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AndrewP Blog  Goodbye and Good Luck             Goodbye and good
luck to all of you.           Bonuses in-box: Where to draw the
line?   Falcon 4.0's original manual. Oh, baby.  Now THIS. THIS
was a manual!      Who's Your Main - Andrew Park  Karate Champ |
Arcade 1984| White (and/or Red)  Data East's Karate Champ was
one of the earliest one-on-one fighting games as we know it--
arguably the first, at least on US shores back in 1984 (followed
by the addictive-but-single-player-only Yie-Ar Kung-Fu by Konami
in 1985). It was a game of firsts--one of the first games to let
two players challenge each other in one-on-one battles, one of
the first fighting games to have bonus stages, one of the first
games to hit the all-important milestone of letting you do
battle with a hopping bull, and one of the first games to have
one martial artist in a white gi and one in a red gi (Ryu's and
Ken's respectively white and red karate gear isn't a
coincidence, guys