What Hong Kong Martial Arts film starring Jet Li inspired the arcade fighting game Martial Masters?
Martial Masters Martial Masters ( "Xíngyìqúan"; Japanese name: シンイーケン, "Shin-Ī Ken") is an arcade fighting game developed by IGS and released in 1999. The setting and characters draw inspiration from Hong Kong martial arts films, specifically Once Upon a Time in China, Drunken Master and Operation Scorpio. The game is highly reminiscent of Capcom's fighting games of the mid to late 1990s for its impressive 2D visual and fluid animation with mechanics very similar to those of "Street Fighter III". "Martial Masters" is IGS's third arcade 2D fighting game, with "Alien Challenge" being their first, "Killing Blade" their second, and "Spectral vs. Generation" being their fourth (in collaboration with Idea Factory).
The Street Fighter The Street Fighter (激突！殺人拳 , "Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken" ) , literally "Clash, Killer Fist!", is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd. It was released in the US by New Line Cinema and became one of the first films to be a commercial success for the distributor. It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the United States solely for violence. In the UK it was originally released as "Kung Fu Streetfighter", presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie "Hard Times" which was initially released as "The Streetfighter" in the UK.