Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition

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The Kung-Fu cover (1987) 🔗


Bruce Lee was such an iconic presence in martial arts media that almost every other fighting game series has a character mimicking his looks, mannerisms, or fighting style. This brawler is about nothing but running around and beating up dudes as a Bruce Lee clone, so why not also cloning one of his actual poses for the cover? It's kinda funny that the depth of the angles he's pointing his fingers don't really translate to the imitation, so he kinda looks like he's missing a joint on his index finger. It also seems like the fact that you can't really make out Bruce's hair against the pitch dark background has given the artist license to go a little bit wild with the hair (which isn't really mirrored in the actual game).

Discovered by drpepperfan from the Hardcore Gaming 101 forums.

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