Karate Champ

[mwhitten77]

I've never seen is version anywhere.

[JohnnySituatioNash17]

"Aren't you a little old to be playing video games"

[Offttrap]

Bloodsport...

Nostalgia.

[anxietydown]

"You fight like a cow"

[SoulVotik]

Wow, this is fucking horrible. Why do I play video games?

[Jackedjay9]

wow remember playing ths in a store in san fransico

[magnustabell]

this is the game they play in the film blood sport

[taki255]

I just noticed both karateka are using cat stance

[goplaygame]

he he

[zskjvbkjsdk]

ps3 remake please

[irishdude1988]

In 'Bloodsport' this game looked awesome.

"Aren't you a little young for full contact?"-Jackson

"Aren't you a little old for video games?"-Dux

What a film!

[KENCANADA1982]

at 1:45 he gave him some kinda like Bruce lee cross kick

aint he a little old to be taking karate, he probably take it with the little kids

[Fadur1]

Daaaaaaaaamn you don't mean this man???!!!!!AHAHHAHAH!!!!!I was for a few games i played sooo much in my youth and this is one of them... .

Very nice to see it again!!!!!

Daaaaaaaamn!!!!!I'm speaking about a very loooong time ago.... :d

Fadur1 1 minuut geleden

[ANinja11]

Heh, I remember this...this was the probably first 'real' one on one fighting game.

[MHMemeDoubleYourFun]

@ANinja11 Correct. According to an issue of Japanese magazine Gamest, this 1984 arcade fighting game was Data East's largest objection against Capcom in court about the 1993 Fighter's History arcade. Data East said Karate Champ was the true originator of the competitive fighting game genre, which predated the original Street Fighter (1987) by three years.

[MonkeyGrinderTube]

I spent half of my childhood on this game! :°D

[Masterkohatu]

@MonkeyGrinderTube lol me too until the first the street fighter came out lol

[MonkeyGrinderTube]

@Masterkohatu LOL! The one with those huge buttons you had to punch hard in order to get the heavy blows? :°D Sure I remember!

[12as5678]

o Van damme joga ele em esporte sangrento

[rayzeromx]

Ufff my first favorite karate video game.

Thanks for sharing

[ewfwefefwsaf]

Man, I loved this game! 1982 -1983, the arcades were my high!

[spooncvc]

"Aren't you a little old to play video games?"

[KENCANADA1982]

@spooncvc look at 0:51, kick the poor bastard in the throat, guy died right there on the platform, chung li stood there an watch him die!

[noodlez4me]

Kumite Kumite Kumite I fight to survive!!!

[Tomalo111]

poor reddy has no fans! no surpise poor Jackons got his arse kicked by van damme :)))

[Bastige56]

This is a really great game in so many ways. If you have ever taken martial arts its about as close as you can get to the feel with it still being a game.

[FlamerPL]

One Of first games , classic ....

[picamarinajr]

you lose

[nama0527]

hajime!

[ivanvalerian]

"Aren't you too old for video games?"

- Frank Dux

[killersushi99]

OH WHAT? No bonus stages! Those were the best! Ice break. Bull Punch!

[Punnarniman]

The best fighting game EVER. True martial artist's appreciated the way you had to craft a point using technique and timing. Not just battering random button to make people fire lightning out of their arses or whatever!!!!!

I used to live on this game....

[1983parrothead]

In court between Data East and Capcom about Fighter's History, Data East's largest complaint against Capcom was that their 1984 Karate Champ arcade was the one that started it all in popularizing the fighting game genre. It later caused Konami to create the 1985 Yie Ar Kung-Fu arcade, which is the basis for modern fighting games. In 1987, Capcom created Street Fighter 1, which is like Yie Ar Kung-Fu on crack, with Ryu and Ken resembling Karate Champ's white and red karate men.

[benzodiazapines]

Was this the only arcade game to use two joysticks and no buttons?

[birdonawi]

@benzodiazapines yes!!

[benzodiazapines]

I'm pretty sure the ref in the blue shirt is either Ron Jeremy or William Murderface.

[KingRobBMF]

Ok USA!!

[craneywatch]

@KingRobBMF The same game was in the movie Blood Sport with Jack-lot Wandam

[bigmaxy07]

Yamais!

[plexnoid]

I love this game!  I have the American version in my front room.

[kimkaphwan1986]

OMG I remember blodsport, Jackson VS Frank Dux

[CGSC1977]

Caracas que saudade!! Joguei muito esse FLIPER com meu MANO nas ferias que tirávamos em GUARAPARI-ES na década de 80...Foram altas fichas até pegarmos uma manha na maquina que agente zerava facil....e ficava quase meia hora nela com uma ficha hehehehe!!!

[PHUKTH1S]

"I'm Lyn, you Jackson?? You look like a Jackson. That must make you Frank Ducks".

"No no its Dux"

"Gotcha, like put up your Dux right??"

[mantagrae]

hahahahaha @ mr. lyn in room 310

[redrobincleveland]

blood sport right?

[DonCorleone87]

this game is the best... bloodsport!!!!

[xMichiMichiyo]

My dad's friend owns this arcade game =D

[vetamur]

This was the only arcade game I was actually good at..

[34thstreetman]

STOP

JUDGE

[MTtube7]

classic

[animeman05]

Kumite!Kumite!Kumite!

[SomethingCity]

lol bloodsport

[selfscienz]

Can we say 50 thousand volts frank? Read my lips WE ARE TAKING YOU BACK

[johnbourbon]

lol :51 PWND!!

[Stimchi]

remember when Jean Claude Van Damme was playin this in "Bloodsport"?

[alienresearch]

yea i do remember that part . that movie was tight , hong kong under ground tournament . . show me dim mak !

[MHMemeDoubleYourFun]

@Stimchi It also appeared in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, along with a sound effect of Pac-Man dying without the Pac-Man arcade being seen, and another that's probably the 1983 Mario Bros.

[tigahwood]

The guy in the red gi totally pwned

[tigahwood]

/just broke out in pimples and suddenly have an oily face.

[rabapab23]

Ah man.. I remember the days of Showbiz Pizza and this machine. I ruled that game. But the bull... damn it was tough.

[ghostbuster56]

lol this game was on bloodsport

[Machiventa]

I used to play this at the arcade before the NES came out.I wonder how much an arcade one would go for these days?

[phoenixicarus]

What platform was this?

[akdragon]

the Original Nintendo (NES)

[Mr1erful]

Arcade,Not NES.NES is a horrible remake.

[JVM410]

I'll take 2 slices of pizza, a sprite, and this arcade game! :p

[gclark03]

NES + Voice sampling = garbage

[scir91]

i used to play this on the NES before street fighter 2 came out and made believe that the guy in red was ken and the guy in white was ryu. i also loved making fun of the referee (he needed a haircut).

[BitScout]

wow.

This game is no joke, it's hard!

Good show. :)

[highway234]

the trick as far as i could figure was to keep blocking until the other guy did a move you knew the response to, like if he did a high punch you could block and then do a foot sweep.

i'd love to see a mame version of this.

[classof77]

Squatting Reverse Lunge Punch!

Great quarter-smoker back in the day.

[Leohuizar]

so this inspired capcom to make SF...White GI/Red Gi...

[Loadfaster]

Are you serious? Krate champ inspired Capcom to do SF?

Thats true?

[SirGameandWatch]

Actually, that would be Yie Ar Kung Fu.

[yhntgbqwertypolmmnj]

actually those 2 inspired camcom to do sf 1 good old days

[yhntgbqwertypolmmnj]

Actually the 2 inspired Capcom to do SF.

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Good old days

[badbobbyhughes]

both games are corrected cited as primary influences on the entire modern fighting genre. sega however produced a combo-control style duel fighting game in '75 called heavyweight champ, which likely influenced Data East with Karate Champ & Shanghai Kid, which both influenced Yie Ar Kung Fu. This would be the last popular duel-type fighting game until SF, as 85-89 saw the arcades dominated by side-scrolling fighters (i.e. double dragon) and the cresting popularity of motor racing games

[Leohuizar]

...what he said is prolly true. But then again [im a SF fanboy, so no disrespect intended]most of the "original" characters in SF2' were inspired by movies, pro atheletes, and characters from FIST OF THE NORTH STAR manga series. If you read FOTNS youll see it, alot. Mostly from the ancellary badguys who are about to get owned, fatality style.

[Dalemushashi]

Yes this game is more inspired by traditional martial art customs then anime,manga, cinema or celebrities. No inspiration aesthetic-wise but this established the control style. Although they both bear Mas Oyama inspired characters like almost any fighter with Japanese style martial art characters.

[1983parrothead]

Looks more like the arcade version.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

He got beat by a donut?

[odivox033]

Buuu, no llegaste ni al toro, bad player !!!

[greglocascio]

This is a great game! I remember playing it back in the day and being able to spend up to an hour on a single quarter. The trick is to time your front kick just right. That was my super simple default move that got me out of a lot of trouble.

[oldtimer1973]

it will be very nise if they do it in 3D! with the same basic muves in game pad's sticks of the consoles!!And mybe to add some ather muves in the buton's. wat to you think guys?

[emalaran]

this was actually one of my most favorite games at one time.. but this verion seems a bit different than the one i used to play

[galaxyexpress999]

You mean the NES version?

[USAJAP1]

This is the japanese version of the game (NOT NES VER, IT SUCKS!!!) am I right, 999?

[galaxyexpress999]

Yeah it is the japanese version.

[USAJAP1]

Played jap ver. yet?

[galaxyexpress999]

No not yet.