town hall.
Special mentions for the catchy title screen music and the infuriating boss laughs.