![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the US version of Spartan X is released for the NES four months later in October of 1985, it will be retitled Kung Fu in an effort to bank on the familiarity that US gamers already have with the arcade game Kung Fu Master. In June of 1985, Nintendo enters into an agreement with IREM-ultimately the only time they'll ever partner with them-to release a Famicom port of the arcade game, also called Spartan X. The arcade game as it is released in the US in December of 1984 is retitled Kung Fu Master, presumably because the film hasn't been released in America and neither the original title nor the Japanese title have any meaning to US audiences. Originally released as an arcade game-also titled Spartan X-by IREM in Japanese arcades in 1984, the game features a licensing deal with the Hong Kong Jackie Chan/Golden Harvest film Kuàicān Chē (roughly, Wheels on Meals), which in Japan is renamed to Spartan X, for some reason. Spartan X features a relatively convoluted and mysterious release history. Here's my theory from a project I've been working on. ![]()
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