Karate Champ

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Karate Champ
Studio Technos Japan
Publisher Data East
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 9/ 1984
genre Fighting Game
Game mode up to 2 players at the same time
control 2 4-way joysticks per player
casing default
Arcade system Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3 MHz)
Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 3 MHz)
Sound Chips: 2 × AY-3-8910 (@ 1.5 MHz), DAC
monitor Raster resolution 224 × 256 (4: 3 horizontal) Color palette: 256
information 1. Fighting game for 2 players

Karate Champ is an arcade game developed by Technos Japan in 1984 and released by Data East . It was the first fighting game for two players (in simultaneous combat mode) and is considered to be the forerunner of the popular game series Street Fighter (1987) and Mortal Kombat (1992). See also fighting game .

Game description

The players must either compete against the computer opponent White (with a white karate suit and black belt) one after the other, or compete in the art of karate at the same time . Two 4-way joysticks per player, with which various combat movements can be carried out, are unusually used for input . The second player is simply called Red .

Fighting takes place in the common horizontal 2D view with twelve different backgrounds. The winner of a combat section must then survive numerous bonus rounds.

The life bars at the top of the screen that are usual for this type of game do not exist here. A full or half hit is enough.

successor

  • Karate Champ - Player Vs Player (arcade game 10/84) developed by Data East itself has minor changes and more backgrounds. In Japan the games were called Karate Dou and Taisen Karate Dou - Seishun Bishoujo Hen .

Karate Champ also pioneered the home computer games The Way of the Exploding Fist and International Karate Plus , which were particularly successful on the Commodore 64 .

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