• The Way of the Exploding Fist is a 1985 fighting game based on Japanese martial arts developed by Beam Software, by a team consisting of Gregg Barnett...
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    Even if the player didn't enter commands, the story would move on. In 1985 Greg Barnett's two-player martial arts game The Way of the Exploding Fist helped...
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    home computers, the Japanese MSX version of Yie Ar Kung-Fu was released in January 1985, and Beam Software's The Way of the Exploding Fist was released for...
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  • The Way of the Exploding Fist. The year's highest-grossing arcade video games were Hang-On and Karate Champ in the United States, and Commando in the...
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  • / Fighting Fury PS2 2000 Garouden Breakblow PS2 2005 Garouden Breakblow Fist or Twist PS2 2007 K-1 PREMIUM 2004 Dynamite PS2 2004 K-1 PREMIUM 2005 Dynamite...
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  • the finale. The piece has been performed in the Musikverein hall in Vienna. Used in the soundtrack for the Commodore 64 game The Way of the Exploding...
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  • Willy, Skool Daze, Renegade, R-Type, Knight Lore, Dizzy, The Hobbit, The Way of the Exploding Fist, and Match Day II. 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988...
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  • The Hobbit: Melbourne House Atic Atac: Ultimate Play the Game Tetris: Mirrorsoft Ltd Hyper Sports: Imagine Software Ltd The Way of the Exploding Fist...
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  • PCMag, that the platform is interesting as a history lesson of gaming. He praises the large number of available games, while criticising the TV-oriented...
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  • The Way of the Exploding Fist and Ninja. According to Leinfellner, the controversy did not negatively affect Barbarian, but boosted the game's sales and...
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    of the Lance Wargame Construction Set Warhawk Wasteland Water Polo Waterline Wavy Navy Waxworks The Way of the Exploding Fist Way of the Tiger Way of...
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  • Software's The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985), and other fighting games. John Tobias cited Karate Champ as the primary inspiration for the gameplay of Mortal...
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  • Games. EMAP. p. 88. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) "News Desk: Exploding Fist tops Gallup 1985 charts". Popular Computing Weekly. 20 March 1986. p...
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  • At launch on 20 May 2020, the Evercade handheld console had 10 game cartridges available, providing a total of 122 games. Physical cartridges and cases...
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  • (Adventure Soft) The Way of the Exploding Fist (Melbourne House) Web War (Artic Computing) Weenies (Cronosoft) Weetabix vs the Titchies (Romik) West (Talent...
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  • Mastertronic (category Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom)
    buyout of Melbourne House when that label was struggling with financial problems enabled them to add games such as The Way of the Exploding Fist to their...
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    adaption of The Hobbit released in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum. The company went on to produce other successful titles including The Way of the Exploding Fist for...
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  • International Karate (category Video games developed in the United Kingdom)
    gave the game an 86% rating, referring to it as an "excellent" game that was overshadowed by the earlier release of The Way of the Exploding Fist. In 2000...
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    Acorn Electron (category Computers designed in the United Kingdom)
    systems (including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian, Ballistix, Predator, Hostages and...
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  • Amstrad Action (category 1985 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    games to potential customers. The first game to receive a 'Mastergame' award was Melbourne House's The Way of the Exploding Fist, gaining an impressive 94%...
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  • looking at". The reviewers compared the game to The Way of the Tiger and The Way of the Exploding Fist. Computer and Video Games said the game is "good...
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  • fighting game topped the annual charts, after The Way of the Exploding Fist in 1985. In the United States, Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment...
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  • The Golden Joystick Award for Game of the Year is an award presented annually at the Golden Joystick Awards ceremony, which has its winners voted in by...
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    Piko Interactive (category Video game companies of the United States)
    Antonio, Texas. Founded in early 2013 by Eli Galindo, the company focuses on physical re-releases of games from older video game consoles and digitally released...
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  • Game of the Year (GotY) is an award given to a video game by various award events and media publications that they feel represented the pinnacle of gaming...
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  • Warning Forever The Way of the Exploding Fist Umihara Kawase Wii Sports Wii Sports Resort Windjammers Xevious Yaroze games The Art of Video Games – a...
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    in Australia on July 2 of the same year. The sequel, Super Thunder Blade, was released exclusively for the Sega Genesis. The player controls a helicopter...
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  • William Tang (video game designer) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    & The Spiders (1983) HURG (1984) Mugsy's Revenge (1984) The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985), credited for "additional programming" Asterix and the Magic...
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  • Geoff Thompson (karateka) (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    1985, Thompson was signed to promote the game The Way of the Exploding Fist. Robb, Ralph (24 January 2013). Memoirs of a Karate Fighter. HopeRoad. ISBN 9781908446152...
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  • Gladiator (1985 video game) (category Video games set in the Roman Empire)
    the quality of The Way of the Exploding Fist. Amtix called the game "totally unplayable and mindnumbingly dull". Amstrad Action said the game is too similar...
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