Nostalgia (k3nshi)

Yie Ar Kung Fu was the first beat'em'up game I owned. This was back in the 8-bit days, and I had to load the game using a tape deck on my goddamned BBC model B computer (which my parents had bought for my education, not gaming). So Yie Ar... was one of my few games, and one I really enjoyed playing. Hell, the BBC version had some totally hard opponent called Feedle, which was a bitch to get past unlike the other lamer versions for the other lamer machines of the time. Even my sister played Yie Ar... and to this day claims that it was one of the few games she was good at ('good' being a highly subjective term here, obviously).

So when I saw Yie Ar... appear in the LIVE Arcade list, I forked out however many points to play it. A pure nostalgia purchase, which probably wasn't worth the money. But for a brief moment it took me back to a more primitive gaming time, and the fun I had playing that game. So it doesn't surprise me at all to see LIVE Arcade clogged up with Retro games - it's an easy way to make a buck.