The Way of the Exploding Fist - C64 (Melbourne House 1985)

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Released for the C64 by Melbourne House. A top-knotch Karate Champ clone, AND the coolest title of any video game, ever!

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[MarcSola7]

That scream came from the Bruce Lee movie "Enter The Dragon".

[drummerdickens]

These have to be the single worst AND greatest sound effects ever.

[Lagash1973]

Pure perfection. This game is the mother of all VS fighters and also has something of implicitly philosophical.

[2PeteShakur]

LONG LIVE C64!! :D

[guinness13]

I loved this and IK games. I used to kick my buddies ass, because I mastered one of the first unbeatable combos - Leap over the head and do the spin-punch to the kidneys. Like early Ryu/Ken Hadoken, I spammed that bastard over and over. They never played me, even though we all enjoyed it. Exploding Fist rocked. International Karate rocked. Kung Fu Master rocked. Anyone remember "Ninja"? That game owned my life as a 12 year old.

[simplyeightiesdotcom .]

Although not the first martial arts game (Karate Champ and Kung Fu Master were released in 1984) with its excellent character animation and a wide variety of moves, this game set the standard and influenced beat-em-up's that followed such as International Karate.

[Gay Hitler]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[1787dude]

HYAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

[MacRief]

Karate Champ was ugly as hell, had crappy animations and wierd physics. International Karate had the most excellent and smooth animations, brilliant physics and with out a doubt the best music ever written to any 8-bit console. Plus the characters didn't look gay. So actually... You're wrong.

[baconismagic]

Way of the Exploding Fist was released in June 1985, and International Karate was released in November 1985.

So you're still wrong.

The 1985 version of International Karate was developed by a different team for the ZX Spectrum, and probably isn't the International Karate you're thinking of.

So you're double wrong.

In any case, they're both clones of Karate Champ, which was far better than both of them.

Also you're still wrong.

[MacRief]

Way of The Exploding Fist ain't got SHIT on IK!

Deal with it.

By the way IK was released in 1985 also.

Deal with that too.