Mini Review The Making of Karateka PS5 A Wonderful Interactive Documentary for Gaming Historians
Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind.
The Making of Karateka is a rare treat. It's part documentary, part archive, part collection of old games, and part remaster. It's also a wonderful example of just how far we can go with game preservation if we put the work in, and the gold standard for how we should approach collections of classic games going forward.
For the uninitiated, Karateka was an influential game released on the Apple II way back in the olden days of 1984. It was a side-scrolling karate game, in which your unnamed protagonist must best a series of foes to save a princess, quaint by today's standards but heralded at the time as an unparalleled cinematic gaming experience.
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