Karate Champ retrospective: Weak jab | NES Works #034

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Published on July 18, 2017 1:09:07 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtnqbD1QXI

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Karate Champ (1984)

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The penultimate NES release of 1986 finds Data East once again struggling to find its voice as a console publisher. Karate Champ takes a seminal arcade release and turns it into an NES dud best forgotten, despite appearing on the surface to be a largely faithful conversion. It's all in the details....