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JP Wii Virtual Console: 01/08/08: One-Two Samurai Ghost

Akira_EX | January 08, 2008 | News | Wii 
After a week-long hiatus for the New Year's holidays, Nintendo kicks off the new year by adding two new games to the Japanese Virtual Console.

First on the list is the pre-Street Fighter 2 fighting game, the phonetically misspelled Yie Ar Kung Fu. It has not been released in any of the other regions.

The other game is Genpei Toumaden Kannoni, better known under it's other moniker as Samurai Ghost. It has already been released for the Virtual Console in North America and Europe.

To recap:
  • FAM: Yie Ar Kung Fu, 1 Player, 500 Points
  • PCE: Genpei Toumaden Kannoni, 1 Player, 600 Points

    Keep track of the latest VC releases in the new 2008 edition of What's New on VC? in the Virtual Console forum.
    • After a week off, Japan's Virtual Console is slow to pick back up. Really slow. Only two games made it to the download service this time, both martial-arts related, and both not very good.

    Konami's Yie Ar Kung-Fu at least deserves a bit of respect for being one of the first fighting games. Of course, that means it suffers the fate of all pre-SF2 fighters and isn't much fun. But at least it's better than Urban Champion. Yie Ar Kung-Fu is also notable for its deceptively banal title. Yie and Ar are Mandarin for one and two, which means that the game's title is actually the adorable One-Two Kung-Fu.

    The other game is Samurai Ghost. It's not really any better in Japanese.

  • Yie Ar Kung Fu (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
  • Genpei Toumaden Kannoni (PC Engine, 1 player, 600 Wii Points

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      Avalith | January 09, 2008
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      First on the list is the pre-Street Fighter 2 fighting game, the phonetically misspelled Yie Ar Kung Fu. It has not been released in any of the other regions.
      This isn't exactly correct. It's been released in the US as part of an arcade compilation game on the GBA. The name escapes me at the moment, but I clearly remember playing it over Christmas break.
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        Akira_EX | January 09, 2008
        To clarify, I meant on the VC.
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      StarJet | January 09, 2008
      Yie Ar Kung Fu? LOL. The old 1-2?

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