Best of the Best: Championship Karate
1992 video game
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Best of the Best: Championship Karate[a] is a 1992 kick boxing game that features black belt kick boxing masters. The object is to win the kick boxing championship by defeating an array of kick boxing masters in a series of fighting matches. The Sega Genesis version is one of the few games to offer support for the Sega Activator motion controller.
Loriciel (Game Boy, Genesis, NES)
- EU: Loriciel
- NA: Electro Brain
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| Developers | Futura Loriciel (Game Boy, Genesis, NES) |
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| Designer | Pascal Jarry |
| Programmer | Pascal Jarry |
| Artists | Marco De Flores Christophe Perrotin Isabelle Maury |
| Composer | Michel Winogradoff |
| Platforms | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Release | 1992 1993 (SNES, Genesis) |
| Genre | Fighting |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
Best of the Best is an updated version of Panza Kick Boxing which was released in 1990 in Europe for various computers as well as the TurboGrafx-16.
Martial artist/actor Ron Yuan stated in a 1994 interview that "I know a lot of pure gamers will disagree, but the best SNES fighting game from a purely technical martial arts point of view is Best of the Best. It didn't get much notoriety, but my friends and I know martial arts, and they go nuts whenever we play."[1]
Reception
Juris Graney of The Australian Commodore & Amiga Review compared Best of the Best to its predecessor: "Best of the Best Championship Karate is almost a reproduction of my old favourite, Panza Kick Boxing. In fact, it's the sequel, subtitled Panza Gold Edition. Everything is the same – the crowd, the referee, the moves and everything else. The only difference is an advanced stage at the end."[2]
