Ka-Ge-Ki

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Ka-Ge-Ki
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: HOT-B (JP), Sage's Creation (US)
Developer:
Genre: Action

















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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.

Version differences

  • 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

Controls

A: Jump
B: Weak Punch
C: Strong Punch

Promotional Material

  • KaGeKi MD US PrintAdvert.jpg

    US print advert

  • KaGeKi MD US PrintAdvert 2.jpg

    US print advert 2

Physical Scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
48 №47, p64/65[1]
51 №5
51 №17, p130
20 №3, p79
40 №15, p77
30 №1, p78[2]
86 №10, p61[3]
80 №23, p53
36 №18, p66
30 №18, p78/79[4]
Sega Mega Drive
 47
Based on
10 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) NTSC-U
30
[5]
ACE (UK)
48
[1]
ACE (UK) PAL
25
[6]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
58
[7]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
53
[8]
Games-X (UK)
82
[9]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
50
[10]
Joystick (FR)
51
[11]
Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK)
20
[12]
Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) NTSC
20
[13]
Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J
64
[14]
Mega (UK) NTSC
40
[15]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC
30
[2]
Power Play (DE)
39
[16]
Raze (UK) NTSC
86
[3]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC
75
[17]
Sega Pro (UK)
36
[18]
Sega Force (UK)
30
[19]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
43
[20]
Tilt (FR)
55
[21]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
36
[22]
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US) NTSC-U
60
[23]
Sega Mega Drive
 47
Based on
22 reviews

Ka-Ge-Ki

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, JP
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Cover
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Kageki md jp manual.pdf
Manual
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:ACE UK 47.pdf, page 64 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:ACE UK 47.pdf_p64" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf, page 78 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf_p78" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 File:Raze UK 10.pdf, page 61 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Raze UK 10.pdf_p61" defined multiple times with different content
  4. ↑ File:SegaForce18UK.pdf, page 78
  5. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 155
  6. ↑ ACE, "December 1991" (UK; 1991-11-08), page 118
  7. ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-08), page 30
  8. ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 1991-0x-xx), page 1
  9. ↑ Games-X, "31st May 1991" (UK; 1991-05-24), page 37
  10. ↑ Hippon Super, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-04), page 42
  11. ↑ Joystick, "Juin 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 130
  12. ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "November 1992" (UK; 1992-xx-xx), page 79
  13. ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 92
  14. ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "July 1991" (JP; 1991-06-08), page 85
  15. ↑ Mega, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 77
  16. ↑ Power Play, "8/91" (DE; 1991-07-1x), page 120
  17. ↑ Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 53
  18. ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 66
  19. ↑ Sega Force, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-06), page 78
  20. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
  21. ↑ Tilt, "Septembre 1991" (FR; 1991-09-xx), page 82
  22. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 100
  23. ↑ VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "November 1990" (US; 1990-1x-xx), page 58
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