The controls in Funky Punch are so streamlined as to be primitive—the stuff of early genre entries such as Konami’s Yie Ar Kung Fu rather than virtually anything subsequently released. You have an on-screen joypad, a block button, an attack button, and a jump button, which can be used in combination to make your character pound an on-screen opponent with hands, feet, and special attacks. Unlike the Street Fighter titles, which made fireballs,…
