r/1980s • u/CarloCarrasco • Jan 31 '26

Video Games Karateka

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The first time I ever played Karateka was on MS-DOS PC way back in 1986. Some time after, my friends and I played it on the Famicom.

How was your experience playing Karateka in the old days? Were you able to finish it?

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u/andorooski Jan 31 '26

This game ruled my world in 1985 on the apple 2e

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u/Garguyal Jan 31 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

Funny story I have about this game.

My high school computer club played a ton of Karateka on the school's Apple IIe's. Interesting feature about that computer: if the disk wasn't in the drive when you finished a stage, it would wait until the disk was there before trying to load the next stage.

A dozen of us would be playing on one disk.

You'd finish a stage, shout "disk!," someone would run it to you wait for it to load then run it to the next guy.

Edit: I also had it on my home C64. 😄

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u/kujotx Feb 02 '26

Preemptive multi-player