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"Karate Master" -- Original Palm OS title

"Karateka Classic" -- Android title

"カラテカ" -- Japanese spelling

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The evil Akuma has destroyed the protagonist's homeland, killed many of his friends and kidnapped the princess Mariko. Fortunately, the hero is skilled in martial arts, so his inevitable quest to reach Akuma's palace and rescue Mariko has a chance of success.is viewed from the side and features a succession of increasingly difficult opponents. Three types of punches and kicks are available to both the player character and his foes, differentiated by their height (low, medium, and high). The protagonist has a health bar, which refills itself gradually when he stands still.

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Akuma

Akuma Castle

Android and iOS versions

Apple II version

Atari 7800 version

Cliff

Engine

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Title

Hidden Text

Awards

Happy Computer Issue 02/1986 - #10 Best Game in 1985 (Readers' Vote)



"Akuma'", the name of the evil warlord in(and many other games featuring a Japanese bad guy), is a Japanese word that roughly means 'devil'.The Akuma Castle that appears at the beginning, seems to be inspired by the "Himeji Castle" that really exists in Japan, near Kyoto. Search on Google or Altavista Image Search for "Himeji Castle" and you'll find pictures of the real castle.The Android and iOS versions runs on the Apple II GS emulator ActiveGS.The Apple II version ofcame on one single-sided floppy disk. However, by bootingup on the opposite side (Side Two) - the game would still load, but now the game was upside down. A visual gag on the part of someone at Brøderbund most likely.For the Atari 7800 version of, the end label on the cartridge was unusual in that it featured square corners instead of the usual rounded corners. This was one of the only (if not the only) games to do so.It is possible to fall off the edge of the cliff in the first scene if you back into it.The game's engine would be later used in Prince of Persia Most ofon the PC is made of editable text files. You can modify the game by changing the coordinates in the language files."Karateka" means a practitioner of karate.The Atari 7800 version contains a hidden message at hexadecimal address 0x079D, which reads "MOMMY AND ME ARE ONE". This refers to a 1985 study on subliminal messages by Lloyd Silverman and Joel Weinberger, in which a near-identical phrase was supposedly found to have a positive effect on subjects' self-motivation.