Bruce Lee is a big deal. Dozens of video games have paid tribute to him — especially fighting games. Polygon’s resident kicking enthusiast is here to examine how Bruce Lee got sucked into the video game realm, and why he’s so at home there.
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Y2Aalex
03.07.2022Thank you so much for this video!
Tony Mcneil
03.07.2022BRUCE LEE = The Real Life GOKU
Hsay
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f1r3 hunt3rz
03.07.2022This is probably one of Polygon's best videos yet. So well-edited, so well-researched, and so well-presented it's like flowing water.
Keep being water, my friend.
วิชชากร สุขวัฒน์
03.07.2022Panda already Defeat Devil jin before that mean she is Bruce lee too (Great Moment)
Fossil
03.07.2022Lee is as essential to a martial arts-based character as Tyson is to a boxing-based one
Mathieu
03.07.2022"Three-Leg Lee" … You're just gonna leave that?
Winston Tj
03.07.2022And Bruce Lee also has another philosophy.
I don't fear someone who does 1000 kic once.
But I fear someone who practice 1 kick, 1000 times.
The 3 kicks combo is all he needs.
Paris Manolis
30.06.2022this is a 10/10 video, but I'm offended at the suggestion that pat is polygon's resident kicking enthusiast.
KEEP POUNDING
30.06.2022I ain't Kareem-Abdul Jabbar push it down some more!
rr888
30.06.2022Bruce Lee is probably so powerful that when he died, he actually got turned into fighting games by the gods so he lives on.
Irrational
30.06.2022Imagine a silent falcon punch: ganandorf would like to speak with you
HaBeFaStro
30.06.2022This is a fantastic tribute to the legend Bruce Lee and how his Legacy continues to influence.
One minor thing I wish to get out there though…
2:26
Bruce Lee’s Death was in fact confirmed to be a violent allergic reaction to pain killers.
Pira Piranha
30.06.2022BRUTE LEE
Seflame
30.06.2022Love your videos lad, keep the good work : 3.
Morse Code Stutters
30.06.2022Can't believe Bruce Lee also created Guile's Flash Kick.
D Pounds
30.06.2022I love this video. I didnt realize how much of an influence he had on fight games peorid. Ive always use the Bruce Lee type character in any fighting game and now I see why. Ive always loved Bruce Lee 💯
Brandon Glauner
30.06.2022Well it took four months, but I'm glad youtube finally showed me this video.
Mia
29.06.2022imma be real i always thought the bruce lee yowl was him making fun of the folks that called him 3 leg lee, a staple of the genre (and of my household growing up if dad wanted to watch it) of peking opera were these high, angry cat-like vocalizations that grated my nerves to listen to. it didnt make sense to me as a kid at why this was considered high art but it does sound perfectly in place in the theatre of stage fighting
Hugo Morales
29.06.2022Hi, is there any way I could add my spanish subtitles to this video? I'd like to show this video to my dad but he doesn't speak english and auto translated spanish subs are confusing some times.
Phred Bookley
29.06.2022I love Bruce Lee and I love fighting games. And this…was frigging beautiful.
Paris Manolis
29.06.2022pat you're so handsome
Fif Gallag
29.06.2022Since i am merely a gamer and not a Gamer™, my recognition meter only got about three quarters full
Farron Kelly
29.06.2022Good video, but damn is this guy a beta hipster
Raspberry Mint
29.06.2022Did Qdans lose to Panda after this video came out
Alden Martin
29.06.2022Hopy fuvk wow
uppercut grandma
29.06.2022Bruce Lee is to fighting, what snake oil was to medicine.
Tim de Visser
29.06.2022Tis the TRUTH
Aidan Silber
29.06.2022The title card is Bruce Lee In Fighting Games but the title is Bruce Lee Is Fighting Games
Whyo Whyo
29.06.2022I throughly enjoyed this
FlipFlopSwallow
29.06.2022There are Bruce Lee lookalikes and then there's the actual man in the UFC series
Mads Stokes
29.06.2022Why did I cry with joy through this whole video???
Korvus124
29.06.2022As a massive fan of both Bruce Lee and fighting games, I enjoyed this hugely. Thanks great vid 👍
SteveMatheus
29.06.2022Bruce? The most?
You forgot abut the chan himself
JACKIE CHAN
Darthkahn
29.06.20229:45
Feels like i'm using no way at all
no way at all
NO WAY AT ALL
SpideyInstinctQ48V
29.06.2022Any fan of Bruce Lee ruined Martial Arts world content. I dont like bruce Lee Nasty cheap kickbox, He was in Real life Very Wrong. In Real life any Japanese kicked his ass in instant.
Dr. Mixxel
29.06.202212:20 … Well now I want a shirt of Ryu's crouching medium punch ಠ︵ಠ
Mitch Williamson
29.06.2022Bruce Lee's iconic shouting style is from chinese opera. The "Bruce Lee" expert knew fuck all.
Morgan
26.06.2022I wonder how fighting games wouldve been different if Bruce didint die.
Vesperitis
26.06.2022While it's not video games, Bruce Lee arguably inspired the whole shonen manga and anime genre, starting with Fist of the North Star, whose protagonist shares Bruce Lee's aesthetics, moves, sound, and ethos. Even at the upper echelon of anime, Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel is himself a Bruce Lee clone.
Lord Ronn
26.06.2022''Liu Kang doesn't do a lot of this moves and doesn't look like him'' I really don't think you know who Liu Kang is!
StreetLife
26.06.2022I thought Bruce died because of cocaine overdose
Saul Stryver
26.06.2022I would always conceptualize the idea that Bruce Lee's kung fu films created or inspired fighting games.
PolarPhantom
26.06.2022It all started when a guy wanted to make a Game of Death game and made Kung Fu. Then he thought "It'd be cool if you can play as the other characters." Then we got Street Fighter. And video game history was made.
In many ways Bruce Lee is even more popular in Japan than his home country.
And here's a little trivia: Liu Kang wasn't going to be a Bruce Lee. But the actor refused to shave his head for the role. So by coincidence he came to resemble Lee more.
Cris Alcantara
26.06.2022Brow this video was amazing 😏
Gísli Þór Ingólfsson
26.06.2022Me the entire time watching this video:
🎵🎶It's just that I'm old school like that, roll that rap over soul loops like that🎶🎵
Benny Trinh
26.06.2022Quentin Tarantino killed fighting games.
Polygon
26.06.2022I SAID WHAT I SAID: BRUCE LEE IS FIGHTING GAMES