Watching this, I now realize why I got off on the wrong foot with Karateka: I never had an Apple II or a C64, and the first version of it I ever played was the 7800 version. I was utterly baffled by it and had no idea the original was vastly better.
Phoenix and Pleiades were so fun with the multiple stages and the motherships and the landing sequence in pleiades, you really felt like you got your quarters worth and could get better. . The not being able to shoot the individual wings on the 2nd stage of that home version is a bummer. Those were the kind of arcade machines that you'd always find at the place that had a lot of machines, with no turnover, like the movie theater, not as much the arcade once they were old. Love Karateka, played to finish a bunch as a kid on Atari 800 with the joystick. I'll def pickup the upcoming release on switch. That XBLA version is .... something....
So anyone know if Jordan showed off Karateka before it was released? I always found it odd that this and Karate Champ came out at roughly the same time
59:30 the add-on music board was called the Mockingboard, but I'm pretty sure this didn't use it, because this is exactly what I heard coming out of my stock //e back in the day! The first time i heard karate man go "JEEOH" I nearly crapped my pants
The very first games I ever played were on PC in the early and mid-80s. Starting with the amazing Sierra Point and click adventure games. I was lucky enough to have a Tandy 1000, which had EGA graphics and a 3 voice sound chip which was actually quite good at the time. A few of my friends were stuck with CGA PCs with the internal speaker, which looked and sounded absolutely horrendous compared to the Tandy.
is the game audio on this video SUPER LOUD for anyone else? I had to lower the volume to the point where i can barely hear jeff in order for the game volume to be at a reasonable volume. Maybe it's just my tv speakers that are the issue? idk
Hopefully the collection has all versions included. Maybe they'll do what they did on Atari 50 and include some modern (as in new and unreleased) interpretations. Not that modern interpretations don't already kind of exist. Driven Out strikes me as Karateka 2012-like with parry based combat.
I don't think anyone was expecting Jeff to become a Numbers Station personified.
I did
This is the coolest numbers staion I've ever heard
Beautiful content as always
I like my games like I like my coffee: Old and prone to making alarming noises.
Watching this, I now realize why I got off on the wrong foot with Karateka: I never had an Apple II or a C64, and the first version of it I ever played was the 7800 version. I was utterly baffled by it and had no idea the original was vastly better.
Phoenix and Pleiades were so fun with the multiple stages and the motherships and the landing sequence in pleiades, you really felt like you got your quarters worth and could get better. . The not being able to shoot the individual wings on the 2nd stage of that home version is a bummer. Those were the kind of arcade machines that you'd always find at the place that had a lot of machines, with no turnover, like the movie theater, not as much the arcade once they were old.
Love Karateka, played to finish a bunch as a kid on Atari 800 with the joystick. I'll def pickup the upcoming release on switch. That XBLA version is .... something....
Did you know that they 3D scanned a real hobo for the Hobo game?
They asked an AI to generate the hobo
So anyone know if Jordan showed off Karateka before it was released? I always found it odd that this and Karate Champ came out at roughly the same time
We need an entire video of Jeff doing vocal harmonies, with Apple 2 and IBM internal speaker game music.
I love these Jeff.
Always loved the idle Atari color cycling to prevent burn-in.
Oh the memories of frustration from this game is coming right back up
59:30 the add-on music board was called the Mockingboard, but I'm pretty sure this didn't use it, because this is exactly what I heard coming out of my stock //e back in the day! The first time i heard karate man go "JEEOH" I nearly crapped my pants
The very first games I ever played were on PC in the early and mid-80s. Starting with the amazing Sierra Point and click adventure games. I was lucky enough to have a Tandy 1000, which had EGA graphics and a 3 voice sound chip which was actually quite good at the time. A few of my friends were stuck with CGA PCs with the internal speaker, which looked and sounded absolutely horrendous compared to the Tandy.
You should do a stream of 80s computer fighting games. Budokan! The Last Ninja! Tongue of the Fatman!
I actually like that Jeff pronounces Karateka like Antique Erotica. I like it better than the real way.
Or the so-bad-it's-good "horror" film by Danzig, Verotika
it's really strange thinking of people paying a bunch of money to buy a game to play then 5 minutes after they've fired it up, they've beaten it
nothing like a game that has to pause to play 1-bit voice samples
50:12 For some soothing ASMR
This is gaming, baby.
That xbla game looks just like ring fit adventure
is the game audio on this video SUPER LOUD for anyone else? I had to lower the volume to the point where i can barely hear jeff in order for the game volume to be at a reasonable volume. Maybe it's just my tv speakers that are the issue? idk
Listening on headphones I haven't had an issue, idk
@@zaxxoid yeah i figure it must just be a weird sound mixing issue where it's super loud on my tv but if i were wearing headphones it would sound fine
Hopefully the collection has all versions included. Maybe they'll do what they did on Atari 50 and include some modern (as in new and unreleased) interpretations. Not that modern interpretations don't already kind of exist. Driven Out strikes me as Karateka 2012-like with parry based combat.
The trailer says they made a 2d remake of the original
kah-rah-teh-kah!
sweet I love Kerotica
i would play a karateka 2 made by the sifu developers
Whiff punish these fools, Jeff! They know nothing of the sacred art of Karateka!!!
JAIL
that anime cat lady was jarring
lol Jeff Gerstmann only says video games to impress cute boys and let me tell you buddy it works
Does this mean that Karateka isn't in the Jeff Gerstmann hall of fame? I'll take this as an unofficial entry.