I checked out the C128 version - it's got digitised speech along with an old man and his dog as spectators during the fights. It's not like The Last V8, which actually has some gameplay and story differences, it's really more of an extra bonus.
I remember this being reviewed at the time in Zzap!64, who weren’t thrilled by it. But System 3 also did something on the sport, which reviewed well but had no challenge. EDIT: Bangkok Knights.
I think I remember seeing pictures of this game and getting it confused with Bangkok Knights as they both looked so similar. Neither was a patch on Panza Kick Boxing which was then and probably still is the only kickboxing game worth your time.
@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 not true - several companies were notoriously upset by low review scores from ZZAP, and they did threaten to withdraw advertising
Thursday is The Day Today. Chinny V, make us smile about the bad things in the world... (ANCO's Head of Marketing on this game: he didn't like it, but he had to go along with it.)
It's listed as MIA and nobody seems to have reviewed it. Likewise it never seems to have been advertised in Spectrum specific magazines, just multi-format mags.
The damaged faces on the C64 version were a novel idea - Accolade used a similar idea for its later TKO boxing game. The real pity is that there is not more depth to the gameplay in any of these versions. Not one of Anco's best releases.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jT6zKq-pXfA.html Here's what the Amiga version looks like, btw! I would have expected a lazy Atari ST port.
Thai boxing on c64 was great, I used to play for hours, surprised you struggled mate, amstrad looks nice too, this was in a world when street fighter was odd on c64 (us and uk) and ik + was all I had to go on, and we'd break joysticks to ik+ at least this could be played
I do quite like how this game looks different on all formats and... quite nice, regarding their capabilities actually... Amusing for a few goes on the C64 back in the day, with the bloody faces and the scratchy digitized speech. But Bangkok Knights was a better option.
I played the c64 version a lot, but never new that there was an Atari ST version. When I see a game with the standard ST font, I alrdsdy know it's a crap game.
no thai kickboxing flute music :( seriously though that's probably a plus. there's actually a lot of chinese background people in thailand, both from after communist takeover of china and before. they do a parade every year in the city I live in ending up at the chinese temple. you cannot easily find westernized chinese food though which is a minus for me, but you can find actual chinese food easily(which is a minus for me, just being real the westernized chinese food is what it is for a reason for someone who grew up with western style food culture and not on chicken feet) edit: I could find all the other arena locales in the city I live in except for the waterfalls. even the back alley with a truck that looks kinda like that since they use old trucks still.
