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aka: Dragon: A História de Bruce Lee

Moby ID: 10001

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Released
1993 on SNES
Credits
26 people
Releases by Date (by platform)
  • 1993 (SNES)
  • 1994 (Genesis)
  • 1994 (Jaguar)
Publishers
  • Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
  • Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd.
  • Atari Corporation
  • Tec Toy Indústria de Brinquedos S.A.
  • Playtronic Industrial Ltda.
Developers
  • Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd.
Moby Score

6.8

#16,222 of 25.6K
Critics
69% (39)
Players
(22)
Review Ranking
  • #35 on Jaguar
  • #266 on SNES
  • #445 on Genesis
Collected By
34 players
Genre
Action
Perspective
Side view
Gameplay
Fighting
Narrative
Martial arts
Misc
Licensed

SNES Specs

ESRB Rating
Teen
Number of Players Supported
1-3 Players
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See Also

  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993 on Game Gear, 1995 on SEGA Master System)

Description official description

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a action/fighting game in which you play Bruce Lee, the infamous martial arts master.

As you go through the different levels, the game follows the format of the 1993 Universal movie of the same name, but is not identical to it.

As Bruce Lee, you can perform a wide variety of high-flying martial arts moves, roundhouse kicks, flying kicks, flying chops and throws. Defeat a multitude of new opponents and build up your Chi in order to gain special abilities and weapons.

Groups +

  • Bruce Lee licensees
  • Inspiration: Movies
  • Setting: Chinese

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Credits (SNES version)

26 People (23 developers, 3 thanks) · View all

Executive Director
  • Colin Gordon
Producer
  • Daniel Marchant
Assistant Producer
  • Aaron Phelan
  • Peter Hickman
USA Coordinator
  • Ken Love
Design Team
  • Daniel Marchant
  • John Palmer
  • Ronald Pieket-Weeserik
Programmers
  • Ronald Pieket-Weeserik
  • David Chapman
Lead Animation Artist
  • John Palmer
Lead Background Artist
  • Kevin Oxland
Artists
  • Jon Green
  • Mark Anthony
  • Mark Smith
  • Patrick Beirne
  • Paul Hallewell
  • Simon Swift
  • Mark Bentley
  • Stephen Cavalier
Lead Testers
  • Paul Welton
  • Anthony Hinds
Testers
  • John Martin
  • Michael Wenn
  • Anthony Steven Byus
[ full credits ]

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 69% (based on 39 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 22 ratings with 1 reviews)

With Bruce Lee, you'd think it'd be a good game!

The Good
The background is very colourful and attractive, and there's some nice parallax-scrolling for the foreground. The fighter characters, although flat 2D sprites, are huge and colourful, and look reasonably good. When they move, there are a respectable number of animation frames; the game may not rival modern consoles, but for a mid-90s machine these characters actually look pretty decent!

The Bad
The two fighter characters jump onto the screen and the action begins. Ah, let's see: 'C' for kicks, 'B' for punches, and 'A' is for... oh, both hard punches AND hard kicks, but you have to use the 'Option' button to toggle between the two. Er, that's awkward. Maybe I better get out a 6-button Pro Controller. Oh wait, this game was released before the Jaguar's Pro Controller, so doesn't take advantage of those extra buttons. Bummer.

The Bottom Line
I don't think it's nearly so bad as some people make it out to be. The difficulty should be more closely matched between the Battle and Story modes, but the biggest problem is more a problem with the Jaguar than the game: 3-button controllers simply don't well for fighting games. If you've never tried Dragon and can pick it up cheap, give it a try. Overall, I'd call Dragon a pretty average gaming experience.

Jaguar · by Bruce Clarke (60) · 2006

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Game added by Jeanne.

Genesis added by LepricahnsGold. SNES added by Goteki45.

Additional contributors: GenesisBR.

Game added August 15, 2003. Last modified May 29, 2024.

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