Ka-Ge-Ki

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Ka-Ge-Ki
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: HOT-B (JP), Sage's Creation (US)
Developer: Kaneko, Mecano Associates (sound)
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Publisher(s) of original games: Taito
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-04-26 ¥7,700 T-28013 US 1991-06 $? T-47026

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Ka-Ge-Ki (火激), sold as Ka-Ge-Ki: Fists of Steel in the US, is a 1991 action game developed by HOT-B for the Sega Mega Drive, ported from an arcade game and arranged in certain aspects, made by Taito and Kaneko in the year 1988. The player character is Ken, a boxer who's girlfriend was captured by a gang of criminals and taken to the ninth floor of their hideout. Ken must defeat every enemy to rescue his girlfriend.

Gameplay

The player fights through 9 stages, represented as floors of a building. In each stage, the goal is to defeat a certain number of enemies that attack the player one at a time. The number of enemies that appear is based on the stage and difficulty level. After enough opponents are beaten, a boss appears. After the boss is defeated, gameplay continues on the next floor until the final boss is defeated on the ninth floor.

Gameplay takes place in a small, square arena, where Ken and his opponent are free to move in all directions. Ken has a fast and a strong punch used to attack enemies, and can also jump to avoid enemies. Occasionally, one of three kinds of power-ups will appear in the arena, these will restore Ken's lost health or increase his attack power for a limited time.

Controls

: Jump

: Weak Punch

: Strong Punch

+ : Dodge

Versions

• Voice data is different between the Japanese and US release.
• Compared to the Arcade version, there are some significant differences, making this version an arranged version rather than a straight port.
  • The game takes place in a building with changing backgrounds while the original was locatet at a harbor with a single background
  • Gang members sitting in the background aren't there anymore, only their cheering for booing remains
  • Weaker mob enemies where added, possibly to extend the game's length
  • Enemies take more damage
  • Some colors indexing mistakes happened, certain characters have wrong shade graduations as a result

Production credits

• Screenplay: One Two Diamond
• Programming: Mr. Nagaya, Cube and Toda
• Graphic Design: Mike Yorozuya, Motor Gunma
• Music Composed by: Kaneko Co., Ltd., Mecano Associates
• Music Arranged by: Mecano Associates
• Sound Design: M.Suzuki
• Directed by: Professor Banban
• Produced by: Dramatic a Go Go
• Presented by: Sage's Creation

Source: In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Ka-Ge-Ki/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: Ka-Ge-Ki/Promotional material.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication Score Source ACE (UK) 48 №47, p64/65 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) 58 №1991-04, p30 Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP) 43 №, p85 Weekly Famitsu (JP) 53 №130, [1] Games-X (UK) 51 №5 Hippon Super (JP) 50 №1991-04, p42 Joystick (FR) 51 №17, p130 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) 20 №3, p79 Mega (UK) 40 №15, p77 MegaTech (UK) 30 №1, p78 Raze (UK) 86 №10, p61 Sega Power (UK) 80 №23, p53 Sega Pro (UK) 36 №18, p66 Sega Force (UK) 30 №18, p78/79

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Based on 14 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, JP
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Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
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✔	CRC32 391866a1 MD5 1e593b65ce45c68692d4d49b266a1727 SHA-1 9424e8b759609004748dd6cd4779f917211264ae	1MB	1991-01	Cartridge (JP)