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Chatan Yarakuu Shanku - The Karate Tournament

Arcade Video game published 32 years ago by Mitchell Corp.

Listed in MAME

Chatan Yarakuu Shanku - The Karate Tournament screenshot

Chatan Yarakuu Shanku - The Karate Tournament © 1992 Mitchell.

Karate Tournament is a one-on-one fighting game for one or two players, based on the ancient and most well known of martial arts, Karate.

Players enter a karate tournament - having first selected their preferred skill level, from either White, Brown or Black belt - and fight against a number of progressively tougher opponents. Each victory awards the player with a higher belt grade within their current belt colour - white grade six to white grade five, for example - and if the player wins the tournament, he or she is awarded a higher belt colour and the game ends. If players chooses to play the game on the 'Black Belt' skill level, defeating opponents is awarded with a higher grade, or 'dan' of Black Belt.

Karate Tournament uses a distinctive graphical technique in that it 'morphs' some of the combatants' movement graphics to simulate speed and motion blur. The game was also unique upon its release in that, in a world of "Street Fighters" and "Mortal Kombats" - replete with fantastical special moves - Karate Tournament was a genuine simulation of a recognized martial art; something not really seen since the first appearance of Data East's legendary genre-defining fighter, "Karate Champ", released eight years' earlier in 1984.

TECHNICAL

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : uPD7810 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound Chips : OKI6295 (@ 9.375 Khz), YM2413 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

TRIVIA

The Karate Tournament was released in December 1992 in Japan.

STAFF

Object chief : Utata Kiyoshi
Object assistants : Super Guruken, Poco.P, Dr. Miyajima, Tetuhiro Kuroda, Ikuko, Fujishima.G
Back chief : Oyuusan
Back assistants : Akiko Kosaka, Rikachan
Sound composer : Yoshi Sasaki
Sound data : Yos.S, Kouichi Saito, Mitsuko Seto, Ad Make Up, Guruken
Soft sub : Namcho
Data input : Kinchan
Main programmer : David Bo0wy
Planner : The Fourth Sally

SOURCES

Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.
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