- Karate Champ
. Both versions are very similar in the sense that they use the same hardware, have the same sprites and title screen, and the gameplay is essentially the same although the computer AI is greatly improved along with control and hit detection. Whereas the original game started with the first level taking place at a dojo and all the following levels taking place at a tournament stadium, "Player vs Player" has the characters fighting it out over girls at locations around the world.
Ports and release information
"Karate Champ" was ported to the
Apple II ,Commodore 64 and theNintendo Entertainment System . The Apple II and Commodore 64 ports were both developed byBerkeley Softworks . The NES version was developed in-house by Data East in theUnited States and released in 1986. The port was later released inJapan for theFamicom Disk System onJuly 22 ,1988 , but never made it to the cartridge-based Famicom.An emulation of the arcade version was released by Hamster for the
PlayStation 2 as part of their "Ore-tachi Gesen Zoku" lineup.The game is seen briefly in the movie "Bloodsport" starring
Jean Claude Van Damme .ee also
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List of fighting games
*International Karate - A Home Computer conversion which Data East took to court for Copyright Infringement.References
External links
* [http://www.dataeastgames.com/title_karatechamp.html Official G-Mode webpage of Karate Champ]
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