I and my friends played this game endlessly in the 1980s, and it remains the gold standard for fighting games to this day, even after Street Fighter 2 revolutionized the genre. Controls are impressively simple, sound effects are very satisfying, and the Rob Hubbard music is amazing. This is easily in my Atari 8-bit top ten list. |
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Andreas Koch - 12/06/2018 |
The tape version of IK from System 3 that I once had in my collection had six backdrops, three on side A of the tape and another three on side B. Do not remember which backdrop was missing, since the disk version had seven backdrops. There is also a newer version of IK with eight backdrops, they added London and created a fileversion for 128k Ataris. |
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AbbotKinneyDude - 12/06/2018 |
Does the tape version only have 2 backdrops (Sydney & Mt. Fuji) and nothing more? |
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What an amazing beat em up. I had this and my friend had IK+ on his CPC464. His looked a little bit better and I was jealous of that. IK played a little bit better on my Atari (or his crappy joystick was too crappy) and I think I enjoyed this more. My copy was a bit iffy and it didn't show Poseidon't temple well. I didn't like that :P |
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very addictive game, i remember the arcade machine which had the "double-stick" controles, the ref was hilarious saying "full point" or "half point" all the time!
great classic |
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AbbotKinneyDude - 09/07/2016 |
An AMAZING feat of programming and one of my favorites while growing up. The new 2014 Enhanced version is a MUST HAVE: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233064-enhanced-ik/ |
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So is the IK+ conversion complete? Or is it still a WIP. If it is a WIP just how playable is it?
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Technically put together well, beautiful on the eye and great gameplay also. |
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I was just listening to the music for hours :) |
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That IK+ link posted by Andy Bernstein is awesome - real nice version of a classic A8 game! |
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Remember taking on my brother at this game. No better outlet for sibling rivalry at the time. This was the only worthy 2-player martial arts game we ever found at the time. |
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This has to be my favourite beat-em-up of all time. I cannot fault this game in any way. Elements of this game can be seen in just about every fighting game since. |
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Andy Bernstein - 26/02/2004 |
A bunch of East European programmers are doing their best to port the sequel, INTERNATIONAL KARATE + (a/k/a IK+), on the Atari 8-bit platform.
Look at http://www.uce.pl/ikplus/info.html for more info.
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