If the player dies, all of the orbs and power-ups are lost and must be gained again.
If the player collects 30 orbs, life will be replenished (as well as the 5 charged shots).
Most of the enemies that the player defeats will drop green orbs, but enemies killed by beam attacks won't drop any orbs. Jackie is also able to charge a special beam-like attack, although it can only be used up to five times. Power-ups can allow the player to do a special type of attack over a limited number of times (although the player is only able to carry one power-up). Throughout the game, the player would encounter frogs that carry power-ups or rice bowls (which are items in the game that restore health), but the frogs would have to be hit in order for the item to be obtained. The game is played through five levels (each with a boss at the end). The player controls Jackie Chan, the well-known martial arts stunt master, and brawls against many enemies during his quest to save his sister.
It was first released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 and for the TurboGrafx-16 in 1991. Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu is an action platform video game developed by Now Production and published by Hudson Soft. Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).