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PLAYING SHENMUE: DAY 14 - SAVING NOZOMI

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Ryo to the rescue!

PLAYING SHENMUE: DAY 12 - GLITCHES GET STITCHES

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The glitchiest and fightiest segment yet.

PLAYING SHENMUE: DAY 9 - PUNCHING FACES

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Ryo takes on Chai and others.

PLAYING SHENMUE: DAY 5 - WHERE-HOUSE #8

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What is a warehouse and where can I find one?

PLAYING SHENMUE: DAY 4 - CHARLIE & THE ARCADE

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Confronting the elusive Charlie.

LITTLE NINJA BROTHERS - GAME REVIEW

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One of the NES games I hear the least about is Little Ninja Brothers , an action RPG developed by Nihon Game (aka Culture Brain), released in 1990 in North America. The sequel to Kung Fu Heroes (known as  Chinese Hero in the Arcade), took what made the original game so much fun and added RPG elements to it. While this kind of transition doesn't work for certain games, here it actually makes sense. You still jump around, punching and kicking your enemies in the same way except, this time, you find them in the wild and gain experience points as well as money when you defeat them. Those mini-fights become much more stressful when they pop up again before bosses. After levelling up, picking up all sorts of weapons and talismans in the towns you visit along the way, you enter various castles where you have three big fights with some of the most annoying enemies in the game before facing off against the main enemy, usually a witch or a sorcerer. You play as Jack and Ryu, t

THE WAY OF THE DRAGON - REVIEW

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Bruce Lee not only starred in this martial arts movie from 1972 but he wrote, produced and directed it as well, not to mention he also handled the fight choreography. The Way Of The Dragon is mostly remembered for its intense climax in which Lee faces Chuck Norris in the Colosseum. The plot is pretty typical for the genre: a Chinese restaurant is struggling to bring in customers due to an intimidating gang pressuring the owner to sell to their boss by causing mayhem so Bruce Lee is called in to help get rid of the bad guys for good. Along the way, he inspires the staff to work on their Kung-Fu and the one girl is, of course, kidnapped at some point. We first meet Bruce Lee as he lands in Rome where he is instantly like a fish-out-of-water due to the language barrier and the people's odd reactions to him. It's a surprisingly awkward opening sequence as an old woman stares at him as if hypnotised and Lee orders like six soups in a restaurant by mistake, causing him to ask f