Ports and Related Releases
Karate Champ was ported to the Apple II and the Commodore 64 by Berkeley Softworks. Data East began publishing the home versions in the US on October 12th 1985.
The NES version was developed in-house by Data East USA and released in North America on November 1986. This version was inspired by the Player VS. Player edition of the arcade game. The port was later released in Japan for the Disk System on July 22, 1988, but never made it to the cartridge-based Family Computer. Data East published this version of the game, both in North America and Japan.
The arcade version was shown briefly in the movie Bloodsport starring Jean Claude Van Damme.
An emulation of the arcade version was released by Hamster for the PlayStation 2 as part of their Ore-tachi Gesen Zoku lineup.
On May 7, 2010 it was announced for release on the iPhone OS platform by developer Revolutionary Concepts.
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