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Takashi Nishiyama started his career at Irem. He worked on the game design of the 1982 scrolling shooter "Moon Patrol", one of the first games with parallax scrolling. He was also the designer of "Kung-Fu Master" (1984), called "Spartan X" in Japan. It is based on two Hong Kong martial arts films: the Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung film "Wheels on Meals" (1984), called "Spartan X" in Japan, and especially the Bruce Lee film "Game of Death" (1972). "Kung-Fu Master" is considered the first beat 'em up game, becoming the prototype for most subsequent martial arts games in the late 1980s. The NES port, "Kung Fu", was programmed by a Nintendo team under the direction of Shigeru Miyamoto, later influencing his work on "Super Mario Bros." (1985).