The Californian studio, a past master in the art of retro porting, inaugurates here its Golden Master Series, a self-published collection of classics – hopefully less American-centric – accompanied by a slew of archival documents, video interviews and other small carrots behind the scene ; in short, all that its title The Making of Karateka can evoke. A formula (and a skin) that has already proven itself with the excellent virtual museum Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection, commented at length by Your Humble Editor in the first issue of It was Better Now (remember. ..).
Everybody was kung fu fighting
As an “interactive documentary”, The Making of Karateka will have no less than 3 playable versions of the original game (at sight Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari 2600, but nothing has been confirmed) in addition to a Remastered version with new content abandoned during development . As a small bonus, the studio will resuscitate an old Mechner prototype with Deathbounce: Rebounded, a twin-stick shooter brought up to date. The output of The Making of Karateka is expected for this year 2023, without further details, on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch and PC consoles.