Karateka has been criticised for its length and its unusual combat mechanics, but creator Jordan mechner has defended both saying they're kind of the point of it all. In an interview with TouchArcade, ...

Digital Eclipse has announced The Making of Karateka, the first game in its Gold Master Series—independently-produced projects that celebrate key designers, studios, and games that changed the world.

With The Making of Karateka, the studio continues to refine its interactive documentaries, providing a video game-native way of presenting the classics. With The Making of Karateka, the studio ...

The primary purpose of video game remasters and re-releases is to preserve and modernize a classic experience, but there are a lot of ways to accomplish that. A lot of studios simply port or emulate ...

In 1984, a game was released for the Apple II that was totally unlike anything that had come before. Casting you as a martial artist who must infiltrate a warlord’s castle fortress, Karateka had ...

Revered game designer Jordan Mechner built his first game, Karateka, on an Apple II in his Yale University dorm room; it was released by Broderbund Software in 1984, during his sophomore year. Nearly ...

Karateka, the classic Apple II game is being reinvented for new platforms by designer Jordan Mechner, most famous for his Prince of Persia games. Originally created by Mechner in his Yale dorm room ...

In context: Jordan Mechner, the legendary game designer who created Prince of Persia, also brought about an entirely new way to tell interactive stories. Before Prince of Persia, Mechner crafted ...

In brief: Mechner developed Karateka while still a student at Yale University, and with the help of publisher Broderbund, launched it at the tail end of 1984 on the Apple II. What you may not know is ...

The Making of Karateka is part game collection and part documentary; a playable history of an 80s game Karateka that tells a remarkable true story in the coolest way possible. This special Kareteka ...