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My parents used to drop me off at the arcade with $5. Seemed like I could play forever off that money. This game, Kung Fu Master, and Tron were among my favorites.
Mine would give me $5 mind you this was in the mid to late 80s and by then $5 was about 40min of play tops. That is until I got extremely good at a few pinball tables and could keep a few of them going for 30min on a a frw quarters. :)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries That's like all of my memories. So many memories are tied to what game I was playing when something happened. Good and bad ones. Graduated high school - singstar with family. But Kirby, the most lovable little fluff is tied to my aunt dying when I was in 2nd grade.
Love this game. My Mom used to run a hotel in Ocean Shores Wa. At night, after the office closed, I would get to play in the arcade. We would preload credits into Karate Champ, Ghost and Goblins, Speed Rumbler and BattleZone. I got real good at Karate Champ. Pretty technical fighting game.
The arcade version of Karate Champ takes me back. I can still remember kids crowding around it at the roller skating rink that used to be on West Kimberly Rd in Davenport. It was very popular, at least until they later got Double Dragon and then a couple of years later the 4 player TMNT arcade game! Good times!
Completely forgot about that roller rink out West Davenport. I think an antique mall is there now. I went there a couple of times growing up. Skate land in East Moline was a heck of a lot closer which is where I would usually go every Sunday
Patman... I loved this game; it was the first I headed for at my local Aladdin's Castle. This is probably because I was also a huge Karate Kid fan. Thanks for this and all your videos.
Karate Champ arcade game along with movie actors/MA practitioners Sonny Chiba and Jackie Chan are my reasons why I took martial arts and still doing it till this day. Excellent video review PatmanQC.
I love Karate Champ From Data East and TECHNŌS JAPAN From Japan it's Pretty Sad that Both of the Company's Are Gone But the Arcade Classic Game Will always Be There Forever Thank You PatmanQC!!! 🌟
EPIC classic game! I played the wheels off the Karate Champ machine at our local arcade during the golden era. Thanks for another awesome video my friend, great stuff indeed!
Been a loooong day. Perfect video to unwind and relax with a cold beer. Edit - I only had the NES version and now I’m on the hunt for an emulator to play the good version.
AWWWW YEAH!!!!!!! I love this game!!! I have played hours of it but never beaten it, it is a true testament of video game skill to those who have. Thank you Patman!
I absolutely love this game! A flying jump kick for a full point, followed by a lunging fist punch to the face, would usually be enough to win the first few rounds.
Loved this back in the days of my addiction to arcades and fighting games. There was nothing like it along with Kung Fu Master. Loved the double joystick concept which i'd only seen previously on Battlezone. Still love playing it to this day.
Funny how we remember exactly where we first saw/played certain arcade games 😁 I first played this as a kid at a hotel indoor pool arcade, along with Q*Bert and Ninja Gaiden. 😍😍 I was terrible at this game lmao
I remember as a kid at the arcade here when there were rumors where you fight the ref as a final boss at the end, though those rumors were pretty much put to rest.
I was going to post the same! I was in fourth grade at the time and the bigger kids told me you fight the judge at the end. I got as far as the third level after it flips around and just assumed the game goes on forever, as the double speed mode was insane and took about a half hour for me to get to. Only in the days of RU-vid did I find out there is an end. Boss fight would have been cool especially in those days.
Man alive!! Great game. I was on holiday in Kissimmee in adulthood. On a rainy day the family headed to downtown Disney. They had a retro arcade..... I was for a few happy hours....I was 14 again. Fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Kudos Sir
June 1st 1984. The very first day I played Karate Champ. Player vs player. I can still tell you all the controls for the various moves. There was an iOS version once, but after paying for it, it has vanished down a memory hole. Love this game and I always will.
Karate Champ at first revolutionize the fighting game genre and..in 1991 that changes when Street Fighter II Came out and since then..it changed the whole genre forever...I first played the NES Version of the game..and remembered the announcer itself..like my favorite "Begin.." sound voice.. Another Retrotastic Video, Mr. Patman..and It's Great to have everything retro here in your channel..and Wish to see the History of Psycho Soldier and Athena..2 of my all time favorite SNK Arcade Games in 80s..because of my love for Athena Asamiya..one of my favorite video game characters
I'm so glad you did a video on this game. This was my first fighting game I ever played too, and I loved it. Absolutely loved it. A year ago, my daughter had her 9th birthday party at a local arcade/pizza place - and they had a handful of modern games and a couple retro - and lo and behold - sitting dusty and ignored in the corner was my beloved Karate Champ! Unfortunately, having not played one in over thirty years, I apparently had forgotten all the moves and got my but kicked almost immediately - but I still loved it. It's one of the first Arcade Cabs I plan to build for my own Man Cave... Thanks again for a great video! Cheers
Karate Champ was a longtime mainstay at the local convenience store in my neighborhood. I still remember walking there from my school to play it during lunchtime!
Thanks a lot PatmanQC being born in Cuba it was hard for me to catch up with most of this games, wrestling and pieces o lore. Thanks to channels like yours I am relieving those time frames just like if would have lived there. Thank you. I joined to your patreon it's not much what i can do in the mean time but your work deserves all the help we can afford to give.
That's nice of you to say, and greetings from the USA. I enjoy making videos and if you have a few dollars to spare that's fine but please don't take any money that is better suited for rent or food or anything else that you need. I really appreciate it though. Cheers
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Luckily i move to Europe a few years ago and we are doing better and no worries I am glad that i can help your channel to grow it's the least I can do after enjoying the content you produce...
Well done. I remember the Apple version from my youth. That, along with the games Wavy Navy and Spare Change. Geez, I'm almost 50. I still can't picture elderly people playing video games but I might one.
When I first played Karate Champ It was at my favorite pizzeria on 51 Colombia street in the lower east side of Manhattan NYC in 1984. That pizzeria would have 3-4 machines and would switch them every 6 months to a year. When Karate Champ showed up it was the showcase, tons of quarters would be up in reserve and my 8-year-old behind had to push my way to leave a quarter up from the steelworkers who would come for a lunchbreak, gang members, NYPD, Sanitation guys, and Punks, playing this was fun, the two joystick combo was awesome and I liked the way the moves were pulled off. My dad the following year got me in Goju Ryu Karate because of this game, the moves in the game were legit in terms of blocks and punches. The Bull part was inspired by a real bull killing by karate punch by the legendary Kyokushin Karate master Sensei Oyama in the 60s, which was portrayed by his student Sonny Chiba in Karate Bull Killer, or something like that. Call me a sadist but I actually liked the Nes version, I bought it for 19.99 at Crazy Eddies in 1987 on clearance and would play with my cousins when they visited. Great game with awesome memories, again always awesome videos PatmanQC!
I remember my local arcade got Karate Champ and Kung Fu Master at the same time. I think those games may have been the beginning of martial arts games being a thing. You're on a roll, bro. Thanks for the vids!
I can say thank you too and another candidate for this channel and from the golden age of arcades is Missile Command really an interesting story there may want to give it a Google and RU-vid along with making it as well.
Great vid! So good, even the forever-frumpy Karate Champ judge couldn't help but to crack a smile. I know the judge wasn't meant to look surly, just serious. ...Except in the NES version where he just looks depressed. How appropriate.
I was terrible at Karate Champ, but could play Yie Ar Kung Fu fairly well. Thanks for sharing this with us, Patman~! Your videos are excellent and I look forward to the next.
Way of the Exploding Fist is still my favorite martial arts fighting game on the C=64. It's like they took Karate Champ gaming to the next level and digitized sound effects as well.
i have never seen "Renegade" in an arcade but it was one of my favorite games on Nintendo, spent hours and hours playing it. also loved "Karate Champ" and spent hours and hours playing it.
I used to play the original version at Ziggy's Arcade every chance I got. I started taking Judo classes with some friends on my hockey team because of this game, I got my orange belt after 2 years and quit.
I grew up in the late 70's, I was in the seventh grade in 1978...so I was around when the 80's dawned and video games was getting ready to blow up. Spent a lot of afternoons at the arcade playing Space Invaders...still don't know where I got all them quarters.
The duel joy sticks is what made this game!! I loved this game so much!! But playing it on home consoles was definitely not the same without the duel joy sticks
Young, dumb and full of gum lol. This style of video is hard to find for me and is a fresh breath every time. I still request an episode on sub terrania and/or the history of that unique genre. Good job as always sir.
Another classic, had this cabinet in my family's fish and chip shop in the 80s. Today I can play on MAME with 2 sticks on my Logitech controller. Hope to see a series on Sega's Virtua Cop at some point!
Your videos give me nostalgia overload, Patman! I guess they would be called, "nostalgiasms!" 😁 Also, your positive attitude is infectious. I'm in such a good mood now, I wish I didn't need to long into work in ten minutes. If not, I would watch some more of your videos this morning, then bust out some of my retro games and actually enjoy my day!
To me, Karate Champ is in the top 3 arcade games of all time. Loved it to death back in the 80's. Great video! But there were less than 24 different moves (i.e. there are 3 combinations for low kick and 2 for back kick)
To quote Robin that time Batman took him to the taco stand in Vatican City: "HOLY GUACAMOLE!" I forgot this game existed, but watching the video I remember I used to love playing it at my local 7-11 all one summer long... loved the "complexity" of the moves you could do and the challenges.
This came must of really been fun in the 80's , ppl say Street fighter copied it but let's be real this is a realistic martial arts game Street fighter was fantasy martial arts and it was the first of it's kind that game like Fatal fury and Mortal kombat followed , at the time Street fighter 2 came out in 91 there was nothing like it but u got to respect the fun and the happy feeling this gave u in the 80's.I'm sure it inspired Karateka and Kung fu master etc.It still has a very simple but happy 80's feeling looking at it away from modern day life complications .
Wouldn't it be neat if there was an adaptation of Karate Champ, keeping the moves and twin-sticks, but as a side-scolling beatem up with bosses? Maybe someday my dream will come true, or I can get an AI to do it.
Karate Champ was the first game I ever got for the NES when I was 6 years old. I looked through the very thin instruction manual numerous times trying to figure out what I was doing wrong and where the hell that bull was I saw on the back of the box.
I remember I was playing at a neighbor's house when my brother walked by saying that a local pizza place got a new karate game (Karate Champ, of course). I joined him and walked the quarter mile to the pizza place, not realizing 'til we got there that I was barefoot. I also had no money on me. But I went in anyhow; the place was packed, and there was a good wait for a turn to play, but I thoroughly enjoyed just watching the game. My brother gave me a quarter to play against him, and I lost almost immediately. But a great time nonetheless!
I got the NES game for Christmas, and played the heck out of it with my older brother. The winner was always random, because neither of us knew how to control the characters! It isn’t a good game, but as a kid, you had to play what you got!
Can you do a video on the history of galaga, all the ports and tips/tricks? It's my favorite game and I'm surprised you only did a short video of the atari version.
I really loved this game on arcade but sadly i never owned the c64 version, I wasn't aware of its existence at the time, good old times when your only source of informations about games were your friends (we hadn't a vg magazine till 1987)
I think I still remember how to do some moves. I have to double check to make sure I have my latest phone number right on a form but I think I can still pull off a front flip followed with a back kick combo lol.
