Suckerpunch Sunday #31 - Fist of the North Star (NES)
0I'm not ashamed to admit that I discovered anime far earlier than most kids in the U.S., but my early exposure to it was built around the 'Super Robot' era of the 1970s.
By the mid-1980s, anime had grown in many different directions and many of the best-known examples of the decade were most definitely NOT meant for kids. One such title was the story of a man named Kenshiro wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of his lost love. What made him different was he is also the 64th successor to the ultimate martial art of assassination - Hokuto Shinken.
'God Fist of the North Star'.
So popular was the manga and the anime that came from it, that video game companies were looking to capitalize on it around the globe. By 1987, video rental stores in the U.S. were starting to get copies and it was from there that a ragamuffin gaming prodigy saw it on a shelf. The rest, as they say is history.
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