Karate Champ (was originally Karate Dō in Japan) is an arcade game released in 1984 and was developed by the Technos Japan). Karate Champ is also available for home versions platform when Data East, the publisher began to publish this game in the United State in 1985. Fun fact about this game is in the 1987 Video Game Masters Tournament, the world record of Karate Champ was 259,800 points. This game is included in a fighting genre games. This game could be played in either single or multi-player mode.
Interactive
Karate Champ is a fighting genre game which obviously requires many actions. There are two types of action in this game, they are attack and defence.
There are many available attacking moves in this game, such as
- Lunge Punch (high/low)
- Reverse Punch (standing/crouching)
- Round Kick
- Front Kick
- Low/Back Kick
- Back Round Kick
- Jumping Side/Back Kick
- Foot Sweep
- and Reverse Foot Sweep
Different attack moves will also produce different points.
Apart of forward, back, jump, and crouch, the defensive moves, however, is available in two types, they are
- Block (High/Low)
- and Summersault (Forward/Reverse)
Setting
This game uses different types of settings. However, the default one would be in Karate field where two karate champ fights in the middle. In the upper part of the screen, we could see there is a 'Karate' sign, and there is 1 master judge, and 2 (probably) senior/assistance judges. In the lower part of the screen, there are 11 karate guys who watch the competition together. The feel of karate competition could be felt by the Karate sign, judges, and the audience.
Other setting could in various places such as at the city, cliff, sport field, etc. Wherever the setting, there is always 1 master judge wearing blue top and black bottom.
Concept
The player pretends to be a karate competitor and he would be fight against another player or computer. Two karate guys could be seen coming from two different groups, one's wearing white gi, and another one's wearing red gi. This game follows the common karate competition where the judge would call out phrases "Fight!" to start the game, and "Winner!" when someone's already won. To win the game, a player has to successfully hit another player.
Goal
The goal of this game to get more points by attacking the opponent. A player who gets the most point would be the winner.
Challenge
This game does not have health bar or hit points. An attach successfully landed would end the round, and the player would get a point or half point. The player needs to protect himself by using some defensive action while he gets to attack the opponent to get more points. According to me, this game uses high chances. The faster you attack before the opponent could perform any defensive moves, then you get the point.
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