Atari 800 XL - World Karate Championship - Longplay

Me playing World Karate Championship (aka International Karate) by Archer Maclean.

Music by Rob Hubbard.

Played until black belt.

Atari 800 CAN play music simultaneously with sound fx in this game! Just press "T" after starting the game.

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[coolasshole23]

how come you didnt do the spinning back kick?

[bormisha]

@coolasshole23 I find that kick impractical and risky, you can be low-kicked while attempting it. I also didn't use a few other punches/kicks (except perhaps incidentally by mistake). Some of them are not very useful.

[onlineboxingdotnet]

didnt know atari could produce this kind of graphics. It's a perfect duplicate of the C64 version, sound is the only thing that differs a little

[bormisha]

Yeah. As far as I know, Atari graphics and the CPU are even better than those of C64. But many games were made for both platforms or ported to Atari from C64, and that's why they look the same. Check out Wikipedia about the "Dropzone" game, it was initially made for Atari and later ported (with some restrictions) on C64.

[bluenote71]

You took out the red guy like he was a mutha' f*cka'.

Thanks for posting. I had this game as a kid.

[bormisha]

Well, I did it from the third attempt or so, and it was not my best game :) In fact, shortly after the video ends, the red guy took me out :)

[rudiangath]

@Gauchoo1234 I'm sure it's "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", great film with David Bowie.

OK, according to wikipedia (entry about Rob Hubbard):

'(inspired in part by Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence") '

:-)

[thorgallpl]

@onlineboxingdotnet actually the atari version looks better. i also prefer the a8 version of the tune.

[DamoclesAlpha]

It appears that I had a mistake in one of my earlier comments. The theme in Last Ninja Remix which uses portions from Forbidden Colours is actually played in the third, not fourth level.

[DamoclesAlpha]

As a final remark, both the original European release of World Karate Championship (known as International Karate - for some reason many European games released by Epyx in the North America had their names changed) and Last Ninja Remix were originally released by System 3. Coincidence?

[DamoclesAlpha]

As an addendum to my previous post, portions of the same theme (the one from the movie, that is) were used also in the another game, Last Ninja Remix for C64. It was a rerelease of the C64 version of Last Ninja 2 with new intro, entirely new soundtrack and new graphics in the border panels. The gameplay, level design and the rest of ingame graphics were unchanged. Each level had its own theme and the one for the fourth uses portions from the theme mentioned earlier.

[DamoclesAlpha]

@bormisha

Those portions of Rob Hubbard's theme are apparently based on certain theme from the movie "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence". At least the vocal version is called "Forbidden Colours". According to Wikipedia the original theme was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto while the lyrics of the vocal version were done by David Sylvian.

[digimikeh]

i guess there is a big codeline of programation in this game... just collision with hits are complex... great game to be for the atari hehe.. basic is powerful too ..

[digimikeh]

great game.. i love the music... a very well developed one...