Karate Champs
| Filename | karate-champs.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 85.1 KB (87167 bytes) |
| Downloads | 11 |
Karate Champs is a two-player-only HyperCard fighting game released in 1995 by Louis-Nicolas Dozois under the Magic Touch Software label. Players score points by landing different karate hits on each other in head-to-head bouts, with the author cheekily promising 48 hours of entertainment value.
Gameplay
The game is strictly competitive: two human players share the keyboard and trade strikes, with the scoring system rewarding distinct hits rather than pure button-mashing. There is no single-player mode and no AI opponent.
Technology
Karate Champs was built on Apple's HyperCard engine, packaging its art, animation, and scoring logic inside a single stack. That choice kept the download tiny (the BinHex archive is only about 85 KB) and let the author iterate quickly on rules.
Compatibility
It targets 68k Macintoshes running anywhere from System 6 through Mac OS 9, and runs cleanly today inside SheepShaver and similar Classic Mac emulators.
Author and Distribution
Author Louis-Nicolas Dozois posted the game from jungle.achilles.net in June 1995 and teased a forthcoming revised edition with cooler rules and moves. It was distributed as freeware via Info-Mac and later mirrored on Macintosh Garden.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
