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As the sequel to the successful Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Shao Lin's Road was a natural candidate for yet another coin-op conversion.

The game sticks pretty much to the original arcade, in which our hero Lee, havily finally mastered the secret martial art Chin's Shao-Lin, decides to hit the road. Or rather, he tries to, but is stopped by hordes of Triads who trap him in the temple.

Controls include kick, jump over adversaries, jump up and down between the three levels of the temple, and the use of magic powers - picked up from time to time when knocking off other opponents.

Considering the limitations of the machine, this conversion is not at all bad, that is if you want to play yet another martial arts game. The sad thing is that Shao Lin is basically a watered down version of Datasoft's two year old hit Bruce Lee, but without the depth offered by that great golden oldie!