This is a great video. I was a programmer on this game and made the level editor and created all the levels for this game. I printed them all out and had the entire game levels on the floor at our office at Melbourne House so I could see how all the ladders and levels linked up. So awesome to watch this play thru almost 30 years later. It is amazing how this whole game fitted in less than 64KB of memory.
It was fun of course. And back then games weren't anywhere near a expensive to make so developers could take chances on creative ideas. But now budgets are so big no-one takes chance which is why we see the same type of games over and over.
I remember it all. The open-world concept. The lurking fear of not knowing what comes next. The large and unfair health of the enemies. The creepy landscapes. The excitement of getting a scroll. The anxiety of fighting against hooded and masked enemies. That hard bearded enemy. the tough fights. The feeling of dread inside the caves. The bug that didn't let me move further after 2 hours of playing and... most of all... the music. What a great music. A mix of Carpenter's music with an eastern dark atmosphere. This game is a masterpiece. They don't come like this anymore. It also marks the highlight of my childhood playing years. Nostalgia!
Me too. So tragic that the bug was there. I managed to push through the bug somehow on an emulator and got to the end. The idea behind the health upgrades is a little Zeldaesque and done pretty well I feel, so are the areas with obstacles that sometimes require a scroll to unlock. The "death room" as I called it was really cool.
The music here is just absolutely stunning and so atmospheric! So many years after it's release this is still one of absolutely favourites when it comes to c64 music. I was frightened by the atmosphere of this game when i was a child. Still so many years i still think about this game there was something truly magical here despite it's flaws.
this game would not become such a classic without the soundtrack. It is such a perfect fit. the atmosphere is so amazing. I remember this game stood turned on for a whole week after I completed it so that i could show off the last screen to all of my friends. My mom was so angry because I refused to turn off the computer. :) good times.
I spent tons of time on this game 30+ years ago and it always bugged me that I never beat it - until today! Bug-free version on emulator, and I had a map but no cheating. Was such a good time studying the map and slowly figuring the game out again, and finally complete it!
I had the chance to discover video games with this kind of game. this sound design !! still a master class today even though it's 8 bits from 1986!!! This music will forever be etched in my soul!!!
This game was so far and above all of the other martial arts games for the C64, with the exception of how fun Bruce Lee was. Thanks for posting this! What awesome memories.
This was one of my favorite C64 games that spent my childhood with. I and my cousin spending hours late at night playing it, getting spooked with the music and ambient. My God…
Remember spending like 4 hours trying to complete this on a Sunday as a boy, with a goofy map published in Zzap 64. Enduring memory. Leaping into that volcano caldera scared the crap outa me.
I so wanted to finish this game and would play it, literally relentlessly, but eventually gave up as I just couldn't work out how to do it. As a kid, even I knew it was overly ambitious for what the C64 could achieve, but still believed in it. So frustrating! Strange that it still holds a special place in my heart. I think it was the idea of expanding the literally perfect Exploding Fist one into a full story that was the key. I remember getting goose bumps on my skin when I'd discover a new area. Such a shame it could never have been the game it should have been!
One of my most cherished childhood memories was playing this game with my brother and a friend. We drew extensive maps that covered the living room floor to get to the end. Totally awesome. I still hum the dojo and cave music to myself now and then.
i was looking for this game, but could not remember the name of it. I'm so glad i found it, many great childhood memories from this one. And it still looks great :-)
Amazing game, even now (yes now). Spent hours and hours back in the day playing, as many as you did. The Green poison room, had me beat, used to drive me crazy.
1:27 - doors and mountains in the background. There was a time when players could do nothing but wonder how awesome it would be they could go that way and visit the distant background places. Now we have open world 3d games everywhere.
Its been more than 30 years since seen this game. Some how it always froze or generated some weird errors when i finaly got a bit futher but still, this is such a classic and the images, music and sounds make me desire to get back in time and start playing again although i have GTA 5 installed..
I put this on 2x speed so I could watch the entire adventure in one sitting. It's good to finally see how this game played out. I remember getting stuck at a waterfall with a scroll on a ledge that I could never reach and could not find the way to progress any further.
I was really scared of this game as a kid. I never remembered the name as a grownup, but then i finally found it by asking at a C64 forum. It wasn't just a bad dream afterall... Brings back a lot of memories, i can tell you that. I think i got something in my eye...
The sad thing watching this back is realising how close I actually was to the end before I quit in rage lol... one of the best games of the generation!
This game had so many bugs, I am surprised that someone actually finished it. -Sometimes when you leave a pool of water, your legs are missing. -Press the Restore key while the screen is scrolling and your char will slide forward without moving and past any opponent. -At certain points, enemies would keep popping up forever, effectively trapping you within a screen. -Also sometimes the game would stop scrolling, also trapping you within a screen. Probably missing some but the game was clearly not tested long enough. Good music though.
+SteveFusionX "At certain points, enemies would keep popping up forever, effectively trapping you within a screen." This happened to me several times, even on original C64 and on all of the d64 versions I played as well.
I remember the screen getting stuck sometimes. I think I remember that this was fixed by turning around and walking or jumping (somersaulting :p) backwards, or something of that nature. Oh how scary it was the first time my elder brother and I fell into the green room without the needed scroll. We still play the original exploding fist on holidays. :)
I used mostly the same fighting tactics than you did. For some reason my friends scolded me for it but those tactics worked very well for me: when I had a bug where endless number of enemies came (one at a time), I killed SEVEN enemies before dying. In spite of my fighting skills, I, a little boy those days, was confused as to what to do and where to go and got trapped often and thus could never complete this game.
C64 was just an amazing computer. I’m a computer engineer and in my opinion C64 was the best even to this day. It is just unbelievable what it could do with just 64k memory.
Immensely difficult. Just navigating your way through the screens was challenging enough, it was a massive and complex environment. But then, just as you're minding your own business, some random dude would start kicking your arse and draining your sparse energy bar. The music is some of the best I've ever heard in a game. The atmosphere is intense. Right up there with The Last Ninja games and Pitfall 2.
i loved this game back in the days.i was good but never see the end! now i know my copy was buggy cause i allways died at 37.15min for no reason.i got crazy everytime.best c64 game ever:)
Spent countless hours on this many years ago ;-P That it had not a Save Game Position and Load Position was very frustrating. Every day beat up the same guys until you got stuck in the jungle or lost a fight. But back in the day it was a cool mix of adventure and fighting. I mastered Lode Runner. Too bad I got no videos to prove it. I ran through all levels 3 times. Later. I got the cool Lode Runner for Windows where you could design your own levels, awesome game, may work on newer MS Windows, not confirmed.
+Klaus Rosenbjerg I loved C64 Lode Runner and also bought the Windows version. I still play C64 Lode Runner using a C64 emulator on my PSP. So very sad that Douglas E. Smith who created Lode Runner died last year. I will always remember his game.
Great game! I loved this game and played it incessantly. I beat it exactly ONE time. There was a bug that allowed you to backflip off one of the waterfalls to get the scroll sitting on the edge of the cliff. Otherwise I had to play it all the way through. You did it in under an hour... must've taken me 8 hours. And like some other people said, the damned music scared the crap out of me as a kid. The first time I died in the green dungeon it freaked me out. Took me forever to get past it.
Imagine if it had the last ninja 2 type music (matt gray) and a bit more surprises - attacks on the karate player, and some other traps which could appear from nowhere. The game would have seriously rocked but still not a bad period piece for that time.
The Way Of The Exploding Fist series is older than Int. Karate. Look at the original Way Of The Exploding Fist from 1985 and then to Int. Karate from 1986.
I remember coming to the boulder barrickade in the caves and not knowing what to do... Went the other way as well, with the waterfalls and jumping over the panthers etc, but never completed the game :( Played the shit out of it though, hehe... Great times!
Without doubt, one of the all time great C64 games! I too dreamed of being able to scale those mountains in the background...I spent weeks playing this game but could never complete it due to the bugs...where is the bug free version?!
This game, for me, is up on top of the C64 Best Games... Elite, Paradroid, Ultima 4 and Fist II helped kill all the boring hours between school and bed time. This game kept me coming back because it felt and looked and sounded good - also - I couldn't get past one spot on it. I had no idea it would take about an hour to win even if you had a map! Thanks to everyone who's name appears at 56:49!
The gameplay doesn't work out in 2024 (understandably due to limitation) but that isn't the case in the Graphics department. The artstyle still looks so good for me.
At the time, this was my perfect game; an adventure and a fighter combined. But I suffered from the same bug as most others and had to keep fighting the same fight over an over till I had no will left. It's a shame it hasn't been re-made; Jade Empire not quite the same
WOTEF 1 was groundbreaking, I never saw that coming. Fist 2 was a dark twist, almost against the principles of Karate by using it to attack not defend. Anyway this and Bruce Lee were iconic ones that took me ages to finish.
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This is a great video. I was a programmer on this game and made the level editor and created all the levels for this game. I printed them all out and had the entire game levels on the floor at our office at Melbourne House so I could see how all the ladders and levels linked up. So awesome to watch this play thru almost 30 years later. It is amazing how this whole game fitted in less than 64KB of memory.
Cool what was it like back then being part of it
Did you work on Bazooka Bill also? (I actually loved that game!)
It was fun of course. And back then games weren't anywhere near a expensive to make so developers could take chances on creative ideas. But now budgets are so big no-one takes chance which is why we see the same type of games over and over.
hellsong23 I wrote the level editor that was used to make the levels for Bazooka Bill.
Nigel Spencer What a creepy music that was man.
I remember it all. The open-world concept. The lurking fear of not knowing what comes next. The large and unfair health of the enemies. The creepy landscapes. The excitement of getting a scroll. The anxiety of fighting against hooded and masked enemies. That hard bearded enemy. the tough fights. The feeling of dread inside the caves. The bug that didn't let me move further after 2 hours of playing and... most of all... the music. What a great music. A mix of Carpenter's music with an eastern dark atmosphere. This game is a masterpiece. They don't come like this anymore. It also marks the highlight of my childhood playing years. Nostalgia!
Me too. So tragic that the bug was there. I managed to push through the bug somehow on an emulator and got to the end. The idea behind the health upgrades is a little Zeldaesque and done pretty well I feel, so are the areas with obstacles that sometimes require a scroll to unlock. The "death room" as I called it was really cool.
The music is still amazing to this day
The music here is just absolutely stunning and so atmospheric! So many years after it's release this is still one of absolutely favourites when it comes to c64 music. I was frightened by the atmosphere of this game when i was a child. Still so many years i still think about this game there was something truly magical here despite it's flaws.
even today the damn music haunts in me head!
Right? I can´t even begin to describe it´s effectiveness...
That music........
Thanks!
Yes, Great job, Neil! Loved 'The Hobbit' too. I would just let the music play sometimes.
same... 💖
this game would not become such a classic without the soundtrack. It is such a perfect fit. the atmosphere is so amazing. I remember this game stood turned on for a whole week after I completed it so that i could show off the last screen to all of my friends. My mom was so angry because I refused to turn off the computer. :) good times.
SO true. 100% enig. Hele settingen med mystisk musikk og omgivelser. Best days of my life =)
Nice mate!!
Thanks @Grusom 😉
100%
Amen✊🏽
Finally I'll get to see how this game ends (spent my whole f-ing childhood)
Retro gaming videolarının hastası biri olarak benim için sizinle burada karşılaşmak çok hoş oldu.
Sizin videonuza bakarak bende bu oyunu beğendim , sonunu merak ettim ama pek tatmin etmedi . Hoş o dönemin şartları ve oyunlarına göre normal
I too spent my entire childhood trying to solve this game, and never did. I won't see the ending here because I think I might give it another try :)
@@TheBest-sd2qf the ending is not worth it man believe me :(
No girlfriend, huh?
Amazing game. Played this as an 11 year old in a dark room in the evenings, with the spooky soundtrack. Imagine the atmosphere. Good times.
Oh man ! That music !!!!!!
One of my all time favorite games on any platform
Watching this in 2022! Best memories of my childhood! OMG, I'm getting old :)
I spent tons of time on this game 30+ years ago and it always bugged me that I never beat it - until today! Bug-free version on emulator, and I had a map but no cheating. Was such a good time studying the map and slowly figuring the game out again, and finally complete it!
Where did you get the bug free version from?
The scariest music on the C64.
Forbidden Forest on c64
I played Forbidden Forest too.
One of my favourites.
Yeah =) Good old days. It was VERY scary =)
Ghost n Goblins!
Nah didn't find it too scary. Played it a lot though.
I had the chance to discover video games with this kind of game. this sound design !! still a master class today even though it's 8 bits from 1986!!! This music will forever be etched in my soul!!!
Played this when it came out. Still remembered the tune. Life is short
THX for programming/creating this game :)
I only managed to get about 4 scrolls when I was a kid!
This was one of my fave c64 games..loved the the last ninja also
This game was so far and above all of the other martial arts games for the C64, with the exception of how fun Bruce Lee was. Thanks for posting this! What awesome memories.
Great use of the SID filter in the soundtrack.
This was one of my favorite C64 games that spent my childhood with. I and my cousin spending hours late at night playing it, getting spooked with the music and ambient. My God…
Damn I loved this game. Was without a doubt one of the best games on C64, the music was awesome too.
FINALLY!!!!!!! I CAN SEE THE ENDING LOOOOL AFTER ALMOST 25 years!!!
In my top 10 fav C64 games of all time . Absolute magic game 👌
I consider this game as one of the three masterpieces of the videogame industry: Doom, Carmageddon and Fist 2.
a masterpiece, I think is the best game ever because is the most mysterious..
+Raul Gubert More atmosphere than many modern games could ever muster!
definitely! a wonderful gem.
the graphicstyle is pure und simple... and together with the great soundtrack the game is just unique!
Thanks for many good evenings with a good friend behind the C64. Fist 2 was one of the favourite Game !
absolutely bloody stunning music. Great experience too playing this
Remember spending like 4 hours trying to complete this on a Sunday as a boy, with a goofy map published in Zzap 64. Enduring memory.
Leaping into that volcano caldera scared the crap outa me.
Rekaert haha I had the map on my wall. my brother made a better one.
I remember the zzap map... :)))
Rekaert lol those Zzap64 maps were worse than flatpack instructions
I so wanted to finish this game and would play it, literally relentlessly, but eventually gave up as I just couldn't work out how to do it. As a kid, even I knew it was overly ambitious for what the C64 could achieve, but still believed in it. So frustrating! Strange that it still holds a special place in my heart. I think it was the idea of expanding the literally perfect Exploding Fist one into a full story that was the key. I remember getting goose bumps on my skin when I'd discover a new area. Such a shame it could never have been the game it should have been!
One of my most cherished childhood memories was playing this game with my brother and a friend. We drew extensive maps that covered the living room floor to get to the end. Totally awesome. I still hum the dojo and cave music to myself now and then.
man, that soundtrack always scared the shit out of me as a kid
I wish all these great games like this was remastered for the Xbox one and PlayStation,great memories playing these when I was a boy!!
After so many years I still remember the music ... some music group should make a nice cover of it!!
Amazing! Havent seen this since the mid 80's. Ahhh the memories! Thanks for sharing.
i was looking for this game, but could not remember the name of it. I'm so glad i found it, many great childhood memories from this one. And it still looks great :-)
despues de mas 20años recuerdo este juego exelente música y adelantado para su epoca!
This was one of my favorite games from over 30 years ago! I never did finish this game to the end.
I never thought I would live to see how Fist 2 ends. Well, I now saw it finally after 25 years. Thank you DerSchmu
I used to get stuck on the waterfall, no matter what I did i died at the bottom.
I had several nightmares when I was little with this great game
The music is what I remember the most. So distinctive and spooky.
HAI !!!
Time for a Fist II soundtrack cover album!!!
I had this game But i never finished it. Brings back lots of memories
Same. It was bugged for me, I'm going to have to see how he got past the part with endless wolves.
This and "Saboteur 2" marked my childhood (I'm 36 now). I remember I couldn't play this one at night, it was too scary for me. :D
Man, the memories and the music, used to fill me with dread
never managed to finish this game, but I absolutely love it, both cool in graphics and gameplay and soundtrack was great too. a really masterpiece
Amazing game, even now (yes now). Spent hours and hours back in the day playing, as many as you did. The Green poison room, had me beat, used to drive me crazy.
What a brilliant game this was. Hours upon hours spent.
1:27 - doors and mountains in the background. There was a time when players could do nothing but wonder how awesome it would be they could go that way and visit the distant background places. Now we have open world 3d games everywhere.
I slowly realize how little we saw of this game back in the days. Never knew it was that huge.
Im putting this as a music background when i go to sleep
i miss being a kid me and my brother play this for hours.
J o n a t h a n ditto that , I loved growing up in the 80's!
Its been more than 30 years since seen this game. Some how it always froze or generated some weird errors when i finaly got a bit futher but still, this is such a classic and the images, music and sounds make me desire to get back in time and start playing again although i have GTA 5 installed..
I put this on 2x speed so I could watch the entire adventure in one sitting. It's good to finally see how this game played out. I remember getting stuck at a waterfall with a scroll on a ledge that I could never reach and could not find the way to progress any further.
Incredible atmosphere
I was really scared of this game as a kid. I never remembered the name as a grownup, but then i finally found it by asking at a C64 forum. It wasn't just a bad dream afterall... Brings back a lot of memories, i can tell you that. I think i got something in my eye...
Amazing video. Amazing game. Amazing music. Missing the old times so much...
One of C64 BEST games inc 🎶
👊🏼😉🤜🏼
Cool upload man.
In keeping with the 80's the music with this game was epic. Where can I buy the soundtrack for it?
The sad thing watching this back is realising how close I actually was to the end before I quit in rage lol... one of the best games of the generation!
Damn that music, reliving my childhood
phildre1974 BTW, for those interested in the music from all these great C64 games check lemon64.com.
This game had so many bugs, I am surprised that someone actually finished it.
-Sometimes when you leave a pool of water, your legs are missing.
-Press the Restore key while the screen is scrolling and your char will slide forward without moving and past any opponent.
-At certain points, enemies would keep popping up forever, effectively trapping you within a screen.
-Also sometimes the game would stop scrolling, also trapping you within a screen.
Probably missing some but the game was clearly not tested long enough. Good music though.
+Alex K. Strange, I don't remember any of those bugs!
+SteveFusionX "At certain points, enemies would keep popping up forever, effectively trapping you within a screen." This happened to me several times, even on original C64 and on all of the d64 versions I played as well.
Same bug, had eternal enemies so could never get past the same point.
Loved the "restore" bug.
I remember the screen getting stuck sometimes. I think I remember that this was fixed by turning around and walking or jumping (somersaulting :p) backwards, or something of that nature.
Oh how scary it was the first time my elder brother and I fell into the green room without the needed scroll.
We still play the original exploding fist on holidays. :)
I used mostly the same fighting tactics than you did. For some reason my friends scolded me for it but those tactics worked very well for me: when I had a bug where endless number of enemies came (one at a time), I killed SEVEN enemies before dying. In spite of my fighting skills, I, a little boy those days, was confused as to what to do and where to go and got trapped often and thus could never complete this game.
C64 was just an amazing computer. I’m a computer engineer and in my opinion C64 was the best even to this day. It is just unbelievable what it could do with just 64k memory.
1990 gespielt ... als 15 Jähriger 👍🏻😎
Kindheitserinnungen Flashback, hatte das Spiel total vergessen. Btw auch 1975 Baujahr 😂
I remember the haunting music... scared me as a kid
Me too😨😱
Love this game and music!
Jugué este juego en el 89 con tan solo 6 años de edad. Obra maestra. Saludos desde Argentina
Best music for any C64 game, love it
Immensely difficult. Just navigating your way through the screens was challenging enough, it was a massive and complex environment. But then, just as you're minding your own business, some random dude would start kicking your arse and draining your sparse energy bar.
The music is some of the best I've ever heard in a game. The atmosphere is intense. Right up there with The Last Ninja games and Pitfall 2.
i loved this game back in the days.i was good but never see the end! now i know my copy was buggy cause i allways died at 37.15min for no reason.i got crazy everytime.best c64 game ever:)
I remember there was a bug in the first release that was later fixed. So sorry it stopped you. There was no online patching back then.
Wow…how did I not have this game for my Commodore…going to eBay and buying and firing up the C128!
Man this guy playing is a beast, woo Cha
Yeah dude.. really scary, violent and "horror/mystery" game... One of my (many) best c64 games!
This looks and sounds great!
i was never in the house till i got this game , then i turned into a fkn hermit ! great game . A+
Che ricordi...gioco semplicemente straordinario.
Spent countless hours on this many years ago ;-P
That it had not a Save Game Position and Load Position was very frustrating. Every day beat up the same guys until you got stuck in the jungle or lost a fight. But back in the day it was a cool mix of adventure and fighting.
I mastered Lode Runner. Too bad I got no videos to prove it. I ran through all levels 3 times. Later. I got the cool Lode Runner for Windows where you could design your own levels, awesome game, may work on newer MS Windows, not confirmed.
+Klaus Rosenbjerg I loved C64 Lode Runner and also bought the Windows version. I still play C64 Lode Runner using a C64 emulator on my PSP. So very sad that Douglas E. Smith who created Lode Runner died last year. I will always remember his game.
Nigel Spencer So are c64 games enjoyable on psp, no speed/timing issues?
Also do you have other c64 games on PSP or other simulators?
amazing, takes me back
yeah amazing music, also thanks for introducing me to archive.org lots of great stuff!
Totally cool game. Ahh, the memories. Those green dungeons sucked without the scroll. Thanks for posting.
Oh yeah, remeber playin' this one. Hard as hell, when you're ten years...
svartdahl lol I played it a countless hours , never got even halfway through lol
Great game! I loved this game and played it incessantly. I beat it exactly ONE time. There was a bug that allowed you to backflip off one of the waterfalls to get the scroll sitting on the edge of the cliff. Otherwise I had to play it all the way through. You did it in under an hour... must've taken me 8 hours. And like some other people said, the damned music scared the crap out of me as a kid. The first time I died in the green dungeon it freaked me out. Took me forever to get past it.
Wow! !!! 30 years ago next year I reckon!
No minimaps, no help button. Taht is pure hardcore ^^
The other 2 soundtracks for this game should be uploaded with this
Great sounds / game 👍🏼
Imagine if it had the last ninja 2 type music (matt gray) and a bit more surprises - attacks on the karate player, and some other traps which could appear from nowhere. The game would have seriously rocked but still not a bad period piece for that time.
some diversity on the enemies and bosses would have been cool too
Frodo is pretty good. I remember this game as well, the music is awesome, damn difficult game though.
The Way Of The Exploding Fist series is older than Int. Karate.
Look at the original Way Of The Exploding Fist from 1985 and then to Int. Karate from 1986.
One of The best music of 64
And scary athmosphere
I can't believe someone beat this game :D
What a mysterious ending.
I remember coming to the boulder barrickade in the caves and not knowing what to do... Went the other way as well, with the waterfalls and jumping over the panthers etc, but never completed the game :( Played the shit out of it though, hehe... Great times!
Without doubt, one of the all time great C64 games! I too dreamed of being able to scale those mountains in the background...I spent weeks playing this game but could never complete it due to the bugs...where is the bug free version?!
This game, for me, is up on top of the C64 Best Games... Elite, Paradroid, Ultima 4 and Fist II helped kill all the boring hours between school and bed time. This game kept me coming back because it felt and looked and sounded good - also - I couldn't get past one spot on it.
I had no idea it would take about an hour to win even if you had a map!
Thanks to everyone who's name appears at 56:49!
Ahhh....memories!
The gameplay doesn't work out in 2024 (understandably due to limitation) but that isn't the case in the Graphics department. The artstyle still looks so good for me.
At the time, this was my perfect game; an adventure and a fighter combined. But I suffered from the same bug as most others and had to keep fighting the same fight over an over till I had no will left. It's a shame it hasn't been re-made; Jade Empire not quite the same
I played a lot with this as a small kid. It was spooky.
love to see this on ps3 or 4
man, my nut, this amazing dude?
I like the way you destroy the enemies.
WOTEF 1 was groundbreaking, I never saw that coming. Fist 2 was a dark twist, almost against the principles of Karate by using it to attack not defend. Anyway this and Bruce Lee were iconic ones that took me ages to finish.