Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Your Sinclair | 7/10 |
| Zzap!64 | 97% |
16-bit versions of the game were released in 1988 for the Atari ST and Amiga home computers. Except for the music, which was done by Dave Lowe, the Atari ST version was done entirely by Archer MacLean. He used the bitmap editor NeoChrome to draw background graphics and sprites. Coding was done in assembler on a PC-based development system that cross-compiled the 800 KBytes of source code in seven seconds and transferred the program to the RAM of the Atari ST via a parallel cable. Development took six months. The subsequent port to Amiga took just seven days thanks to MacLean avoiding operating system calls as much as possible.
Another International Karate Deluxe game (AKA IK++) was ready but unreleased for the Atari ST and Amiga in 1987/8
A version for Amiga CD32 was released in 1994
International Karate + Gold is an unauthorized release of International Karate + that supports controlling of the 3rd player using a joystick adapter. Crack by Ninja of The Dreams in 2001.
In 2003, following the retro-gaming trend, Maclean's Ignition Entertainment released IK+ for the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation in Europe, which remained faithful to the 16-bit iterations. These versions were also released in North America, retitled as International Karate Advanced (GBA) and Chop 'n Drop (PS1).
The C64 version was re-released on the Virtual Console in Europe on July 25, 2008 and is scheduled for a future release in North America.
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