Ka-Ge-Ki

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Ka-Ge-Ki
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: HOT-B (Japan), Sage's Creation (US)
Developer: Kaneko, Mecano Associates (sound)
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-04-26 ¥7,700 (7,931)7,700e T-28013 US 1991-06 T-47026
Non-Sega versions Arcade

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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

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

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

Promotional material

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

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) NTSC-U 30 ACE (UK) 48 ACE (UK) PAL 25 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 58 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 53 Games-X (UK) 82 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 50 Joystick (FR) 51 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) 20 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) NTSC 20 Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J 64 Mega (UK) NTSC 40 MegaTech (UK) NTSC 30 Power Play (DE) 39 Raze (UK) NTSC 86 Sega Power (UK) NTSC 75 Sega Pro (UK) 36 Sega Force (UK) 30 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 43 Tilt (FR) 55 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 36 VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US) NTSC-U 60

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Ka-Ge-Ki

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 effc0fa6 MD5 31ca6dabd0443625f0c7ce3c1a6229c6 SHA-1 893b1bae5242f25494b6de64a861b1aa1dc6cf14	1MB	1991-01	Cartridge (US)
✔	CRC32 391866a1 MD5 1e593b65ce45c68692d4d49b266a1727 SHA-1 9424e8b759609004748dd6cd4779f917211264ae	1MB	1991-01	Cartridge (JP)