Karateka - Discussion Thread

[Gannu]

No this isn’t a thread for the classic beat ‘em up title you had played back in your school days!

Jordan Mechner (creator of the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia and the reboot series) is coming up with the HD reboot of the 1984 title which was the first title he had developed during his grad. days for for the Apple II computer. The game is due for release this November for XBLA.

The new Karateka will keep the silent-movie treatment, Mechner said, with no dialog or voiceover narration. What it won’t feature are some of the notorious funny (or devastating, depending on your point of view) moments from the original game — what Mechner calls the “sudden-death shockers” like falling off the cliff if you press the wrong direction at the beginning of the game, or Princess Mariko killing you if you dare to approach her royal highness in a fighting stance.

“[Those scenes] worked in the original because they were so unexpected,” he said. “But you can’t surprise people twice the same way. You have to find new ways to surprise them.”

Jordan Mechner's Karateka remake due on XBLA in November : Eurogamer.net

And while you are at it, here’s an interesting read (albeit a slightly old article) on how two geeks managed to save the source code of the Prince of Persia from a dying floppy disk - WIRED

 

[ramdante]

Awesome game! Never finished it back then, now is the time

 

[Aman27deep]

The old game was super hard. Never managed to complete it.

 

[Gannu]

The original game was hard alright.

On a similar note, I don't suppose anyone here must have completed the classic Prince of Persia and rescued the Princess from Jaffar in under 60 minutes either! I mean we were all kids back then and the game was too hard for some of us. I remember the Megahit cheat using the DOS command prompt though.

 

[Jakob]

Damn that was truly impossible,The old games were really hardcore compared to now.

The original game was hard alright.

On a similar note, I don't suppose anyone here must have completed the classic Prince of Persia and rescued the Princess from Jaffar in under 60 minutes either! I mean we were all kids back then and the game was too hard for some of us. I remember the Megahit cheat using the DOS command prompt though.