Fond memories of this game from when I was around 7 or 8. I'll never forget the first time I almost beat it.... I was literally a hit away from defeating the final boss, and I wanted my dad to be there to see it but he was outside in the backyard. I went to quickly hit pause, and accidentally hit the power button instead 🤦♂️😭 Absolutely devastating for a kid that age 😂
I was right around the same age when i was playing this game. Like 89' or 90'. Its crazy looking back on this game. Like how you remember it and the reality. Lol !! Good times.
I loved this game so much as a kid, that it inspired me to achieve a Black Belt in Karate, but I gave it back once they told me Black Belts couldn't actually make people explode into 100 pieces.
They lied to you! once you get your 3rd Dan that's when you get the ability to explode people with a punch or a kick. If only you'd of stuck it out for another couple of years you could of been the founder of the first real life human jigsaw puzzle... lost opportunities man! 🤷♂️
This game is ingrained into my memory, such a challenge to beat back then and I would have never guessed it was actually Fist of the North Star. Always loved this one!
Quando o 8-Bits atinge a perfeição ! Muitos falam de Sonic e Phantasy Star, mas os melhores jogos de Todos os Tempos do Master System são R-Type e o Black Belt aqui no vídeo. O Jogos de Verão (California Games) e o Out Run também merecem menção honrosa
I use to play this game every day when I had the Sega Mater System as a kid. I played it so much, the threw up off the enemies falling apart when you hit them. I love this game.
Until I found this game just now, all I could remember about this was the boss fight song. I’m talking 30 years of the song randomly popping into my head for no reason!
If I remember correctly, there's an Easter egg bonus at the ending of the title screen. When you're reading the end story text, before the music ends, you have to continuously hold both the 1+2 buttons while going counterclockwise on the directional pad to unlock the bonus levels. The bonus is that you get to fight all 6 bosses again.
Black Belt on the Sega Master System was very difficult to complete as a kid. I got to the 2nd to last boss, but was defeated and never managed to get back there. So it's great to finally see the game's ending. Thanks.
I shudder to think the hours I spent figuring out the attack pattern for each boss when I was in the 4th and 5th grades. Eventually I got it and was able to beat it. I actually remember beating the last boss for the first time, it was that big a deal to 10 year old me.
There was a extra ending where you fought all of the end bosses with 1 health bar and could finish with a power stance that stayed through the credits,got so frustrated playing this but mastered it to the point I did not take one hit during the entire game many hours practice,loved this game but it looks so dated now but still better than the so called black belt 2 on the mega drive.
KSchwarz Yup man, he kept dodging and counterattacking every time you tried to attack him, you needed to attack and dodge very fast to get an hit on him
You could cheese him by walking back and pressing punch non stop. You'll get hit but hit him as well, and his hp bar would completely deplete before yours
I remember getting a Sega master system for Christmas 1987. Every friend of mine had a NES and I liked the look and games of the unknown master system. Black belt was the first game I bought with my paper route money and played it every day of 7th grade until I beat it. So much fun having so many cool levels and different boss enemy's at the end of eachlevel. Was a pretty hard game but I got to be real good at it. I remember hearing about the Japan version of this game that was even better!
I played it before knowing it was the western version of hokuto no Ken for Sega mark 3.. And I didnt understand why beaten enemies become pieces, the strange death of bosses, the last one standing with rising one hand.. After a while I watched the anime, red the manga and realized that this game was hokuto no Ken.. Great game..
I remember my Sega Master System came with Hang-On and Safari Hunt built into the console. But this was the first cartridge I ever had for it. A friend gave it to me.
loved this when I was a tiny child haha I was also watching fist of the north star and never knew this was a game based on it even with the exploding bad guys 😂
Master System foi meu primeiro video game lá em 1996. Amava jogar esse jogo e tbm o Sonic que vinha na memória. Eu chamava esse jogo de "karate". Era dificil demais. Eu e meu primo aprendemos na raça a vencer cada boss. Amei cada minuto que pude jogar ele. Só lembranças maravilhosas.
yet more gaming goodness from Team Cubex/LP, this time courtesy of JagOfTroy! Riki: "You...are already..." SEGA U.S. legal excecs: "don'tcha DARE finish that sentence! you want Tetsuo Hara suing our asses left & right?"
this game marked a great era and became little know along the years but unforgettable by martial arts enthusiasts like me Black Belt is an electronic fighting / action game for Master System 1986, American version of a game based on the Hokuto no Ken manga. In this game the main character, the karate fighter Riki (replacing the protagonist of the original, Kenshiro) should advance in 5 different stages, fighting a gang of bandits and facing at the end of each phase a master. At the end of the game, you challenge the last master, Wang (Raoh), and then you win, save your girlfriend Kyoko (Yuria) who was captured by the bandit gang. For those who played at the time was unforgettable this game that was one of the precursors of "Street Fighter" and "Mortal Kombat." in the middle of the stages were sub-chiefs, who were enemies a little stronger than normal but weaker than bosses, ranging from 1 to 4 per phase. deserves never to be forgotten
I see this, it almost makes me want to cry... what a time we live in... games used to be supplemented by our imagination... today, people complain because the games aren't at 60fps with ray tracing... not to mention this wonderful soundtrack.
I used to play this game when I was like 6-8yo... The furthest I ever got was the Rita Boss at the end of stage 5, around the 18:00 mark of this video... I tried so hard to beat this game, but I never knew until now how close I came... This was a really tough game for a little kid.
I’m in my early 40’s, drinking bourbon past midnight on a work night, searching old SMS clips to take me back to simpler times. Just like Uncle Rico, I’d buy a mail order time machine to take me back, all the way back to 1987. I had my whole life ahead of me. Now to see what Opa-Opa and Space Harrier have been up to…
It was such a special thing to make it to the end of the round and see an end boss that youve never seen before. Then you had to spend countless times trying to figure out how to beat them.
One of two games that introduced me to the Master System console, the other being the classic Space Harrier! Damn you Oni at the time, not knowing his cheesy punching trick and the unlimited lives one too!
I love how the bad guys look less like menacing street thugs and more like fussy, power-walking grandpas waddling over to their grandkids to slap them upside the head for touching their tv remotes. "Oooooh, I'm gonna getcha!"
It's been over 35 years since I played this game. I recall such elation finally beating the game.I think it took me like 3 weeks playing to figure out how to beat all those bosses and sub bosses. So hard. And so fun. Then I played the game with my action figures which was even more fun. I recall using Quick Kick and Tomax as my stand ins for Riki. I alternated them. Gi-Joe action figures made such great stand ins so many non Gi-Joe related characters. I even took them apart to make hybrids that looked more like whatever character. Then I got home-economically creative making capes and costumes out of left over cloth and clothes I found lying around the house. Duct tape, electrical tape, and amything else to dress up and costume action figures. The 80's were the best time. And I was realistic about everything. Very often the good guy/guy's didn't win. Sometimes all but one of the good guy's got killed and the bad guy's got away with their crimes. And sometimes the good guy kills too many bsd guy's and becomes evil. And occasionally an evil guy finds his evil baddies went too far and killed Mutt's puppy Junkyard..... And Storm Shadow looks into the distance and realizes "I'm fighting with the wrong people. And decides I must fight Evil Cobra by myself agaisnt all odds to protect animals. I had a good childhood.
Esse foi meu primeiro videogame e Black Belt foi o segundo jogo que eu fiz final na minha vida,eita saudade daquele tempo eu me lembro que quando fechei ele fiquei pulando na rua de alegria
I couldn't ever beat Oni. His defense and attack pattern was pretty tight. And as a dumb kid, I never sorted it out. The one playing in this video lays it out pretty clearly.
My understanding is that Western games distributors at the time believed that the anime-style graphics and settings would not have sold well in the West compared to in Japan. Even _Renegade_ is just a reskinned version of a Japanese beat-’em-up, and on the SNES in America in 1993 the Japanese one-on-one fighting game _Ranma 1/2_ was reskinned and retitled _Street Combat_ .
This was SEGA's answer to Nintendo's "Kung-Fu". I loved playing this game at my friend's house back in the day, considering I had "Kung-Fu", so it was a blast.
I had no idea that some one commented on on my comment. I thought "Black Belt" as better. "Kung-Fu" was great, but there is no health or invincible items to obtain. I also liked the idea how bigger your character got when you fought the bosses in "Black Belt"
One of my childhood games right here. I remember this shit being HARD as hell. Classic gaming without a doubt. They need to release a Sega Master System mini IMMEDIATELY.
I had no idea this was Kenshiro back in like 88. Of course I was nowhere near old enough to have been exposed to FoTNS then either. Came back in my adulthood and found this gem. This was badass to know I was kicking Shin's ass back then.
This game was so much better than NES Kung Fu. Much more game play, better music, more challenging, better graphics, and the boss levels were much more engaging and fun. Go Sega on this black belt game!
Great nostalgic look at this old Master System favorite. I LOVED this game when I was in my mid teens. Barely remember it ending that way although I do remember I had defeated the game.
loved this game so much, I never made it past 3rd main boss even getting past the first boss was only about 1 and 5 trys, I was young but really loved the game, my cousin still has the system and game and they work to this day, not sure I played out of nostalga in 20 years and that was long since I played as a kid lol, damit I am getting old!
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