How Karateka was made: Jordan Mechner interview

[@azwris]

I was playing this game on my 8088 PC platform before the release of Prince of Persia. Probably around '88. Exciting animation and plenty of fun, although the Hawks were sometimes very difficult to beat. Thanks for this game really!

[@samman350]

I read your book and I loved it, fantastic interweaving of storylines, all equally immensely interesting and moving. Prince of Persia is the only game that both me (I'm 36 now) AND my dad played. I never managed to finish it, but I remember him beating it in 55 mins and I was superimpressed, I watched him do it in one go. We enjoyed PoP 2 too, and Sands of Time. I am getting alot more into programming and game making these days (I was educated a physicist) and I understand now that Prince of Persia was entirely coded in Assembler language, which is incredible. What you are telling here is very inspiring, and is very much what I enjoy about game making - the 'interactive movie' aspect of it (although I have a much easier time using Unity ;) ). Those limitations of old deviced often led to very creative technical solutions. I'm trying to develop for Android for similar reasons, the limitations are the excitement (modern pc hardware can be overwhelmingly powerful). Anyway, thank you for your wonderful work. Sam

[@alispeaks92]

I played Karateka on my Atari back in 1993

[@jetsonduarte]

Ese mismo año mis padres nos regalaron un family junto mis otros tres hermanos con un cartucho que venia 64 juegos y entre ellos estaba el karateka..

[@zurlocker1]

It's a fantastic book. Could not put it down.

[@JordanMechner]

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it.

[@markhamilton3215]

@@JordanMechner Jordan , please , P-L-E-A-S-E we are ALL waiting the PS4 "The Makingf of Prince of Persia" game just like you made for Karateka ! please tell us you could do something about it for posterity ! EDIT : please ADD the AMIGA version as its my favorite one!

[@Dan-Commando]

@@markhamilton3215 Ohhh i SECOND this !! ;P

[@LuanTrovador]

❤

[@jasper2virtual]

I played Karateka in Apple II+, this inspire me start to love programming. This is a magic such a excellent game can run on 1Mhz CPU with 48k or 64k( i forget ) machine.

[@daaj317]

Any idea if will it be translated to Spanish? I just found in English or French.

[@JordanMechner]

Hi! Yes, Replay will be published in Spanish this November and distributed in Spain by Garbuix. I'll post updates here and via my website at jordanmechner.com (RSS and email newsletter).

[@daaj317]

@@JordanMechner thanks a lot. For sure I will buy it :)