Just when you think you've seen it all, suddenly a new old gem surfaces. And you swear on your life that you have to play this game before you die, because it looks and feels that damn awesome!
Movie References:- Master Huang - Once Upon A Time In China (1991) Drunken Master - Drunken Master (1978) Scorpion - The Scorpion King / Operation Scorpio (1992) Tiger - Tiger & Crane Fist (1976) Monk - Shaolin Temple (1982) Reika -? Monkey - Monkey Fist Floating Snake (1979) Ghost Kick - Once Upon A Time In China 3 (1992) Crane - Tiger & Crane Fist (1976) Red Snake - Snake In The Eagle Shadow (1978) Lotus Master - Once Upon A Time In China 2 (1992) Saojin -?
@@PeterHon When u mention like that, Saojin really looks like it but Reika is Wing Chun? Reika stance when idle reminds me of a kung fu movie but I can't seem to remember what is it. I don't think it's Wing Chun.
@@PeterHon Wow, even u remember Michelle Yeoh's Wing Chun 😄! She starred with Donnie Yen, right? Such a nostalgic movie back then. I believe u r a movie fanatic like me😂!
Haha i wasn't the only one that caught this! YES! I think saojin is aunt from the OUATIC series since she has the camera. They just fluffed her up a bit to make her playable.
@@RobotHau5 I'll admit the supers are a little mundane by comparison to other fighters such as KOF and the like, but i think the idea behind it was have it be a little more grounded. at least that's my opinion.
Art style and graphics look very much like capcoms CP SYSTEM II era. Interestingly , some have said this game was created to take advantage of the popularity of 1v1 fighters at the time, SnK's KOF and Capcoms SF series, but they may have come into the game very late. It ran on a Taiwanese arcade board called Polygame Master created by IGS, who would actually go on to work together with SNK to release a few versions of KOF for their arcade systems. Either way, as they say, imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery, and CAPCOM was being flattered to death by companies like SNK and friends. In the end, the arcades were full of fighters and gamers ate them up. Was a great time to be an arcade player.
@@Rin-ms7nm looks like you know your fighters... It would be an honor to face you in the fighters world I been in this fighters game since 1990 @ 33 n still!!! Fight on player 🐺🌟 👍 shout outz to Terry Bogard
@@thathandleistakentrythisone What you mean "not even close" ?! This definitely has remnants of 3rd Strike. What you talking? Sure Darkstalkers has some influence in there, but 3rd Strike is heavily on here.
@@MrRafie82 plays nothing like 3rd strike. May visually look like it in some ways but the other dude is right. it's more of a combination of darkstalkers and kof than 3rd strike
@@shadowboxin420 I'm fully aware that visually ot looks like 3rd Strike. I have 3rd Strike, every single Darkstalkers, and every single KOF game to date. Like I said, it reminds me of 3rd Strike. I can't speak to how it plays because I've never played this particular game. I know that it looks like 3rd Strike and a bit of Darkstalkers. Maybe I should have used better adjectives.
@@shadowboxin420 kof's sprites have a more "realistic" tone to them and ,the characters have more normal proportions Darkstalkers are more expresive and over the top, and their characters are able to manipulate their body 3rd strike has more exagerated proportions and the characters have well defined muscles This game definelty looks more closer to 3rd strike if we talk about sprites Gameplay was not in question
This game is released in 2000... as I remember. It's developed by a Taiwan company named "IGS". I saw this arcade when I was in high school. Some characters are spired from HK kungfu movies in 90s.
This is the best fighting game no one knows about. Me and a friend discovered it by accident at a now gone arcade. We played as much as we could. I'd kill to play this again.
Nice effort from Chinese company, IGS. Great graphics and good playability. This game could be considered a hidden gem of fighting games, since it was not spread properly. Master Huang is a great attempt to pay homage to Huang Fei Hung (from Chinese folklore and Jet Li's movies) but the best personification of him came from SNK with Lee Rekka, character of the _Last Blade_ game series. IGS appealed to the stereotype of muscle man to portray him but they didn't do so well. Lee Rekka is THE true homage to the Chinese warrior. Sorry, IGS. Another cool homage is the Scorpion character based on the 1992's movie _Operation Scorpio_ ( 蠍子戰士), played by Kim Won Jin, marvelous kicker, and they could do it better, but anyway... Other option about IGS fighting games - and my preferred one - is _The Killing Blade_ , a Samurai Shodown competitor. Despite the graphics don't be the state of the art like that one, the fun factor, coolness and playability are much much better in my opinion. You guys should give it a try.
This game is based on martial arts movies that were popular.. eg Once a upon a time in china,Operation Scorpion,Drunken Master.... etc Fun fact: this game has no projectile attack only in the supers
@@kevinpaulmedina8350 lol i forgot about reika... but i dont count lotus as he a boss he pose to be cheap But you got to admit for a street fighter clone where most games have multiple characters that throw fireballs This game was unique
Red Snake must be Egyptian and are you serious about Crane? Her stance is her really just standing there flapping her arms the whole time??? LOL. This shits hilarious.
I remember playing this game at a casino in Las Vegas in 2001, which was the only place I ever saw this game. I thought, damn this game came out at a bad time! Not enough love! One glaring thing I didnt like about this game was the horrible names. They`re just so generic!
This game is so obscure that one of its characters (Scorpion) is based on a character from an obscure king fu film called Operation Scorpion. I laughed when I saw that. Beautiful CPSIII style sprite work tho. I miss the days when it seemed like Capcom would make 3 or 4 new FG IPs a year We will probably never see a sequel to Cyberbots, Rival Schools, Darkstalkers, Power stone or Warzard and that gives me a Sad face.
Yesss I saw this next to a Darkstalkers machine waaay back. And at the time, I thought it was another Capcom fighter. It took YEARS to track this damn thing down again because it definitely wasn't even if it LOOKS just like a CPS3 game. Thanks!
It's playable on Fightcade 2 and it's 100% perfect. The entire set of fighters on the PGM arcade machine are all really great, like this and Spectral Vs. Generation.
I can't understand why Capcom abandoned this style for the 3d. I would love to play an ACTUAL steer fighter but with this 2d old style. And that's why the new Guilty gears with dragon ball fighterz have so much success. Arcsystem ftw
Ark Sys games are also in 3d. They just use a technique that give the characters a hand-drawn look. The reasons why most FGs are made in 3d nowadays are time and money. It's a lot more time consuming (and expensive) to develop hugh quality sprites with top notch animation. There's a reason why Capcom and SNK reused their sprites for years. The only current gen FG with pixel art sprites is Under Night In-Birth, and even then, it's a game that's also been reusing it's sprites for like a decade
For years nobody believed me when I spoke of this game. Then the internet became better and I showed them. This game came at the right but wrong time following the release of mvc (original) and everything else that shadowed it. Not being able to get on or stay on when I did for MAHVEL I played this
Are there any chances that this might become available for the PlayStation Vita. I know it definitely has the horsepower to run this game and I'd rather play this in a portable console.
This game is awesome! I wish they would port this over to the Nintendo Switch! It's too good a game just to be forgotten and not played. Of course, they might want to translate the game's written text into a few languages.
The Drunken guy got a lot of FPS in his idle animation.
Crane, Drunken Master, Red Snake, Tiger:
Lei Wulong: Im all of you.
Just when you think you've seen it all, suddenly a new old gem surfaces. And you swear on your life that you have to play this game before you die, because it looks and feels that damn awesome!
these spites are insane
"Mom, can we get Street Fighter 3?"
"We have SF3 at home."
I like homemade
WTF, how have I never heard of this before?
It's a very overlooked and rare game. It's on Fightcade 2.
It’s a Taiwan arcade company’s game. Very rare outside the chinese speaking countries.
Scorpion and Ghost Kick defeat animations suck
Movie References:-
Master Huang - Once Upon A Time In China (1991)
Drunken Master - Drunken Master (1978)
Scorpion - The Scorpion King / Operation Scorpio (1992)
Tiger - Tiger & Crane Fist (1976)
Monk - Shaolin Temple (1982)
Reika -?
Monkey - Monkey Fist Floating Snake (1979)
Ghost Kick - Once Upon A Time In China 3 (1992)
Crane - Tiger & Crane Fist (1976)
Red Snake - Snake In The Eagle Shadow (1978)
Lotus Master - Once Upon A Time In China 2 (1992)
Saojin -?
Maxwell Lai Reika is Wing Chun.
Saojin would be Huang’s love interest from Once upon a time in China
@@PeterHon When u mention like that, Saojin really looks like it but Reika is Wing Chun? Reika stance when idle reminds me of a kung fu movie but I can't seem to remember what is it. I don't think it's Wing Chun.
@@maxwelllionheart9945 maybe it's Tai Chi, though her outfit matches with the movie WING CHUN starring Michelle Yeoh.
@@PeterHon Wow, even u remember Michelle Yeoh's Wing Chun 😄! She starred with Donnie Yen, right? Such a nostalgic movie back then. I believe u r a movie fanatic like me😂!
Haha i wasn't the only one that caught this! YES! I think saojin is aunt from the OUATIC series since she has the camera. They just fluffed her up a bit to make her playable.
I could watch this game's sprites animation and never get tired of it
Because is remind we Street Fighter 3
From the makers of Street Fighter Alpha comes an exciting new game.
This game animations are so smooth
AMAZING underrated FGC gem!!!! I really hope this game comes to Xbox and Playstation sometime soon! I would definitely play this full-time
The animation in Martial Masters is fantastic
When recommendations actually does its job. Awesome looking game btw
Its like third strike, with a dash of Samurai Showdown. A Winning Combo for sure.
You hit it on the nail! But god they could have chose better names and better moves for some of these chars.
@@RobotHau5 I'll admit the supers are a little mundane by comparison to other fighters such as KOF and the like, but i think the idea behind it was have it be a little more grounded. at least that's my opinion.
Martial Masters=The game with the most bizarre/uncomfortable fighting positions
I thought is Martial masters
@@dattranthanh4813 right, thanks
@Yu Tubaru hmm, no. Martial Champions is title of fighting game from Konami
@@dattranthanh4813 And that's the game I played, I think there was cop in the roster. Weapons and such
Art style and graphics look very much like capcoms CP SYSTEM II era. Interestingly , some have said this game was created to take advantage of the popularity of 1v1 fighters at the time, SnK's KOF and Capcoms SF series, but they may have come into the game very late.
It ran on a Taiwanese arcade board called Polygame Master created by IGS, who would actually go on to work together with SNK to release a few versions of KOF for their arcade systems.
Either way, as they say, imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery, and CAPCOM was being flattered to death by companies like SNK and friends.
In the end, the arcades were full of fighters and gamers ate them up. Was a great time to be an arcade player.
You mean the Capcom play system III because these is similar to Street Fighter 3
0:10 Chun-Li
0:59 Chin Gentsai
1:26 Mature
3:28 Cheng Sinzan
4:59 Sie Kensou
5:37 Andy Bogard
Killed that 👍 nice eye
@@4ArchieLee Thanks
@@Rin-ms7nm looks like you know your fighters... It would be an honor to face you in the fighters world I been in this fighters game since 1990 @ 33 n still!!! Fight on player 🐺🌟 👍 shout outz to Terry Bogard
2:02
You forgot Sabretooth (X-men VS Street Fighter).
@@Ashura893 I have never played X-men VS Street Fighter :b
I love the artwork. Love Saojin's stance lol. Looks beautiful!
Anyone else thinks that the hit animation resembles that of street fighter III?
A criminally underrated game
This reminds me a LOT of 3rd Strike. That's a good thing!
Not even close. More like a mix of Darkstalkers and KOF
@@thathandleistakentrythisone What you mean "not even close" ?! This definitely has remnants of 3rd Strike. What you talking? Sure Darkstalkers has some influence in there, but 3rd Strike is heavily on here.
@@MrRafie82 plays nothing like 3rd strike. May visually look like it in some ways but the other dude is right. it's more of a combination of darkstalkers and kof than 3rd strike
@@shadowboxin420 I'm fully aware that visually ot looks like 3rd Strike. I have 3rd Strike, every single Darkstalkers, and every single KOF game to date. Like I said, it reminds me of 3rd Strike. I can't speak to how it plays because I've never played this particular game. I know that it looks like 3rd Strike and a bit of Darkstalkers. Maybe I should have used better adjectives.
@@shadowboxin420 kof's sprites have a more "realistic" tone to them and ,the characters have more normal proportions
Darkstalkers are more expresive and over the top, and their characters are able to manipulate their body
3rd strike has more exagerated proportions and the characters have well defined muscles
This game definelty looks more closer to 3rd strike if we talk about sprites
Gameplay was not in question
２０年前の台湾のゲーム。
映画とカプコンの影響を受けまくって作られてますが当時は格ゲー全盛期でゲームとしての作りがちと甘かったせいで流行らなかった。
馴染みのゲーセンにあって
友達と「1日、1形意拳」として
密かにやりこんだ。
普通に面白かった。
なんていうかサード感…。
Omg Crane’s idle animation is so smooth...
This game is released in 2000... as I remember. It's developed by a Taiwan company named "IGS". I saw this arcade when I was in high school.
Some characters are spired from HK kungfu movies in 90s.
So this is what it look like to have a game based on Once Upon A Time In China II
日本で言う所のサムスピ的な、台湾自国がベースになったデザインで面白い。
グラフィックもスト3っぽくて良いし。もっと詰めれば普通に流行ったかも知れない
Jesus! 1999!? why is the animation more fluid and competent than modern games!?
Because they actually cared back then.
@Yu Tubaru street fighter 3 new generation, 2nd impact, third strike
@Yu Tubaru oh ya and jojo's bizarre adventure heritage of the future
Wtf is this game and why I have never played it!? looks awesome!
The best 2D fighter animations that Capcom never made
Is that really Capcom or a good imitation of Capcom.
@@Hondunu Capcom did not make these animations.
@@skunthundler Yeah, but even the sound effects sound like SF3!
@@edwardgaines6561 Some of the hit sounds are stolen from early capcom fighters. block sound is from Marvel/Alpha/SF3.
This game looks really good
Yujiro Hanma 😁Yep
sf3-style animation
I like that
Saojin special is the best. The whole squad got a piece of the action
I love how they all move like their animals
This game is really beautiful !!! Kinda give me a SF3 vibe
主人公の乱舞技だけ異常にかっこいい！
those animations are really beautiful! I miss the days when pixel art in games was at its peak.
The music is unimpressive, though. haha!
Character sprites are beautiful.
This impact sprites reminds me of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Is same Street Fighter 3, but i think is not cps3
The game came out in 1999, so yeah very Third Strike looking.
Reminds me more Of Street Fighter Alpha meets Darkstalkers 3 ish animation. Especially the supers.
Some of the best sprites ever made.
This is the best fighting game no one knows about. Me and a friend discovered it by accident at a now gone arcade. We played as much as we could. I'd kill to play this again.
It's like KOF and Street Fighter had a baby.
Never
More like Samurai Shodown and world heroes
Nice effort from Chinese company, IGS. Great graphics and good playability. This game could be considered a hidden gem of fighting games, since it was not spread properly.
Master Huang is a great attempt to pay homage to Huang Fei Hung (from Chinese folklore and Jet Li's movies) but the best personification of him came from SNK with Lee Rekka, character of the _Last Blade_ game series. IGS appealed to the stereotype of muscle man to portray him but they didn't do so well. Lee Rekka is THE true homage to the Chinese warrior. Sorry, IGS.
Another cool homage is the Scorpion character based on the 1992's movie _Operation Scorpio_ (
蠍子戰士), played by Kim Won Jin, marvelous kicker, and they could do it better, but anyway...
Other option about IGS fighting games - and my preferred one - is _The Killing Blade_ , a Samurai Shodown competitor. Despite the graphics don't be the state of the art like that one, the fun factor, coolness and playability are much much better in my opinion. You guys should give it a try.
CptGuapo Wong Fei Hung
LMAO. Saojin called her boys and stomped a mudhole. Most epic Super ever lmao.
Street Fighter III vibes over here. Just saying.
Never seen this game before, but its surprisingly well animated
This game is based on martial arts movies that were popular.. eg Once a upon a time in china,Operation Scorpion,Drunken Master.... etc
Fun fact: this game has no projectile attack only in the supers
Sheng Long is back!!! Reika and lotus has projectile.
@@kevinpaulmedina8350 lol i forgot about reika... but i dont count lotus as he a boss he pose to be cheap
But you got to admit for a street fighter clone where most games have multiple characters that throw fireballs
This game was unique
初めて見た
グラフィック凄いけど動きとか演出とかどれもどこかで見た風のいかにもあの当時の格ゲーって感じ。
当時の子供感覚でみたら地味だし日本語も変で敬遠してたけど、今見ると動きも特徴的で面白いな。
UA-cam recommended me this video,I never heard of it before, the sprite animations are very fluid, better than Street fighter 3.
A Taiwanese-developed fighting game?? That's pretty sick. Looks like we're gonna need some kind of Martial Masters comeback in 2021 😏
It’s like a late 90s, early 2000 multi hundred frame fighter
( aka Street Fighter 3 style )
aka the best style
Red Snake must be Egyptian and are you serious about Crane? Her stance is her really just standing there flapping her arms the whole time??? LOL. This shits hilarious.
this game is beautiful.
スコーピオンの「実家に帰りな」がじわる☺️
コメント欄見るまでカプコンの知られざるマイナーゲームかと思っていた…普通に面白そうですね
A hidden gem that is EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL to Third Strike and Garou MOTW?!
YO!
What a beautiful game, never heard of. These IGS games are wonderful
It's like street fighter alpha 3 combined with Third strike and art of fighting..
That sprite work tho!!
They got inspired by couple martial art movies like once upon a time in China, operation scorpio,...
2:05 Okay... that's one of Sabertooth's super from MARVEL vs... games
BESERKER CLAW!
@@soulja4761 Birdie! *YeEeEss BoSs* !
Btw, is just me, or Tiger 2nd super looks like something that Kyo (Kof) does?
グラフィック→ストⅢ
勝利コメント画面→侍魂
技→MVC
キャラクター→月下・KOF
構え方→クセが凄い
ヴァンパイアも混じってるよな
@@sawayaka_sawaday
動きのぬるぬるさはヴァンパイアっぽいですよね！
I remember playing this game at a casino in Las Vegas in 2001, which was the only place I ever saw this game. I thought, damn this game came out at a bad time! Not enough love! One glaring thing I didnt like about this game was the horrible names. They`re just so generic!
Animations are very CPS3ish!! Like the SF III series!!!
Stance animations are impressive, the rest not so much... just play the game and you'll see how "choppy" some characters moves are.
street fighter aplha 2 compare it. you will see they are very similar.
溢れ出るスト3感
Everyone vote for this to be at EVO 2019 on the main stage!!!!!!!!
This game is so obscure that one of its characters (Scorpion) is based on a character from an obscure king fu film called Operation Scorpion. I laughed when I saw that.
Beautiful CPSIII style sprite work tho. I miss the days when it seemed like Capcom would make 3 or 4 new FG IPs a year
We will probably never see a sequel to Cyberbots, Rival Schools, Darkstalkers, Power stone or Warzard and that gives me a Sad face.
Never heard of this but the sprites are amazing. I see Tiger, I downloaded him for mugen and had no idea what game he came from.
I see you are a man of culture.
Mugen culture.
most of the bugdet is spend on the drunken master's idle animation.
best animation in there aside from Crane and Red snakes tits.
Been wanting to play this for the longest time. SOMEone make this available to the world.
And the combos you can do on this game are insane
Why haven't I heard of this game until now? This looks like a SF3 spin-off. Also, that Red Snake tho 😍
A Chun li story in China
Drunk master's idle anim is great
Solid sprite art.
Yesss
I saw this next to a Darkstalkers machine waaay back. And at the time, I thought it was another Capcom fighter. It took YEARS to track this damn thing down again because it definitely wasn't even if it LOOKS just like a CPS3 game.
Thanks!
Reminds me of Street Fighter 3 it even has similar animation hit sparks
Also has similar hit sounds from samurai shodown
Alpha 3
One of the best games of my childhood and its combo system is amazing. People should check this old gem.
Those animations are neat
Saojin's special move was funny as hell 😆😆😆
Holy shit the animation is beautiful
Looks good ,never heard about it till now
Even the stage with Soajin doing her specials is Wong Fei Hung's theme song.
SF3 art style. Wow how Come i never heard of this game?
It's playable on Fightcade 2 and it's 100% perfect. The entire set of fighters on the PGM arcade machine are all really great, like this and Spectral Vs. Generation.
2:27の一撃一撃が重そうなの好き。
Wow the animation is so fluid
The animation is crazy!! Miss 2-D
I can't understand why Capcom abandoned this style for the 3d. I would love to play an ACTUAL steer fighter but with this 2d old style. And that's why the new Guilty gears with dragon ball fighterz have so much success. Arcsystem ftw
Ark Sys games are also in 3d. They just use a technique that give the characters a hand-drawn look. The reasons why most FGs are made in 3d nowadays are time and money. It's a lot more time consuming (and expensive) to develop hugh quality sprites with top notch animation. There's a reason why Capcom and SNK reused their sprites for years. The only current gen FG with pixel art sprites is Under Night In-Birth, and even then, it's a game that's also been reusing it's sprites for like a decade
The music between fights is hilarious 😂😂😂
Master Huang’s Kikosho looks suspiciously like Chun-Li Third Strike Kikosho… same swirls and everything.
It has that sf3 third strike feel to it.
I'm getting that street fighter 3 vibe seeing this game
The animation is so goooood!!!
For years nobody believed me when I spoke of this game. Then the internet became better and I showed them. This game came at the right but wrong time following the release of mvc (original) and everything else that shadowed it. Not being able to get on or stay on when I did for MAHVEL I played this
Is this a pc game or arcade game?
@@bast01 it was a arcade only game from like 99-00
Are there any chances that this might become available for the PlayStation Vita. I know it definitely has the horsepower to run this game and I'd rather play this in a portable console.
@@PazzoScansafatiche someone probably has it on file somewhere. I wouldn't doubt that at all. And the game is simply ran like a KOF game
Huang, GHost kick, lotus and Saojin are all based off of characters from the once upon a time in china series. The theme is even playing at 8:18
No wonder they're so familiar
ＳＡＯＪＩＮのキャラいいね！
必殺技も面白い
This game is awesome! I wish they would port this over to the Nintendo Switch! It's too good a game just to be forgotten and not played. Of course, they might want to translate the game's written text into a few languages.
３DのCGになる前のディズニーアニメみたいにぬるぬる動くな
SFCのアラジンみたいな