Karateka Classic App Reviews

I cant stop playing this game! It takes me back to my childhood every time. A 100% perfect port.

Same as my Apple 2 C version 25 yrs ago. Awesome.

Just played through it and won without any rewinds. This probably will never come to pass, but Id love to see the C64 port as well. It didnt have the yell of the protagonist, but the music and bass were far better — especially awesome when it kicks in during the final battle. Consider it! Id pay another 99¢ for that version. My one complaint is that I cannot pull off a (full) walk/kick (or punch) combo, which completely changes how to play the game. Can you fix that?

Love this app. Brings back memories on apple 2e and Commodore 64. At least now you can pause and resume where you left off. You can play this over and over. Highly recommended and worth the 99 cents no matter what age if generation.

I played this game many times a day on my Apple IIc back in the 80s. The idea that the developer thought to have a green monochromatic CRT display option that looks just like my old computer when I was a kid is brilliant. Its all here. The game play is exactly the same. The imagery, the physics, the sounds really are a time warp. I would pay a lot to have an app with tons of these old games on it. Lode Runner, Conan, etc.. A long list of games presented just like this. All I need are to have all the same pixels and noises.

Its the exact game as I remember it! I had this floppy on my Apple IIc and played it for hours... Totally neglected my Atari 2600 for days!!!!!

I cut my gaming teeth on a C64 and a Vetrex in the early 80s and have fond memories of playing this game on the C64. Back then the color, animation, sound, cinematics and game mechanics were sweet, though I never did get around to completing the game back then. Fast forward to 2013 and I find this game in its full classic form (complete with faux 5&1/4 floppy disk load sounds) as well as a new version in the app store. $.99 for a classic piece of history, sure what the heck. When I finally beat the game, all these years later, it really brought back some great old-timey gaming memories. As a player of B3, Civ5, L4D2, Shogun 2, etc, Im constantly amazed at how far video gaming has come as I started at just about the beginning of the video game history time line. It is really refreshing to be able to revisit the classics from time to time, to remember video games revolutionary yet comparatively humble beginnings. Whats more, while my 4 year old son loves all the Angry Birds games (a little early for Battlefield but hell get there) it was fun to see his eyes light up equally for Karateka, to see him get excited and anxious as his orange life-triangles appear and disappear, to hear him yell "head kick, head kick, head kick" in the middle of Buffalo Wild Wings (dont worry, we talked about this:), and to get to glimpse part of my childhood literally reflected in eyes staring intently at the screen and metaphorically in his determined gamer-poker-face.

Some games never go out of style. Simple yet deep controls great graphics and pure fun. I played this game on the apple 2 more years ago them I will admit and its exactly the same. Challenging and fun. The new feature (rewind) is nice addition but if you want a challenge dont use it and experience the game as it originally was. 5 stars all the way

Loved it! Any chance of releasing Aztec & Castle Wolfstein Classic?

Thanks for letting me relive my early PC days!

I spent many hours of my childhood playing Karateka on an Apple ][ plus and Apple //e. This is a very nearly exact reproduction of Karateka on the Apple II series. The display is excellent (with settings for color, green, and amber, with and without faithfully rendered raster lines). The controls are well laid out and responsive. The graphics are exactly as you remember them if you played on the Apple II. The gameplay is just like it was on the old Apple II--even the timing and movements are just like they were then, and all the techniques I picked up as a kid playing Karateka work here too. This is just great!!! :-D

Great job porting this over from my old Apple IIIc days :) thanks for the rewinds also!!

OMG! Whoever made this remake....THANK you!! I loved this game way back in the 80s. It is a near perfect and flawless reboot right down to the lines on the screen, the sounds of my Apple II booting the game, and the controls are spot on and responsive.....it feels like Im 10 yrs old again!!! There is a spoiler at the end of the game too!! If the app maker got everything right....it should be there also! HINT....if you beat Akuma, approach your lady fair in a fighting stance. You all know what I mean! lol That happened to me the first time I beat the game!! GOTTA love it!

It plays just as it did when I was a kid, on my Apple //e and Laser 128 (clone)

Now is the time to add the cat into the game which you didnt in the original version! Im also waiting for the Prince of Persia app...

Thank you for making this. Perfect copy of the original.

Thank you Jordan Mechner, 31 years later I can still enjoy one of my favorite games of all times. Believe it or not I still have the game original diskette and my Apple ][ clone, the Franklin ACE1000, both in working condition, so I can still play the original game.

For the first time since I played Karateka back in the 90s at Elementary School in the computer lab, I finally beat this game. True, adding the modern save feature and a touch of Prince of Persia with the Rewind feature dampens the difficulty of playing classic, but those can easily be adjusted to taste. The sounds and screen styles of the Apple II interface immediately puts anyone familiar with the title in a comfortable atmosphere. For anyone looking to be told an epic tale, a challenge thats hard to come by these days, reconnecting with your childhood or all three combined, this is worth the dollar. Im not ashamed to say this is in my all-time top ten of games and also easily one of my favorite apps for the iPad. For the Developer: Thank You!

iPhone 5 AT&T Version 9.2.1… No sound. what’s the deal?