Karate Champ

Le jeu

Karate Champ, originally known as Karate, is a 1984 fighting game released by Data East for arcades. The player utilizes dual-joystick controls to input various moves, in order to defeat enemies in a best-of-three matches format. The game was commercially successful, especially in the United States where it was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1985 and the best-selling home computer game up until 1989. Karate Champ (NES) It established and popularized the one-on-one fighting game genre, for which it is considered one of the most influential games of all time. Karate Champ has been identified as being developed by Technōs Japan, though an employee who worked at Data East argued that the developer of the game was neither Technos or Data East. Using two joysticks, players can execute 24 moves. Gameplay consists of a two dimensional fight between the first karateka wearing a white gi who is controlled by player one and the second karateka wearing a red gi who is controlled by either player two or the CPU, followed by various bonus rounds for the successful player. This pattern repeats itself in the next, more challenging round set against a new background, the first level being a dojo and all following levels taking place at the same tournament stadium. Unlike most later fighting games, there is no health bar or hit point system. A hit successfully landed ends the round and earns the hitter either one point or half point (along with a numeric score for the top ten, but this has no effect on winning a match). The first to score two points is the winner. If the player loses a battle, the game ends. The game features digitized speech for the judge to call out such phrases as 'Half point' or 'Full point'. The speech is in Japanese in the original version. Karate Champ was converted to the Apple II and the Commodore 64 by Berkeley Softworks. Data East began publishing the home versions in the USA on October 12, 1985. The NES version was released in North America in December 1986. Like the home computer versions, the NES conversion was inspired by the Player vs. Player edition of the arcade game, this version was later released in Japan for the Disk System on July 22, 1988, but never made it to the cartridge-based Family Computer. Data East published this version of the game, both in North America and Japan.