Black Belt

For the Japanese Sega Master System game, see Hokuto no Ken (Master System). For the "Black Belt" console, see History of the Sega Dreamcast/Development.

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Black Belt
System(s): Sega Master System
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega R&D 2
Distributor: Ariolasoft (DE) Tec Toy (BR)
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2 (alternating)
Release Date RRP Code US 1986-11 5054 EU 1987-08 MK-5054-50 DE 19xx DM 7979 41007 UK 1987-08 £19.9519.95 MK-5054-50 IT 19xx AU 1987 5054 BR 19xx KR 19xx GB-1005 TW 19xx G-1303

Black Belt is a beat-'em-up action game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Master System. It is a reworked version of Hokuto no Ken, with different graphics and audio, removing the Hokuto no Ken license in the process and turning it into a martial arts game similar to Irem's 1984 arcade game, Spartan X/Kung-Fu Master.

Story

The martial artist Riki sets out to rescue his girlfriend Kyoko from his rival Wang.

Gameplay

The game is a single-plane beat-'em-up played on left-to-right side-scrolling stages. Riki faces numerous underlings and minibosses before fighting a boss. Boss fights take place in separate, closed arenas with no scrolling and use larger sprites.

Riki is moved with and and crouches with . He jumps with ; jumping from a crouch performs an extra high jump. Riki punches with and kicks with . Punches are faster but kicks have greater reach. Both can be done from a crouching position; kicks (but not punches) can be done from a jump.

Riki has a health bar that diminishes as he takes damage from foes. He loses a life if he loses all of his health. He also loses a life if he runs out of time. The game ends if he loses all of his lives. The player receives an extra life at 100,000 and 300,000 points. Health and time are replenished at the beginning of each stage. A small amount of health is replenished from defeating ten common enemies and a larger amount of health is replenished from defeating a miniboss.

Items

Items occasionally pass overhead and can be collected by performing an extra high jump.

	Strength (力)
	Temporarily makes Riki invulnerable to damage.
	Food
	Restores a portion of Riki's health.

Chapters

	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	The weak spot of the boss cycles between the head, chest, waist, and legs.
	Chapter 6
	The final hit on the boss must be a punch.

Production credits

• Programmer: Yuji Naka

Source:

Uncredited

File:UltraGamePlayers US 103.pdf

Hints

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  US hints (with Ghost House; B/W)

Magazine articles

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Publication Version Score Complete Guide to Consoles (UK) 80 Complete Guide to Consoles (UK) 81 The Complete Guide to Sega (UK) PAL 81 Computer Action (DK) 50 Console XS (UK) PAL 41 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 81 Sega Power (UK) PAL 25 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 50 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 41

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Black Belt

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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 da3a2f57 MD5 16e6b4a1d71960d64bd20aaf7024e8ac SHA-1 7c5524cff2de9b694e925297e8e74c7c8d292e46	128kB		Cartridge (EU/US)