The Making of Karateka

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.

I got this and started watching it and I can tell already it is going to be exactly what I hoped it would be. It is an inside look at the evolution of Karateka. I have gobbled other well-done documentary/game library titles like "Atari 50" and the one about Llamasoft. Really love the fact these are preserving stories of some key people who did that first push, putting us on a course to where we are today. More of these, please.

High quality nostalgia presented beautifully. I highly recommend.

카라데카! 국딩시절 NES로 하면서 태권도로 불렀다는 그 게임. 여러 버전이 수록되었고 리메이크된 버전은 확실히 그래픽도 좋아지고 깔끔하다. 옛날에 하던 그 조작감 그대로 구현이 되어있다. 가볍게 시간 때우면서 하기에는 좋은 게임 그런데 이렇게 어려웠던가? 힘드네...

リマスタのカラテカ内の実績がゲーム終了後リセットされる　バグ？

Digital Eclipse strikes us with 'The Making of Karateka,' a first in their lineup of "Gold Master" series in which they present a documentary presented with some historical pieces that also gives you a game collection with it and Karateka's is a mostly fantastic package to go through. Compared to 'Tetris Forever' (as of this review the only 2 I've tried in the series) the pacing and documental telling of how Karateka was made is way more consistent to follow, it rarely broke up the video sections abruptly and actually let people talk. It's a really good watch especially when you see Jordan Mechner doing things like rotoscoping the animations frame by frame or even how his father Francis Mechner inspired a lot of the choices in the game including the rotoscoping and heck he even composed the soundtrack of Karateka on multiple platforms as well, just a fun watch when looking at everything from how Karateka set a standard to how handmade everything truly was with it, just really good. The game collection here is pretty good even if I did want to see a couple more versions of Karateka here, but this could've been done to licensing issues considering a good portion of ports weren't done by Brøderbund. You'll get 14 different games all together which is also including the prototypes. I won't talk about every single title, but I will give my thoughts on a bit of them below if interested. The original trio of Karateka from the Apple II, Commodore 64, and lastly the Atari 8 bit, while the Apple II version is the original and did a lot of creative things for said platform I think the Atari 8 bit version is the best as it just simply felt better to play, but the C64 itself has the best soundtrack. 'Karateka Remastered' however is simply the best version of the game here as it simply controls better with higher framerate, looks way better, and does sound pretty good, but the goals here especially since they don't save are an absolute pain in the @$$. 'Deathbounce' was a cool idea that never got released until now, this was spun off from an 'Asteroids' clone Jordan had made, at first being bouncy balls getting changed into birds and birds that laid eggs that are reminiscent of the bouncy balls, etc, it's got a lot going on in the character department, but is fun if you like 'Asteroids.' 'Deathbounce Remastered' is probably the best version here, while the other builds are mostly cool they are also prototypes and incomplete while this is fully complete, a pretty fun twin stick shooter going from room to room on these trains trying to get to the last room to destroy and orb. Pretty fun. Overall yes I do recommend 'The Making of Karateka,' if you like the aspect of a game collection with a documentary being attached then it's absolutely great, also from the stance of game preservation. I think $20 is more than fair for what's being asked, but at $7 on sale right of writing this up, it's an easy snag that you won't regret.

When I first bought this, I was expecting this to be just a game compilation of Karateka. It is not. It is so much more. This is a documentary with games as extras in it. You have access to the Apple II, C64, Atari 800, and a remastered version of the original Karateka. It briefly mentioned the remake from 2012 which is not included (however I last saw it for under a dollar on Steam). If you read at the top there is a quick access to the game library. It also includes some of Jordan Mechner's earlier games as well as prototypes of the Apple II versions of Karateka. However i recommend going through the documentaries before you play. I found the videos included in this documentary very interesting and you see what leads up to the creation of Karateka.

An interactive museum exhibit- truly nothing quite like this exists. Great if you want to learn more about this era of video game history.

I just played through [b][i]Karateka Remastered[/i][/b] (2023) for the first time, knowing well C=64 and Atari 8-bit versions. The remaster is done really well! But the Atari 600/800 version is still king. Otherwise, The Making of is really done well! Highly recommended!

Espetacular historia de um jogo que mudou a industria!