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​The Karate Kid Part II

3/15/2020

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​The Karate Kid Part II: The Computer Game is a beat 'em up game based on the 1986 film The Karate Kid Part II. The game was initially released for Atari ST in 1986, and was converted for release on Amiga in 1987. We have the Amiga version here today :)
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​The Karate Kid Part II plays like a classic beat 'em up game. For much of the game, the player controls Daniel LaRusso, who faces off against various opponents in karate matches. The player can use a variety of attack moves, including roundhouse kicks and the famous flying kick. The game also includes two bonus levels played occasionally after fights. In one bonus level, the player gets to control Mr. Miyagi as he tries to catch a fly using chopsticks :) In the other bonus level, Daniel must break blocks of ice. The game also includes a two-player option if you want to beat up your friend in a match
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Included in the box was the typical registration form to get on the mailing list, offer on cables, disk wallets and etc from Microdeal, four page manual explaining the controls on the joystick and the game on one diskette. 
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​The Karate Kid Part II received praise for its graphics although some reviewers were critical of the small character designs. The sound was praised as well, while the music received positive and negative responses. One of the cool things are the many of the film's sequences "have been faithfully recreated" for a game​ which is a nice touch. 
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Techno Cop

3/8/2020

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Techno Cop is a 1988 action video game for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS ( the version we have here ) and ZX Spectrum. The gameplay combines pseudo-3D driving in the graphical style of Outrun with side-scrolling action as the player controls a police officer driving to and then moved through various seedy locations in a one-man war against crime. It was subsequently ported to the Sega Genesis in 1990 but the game was the first game on the Genesis to have a warning label due to its violent content.
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In the single-player side-scrolling game the player is a cop in a seedy futuristic urban city. Armed with a pistol, the player has to kill various thugs, before the timer runs out. While the game has several levels, the background in the game does not change often.

The other half of the game is a driving sequence, similar to other computer games such as Roadblasters.
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The Screenshots above are from the PC version of the game
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The PC version of the game came on two floppy diskettes
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​Both Nintendo of America and Sega of America insisted upon previewing games made for their system, prior to release, to check for bugs and potentially controversial or offensive content. Sega allowed Techno Cop to be released without requiring Razor Soft to remove or tone down the game's violent content. Along with the blood, when the playable character shot at another character, they would be blown apart, not unsimilar to Death Wish 3 on C64.

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Star Wars: Dark Forces

3/1/2020

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​Star Wars: Dark Forces was released in 1995 and was both developed and published by LucasArts.  

The storyline is set in the Star Wars fictional universe and follows the player character Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working on behalf of the Rebel Alliance. He discovers the Empire's "Dark Trooper Project", which involves the development of a series of powerful new battle droids and power-armored stormtroopers. The story takes place both just before and mostly after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
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​Upon release, Dark Forces was commonly called a "Doom clone" because of its similarities to the original doom and maybe also because there had been fan made mods of Doom which had levels set on the Death Star.  
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​But the game makes significant expansions upon the gameplay features present in Doom. New gameplay mechanisms that were not common at the time of release include the ability to look up and down, duck, jump, and swim. The use of multiple floor levels is another technical advance in the first-person shooter genre. To produce these new features, the developers wrote a game engine from scratch ( The Jedi game engine ) which can create gameplay and graphical elements such as fully 3D objects, atmospheric effects such as fog and haze, animated textures and shading. 
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​Dark Forces was the 11th best selling computer game of the period 1993 to 1999, with an estimated 952,000 copies sold. The game was followed by novelizations and a sequel, Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Jedi Knight spawned an entire series of games which includes the expansion Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. This series, with the exception of Jedi Academy, focuses on the continuing exploits of Kyle Katarn, many of which take place after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.

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    Yngvi Th. Johannsson

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