Karate Champ
| Karate Champ | |
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Arcade game flyer of Karate Champ — Player vs Player
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| Developer(s) | Technōs Japan |
| Publisher(s) | Data East |
| Platform(s) | Arcade (original) Apple II, C64, NES, Virtual Console, iOS |
| Release |
Arcade July 1984 Virtual Console
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| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Up to 2 players simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Upright1 |
| Display | Vertical orientation, Raster, standard resolution (Used: 224 x 256) |
Karate Champ, known in Japan as Karate Dō (空手道 "The Way of the Empty Hand"?), is a 1984 arcade fighting game developed by Technōs Japan for Data East. It established and popularized the one-on-one fighting game genre. A variety of moves can be performed using the dual-joystick controls, using a best-of-three matches format like later fighting games, and it features training bonus stages. It influenced Konami's Yie Ar Kung Fu and other fighting games.
A separate game that allows two players the option to compete against each other was released in 1984 under the title Karate Champ — Player vs Player.
The player assumes the role of a karate competitor and fights against another player or the computer. Using two joysticks, players can execute a number of moves.
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.
The game features digitized speech for the judge to call out such phrases as "Fight!" or "Winner!" The speech is in Japanese in the Japanese version.
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