Re: Karateka question

["Rob" <rob@nospam.inreach.com>]

Yup, Martin is right.  If you are standing in one place then the guards will
keep coming.  You need to continue to move forward after defeating each
guard.    Eventually you'll make it to the inside of the castle, then past
the gate, then down to the dungeon, etc.


"Martin" <martinf@ot.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote in message
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> > On Karateka, how many of the enemy guards do they send at you on the
first
> > stage before you get to go to the next stage?  I bought it "just the
disk"
> > from a thrift store and I don't have any instructions.  I must have
> defeated
> > at least 15 guards before I got defeated.  Am I missing something?
>
> There is  probably an infinte number if you hang around.
> I must admit I haven't played this game in many years ..... (although
> hopefully I will get back into it, as I am getting a IIGS soon, it was
many
> years ago I sold my last Apple Machine).
>
> Basically as soon as you have defeated one enemy, you need to move towards
> the right as fast as possible, until you reach the next enemy guy.
> You are able to run  - hold up on the joystick to stand vertical, and then
> diagonal top right if I remember correctly, to run right. If you don't
run,
> but do the side step thing, it will probably take you a while to get to
the
> next stage.
>
> Great game though, probably one of my faves when I had my Apple way back
in
> the 80's. That, Loderunner and Rescue Raiders, consumed the vast majority
of
> my teens !
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
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