The Making of Karateka

Digital Eclipse Gold Master series <3

首先，如果不是80、70的回忆，您最好就不要买这个游戏了，纯纯的怀旧。这个游戏的苹果2原版，在80年代只有拥有天坛学习机(北京仿制组装的苹果电脑)的人才能玩到，而且当时这款游戏的拷贝据大人讲述非常火爆。而大部分70、80玩家都是在后期红白机上才玩到的，移植上是与原版不同的，购买本产品的玩家可以回顾一下。我玩到这款游戏的年龄是4岁半，所以。。。。在当时的国内，很少有人可以有我的条件，我也是第一批国内能接触到电脑，后期能第一批上网的人。这一点我很幸运也很怀念。

A decent documentary that deep-dives into the very beginnings of Jordan Mechner's gaming career. The two "reloaded" remake games (Deathbounce and Karateka) are pretty decent, though unlike the Atari 50 documentary this one is a little light on playables. The meat of the package lay in the interviews and copious amounts of scanned notes that Mechner diligently kept during development. My main takeaway from it was that Mechner's dad was the coolest (check their wikipedia page), and Jordan really lucked out having such a supportive and multidisciplinary dad. A nice touch: the playables all have a "watch" mode that plays the game for you, and you can scrub through the timeline via chapters to quickly see the whole experience without needing to play it yourself. Wonderful for non-gamers or time-strapped. While The Making of Karateka may be the runt of the Gold Master Series litter, it's still a great addition to a phenomenally appreciated series trying to shine light on an industry that seems all to eager to forget what happened yesterday in the pursuit of tomorrow's profits.

I was ten when I bought Karateka for my C64. I had played Melbourne House's Way of the Exploding Fist and it was really showing what the C64 could do graphically. (I hadn't got Defender of the Crown yet) But when I started playing Karateka I was again impressed with the fluidity of the animations and the illusion of scrolling with Mt Fuji in the background. Anyway, this game/documentary is excellent. I love being able to look at the notes of the creator and it takes me back to when I was also doing some basic coding to make simple games work in basic and ML languages on the C64. I hope to see many more of these collections around other classic games or franchises. Great work!

This is an excellent example of what a videogame documentary should be. I could play a dozen of these without feeling like it had overstayed its welcome. I especially liked having playable prototypes and earlier games. The remakes were cool, and I loved the commentary that accompanied them and the auto-playing demos.

Hilarious "Jordan Mechner, boy wonder" metanarrative, but a very well done and fascinating presentation of real video game history.

This is not just Karateka. It has original versions on different platforms, different prototypes of the game, it has a remake that is clearly made with a lot of love and passion. It has a mini documentary and lots of images and videos on how the game was made. With "The Making of Karateka" Digital Eclipse and Gold Master Series have just set up the Golden Standard of what Game Preservation is.

A bright example of awesome edutainment on Steam! It contains (most of) actual games to reinforce story with actual gaming experience. This is interactive museum. The latest remake of Karateka from 2023 is also included. Personally it's kinda fun to see game design challenges and game design principles from early 1980's which are true up to present day. And somehow even today not every game developer knows them. Liked the experience. Worth every cent.

Great digital museum for Karateka. Multiple versions of the game included as well as other games created by the same guy, and a remaster of Karateka. Awesome story of early computer games well worth the money for anybody into retro computer games or interest in the history of video game development. Digital Eclipse has redefined game collections of this style. I was familiar with Karateka prior to playing , but had no idea about the story behind it's development. Hope Digital Eclipse continues to create stuff like this.

Pura nostalgia! Com as versões mais famosas do jogo e seu remake impecável! Quem gostava deste jogo, vai querer ter!