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This game really did pioneer great animation in video games (wasn't it the first one to use rotoscoping?), but damn was it punishingly hard. I still have a pho

• Ogre 15y ago
  I think Karateka, 5 years before Prince of Persia, was the first rotoscoped game. Jordan Mechner made both of them though.
  • lini 15y ago
    Karateka was the first game I saw and played on a friend's Apple II clone. It had a really cool easter egg (from the Wikipedia page) - The Apple II version came on one apparently single-sided disk. As an easter egg, a second version of the game was placed on the flip side of the disk. If one put the disk into the drive upside-down, the game played identically to the first side, except that the game was displayed vertically flipped. According to Mechner, this was done as a joke, causing naive users to call tech support and ask why the game was upside-down. Invariably, they would receive the reply, "take the disk out, insert it right-side up, and reboot".
  • pge 15y ago
    That brings back memories - Karateka on the Apple ][+...