036 · KARATE CHAMP
It made arcade owners a business champ and players a karate champ, but is this champ now well past the limelight? For more NEStalgia as well as show notes, articles, and more check out www.NEStalgiacast.com
Show notes
- OBJECTIVE
- Gameplay consists of a two dimensional fight between Karate characters wearing white and red gi, followed by various bonus rounds for the successful player. This pattern repeats itself in the next, more challenging round set against a new background. Unlike most later fighter-type games, there are no health bar or hit points. A hit successfully landed ends the round and earns the player or his opponent either one point or half point (along with a numeric score for the top ten but this has no effect on winning a match per se). The first to score two points is the winner. If the player loses a battle, the game ends.
- FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- GAMEPLAY
- CONTROLS
- Awful, hard to do special moves, poor hit detection
- ENEMIES
- POWER UPS
- DIFFICULTY
- SOUND
- No Music!
- STRAY THOUGHTS
- Publisher Data East brought suit against Epyx alleging copyright infringement for its game World Karate Championship. The case went to the ninth circuit court. It was held that the typical purchaser of the games would not find them substantially similar.[8]
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