The Making of Karateka Deluxe Edition Switch

The Making of Karateka Deluxe Edition Switch

The Making of Karateka

Go behind the scenes of Karateka, Jordan Mechner's flagship game, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse including archives, videos and more !

Discover the history of titles that made video game history with THE GOLD MASTER SERIES

New from Digital Eclipse (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story), the Gold Master Series presents iconic games through an innovative "interactive documentary" combining the shared history of video games and their creators in a single format.

The Making of Karateka: Discover the history of the first game by Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, Karateka.

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, was a student when he created one of the best-selling games of 1984: Karateka. Now, in a new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, we discover how a teenager with an Apple II created one of the most revolutionary and influential games of all time.

PUBLISHER Clear River Games
GENRE History, Retrogaming, VS Fighting
MEDIUM Video game on cartridge
PLATFORMS Nintendo Switch
LANGUAGES English Voice - French, English, Italian Text
German, Spanish, Japanese
PACKAGING in French, Italian, Spanish, English
AGE RATING PEGI 16

THE ORIGIN STORY OF A LEGENDARY GAME CREATOR

Discover how Karateka was created through exhaustive archives of design documents, playable prototypes and unreleased video elements. Like in a museum, you can explore interactive timelines at your own pace.

PLAY THE ORIGINAL ACCLAIMED GAMES

Enjoy pixel-perfect versions of the original Karateka games and a variety of unreleased prototypes, with rich quality of life features such as save anywhere, rewind, chapter select, and director's commentary.

TWO REMASTERED GAMES

Karateka Remastered is a brand new version of the original game with unreleased content, commentary, achievements and more. Deathbounce: Rebounded is a fast and frantic shooter based on Jordan's unreleased prototype.

A REVOLUTIONARY MASTERPIECE

Discover how Karateka became one of the first games to include cinematic cutscenes, a poignant original soundtrack, rotoscoped animations, and a Hollywood-style love story, influencing decades of games to come.