This is the game that put System 3 on the map. First unveiled at the PCW Show in 1985. Epyx licensed the game in the US as World Karate Championship and it became the first UK product to get a US billboard No.1. It even won a CES Showcase award.
FightingSportActionvirtual consolewii virtual consoleAtari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Legacy Computer, Wii, Atari ST/STE
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Character
Plot-driven, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Legacy Computer, Wii, Atari ST/STE, Commodore 16, DOS, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, MSX
- Developer
- System 3 Software
- Publisher
- System 3 Software, Endurance Games Ltd., Epyx, Prism Leisure Corporation Plc, Commodore Gaming
- Released
- November 1, 1985
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Side view
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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Both plot-driven, earnest, grave.
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