Three years after Thomas defeated X at the Devil’s Temple, X once again resurrected his evil army of thugs and kidnapped Lena.
Play as Tommy (the Son of the Kung-Fu Master) and make your way to the Devil’s Temple where Lena is being held, hostage. Use your superior Kung-Fu skills to destroy anyone who gets in your way and rescue your girl before it’s too late.
Devil’s Temple – Son of the Kung-Fu Master is a Spin-Off of the 1984 genre-defining arcade game – Kung Fu Master for the Commodore Amiga computer! From the team who brought you Rygar, Turbo Sprint, Bomb Jack Beer Edition and the eagerly anticipated Super Metal Hero, this all-action game will test your gaming skills like no other.
Features
- 10 challenging stages with bosses
- 3 Bonus stages
- Weapon pickups and Easter eggs
- Full 50 frames per second action
- Enhanced graphics with the AGA chipset
- Awesome pixel art with over 500 frames of character animation
Requirements
- A500 with 0.5MB slow ram (minimum Configuration)
- 2 Button Controller
- Hard drive recommend
- Additional drives if running from floppy disk
Physical Boxed Edition
There is a limited run of a boxed edition of Devils Temple, these can be ordered at www.geezergames.co.uk, a purchase of the boxed edition will give you a download key to the digital version also. Pre-order boxes are due for delivery during October 2022, expect boxes to ship between October / November 2022.
I spoke to the main developer, Graeme (McGeezer) Cowie, on his journey to starting this game and how it evolved:
I decided to do a port of Kung Fu Master as I was looking for my next project after porting Turbo Sprint to AGA Amigas. Someone already attempted it in Blitz a couple of years back but often projects fall by the wayside and I guess that one was no different. It’s a bit of a mystery as to why KFM never received a port to the 16-bit platform in the first place as I think it would have sold quite well for the publishers, so after catching Covid in mid-July and then a nice week in Majorca with my family I decided to work on porting the game over to the A500.
The original game was created in 1984 by Irem and many people agree that it defined a martial arts/beat ’em-up genre. Having researched the game a fair bit it became clear that KFM was based on the Marvel comic around “Master of Kung Fu”, if you take a look at the cover of issue 64 for example I’d probably say the game was partly based on that artwork alone!
I think it was during September that TenShu contacted me over Slack asking if he could redo the graphics for the game, as I’d worked with him previously on a small Christmas 2020 game called Santa Run I agreed based on his previous work and way of working.
I made a fork of the Kung Fu master game code I was working on and simply called it “Kung Fu Remaster”, at this point I had all of the levels in the game and a couple of working enemies. Even for a 1984 game like Kung Fu master which stores all of its graphics as 8×8 tiles it can be quite a challenge to get everything working into the small amount of chip ram available on the A500. If you went and took a look at all of the sprite frames from the arcade game and tried to put them into the Amiga chip ram at once you’d soon find out that you’d run out of ram pretty quick. The solution was to split all the sprite parts into rectangles to reduce the amount of zero space used in ram but also to be able to quickly blit them as efficiently as possible to get as many onscreen enemies going in 50FPS.
A little while later TenShu and I were discussing the game’s title among other things around gameplay, we wanted to improve on the original game. He’d created some extra graphics for the player sprite such as throwing nun chucks and knives, so I said well let’s create a spin-off game from KFM set three years after but based on Thomas and Silvia’s Son, he liked the idea and therefore started doing the level tiles around a late eighties theme which hopefully you’ll see in the game. In the end, we settled on “Devil’s Temple – Son of the Kung Fu Master”, with the objective being that Tommy needs to rescue his girl Lena (based on the famous porn star Lena Paul 12 ) who’s been kidnapped by X’s thugs and ninjas, there are ten levels to bash through… the first 5 align to Vigilante and the later 5 align to Kung Fu Master.
Devil’s Temple – Son of the Kung Fu Master has arrived and is certainly creating a stir in the community, having been eagerly waited upon for some time now. Go and rescue Lena from X’s thugs, the game is now available here:
Digital download – https://mcgeezer.itch.io/kung-fu-remaster
Limited physical boxed edition – https://www.geezergames.co.uk
