A Huge find! (SuperGrafx protos!)

[Joe Redifer]

It's so hard to trust people around this time of year so I just don't even bother.  It could be true, but thanks to April 1 I am gonna say that you are full of shit for now.  April 1 only amuses the pranksters.

[SignOfZeta]

Not gonna believe a word of it until April Fool's is over.

Yeah, especially since this is coming from a guy who could easily make semi-functional ROMs of this stuff himself.

Real or not, The Super Kung Fu is f*cking hilarious. It makes Art of Fighting look like Katate Champ, sprite-wise.

[Black Tiger]

This is exactly the kind of quality production I'd hoped for. Although overreaching made it less plausible, it is all the more entertaining (like the fake Bio Force Ape proto) and impressive. Still, very creative. I love all the hardware features.

It's too bad that a higher quality image of the Power Console wasn't available for the base of the photoshopping. But it still wouldn't have made sense for the extra controller ports to have a handle bar blocking them from use. Also, as cool as it would have been to have had Bruce Lee pose for the 'much more smooth' animation, I don't think that he was available at the time.

Of course those are only some of the more convincing aspects. I hope that the screenshots are from actual roms that Chris created.

I love how it's called "The SUPER Kung-Fu".

A very nice gift to the PCE community, which doesn't receive enough April Fools' gags.

[Joe Redifer]

I do have to give props to The Super Kung Fu, though I doubt it could compete with the awesomeness of Super Thunderblade.  But the character is still too small.

[Mathius]

Thunder Blade arcade trumps all. But, that's beside the point.

[Bonknuts]

Yeah, it's a great April Fools joke The Super Kung-Fu is great Makes me want to play it even more!

[Mathius]

I feel like I've been had!

[spenoza]

What's impressive is only one of the pictures looks obviously fake (the Power Console itself). Unfortunately, that's the most important picture.

[Tatsujin]

If he had posted it at any other days (like the roms yesterday) and without silly mentions of built-in 100yen coin operators and stuff, I would have believed it fo'sho!

[incrediblehark]

well guess I was fooled the pic of the power console does look a little strange.

[shubibiman]

Best april's fool ever. Ccovell, you're a king!

[Tatsujin]

yeah, he is! No doubts

[Tatsujin]

My latest theory is that chris made it up so obvious by purpose, to tell us tomorrow that it was not a april hoax.

you never know with our chris :idea:

[akamichi]

Wow, I haven't been here in a while (not sure if anybody even remembers me. lol) and I've been trying to catch up with all the stuff that's been going on....  Then I see this thread.  

I couldn't believe it.  I read about the Power Console way back and stared at the pix in the mags so many times... but I never read/saw anything about a coin slot or bill slot.  

Anyway, I wanted this to be true so bad and not some April fool's like others have said, but one thing stood out to me right away...

In the "Credit Test" picture that shows the coin and bill slots, the 1000 yen bill depicted is the current design from 2004.  So, it wouldn't be possible for that picture to exist in 1989.  The oval that's to the right of the red circle gives it away.  The previous (1984) bill didn't have that oval.

I pretty much believed everything else though (and still want to!) so kudos to Chris either way.     The Super Kung Fu is awesome!

- akamichi

[esteban]

My latest theory is that chris made it up so obvious by purpose, to tell us tomorrow that it was not a april hoax.

you never know with our chris :idea:

That would be the master stroke! 

Personally, I would love The Super Kung Fu if it didn't have digitized Bruce Lee a la Pit Fighter.

I don't care if this is an April Fool's prank—I can die in peace now, my soul knowing that The Kung Fu will always have a special place in my heart.