Reviews

Bruce Lee is a superb game for the Speccy, granted its very easy and you'll complete it probably on your 2nd or 3rd go but the game is very engrossing.

I still play this game many times, theres some great puzzles in the rooms, beating up the 'green' yamo or the ninja is always entertaining.

Just hearing the music or the 'pitter patter' of Bruce running takes me straight back to the 80's and playing this game.

An excellent game , just a shame they didnt create a sequel

A nice game that fuses the genres of platformer and beat 'em up to make something a little better than the sum of its parts might suggest. It's fun to explore the new areas that you can find and fend off occasional attacks from the ninja and Green Yamo along the way.

Despite being a conversion from the Atari 8-bit/Commodore 64 originals, the Spectrum version holds up nicely with some good work on the graphics playing to the machine's strengths.

With only twenty screens though, and nothing of the challenge that Manic Miner offers with the same number, it inevitably becomes too easy.

For those looking for a sterner challenge along the same lines, Saboteur and its sequel come highly recommended.

Well, everyone agrees this game is too easy, but everyone accepts that the game has a replayability value. Even though I finished it plenty of times, I kept loading that game to play it again. it's a small easy game, especially when you are 30+ years old video game veteran, but I was playing this game when I was 10 and while it gave me a nice challenge, I was able to finish it without frustration.

Graphics of the game are also nice, every room has a nice variety, different obstacles appear as you progress. It can be playable by two player, while the other player chooses to stop bruce *or* to stop the ninja (or both).

And it got a big boss at the end of the game so you got your reward playing the game to the end. While the boss is only shown for 5 seconds before you finish the last screen, if you want to see it again, you gotta play the game from the start.

Well, it's more close to "excellent" than a plain "good", so my vote is 5.

Bruce Lee is probably unique in platformers in that it's the one your grandparents could play. A simple 20 screened platform collect 'em-up with two (count em) pursuing enemies. Add two-parts static electricity, an unexplained christmas-tree-like being, weird ethereal transporters, a baffling animated mouthing bull, irksome "floor pellets" and allow to simmer.

It's also unique in that its probably the first game I play on any new PC, replacing the tried-and-tested but sadly outdated "how fast is the bouncing card sequence in Solitaire" method. Why, could it be that Bruce moves even more silkily on an Athlon BZP Bristlethorn 5.7? I think so!

It's also pretty much unique in that I haven't got bored of it, ever. Once. It's just twenty screens long, but revisiting each one is like seeing an old friend. Hello, mysterious christmas tree, don't ever change. Hello strange oriental barbecue that plugs that hole. Hello exploding floor pellet. How's the family? Oh, there they are. Hi! Seen the flashing yin-yang lately? Oh really? It's the gaming equivalent of watching "It's a Wonderful Life" for me.

Except the "floor pellet conveyor" screen. Though not especially hard, the timing of it was slightly beyond me as a child and as a fully matured adult with carpal tunnel disorder from using Sinclair 2 keysets I still lose a life or so on this screen, ruining my chances for glory in the Bruce Lee speedrunning stakes. Alas!

In case you hadn't gathered, Bruce Lee is one of my favourite games of all-time. Age hasn't dulled the playability a jot. Graphically it's simple but effective all the way. It doesn't disappoint me the Green Yamo (the pudgy sumo) is white. It doesn't jar that Bruce appears to be black with white hair and a big nose. The use of colour is restrained but effective, and the characteristic "Datasoft blockiness" somehow works with the scenery.

The controls are silky-smooth and satisfyingly fluid, the intro music is jauntily oriental, the various clouts and thumps sound agreeably chunky, the lanterns emit a satisfying "chink!" noise when collected, it's even got a potentially friendship-destroying 2 player vs option (stick-bloke uncontrollable, alas). If Bruce Lee is missing one thing it's another six chapters and a hujillion imitators. And an end boss/sequence that isn't bobbins.

Very smooth movements and very addictive game !! Try to elude the baddies while you collect stars. Cool and one of the best games I have ever played on a Spectrum 48K.

Great memories !!! A true classic !! 5 / 5 .

Pd - This game reminds me of a another Spectrum classic : Zorro .

1984 U.S.Gold (UK)
Conversion by Ocean Software

Another arcade classic that turned into a Spectrum classic.
I dare to say this is one of those games that everybody owned and everybody loved, and brings fond memories to everyone who bought the game in the 80's.
The game itself isn't hard. I myself finished it lots of times. In fact it was one of the few games I finished (shame!). Curiously it is one of those games that you don't mind playing again and again even if you have finished it several times, and so few games have this quality.
The two-player mode is also quite nice: The other player controls one of the baddies and tries to get in the way of Bruce.
For me this is an absolute Speccy classic and I love each pixel and beep in it.

Enter screen, climb ladder, collect lamps, jump platform, collect more lamps, enter ninja and fat man, take down ninja and fat man with a few well timed flying kicks, collect remaining lamps, exit screen, rinse and repeat.

And that's Bruce Lee. Fast and fun but lacking variety.

Bruce Lee is a game that looks a bit crude today and I didn't start playing the Spectrum until a few years ago so I can't use phrases like "it looked good in its day", but I will say that what is lacks in looks it really makes up for in gameplay, which is really great fun.

It's just a simple game to play and get into and I tell you what it is quite addictive too. There isn't much to it in all honesty but it's just too good to dislike, as soon as I played this I got the appeal instantly.

Bruce Lee may not have quite the looks, but it sure does have the gameplay quality to make it stand out as a really fun game. I really enjoy playing this.

This was a fabulous little game to play back in the day and it still holds its own today even for looking pretty aged. It's one of those games you can pick up, play and get into quickly. Definitely worth the look.

Wonderful. One of my personal favourite games of all-time.

Great example of how a simple scheme can be a perfect fit if looking for a good Arcade/Adventure implementation.

In fact, action fits almost the whole screen size.
Last but not least, play as one of the most wonderful characters ever existed!!
Pity there are no more Spectrum titles dedicated to Bruce Lee. Well, there is a clone: El Zorro.

This classic game is one of the first succesfull games of US Gold.

A Bruce Lee's epic journey to gain inmortality while fighting the evil Wizard and his minions, the unforgettables Green Yamo and the Ninja, probably the most funny pair of Spectrum baddies.

The game, a mix of plattform and, of course, beat-em-up, is really easy to complete, but that's no problem with those funny enemies, graphics and even its catchy starting tune.