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The way of the exploding was the first karate game from Melbourne house
leading to a host of lookalike games afterwards. The aim of the game is
simple, you must face an opponent in a one-on-one fight. When you hit
your opponent you will get half or a full point indicated by the yin-yang
symbols and whoever get two such symbols first is the winner. Win three
such matches and you will gain one rank and have to face a more difficult
opponent. You start as a novice but you can take it all the way up to
10th dan which is the highest you can get in martial arts.
You have many different moves at your disposal and each is done by moving
the joystick in a specific direction with or without pressing the fire
button. Some are for closerange and others for longrange but you have
to think quick to hit your opponent and win. You can defend yourself from
any attacks but you must block at the proper height because it's no use
blocking high when you are about to be hit on your legs.
There is a two-player option which is quite fun but you better have at
least one joystick because sharing the keyboard in such a game will probably
lead to actual physical harm :).
There was also a sequel to this game with more varied opponents and also
one that had some adventuring in it. Altough the sequels improve upon
this game it still holds up well and all the versions here are worth playing
with the C64 being the best.
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
This game was released for four different systems here are some notes:
Amstrad
CPC |
Released
in 1985.
Game has been tested but not completed with winAPE v2.0 A6.
Graphics are equal to the C64 version but there is almost no sound. |
BBC
Micro |
Released
in 1985.
Game has been tested but not completed with BeebEm v2.0.
Sounds and graphics are almost up to C64 standards. |
C64 |
Released
in 1985.
Game has been tested but not completed with CCS64 v2.0 win.
Nice graphics and sound with a fairly succesfull attempt at some digitized
sound effects of screaming noises. |
ZX
Spectrum |
Released
in 1985.
Game has been tested but not completed with emuZwin v2.5.
Colorfull graphics for a Spectrum game but sadly little or no sound. |
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Date added |
Dec-11-2004 19:36 |
Name |
Way of the exploding fist, the |
Developer |
Melbourne house
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Publisher |
Melbourne house
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First released |
1985 |
Genre |
Action
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Download |
Amstrad CPC, filesize: 28 Kb
BBC Micro, filesize: 18 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 44 Kb
ZX Spectrum, filesize: 28 Kb
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Links |
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Manual |
Download manual
, filesize: 5 Kb
Zip is the same as the text manual. |
Solve / Docs |
No solve available
Get text manual here
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