This is great!
Sat Aug 10 2013 Zen EyesJust played through it and won without any rewinds. This probably will never come to pass, but I'd love to see the C64 port as well. It didn't 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! I'd 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?
Flawless execution!!
Tue Jul 12 2016 SuperFoxLinnyI had this game on my family's old Apple II as a kid, and I played it relentlessly. Relentlessly! I knew every sound, every movement. This, along with Conan, was my absolute favorite game. I did not expect to ever get to play it again (save for maybe a poorly executed remake on an emulator) but here it is! 😍
The developers really went to task to recreate the exact, and I mean *exact* treasured little game from my childhood. They even simulated the physical sound of the old Apple's hard drive at work, loading up the game and the scenes. Nice touch.
At a time where everybody's putting out little 8-bit games, and most are unoriginal, lazy replicas of each other... this stands out to appeal to the nostalgia-seeking gamers. It seems that most developers think that they can use any simple platform, dial down the graphics and present it as something special. But the truth is, the good games from the 80s and 90s were actually unique and creative (much like today); the movements and graphics were simply born out of limitations.
Anyway, love this game! Especially running straight into the enemy on accident and receiving that mortal blow lol. Btw, if you're new to this game, don't do it!! Or do it to your first enemy to see what it's like and get it over with. Don't forget, like I did, and get far in the game just to carelessly run straight into your demise. Made my jaw drop, just like it did when I was a kid. Brutal.
Gamers Rejoice
Tue Sep 08 2015 Kai KamakaFor the first time since I played 'Karateka' back in the 90's 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 that's hard to come by these days, reconnecting with your childhood or all three combined, this is worth the dollar. I'm 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!
Exactly like the Apple II version!
Sun Apr 13 2014 esmith512I 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
Developer really knows what he's doing
Wed Nov 06 2013 20 secondsI 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. It's 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.
Awesome Tribute To A Classic
Wed Jan 11 2023 Mike CurlThis was a very faithful remake of the classic Apple II game. It even included the sound of an old floppy disk drive as it loaded the game! That’s a sound I haven’t heard for a very long time.
In case you’re not old enough to have played the game before, be sure to try taking a fighting stance as you approach the princess. Also, at the very beginning of the game, try moving to the left instead of the right to see what happens.
The only part of the original game that can’t be duplicated now was the easter egg that resulted if you put the program disk in upside down. The game would load, but the screen was flipped. The fights took place upside down at the top of the screen.
Thanks to the developer for making it possible to relive playing a great old game.
One big glitch
Sat Jun 08 2013 CheeznachoAt the first spiked gate, I died. When I rewinded to my last victory, It rewinded me to when I died. I have to redo everything to that point. Please fix this in the next update. UPDATE- it seems that this happens when you leave the game after you die and come back. This also teleported me to the middle of a fight when I died. Please rework the rewind function.
Still a classic
Mon Dec 30 2013 LivebackwardsSome 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 it's exactly the same. Challenging and fun. The new feature (rewind) is nice addition but if you want a challenge don't use it and experience the game as it originally was. 5 stars all the way
Low Star Rating because they abandoned the other version
Mon Dec 17 2018 hzinkWhile it is appreciated that somebody at DotEmu finally pulled their head out, and updated this free version (many thanks!) for 64-bit compatibility, it makes no sense that they have seemingly abandoned the high-res updated version.
Obviously, they understand how to press a button (so to speak) and recompile into 64-bit, so why not do it for the modern version?
Developer doesn’t respond to any attempts to communicate with them.
Thank you
Sat Jul 04 2015 CesarfiThank 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.
