Planet Bob

BUSTED!!

 

The first "Playing..." article that comes to an end because the game is an unplayable bug-ridden plague!!

 

Using all existing trainers some daring soul still somehow managed to make it to the (albeit disappointing) end if you really want to see it:

http://www.c64endings.freeolamail.com/endi...fist2/fist2.htm

 

Some future day Right again the "Playing..." series will see another Ninja-Brawler...

Have you played this version yet:

http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=2782&d=18&h=0

 

The Way of the Exploding Fist was released before International Karate, btw. (both Karate Champ influenced, of course)

 

Have you played this version yet:

http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=2782&d=18&h=0

 

Yup, this one precisely. I always try a Remember, Nostalgia or Hokotu Force crack before anything else, even before dumps of originals

 

In the Remember scrolltext it says that this version was already improved over a first release which was even worse, but they couldn't fix any more of the bugs that were still in it due to RAM shortage. A bit of a lame excuse IMO, but I think you can't expect from a cracker to fully reverse-engineer and fix a game that is bugged like that.

 

The Way of the Exploding Fist was released before International Karate, btw. (both Karate Champ influenced, of course)

 

Significantly before it, so that International Karate could be considered a cloning effort, or was it just 2-3 months, so it was supposedly more of a redundancy accident?

 

EDIT: Just had a look in the Zzap64 archives. Exploding Fist was reviewed a full 10 months earlier.

Since I got a Mail asking where the "Fist 2" longplay video can be found, I added this info to the entry above

 

BTW: The "Playing..." article series will continue with a new batch in February.