Best of the Best: Championship Karate

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Best of the Best: Championship Karate
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Electro Brain (US), Microworld (Japan)
Developer:
Genre: Sports[1]

















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

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
60 [4]
46 [5]
50 №1993-02, p38
69 №17, p42
50 №24, p68
66 №50, p65
80 №28, p50
8 №15, p68
Sega Mega Drive
 54
Based on
8 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
60
[6]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
60
[7]
Cool Gamer (RU)
70
[8]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
60
[9]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
68
[10]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
50
[11]
Mega (UK) NTSC-J
69
[12]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-J
50
[13]
Marukatsu Mega Drive (JP) NTSC-J
64
[14]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC-J
66
[15]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
80
[16]
Sega Zone (UK) NTSC-J
8
[17]
Sega Mega Drive Review (RU)
80
[18]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
46
[19]
Tricks 16 bit (RU) NTSC-U
66
[20]
Tricks 16 bit (RU) NTSC-J
69
[21]
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
TheKICKBOXING MD jp manual.pdf
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

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 c3d6a5d4
MD5 6f94c4d0e8591f11f03fd8710124fbab
SHA-1 1fafc2d289215d0f835fa6c74a8bf68f8d36bcc8
1MB 1993-12 Cartridge (US)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 9bdc230c
MD5 bb98f63238f108c1aedda815493c44c6
SHA-1 c3f74c01e8124d5d08f817ff6e0c9416545b8302
1MB 1992-11 Cartridge (JP)
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32 f842240b
MD5 cf51fc9636aeef801b918f2d98831219
SHA-1 c7ffaa2af35d0365340075555b6a5c3f252d33b3
1MB 1992-11 Page

References

  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. ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "February 1993" (JP; 1993-01-08), page 19 (21)
  5. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85 (87)
  6. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 32
  7. ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "February 1993" (JP; 1993-01-08), page 21
  8. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 34
  9. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 295
  10. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 7: June 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 16
  11. ↑ Hippon Super, "February 1993" (JP; 1993-01-06), page 38
  12. ↑ Mega, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-20), page 42
  13. ↑ MegaTech, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-20), page 68
  14. ↑ Marukatsu Mega Drive, "January 1993" (JP; 1992-12-xx), page 109
  15. ↑ Sega Power, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-02), page 65
  16. ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1994" (UK; 1993-12-30), page 50
  17. ↑ Sega Zone, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-23), page 68
  18. ↑ Sega Mega Drive Review, "1" (RU; 1995-04-03), page 23
  19. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
  20. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 24
  21. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 139
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