Shao-Lin’s Road Arcade – Kick Through Enemy Waves Like a Pro
0🕹 Game Name: Kicker
📛 Alternate Names: Shao-Lin's Road
📅 Release Date: 1985
🔫 Genre: Martial Arts / Beat ‘em Up
👨 🏻 💻 Developers: Konami
👨 🏻 💻 Publishers: Konami
🔢 Max Players: 2
⁉ Cooperative: No (Alternating turns)
🕹 Game Introduction:
Kicker (also known as Shao-Lin’s Road) is Konami’s direct sequel to Yie Ar Kung-Fu, expanding the martial arts action with faster-paced enemy waves and dynamic platform combat.
🕹 Game Description:
You play as Lee, a master martial artist fighting off waves of enemies in a temple-style setting using powerful kicks, jumps, and precision attacks across multi-tiered stages.
🎴 Game Play:
👉 🏻 Attack enemies with high, mid, or flying kicks.
👉 🏻 Use platforms and elevation to gain strategic advantage.
👉 🏻 Kick down enemies before they surround you.
👉 🏻 Defeat bosses and specialty fighters with unique patterns.
👉 🏻 Avoid projectile attacks and time your strikes perfectly.
📕 Background & History:
Following the success of Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Konami built Kicker to push the genre forward, making combat more fluid and intense. It kept the martial arts spirit while ditching 1v1 matches for wave-based brawling.
🐣 Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs:
👉 🏻 You can chain-kick multiple enemies mid-jump for bonus points.
👉 🏻 Time power-ups to appear by controlling screen clear speed.
🐱 💻 Hacks:
👉 🏻 Some MAME versions support infinite lives or stage select.
🎉 Trivia:
👉 🏻 Known as Shao-Lin’s Road outside Japan.
👉 🏻 Kicker introduced fast scrolling and multi-enemy combat to the genre.
👉 🏻 The main character "Lee" is a tribute to Bruce Lee.
👓 Lonster's Review:
Kicker is underrated martial arts madness! The speed, multi-level stages, and nonstop flow of enemies make this a serious test of your timing and reflexes.
🌟 Legacy:
Kicker influenced later beat ‘em ups and became a foundational title for Konami’s martial arts arcade catalog. It bridged classic 1v1 fighters and modern crowd combat.
✨ Cultural Impact:
It brought kung fu cinema energy into arcades and built the path that later Konami fighting games followed.
💭 Lonster's Final Thoughts:
If you loved Yie Ar Kung-Fu, you owe it to yourself to play Kicker. It’s tougher, faster, and totally addictive.
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