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Making of Karateka delves into Prince of Persia creator’s debut in an interactive doc, includes a remaster and playable prototypesFollows Digital Eclipse’s Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

Follows Digital Eclipse’s Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

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A pixellated fighter kicks their opponent in the head in Karateka Remastered gameplay

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The Making of Karatekais the next in Digital Eclipse’s ongoing effort to showcase video game history in the form of collections spanning games, interviews, materials and interactive timelines, after the superbAtari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. The format of Atari 50 has been replicated here, becoming the first in what Digital Eclipse is now calling the Gold Master Series.

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A timeline menu in The Making of Karateka showing the Atari 8-bit version of the game

The interactive documentary includes playable versions of the original game’s releases for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari, as well as three prototypes new to the collection showing its development over the years.

Alongside the original games is a new Karateka Remastered, which adds in content left out of the original and includes director’s commentary and achievements, and Deathbounce: Rebounded, a twin-stick shooter based on a pre-Karateka game that never saw the light of day.

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The Making of Karateka can be picked up viaSteam,GOGorEpic, where it’ll cost you £16.75/$20 (it’s a tiny bit cheaper for UK folks on Epic, where it’s £15.99). The second instalment in Digital Eclipse’s newly dubbed Gold Master Series is due to release toward the end of this year.