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Best of the Best: Championship Karate
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Electro Brain (US), Micro World (Japan)
Developer:
Peripherals supported: Activator
Genre: Sports[1] (martial arts)

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
JP 		¥8,5008,500 T-49143
Sega Mega Drive
US 		T-107016
Videogame Rating Council: GA
Sega Mega Drive
KR 		GM8084JT
Non-Sega versions

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Best of the Best: Championship Karate, called The Kick Boxing (ザ・キックボクシング) in Japan and South Korea, is a 1992 computer kickboxing game by Loriciel. It was ported by some unknown developers (likely Loriciel themselves) to the Sega Mega Drive in 1993.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language Localised Name English Translation
English (US) Best of the Best: Championship Karate Best of the Best: Championship Karate
Japanese ザ・キックボクシング The Kick Boxing

Magazine articles

Main article: Best of the Best: Championship Karate/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Game Players (US) #0612: "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (1993-1x-xx)
also published in:
  • GamePro (US) #54: "January 1994" (199x-xx-xx)[3]
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Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1992-12: "December 1992" (1992-11-07)
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Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1993-01: "January 1993" (1992-12-08)
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Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1993-02: "February 1993" (1993-01-08)
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Physical scans

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Publication Score Source
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Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
60
[4]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
60
[5]
Cool Gamer (RU)
70
[6]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
60
[7]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
68
[8]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
50
[9]
Mega (UK) NTSC-J
69
[10]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-J
50
[11]
Marukatsu Mega Drive (JP) NTSC-J
64
[12]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC-J
66
[13]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
80
[14]
Sega Zone (UK) NTSC-J
8
[15]
Sega Mega Drive Review (RU)
80
[16]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
46
[17]
Tricks 16 bit (RU) NTSC-U
66
[18]
Tricks 16 bit (RU) NTSC-J
69
[19]
Sega Mega Drive
 60
Based on
16 reviews

Best of the Best: Championship Karate

Mega Drive, JP
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual
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PCB
Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Best Of The Best MD US Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, KR
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Cover
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Cart

Technical information

Main article: Best of the Best: Championship Karate/Technical information.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-02 23:21)
  2. ↑ Sega Visions, "June/July 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 97
  3. ↑ GamePro, "January 1994" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 243
  4. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 32
  5. ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "February 1993" (JP; 1993-01-08), page 21
  6. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 34
  7. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 295
  8. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 7: June 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 16
  9. ↑ Hippon Super, "February 1993" (JP; 1993-01-06), page 38
  10. ↑ Mega, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-20), page 42
  11. ↑ MegaTech, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-20), page 68
  12. ↑ Marukatsu Mega Drive, "January 1993" (JP; 1992-12-xx), page 109
  13. ↑ Sega Power, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-02), page 65
  14. ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1994" (UK; 1993-12-30), page 50
  15. ↑ Sega Zone, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-23), page 68
  16. ↑ Sega Mega Drive Review, "1" (RU; 1995-04-03), page 23
  17. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
  18. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 24
  19. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 139


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