The Kung-Fu / China Warrior title screen (1987) 🔗

There's many photos showing Bruce Lee doing his famous flying kicks, but this one is by far the closest I could find to the guy on the title screen for the PC Engine action curiosity China Warrior. Seems like it would have been easier to use a photo from a movie where he appears already shirtless with the more traditional pants and shoes, like Way of the Dragon or Enter the Dragon, but the original Japanese cover already stole a pose from Game of Death, so maybe that was just what they had at hand.

The Kung-Fu cover (1987) 🔗

Bruce Lee was such an iconic presence in martial arts media that almost every other fighting game series has a character mimicking his looks, mannerisms, or fighting style. This brawler is about nothing but running around and beating up dudes as a Bruce Lee clone, so why not also cloning one of his actual poses for the cover? It's kinda funny that the depth of the angles he's pointing his fingers don't really translate to the imitation, so he kinda looks like he's missing a joint on his index finger. It also seems like the fact that you can't really make out Bruce's hair against the pitch dark background has given the artist license to go a little bit wild with the hair (which isn't really mirrored in the actual game).

Discovered by drpepperfan from the Hardcore Gaming 101 forums.