Re: Karateka question

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

And the key is to RUN between guard fights.  If you just walk, you'll have
to fight a lot more guards.  But, you have to stop running before the next
guard takes a punch/kick at you - if they hit you while you are running, you
die immediately.  You need to stop about a body-length before them.

And you can only hit the bird with high kicks.  :-)

Cheers
Tim

"Rob" <rob@nospam.inreach.com> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:1036035668.820537@envoy...
> >
> > "Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote in message
> > us13m8q2bvd68f@corp.supernews.com">news:us13m8q2bvd68f@corp.supernews.com...
> > > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>