{"id":22089,"date":"2019-01-15T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=22089"},"modified":"2020-06-30T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:38:55","slug":"competition-karate-commodore-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/01\/15\/competition-karate-commodore-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition Karate (Commodore 64)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181622832768\/indieretronews-via-competition-karate-1980s\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_osz8jyoK2q1tz1wb7o1_500.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only are there new games being created for older platforms like the Commodore 64 all the time, but older obscure games are also constantly being rediscovered. Competition Karate is a case in point. Competition Karate is a relatively obscure game that was written in BASIC and released in 1984. It was recently re-released with a few bug fixes and enhancements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181622832768\/indieretronews-via-competition-karate-1980s\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_osz8jyoK2q1tz1wb7o2_500.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though relatively primitive for a Commodore 64 game, it isn&#8217;t terrible especially given that it was written in BASIC. There are better fighting games out there of course but this one offers surprising complexity for a BASIC game. It allows the creation of your own fighters with unique statistics and multi-match tournament simulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/181622832768\/indieretronews-via-competition-karate-1980s\" class=\"keychainify-checked\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/tumblr_osz8jyoK2q1tz1wb7o3_500.png\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously this isn&#8217;t a game you are likely ever to find as an official re-release but it can be downloaded for your Commodore 64 or emulator from here. It&#8217;s worth checking out even if only for the novelty factor.<\/p>\n<p>(via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indieretronews.com%2F2017%2F07%2Fcompetition-karate-1980s-karate.html&amp;t=OTNlZjY5YTk5Y2U2NzU1YWIyMTg5YzZmNjhmMzg3NzFlZmEwYTNlYywzVDdtVUZ2dw%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3AdIBp9EPlXbIVv2dCI0t8Vw&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fdarth-azrael.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F181622832768%2Findieretronews-via-competition-karate-1980s&amp;m=1\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">Competition Karate &#8211; 1980s karate simulator fixed and preserved on C64&nbsp;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ebay\/Commodore64.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only are there new games being created for older platforms like the Commodore 64 all the time, but older obscure games are also constantly being rediscovered. Competition Karate is a case in point. Competition Karate is a relatively obscure game that was written in BASIC and released in 1984. It was recently re-released with a few bug fixes and enhancements. Though relatively primitive for a Commodore 64 game, it isn&#8217;t terrible especially given that it was written in BASIC. There are better fighting games out there of course but this one offers surprising complexity for a BASIC game. It allows the creation of your own fighters with unique statistics and multi-match tournament simulation. Obviously this isn&#8217;t a game you are likely ever to find as an official re-release but it can be downloaded for your Commodore 64 or emulator from here. It&#8217;s worth checking out even if only for the novelty factor. (via&nbsp;Competition Karate &#8211; 1980s karate simulator fixed and preserved on C64&nbsp;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4,16],"tags":[370,473,3355,2362,2524],"class_list":["post-22089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-c64","tag-commodore-64","tag-karate","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}