The fact that this was made by one kid working on his degree is incredible also for people who don't know the kid who made this went on to make Prince of Persia

@veronicabelmonte2708

2 жыл бұрын

Jordan Mechner

@matrix91234

Жыл бұрын

One of the best games ever made

@CartoonPhreak

Жыл бұрын

@@veronicabelmonte2708 Yep He licenses the intellectual property to Walt Disney Pictures (as Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) He also released The Last Express (which is owned by Interplay Entertainment Corp)

@HistorysMysterys

Жыл бұрын

For it’s time it looks great but I still think Pac-Man, space invaders and donkey Kong were amazing.

@sharinglungs3226

10 ай бұрын

@@veronicabelmonte2708what is he doing lately? Seemed to have a few hits and then just dropped out never to be heard from again.

I haven't given a single thought to this game since I played it when I was 13 years old, 28 years ago! Then today, I see it again and realize how many memories I have.. Seriously, 28 years without a single thought and I still know every sound effect and the music. Insane!!!!!

@MuThunder

Жыл бұрын

38 years ago today! Gosh

The creator of the game, Jordan Mechner, used a technique called rotoscoping for the animations, i.e. real Super 8 motion picture footage of his Karate teacher running around and doing kicks and punches.That's why they were so revolutionary looking in 1984.

Things I learned from this game as a child: 1. Birds are unstoppable flying death machines 2. If you get hit while running, you will immediately die 3. Never walk under an open gate

@Radii_DC

7 жыл бұрын

4. Never approach your girlfriend with a fight stance.

@deasq

7 жыл бұрын

cmrees2 1. birds were stoppable. you just should choose rigth moment to kik them to kill

@deasq

7 жыл бұрын

sometimesI was lucky to kill it at the beginning

@joechase2689

5 жыл бұрын

The circle is now complete. You are ready.

@NameCallingIsWeak

4 жыл бұрын

@@Radii_DC If you RUN to the woman, she hugs and kisses you. LIFE LESSON!!

I remember the first time I finally got through this game only to have that woman I worked so hard to save one-shot me. Taught me everything I needed to know about women.

@ilham78

7 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Zodi77

6 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@SamuelAna4Ever

6 жыл бұрын

Quite possibly the best comment I've ever seen posted on KZread.

@gregfalco4528

6 жыл бұрын

This shit was MGTOW 30 years before the movement started.

@quasar4601

5 жыл бұрын

It took me many weeks to figure out the name of this game. I finally google Apple 2 and bird boss battle and I got the name. I was a big fan of this game as I was only like 9. The Gate was annoying as you would die if you failed to do it right as well.

There's just something special about that out of tune synth music that is so memorable. I've hummed that end/credits music for 30something years.

Bwahaha. I so remember making the mistake of walking up to Mariko in finghting stance and getting that one-hitter quitter after I don't know how long it took me to get there. Very nearly 'Karateka'd" my commodore 64 after that!

I never could get over this game. If she could kill him with one kick, then why couldn't she just fight her own way out?

@Tony.L9793

6 ай бұрын

She could have killed the final boss instead😂

@NemeanLion-

6 ай бұрын

The final boss wisely wore an iron jock as all men should.

@tommymurica3773

5 ай бұрын

SPOILER!

@doncarlin9081

5 ай бұрын

lol I still remember my first encounter with her, and that’s exactly what happened to me. And I thought the same thing too.

I used to play this on my dads Atari computer. Watching this video felt like the first time I saw this game all over again. Wow that’s powerful how vivid those memories are almost 40 years ago

this game actually plays decent with very good hit detection. must have been amazing when it came out because this was very new. really reminds me of street fighter 2. would have loved to have had this as a kid.

@sdutango

9 ай бұрын

Hot detection is everything, also animation is good too. It's not like 1 frame punch

Wow I'm so glad I found this video. Just brought back so many memories lol I remember playing this game everyday in one of classes. I would sneak to play it because I wanted to beat it so bad. I remember being so confused the first 20 or so times the princess killed me until one day just deciding to run to her lmao!

I think I watch this vid once a year or so and feel really strong nostalgia for the early days. Thanks for posting this.,

@mandeskelton9548

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto😊 One other for me is Castle Wolfenstein. Totally brings me back to being 9yrs old!!

I remember the days of my youth when games like this was the highest quality for it’s time.

My sweet child memory with Apple II!

Played this as a kid on a Franklin Apple II knock off and I never realized until today...baby got back.......

"You're the BEST.... AROOOUUUUUUUUND!!! Nothing's gonna ever KEEP you DOWN!"

@philb9015

3 жыл бұрын

Lol nice. Wonder how many ppl would know from what movie that is . 80s where the best.

@zaphnathpaaneah3108

3 жыл бұрын

Yeaaahhh! Get him a bodybag

@Guntank

3 жыл бұрын

...except walking backwards off the cliff you spent hours climbing and splattering yourself on the cliffside, that is.

This was mine and my brothers childhood in the ‘80’s!!!!! ❤❤❤❤

One of my favorite Apple iie games! Many hours playing it until I beat it.

I loved this game as a kid. I’m rewatching this playthrough I was trying to remember if I’d ever actually beaten it, and then when the boss was beaten, I remembered: you have to run into her arms or she will kill you! And I definitely remember the ending scroll.

Fav computer game of my childhood....the clicky sounds of the punches and kicks is so satisfying

This brings back memories! I played this one hundred times a week. I hated the eagle!

@iceswallow7717

5 жыл бұрын

John Peters hi brother. i also played this in kindergarten and we couldn’t get past the 4th guy. it was legendary that someone actually went into the castle

@mandeskelton9548

3 жыл бұрын

That eagle scared me, haha!

Oh! That's how it looks in color!

@D0nK3yDon

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, fellow green-screen-er.

You could knock the bad guys back by stepping forward while center kicking. It was best to step forward just after they kicked. You could get in a few kick hits and knock them back without taking damage most of the time. Worked on the main bad guy too, but had to be more careful. The biggest thing with the bird at the end was not to let it knock you back into the previous room. That allowed it to get in some easy hits on you.

The little flip of her hair when she turns around at 1:24 is a nice detail.

Played this on a Commodore 64. First time I played she kicked me at the end but the second time I ran to her and she hugged and kissed. This game was great. I stayed home sick from school once just so I could play this game to the end.

That fuckin' bird, man...

I changed all the enemy heads to smurfs and released the hack as "Smurf Butcher Bob in the Far East." Also gave the princess a boob job. I miss the Apple ][ days.

@Msf1011

9 жыл бұрын

Could you possibly give me a link to it?

@lemonslice2233

8 жыл бұрын

And that was 25 years before Avatar.

@mandeskelton9548

3 жыл бұрын

COOL!

The graphics & sounds are amezing for a system never intended for this,like hardly paralax scrolling & digital voices, sure it looks boring concidering the slow gameplay but what could i expect from such old system. This game can be clearly seen as the absolute for runner of street fighter (2) because it contains many element to it.

THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST UNDERRATED VIDEOGAME IN HISTORY

Omg I used to play this game when I was five everyday.. I forgot all about this gem

I remember playing this on a yellow monochrome monitor...and the total amazement the day dad got us a monitor that was color......sooo many snow days.......and Karateka..thanks for posting!!!!

@zacktube100

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking through comments to see if anyone else played in monochrome.

@oneloveinus

3 жыл бұрын

@@zacktube100 we had a Franklin Apple II clone..had two disk drives and everything......legendary

Loved this game. This and captain goodnight WAS my childhood gaming. :)

I played this on my IBM computer back in 1988...this is what karate gaming is all about..no weapons & no magic fireballs...just bare hands

@Lightsydephil

2 жыл бұрын

Until Street Fighter 2 came along with Ryu and Ken

That god damn EAGLE, had me tearing out hair & swearing, until I finally defeated it! haha

I remember playing this as a kid. A couple of my friends had this Apple computer!!

I could never get past that gate as a kid. Couldnt remember the name of the game after all these years. Randomly thought about it and came to find a playthrough. It's so obvious now! Thanks for uploading this gem!

Still remember a friend whose family got the Apple 2E and they had this game. It was awesomeness!

Thanks for uploading this! This brings back so much childhood memories! This has to be one of the first fighting games ever and with a great story line and cutscenes! But I couldn’t stop yelling “Stop throwing those stupid punches!!” while watching this...... Indeed punches are next to useless against 90% of your opponents except 1) when you’re advancing, or 2) against the hawk. I used mid kicks 90% of the time simply because it has higher priority over high kicks, and it can push your opponents back. I’d usually wait for my opponents to come within striking distance then I’ll hit 3 kicks. That’s enough to kill all of your opponents. As for the hawk, you can just keep throwing high/mid/low punches depending on its position then you’ll hit it 95% of the time. Easy. Fun fact: Your first opponent (the one waiting for you at the front gate) will keep standing unless you’re in fighting stance, and you can keep bowing to him as many times as you like because he will always bow back, so you two can keep bowing to each other infinitely. XD

@Sim-ys7cr

10 ай бұрын

Ermm true, but if an opponent Bow more than 3 times, mostly they're not interested to fight from my experience. Accept for the first bow

these animations are really good

@quasar4601

5 жыл бұрын

i loved this game as a kid !! I loved it

@mikepetri3536

3 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming you're being sarcastic about the graphics

@artvandelay3840

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikepetri3536 For it's time, they are really good. The animation is quite smooth and realistic.

@dtrellis

Жыл бұрын

For 1984 they were incredible, compare them to the 2 or 3 frame animations you got for most video game characters at that stage.

I played this religiously on my C64. I remember you can get some sick combos too. LOL!!!

WOW! Memory lane. As a kid, I use to stay after school to play this game.

Minha infância num só vídeo! Consigo escutar a trilha sonora desse jogo na minha cabeça, antes de começar kkkkk Que saudade

@luissilva5804

Жыл бұрын

Explica pra mim este final não entendi! 26:44 Ele foi morto pela princesa!!! O objetivo não era resgatá-la?

i played this during pre-university course. bring back a lot of memories

I always played this with keyboard controls. Played it again the other day for the first time in 30+ years and I was still kickin' ass at this game! :)

1:04 "Get back in that Kitchen"

Happy 40th Birthday Apple II. Introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16, 1977

I remember that you were supposed to bow (pressing B) before you run to the princess. Otherwise she kills you. Such a last minute resistance, amazing.

Wow, I haven't had that many fights outside the temple since the early 80s! I always hurry, so I tend to get 3: Right after climbing the cliff, one after running several screens, and one at the temple door (then HURRY inside before someone else comes out). You can ALWAYS hit the bird, BTW. Just that punches have shorter reach, making it harder. I pretty much never punch in this game at all, while I'm closing in to land punches I'm in range of the enemy kicking me. Nice job including both endings. :)

I can't believe this came out the same year as Karate Champ.

wow... I remember playing this one of my high school classes. Thanks for posting the video; now I can try to find it and download it.

Muito obrigado por postar esse vídeo. Trouxe lembranças da minha infância! 😊

The first time I ever made it to Mariko, I was probably 6 or 7, and my dad was watching me play. He said something like "Is that the end? Better be careful..." So I walked up to her slowly and *WHAP*! He trolled me so hard that day. I was really upset about it at the time, but now I look back and appreciate it.

I remember! If you didn't assume the fighting position, you could bow to your opponent and he would bow back! Also, wasn't there a way to get enemies stuck in the gate?

@mandeskelton9548

3 жыл бұрын

I remember having a bowing stand-off!

@CaptainCanuck74

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, to the bowing stand-off, and yes to backing the enemy up until the gate fell on him. I remember doing both on the C64 version of the game

This original version is so much better than the NES remake. The looks of the men and the boss are superior as is the MIDI music and the famous HYAH Karate scream.

@jsrodman

6 жыл бұрын

FYI: While the MIDI specification was created in 1981, it didn't get to computers until much later, and certainly wasn't available on the Apple II built-in hardware in 1984. This is code pushing in and out the Apple II speaker, which more or less required that you write tight timing loops just to get a tone (unless you were a very creative programmer), so usually the game can't do much else while playing sound. Thus the silences when things are animating.

thank you, one game in my entire life I've never been able to finish.. well done! I'm happy to see the ending!

@NameCallingIsWeak

4 жыл бұрын

If you RUN to the woman, she hugs and kisses you. LIFE LESSON!!

I was a teenager and got a pirated version of the game! Hacking copy protections on the 5 1/4 inch floppies was a big deal, and different games had entirely different types of protections (I remember one where the formatting itself was changed for copy-protection). My friends were able to copy games on school computers and play them before the school figured it out. Only a few of us had Apple IIes, so there wasn't that much piracy going on. The memories of that are more fun than actually playing the games.

I remember not bein about to continue, and if you got hit while running you were done

I have wanted to go to Japan ever since playing this game as a child to see both Mt Fuji and the beautiful Tori gate on the water. I just returned. The weather was always cloudy, so I barely got to see mt Fuji and the Tori gate was under reconstruction and had a huge scoffolding over it. Oh well!!!

One of the endings where the princess kicks her savior looks like a twist that she never was kidnapped in the first place, it was all a ruse that she's the real mastermind and Akuma was a decoy.

Thanks for helping me relive some old childhood memories...yes..never go to mariko in fighting stance

I remember playing this when it came out on our school computers. And double siding your floppy disk with a hole punch lol. Damn...that was almost 40yrs ago 😂

26:45 HAHAHA!! Boy that made my day!!

@pentiummmx2294

5 жыл бұрын

that girl owned him

I remember playing this on the Apple2c. Good times.

WOW, i so remember playing this way, thank you for kicking ass! she never hugged me, ;-(

First time I played this game was on a Game Boy Multi-Cart and it was on it. Would play it repeatedly!

I remember the first time I approached the "princess" in my fighting stance. I was so pissed. Never forgot to run to her instead after that.

Thank you, THANK YOU, oldclassicgame, for posting this video!! Ive been looking for a complete demo of this game for quite some time on YT because it's one the first games I got really good at and is considered one of my favorites! AWESOME!

used to play this game every day around 1986-87 in our computer lab at school during lunch break. I was in middle school haha

i used to play this game on an emulator oh my god

I used to play this on the older apple computer that only had green and black on the screen.

@sunggeunpark6030

8 жыл бұрын

me too

@myunself9976

8 жыл бұрын

me three

@BrendanBellina

7 жыл бұрын

That was a limitation of the monitor, not the computer. The Apple II always had color.

@danpal6737

5 жыл бұрын

Me five in green looks better

THAT ENDING! 🤣 Approaching the princess with a combat stance, haha.

Oh man used to play this all the time back in the 80's. My dad bought one when they firest came out.

My first computer game with my fathers Apple II. Oh, great times :-)

Wait....if you move towards her in attack position she attacks you? The faque?

@jitsmapper4438

5 жыл бұрын

Trust and you will be trusted in return. Run to love with an open heart.

@handsomebrick

5 жыл бұрын

If it's possible to beat her, then I say do it. Anything less is technically quitting.

@gr3ygh05t9

3 жыл бұрын

Not only that, she takes half your stuff too 🤣 JK

Much better graphics than the Atari 2600. I remember enjoying this as a kid. Also Moon Patrol, Shifty Sam, and Wavy Navy.

So, is there any reason not to spam kicks? It seems to offer the best reach and all.

I never realized this as a kid 35 years ago, but dang, Mariko is a thic brick house. badunk

First time I played this was on my friends Commodore 64. So many memories

I always wondered why Mariko didn’t just one kick Akuma in the nuts to get free

@mandeskelton9548

3 жыл бұрын

If she killed him there would be no game! ;)

Wow, I was in first year in college in 1984. Things were simple back then.

Loved this game as a kid.. though it was brutal

hehe! I love that ending; I tried many times to beat up Mariko; it was great when you killed the vulture in burst of feathers, LOL!!!

I remember playing this years and years ago. I did not however remember that Shovel Knight was your first opponent.

Played this in high school. Now look at me. I'm a karate master.

@quasar4601

5 жыл бұрын

I played this in Middle School and it took me weeks to find the name

Just seen this come up on GoG as a 2023 'Making of' special Edition. Honestly don't remember this, great idea to have story transition between fights. Nearest I can remember was Way of the Exploding Fist on Spectrum and Commodore.

I played the heck out of this on my apple IIc. I found that if you rock that guy back and forth where his feet cross you could draw them in back out and kick.

Nice I never got to see the end of this game

Loved this game back then, the eagle was @#$%¨ tough to fight (imo, worse than Akuma himself) And the "bad ending" was a laugh.

@mcrendog

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. That bird was nasty. I remember finally beating it and Akuma was sooo easy!

I remember playing this game on the Apple 2 PC as a kid growing up

This takes me back!

Does the warlord really just teleport into the room after the bird dies in the Apple II version, or is there a gap in the recording?

@starvinmarvin351

5 жыл бұрын

Gap. He is in the room with the girl when the fight starts

Never beat this. the princess always sucker punched me! What a beautiful game though.

@NameCallingIsWeak

4 жыл бұрын

If you RUN to the princess, she hugs and kisses you. LIFE LESSON!!

This game was creepy as hell to me, it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid playing it in the 90's on my black and white screen I still remember it

From the technical point of view this game is a wonder of programming.

@spunkflunk I didn't use fraps. I used Camtasia for this.

owww thank you...childhood game..i could never finish the game...it was like so hard and dteicky to fight the master

@NameCallingIsWeak

4 жыл бұрын

If you RUN to the princess, she hugs and kisses you. LIFE LESSON!!

Oh, SNAP! Would have loved to play! Double Dragon before Double Dragon, yo! lol

You have to run towards Mariko otherwise she assumes you're an enemy come to take her away. Considering she just knocked you out in one blow though, one has to wonder why she even needs rescuing in the first place :P

Who remembers that disk muncher program we used to use to copy discs back in high school? It's how I got my first copy of this game. I know, bad pirate. I did buy the game later (IIe version wouldn't work on IIc).

Best in class cinematic game at the 80s.