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| Retro Game of the Day: Way of the Exploding Fist |
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| Written by Gazunta | |
| Thursday, 10 January 2008 | |
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What is it?
It’s a one-on-one fighting game based on karate moves. Actually it’s a one-on-one fighting game based on the arcade game Karate Champ. Karate Champ used two joysticks, this uses one, but besides that it’s pretty much identical. You fight a human-or-AI controlled karate guy over a series of four exotic locations. Or, in the C16 version, over a series of drab colours with some vague things in the background.
The cover of the C16 version shows a karate guy punching something with a promotional blurb saying that this is “Simply the best program”. What the hell does that mean, anyway? That doesn’t tell me anything! It sounds awfully British. So I typed “Awful” and “British” into Google and got this: 
Heather Mills recommends Way of the Exploding Fist? No wonder I always preferred International Karate. Burn it with fire!
How did it do when it came out?
Really well. It was paraded around as the best thing since well developed breasts and sold a truckload of copies month on month. People were playing this for ages, enjoying the fact that it was 1985 and video games wouldn’t begin to really suck for another ten years.
I’m not 100% sure it still is, really. Two player mode is always a laugh, but anything in two player mode can be a laugh. Go on, play Pong for five minutes with a friend and you’ll still get a giggle out of it. Loading this up and not loading up International Karate + or even one of the two sequels to Fist – Fist 2 or Fist + - is really only worth it if you were “there”.
When did I stop playing it?
About thirty seconds after International Karate came out. Seriously, Archer Maclean’s game just eclipses this on so many level it’s ridiculous.
Where can you get it?
Dude, I don’t even know how the hell I got my copies! I just wanted to run this for the cheap Heather Mills joke!
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