A local gas station had this game back in '86. It really did influence and pioneer a lot of fighting games that followed. The first Street Fighter game was an upgrade in many ways of this. Of course the really good fighting games we still play this day came in the early 90s.
and of course if you're good at fighting in real life it translates to a fighting video game you've never played, and I assume the reverse is true as well haha.
I used to love this game, and probably every other arcade game as well, and thought I was pretty good at it. Now I realize how lousy I was. Watching this video is the sweetest revenge. If you haven't played it, it's all about timing. Those flower pots are deadly
Oh man I remember playing this game when Costco sold that arcade cabinets that had a number of old school games that had Street Fighter II, Bubble Bobble etc.
They used to have this machine in the arcade in my home town in the early 80s. Fisrt time I went to an arcade, I must have been like 6 years old. It left a lasting impression ;o)
This is the perfect fighting game, if you want to improve your skills. You can’t button mash combos, hoping to land at least one hit. Instead, you have to wait for the right moment to strike.
Every place that had this machine always had the US VS version, it seemed a little tougher and the voices were a bit different, it had different fighting locations too, also the machine in the movie 'Bloodsport' is the VS version as well. (2player version)
Must be that version that, for some reason, never went past the national tournament stage. It just endlessly looped that stage until you got tired and walked away.
@johnnythepr1ck i dont have an arcade cabinet, but a miSTer (which i 100% reccomend). Karate Champ is being released this friday (fpga recreation, playable in CRT tvs). I’m 51 too. So we had the best age for arcade games, right?! 👍👍
Questo è uno dei primi giochini da bar che io ricordi. All'epoca ero affascinata dall'omino con il gi bianco.... e ancora di più da quello con il gi rosso. Giochi rudimentalissimi in confronto a quelli di oggi...
One of the best fighting games of all time. Takes legit skill but easy enuff to get into.. This dude can one punch a charging bull.. You understand that is low tier superhero level right?
game top, acordava no sabado de manhã é pegava meu paizinho jogando na sala, eu ficava horas vendo ele jogar, esse joguinho me lembra minha infancia..... parabens
Street Fighter’s main inspiration in terms of a video game mainly takes from Kung Fu Master/Spartan X. The director of Kung Fu Master wanted to take the concept of boss fights in that game and applied it to Street Fighter 1 and add manga/anime elements behind it to really make it stand out from other fighters at the time.
Is there ever a point in the game where you kick the water pot, that basketball goal looking structure, or the apples off the other character like it shows in the demo?
First Full contact fighting game. Now if you want to be technical, Sega did put Heavyweight Champ 12 years earlier, making that the first official fighting game.
You can see that this game probably inspired the Street Fighter games, especially the way they do some of their moves (almost identical) and their fighting stances, lol. Cool. 😊
2 moves can take u through the entire game easily...first move: flip over opponent and do spinning reverse roundhouse kick and second move: block then full upper punch
Intro music going into those buildings, sounds like the ice cream mean is coming down the street. I guess Covid killed that scene😞. Glad I got to experience it😁
This game came out just before I hit my growth spurt when I was 14. I remember being tall enough to reach the controls and looking up at this college kid who was maybe 6'. lol I got a front kick on him and everyone laughed and then he tore me up. First game ever and I was hooked :)
![Arcade Longplay [222] Punch-Out](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1T8hoeVpdV0/mqdefault.jpg)
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"Are you a little young for full contact?"
"Are you a little old for video games?"
you think you can give me some competition ?
"Anytime,anywhere,Frankie!"
@@crimsontide1980 OK USA!
@@AlexanderTheGr8er I totally read that in the big bald Asian dudes voice,lol!
@@crimsontide1980 LOL! My best friend and I quote this movie daily. It's amazing how well Bloodsport lines seamlessly fit into everyday conversation.
This brings back memories of being in arcades around 1984-85.
The arcade golden age.
Oh yeah.
The best years of my life
Yes it does I remember playing it while working night shift and waiting for the tracker trailer to arrive
They were often in basements and smelled of cigarettes, stale beer and piss. Aaaaah, the good old days!
A local gas station had this game back in '86. It really did influence and pioneer a lot of fighting games that followed. The first Street Fighter game was an upgrade in many ways of this. Of course the really good fighting games we still play this day came in the early 90s.
4:23 That fight was as intense as it was epic.
This is technically the most balanced fighting game ever
Then again, both fighters are clones, so that's to be expected.
Footsies say hello
@@fifaworldcup1994 thatsthejoke.jpg
@@frrmack Thanks for your unnecessary remark
@@farhanasharmin8997 , sod off, tosser.
That sound of the high kick or that beautiful lunge punch landing is sublime, as is the satisfying way your opponent drops in a heap
Yes! Dux and Jackson playing some Karate Champ!
"Throw the facka right off the runway"
Okay U.S.A.
@@ZoneyDuel Bahahahaha!!! Yes!!
and of course if you're good at fighting in real life it translates to a fighting video game you've never played, and I assume the reverse is true as well haha.
NO!
Bottom one!
I used to love this game, and probably every other arcade game as well, and thought I was pretty good at it. Now I realize how lousy I was. Watching this video is the sweetest revenge. If you haven't played it, it's all about timing. Those flower pots are deadly
The inspiration for Ryu and Ken
True fact
They are ripoffs then
YES , KEN Y RYU
.....yes i think interesting comment. Ken and ryu are the same color
@@Norman_Peterson you mean Ryu and Ken wore the same color as these two
I remember dropping quarters into this game a lot as a kid they had the arcade cabinet at my local grocery store.
You like this kind of fighting huh? You wanna see some real fighting you can see me fight at the kumite.
Same here. They had it at Foodtown. Me and my brother would play it while mom was shopping. I miss the 80’s.
Is this by any chance the same food town chain that was later renamed to Food Lion?
Had it at the A&P... lol
And at our local grocery store here in South Africa
Bloodsport.
Kumite! Kumite! Kumite! Kumite! Kumite! Kumite! Kumite! Kumite!
"OK USA!"
"What's the difference if Bruce Springsteen is his shidoshi? "
yes van damme and the friend play this game at the start of the film
Love the slap sound it makes 😂
The bull mini game is a nice reference to Mas Oyama who fought a bull to promote his Kyokushin Karate in it's early days
I think the whole Karate champ game is Kyokushin Karate!
And in Karnovs Revenge the bull appears again as a secret boss
Oh man I remember playing this game when Costco sold that arcade cabinets that had a number of old school games that had Street Fighter II, Bubble Bobble etc.
So that's how you beat the bull... i never figure that out back then
This video literary was the reason why I love old retro music and old style games and appreciate them!!!
The memories of seaside holidays in the 80s and spending so much time in the arcades playing this.
Fun Fact:
The Karate Champ cabinets can be seen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Bloodsport (1988).
Love it. Good memories. And hell, it could talk, "BE-GIN!"
HALF POINT!
FIGHT!
So, this is the grand dad of all fighting games.
correct.
Yup
The grandfather of fighting games.
They used to have this machine in the arcade in my home town in the early 80s. Fisrt time I went to an arcade, I must have been like 6 years old. It left a lasting impression ;o)
Frank Dux and Ray Jackson played that game in the movie Bloodsport
BE GIN
Frank Duck and Jackson playing Karate Champ in Bloodsport.
Dux
This is the perfect fighting game, if you want to improve your skills. You can’t button mash combos, hoping to land at least one hit. Instead, you have to wait for the right moment to strike.
Muito bom que saudades desse tempo era moleque 😁👏👏👏👏
Every place that had this machine always had the US VS version, it seemed a little tougher and the voices were a bit different, it had different fighting locations too, also the machine in the movie 'Bloodsport' is the VS version as well. (2player version)
That scene in Bloodsport was memorable. And you're totally correct with different versions appreciation.
I spent a small fortune playing this at the local Bowling Alley back in the day.
Must be that version that, for some reason, never went past the national tournament stage. It just endlessly looped that stage until you got tired and walked away.
Was from a different era, where games did not end until YOU were finished
My go to move used to be flipping over the opponent and then a full round house.
@johnnythepr1ck i remember a combo that could pass lots of levels.. i think it was: backward somersault, forward somersault, then jumping kick.
@johnnythepr1ck i remember doing that at the arcades. I should test it on mame
@johnnythepr1ck i dont have an arcade cabinet, but a miSTer (which i 100% reccomend). Karate Champ is being released this friday (fpga recreation, playable in CRT tvs). I’m 51 too. So we had the best age for arcade games, right?! 👍👍
Jump kick into roundhouse, still have muscle memory more than 40 yrs ago! left joystick up and right to right, then both sticks away from each other!
The body movements were later used in the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon arcades.
This game needs representation in Super Smash Bros.
I wish developers would make modern versions of 80's arcade games. Karate Champ for PS5 with the same control schemes but 2025 graphics and gameplay.
If Karate Champ had a modern remake,
it would have a roster of 15 tournament fighters that represent each style of Karate in history, namely:
* Chitō-ryū Karate
* Kishimoto-Di Karate
* Genseiryū Karate
* Gōjū-ryū Karate
* Gosoku-ryū Karate
* Isshin-ryū Karate
* Kyokushin Karate
* Motobu-ryū Karate
* Shindō jinen-ryū Karate
* Shitō-ryū Karate
* Shōrin-ryū Karate
* Shotokan Karate
* Shūkōkai Karate
* Uechi-ryū Karate
* Wadō-ryū Karate
I was so addicted to the game when I was 14. I wasted all my pocket money 😂
Questo è uno dei primi giochini da bar che io ricordi.
All'epoca ero affascinata dall'omino con il gi bianco.... e ancora di più da quello con il gi rosso.
Giochi rudimentalissimi in confronto a quelli di oggi...
Sniff😢! This game brings back memories from when I was a child!
Used to love playing this as a kid even though I was completely shit at it
One of the best fighting games of all time.
Takes legit skill but easy enuff to get into..
This dude can one punch a charging bull..
You understand that is low tier superhero level right?
game top, acordava no sabado de manhã é pegava meu paizinho jogando na sala, eu ficava horas vendo ele jogar, esse joguinho me lembra minha infancia..... parabens
6:05 I was just playing this at the Arcade Club in Leeds. My mate had just defeated me and then the bull ran him over. It was hard to stop laughing.
I was just thinking about firing up the mame version I have. That’s hilarious though.🤣
Two Joysticks i still remember a few of moves Reverse punch unstoppable 😊
I love that sensei looks like Ron Jeremy!
Lunge punch, foot sweep😎
The first and best fighting game of all time
The simplicity of this game is refreshing. I’d play this now if I could
@Retro Storm I grew up playing it.
Or Nintendo Switch
I remember a line to play this at the arcade.
what's the method to break through all the boards in the bonus stage? Whenever I do it there's always one or two unbroken
I had this on the NES, not the best version but it's the ONLY video game my mom would play.
The legend of Lyoto Machida began here.
I can’t help but laugh when he kicks him in the face 😂
Hajime!
Last time I was in a tournament I demanded they added this part to it:
01:11
My favorite arcade machine before SF2.
3:25 Kung Pow: Enter The Bull.
I hated that stupid bull.
I assume that this is the true pioneer of fighting games, right?
So this is where Square Enix got the one-hit-finish idea for Bushido Blade.
I think they got the idea from, you know, actual swordfighting
The most fun I ever had getting my butt kicked. I don’t think I ever won a match but still had lots of fun playing it.
I LOVED this game on arcade. Not a console. I was crap at it but was brilliant
The ref's sound like the Icon of Sin from Doom 2.
Now I know that this game was the inspiration for both _Street Fighter_ & _Mortal Kombat_ video game series.
It actually defined the one-on-one combat games genre, all basics are here: score system and moves
@@simonebernacchia5724 Good point.
Street Fighter’s main inspiration in terms of a video game mainly takes from Kung Fu Master/Spartan X. The director of Kung Fu Master wanted to take the concept of boss fights in that game and applied it to Street Fighter 1 and add manga/anime elements behind it to really make it stand out from other fighters at the time.
Frank Dux and Ray Jackson played this game in the movie Blood Sport.
I could never figure out what constituted a full point move versus a half. I know the slap sound was louder for a full.
Still waiting for this to show up at EVO
Is there ever a point in the game where you kick the water pot, that basketball goal looking structure, or the apples off the other character like it shows in the demo?
Well, you're the best. Around. Nothing's ever gonna take you down.
Except possibly a bull.
Bloodsport brought me here. Wasn't born in 84, but I saw the movie in 1995 when I was 8 1/2
Bloodsport was '89, the game came out in '84
The game that was pleayed on Bloodsport movie, what a memories!
one of my favorite game when i was in elementary
'"I show you a trick or two"...
"Ha! you lose America ass-o."
What is bet?
I used to pile 10p a go into the arcade machine of this game down at the Butlins holiday camp in Minehead back in the day.
Same but Pontins Hemsby for me! :-D
@@MrDazzlerdarren good memories!
First Full contact fighting game. Now if you want to be technical, Sega did put Heavyweight Champ 12 years earlier, making that the first official fighting game.
Close, but not 12 years earlier, more like 8 years before. This game came out in 1984.
this will tell you how old i am but i used to play this game on apple 2gs in 1988
I play this game on my iPad and this guy is WAY better than me.
You can see that this game probably inspired the Street Fighter games, especially the way they do some of their moves (almost identical) and their fighting stances, lol. Cool. 😊
2 moves can take u through the entire game easily...first move: flip over opponent and do spinning reverse roundhouse kick and second move: block then full upper punch
I love this game so hard. Even more than the Kung Fu game. Keep trying to find an Arcade 1up version with another gave, Burger Time.
Wow I remember burger time
With the move at 3:50: the flip to the full point kick, I could milk a quarter for 15 minutes easily!
Nostalgia pura, eu jogava muito esse jogo 🎮
OG of fighting games tho...
Hearing most sound effects from Blood Sport except the "watchaknee"
Intro music going into those buildings, sounds like the ice cream mean is coming down the street. I guess Covid killed that scene😞. Glad I got to experience it😁
I remember first watching Bloodsport when i was a kid and thinking this game looks awesome but never got to play it.
I don't know why this game isn't on the fighters generation website, This is the first ever fighting game!
I was a legend on that game top of leader board no matter what arcade I'd been in
Needs to be updated and played on ps5 or xbox.
This game was great once you read the instructions for the moves on the machine!
...Is that Mr. Satan presiding over the match at the beginning??😅
He is the father! All Street fighter and clones start from here!!!!
I just got into the fighting game genre, when does mario show up?
waoo este juego me encantaba. excelente, gracias.
I haven't played this game in at least thirty years.
“Aren’t you a little young for full contact?”
The white and red karate fighters later turned into Ryu and Ken. lol
This is where frank dux learned his skills
Awesome! I want this for arcade 1up
This game is for Shotokan or Kyokushin fighter!!!
This game is why steert fighter a amazing fighting series exits
I love the low blocks. Gedan berais. Thats bad ass
I can remember my first encounter with this game.
Me: "Uhhh.... How does this work?"
So.... just like everyone else then.
This game came out just before I hit my growth spurt when I was 14.
I remember being tall enough to reach the controls and looking up at this college kid who was maybe 6'. lol
I got a front kick on him and everyone laughed and then he tore me up. First game ever and I was hooked :)