[5] 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)[6] and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987).
[7] During the development of Kung-Fu Master, Nishiyama was invited to join Capcom by its founder Kenzo Tsujimoto, after he had left Irem.
[1] He designed an arcade successor for Capcom, Trojan (1986), which evolved the basic gameplay concepts of Kung-Fu Master.
[1] He then left Capcom and did not return to work on the sequel Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
Nishiyama then created the Fatal Fury fighting game franchise, as a spiritual successor to the original Street Fighter.