Budokan: The Martial Spirit

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125K plays 1989 #Action#Fighting#Sport

Budokan: The Martial Spirit is a fighting game published by Electronic Arts in 1989 for the Amiga and MS-DOS compatible operating systems. The game pits the player against other martial artists in a tournament known as the Budokan at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. A port for the Sega Genesis was released in 1990, followed by Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC releasing in 1991.

From Wikipedia's article Budokan: The Martial Spirit, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Budokan: The Martial SpiritDOS

2.0 Could be better

AllGame 2.5/5 · 1 review

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • MegaTech described Budokan as a "Thinking man’s beat-‘em-up" and praised the graphics and sound.

    — MegaTech, 1991

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Budokan: The Martial Spirit article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Scores

  • AllGame 2.5/5 (PC) ; 2/5 (Genesis)
  • Mega Action 1993 75% (Genesis) (other versions)
  • Dragon 1990 4/5 (C64) (other versions)
  • Console XS 1992 66/100 (Genesis) (other versions)
  • MegaTech 1991 89% (Genesis) (other versions)

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' archived average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Players' rating: 65/100 · 456 votes

Full reviews

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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