Power Button - Episode 368: The Making Of Karateka

Jordan Mechner was a man with a dream: a dream of making a game for the Apple II about a karate man who punches and kicks his way past minions to save a princess. Forty years ago he created Karateka, and now Digital Eclipse has partnered with Mechner to create The Making of Karateka for modern platforms. This digital documentary exhibition features video interviews, design document scans, and playable prototypes of Karateka as well as a modernized remake. On this week's podcast, we spend an hour discussing this first in Digital Eclipse's new Gold Master Series of making-of titles to...