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The Making Of Karateka Will Air On Switch This Month, Don’t Worry

• Jacob Chambers
• August 25th, 2023

Update :Digital Eclipse has confirmed that North America will get The Making of Karateka on Switch eShop on August 29, 2023. Europe and Australia will get it on September 5, 2023.

Further update! The Making of #Karateka will be available in the Nintendo eShop on the following dates:

North America: August 29
Europe & Australia: September 5

Physical version coming from @LimitedRunGames at a later date — full details TBA, follow them for updates! https://t.co/HZgTmKWPM9

— Digital Eclipse (@DigitalEclipse) August 23, 2023

Original Article :The company confirmed that Limited Run Games will release a physical copy later.

At the time of writing, it’s launching digitally next week! How lovely. I hope you’re as excited as we are.

Digital Eclipse has set a release date for its interactive documentary The Making of Karateka. However, Switch owners will have to wait longer, which is a gut punch.

The game launches on other consoles and PC on August 29th, with the Switch version coming in September. It’s not a long wait, but it is.

Digital Eclipse is the master of making Karateka, a new experience for retro video game fans. This interactive documentary about Karateka, an Apple II martial arts game that revolutionized video game cinematography in 1984, is known for its great retro compilations.

Karateka creator Jordan Mechner, who later developed Prince of Persia and The Last Express, began work on the game at 18. He directed the 2012 PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and iOS remake. It came to Wii U, but the digital storefront discontinued it in 2013.

This exciting new project will launch later this month on consoles and next month on Switch:

The Making of Karateka presents the story behind Mechner’s first published game through an exhaustive archive of design documents, playable prototypes, and all-new video features that can be explored at your own pace. The interactive documentary includes:

– Pixel-perfect playable versions of the original Karateka games plus a variety of never-before-seen early prototypes, with rich quality-of-life features like save anywhere, rewind, chapter select, and director’s commentary.
– Two remastered games: Karateka Remastered, an all-new adaptation of the original featuring cutting-room-floor content, commentary & achievements, and Deathbounce: Rebounded, a fast and frantic twin-stick shooter based on Jordan’s unpublished prototype.
– A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Karateka became one of the first games to include cinematic scenes, a moving original soundtrack, rotoscoped animation, a Hollywood-style love story, and more.
– Localization in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese.