Best of the Best: Championship Karate box art

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Instruction booklet · November 1993

Best of the Best: Championship Karate

FightingSport1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Best of the Best: Champion Karate is an earlier fighting-style game. It focused on the kick-boxing style of fighting, and incorporated a championship-style linear play.

Specifications

Released: November 1993
Developer: Loriciel
Publisher: Electro Brain
Players: 1
Genre: Fighting · Sport
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: Panza Kick Boxing
Themes: Action
View: Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players: 51/100 (11 ratings)

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