Posts tagged karateka-classic

Get your QWOP on with Humble Mobile Bundle's bonus games

by Danny Cowan (Oct 2nd 2013 8:30PM)

Humble Bundle organizers added a trio of bonus games to the ongoing Humble Mobile Bundle 2, expanding the pay-what-you-want app compilation with Android versions of Bennett Foddy's QWOP and Jordan Mechner's Karateka. Buyers who beat the bundle's average purchase price (currently $4.50) will rece...

Karateka Classic adapts vintage martial artistry

by JC Fletcher (May 31st 2013 4:00PM)

This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go. It's rare for an iPhone adaptation of a classic game to work out at all; rarer still for said adaptation to be preferable to the original. Jordan Mechner's faithful iOS/Android port of Karateka accomplishes this ta...

Karateka Classic coming to iOS and Android tomorrow

by Richard Mitchell (May 15th 2013 10:45AM)

History repeats itself in both video games and colas it seems. Years after releasing the original Karateka, Jordan Mechner revised the formula, giving the world "new" Karateka. Some people liked the new flavor – others, not so much. Hearing the demand of fans everywhere, Mechner has announced...