Budokan

STORY / GAMEPLAY
Budokan is an oriental tournament between the best young athletes of the East, specializing in the four disciplines of Karate (Okinawan unarmed combat), Nunchaku (Swinging weapon with two shafts connected to a chain), Bo (Classic Japanese long staff) and Kendo (Japanese fencing utilizing a wooden sword), with great bestowed upon the best fighters. In order to participate, you have to practice each principal a lot! The game features all those four disciplines for you to master. You'll need to perfect your techniques in all four fighting styles before you are ready to compete consecutive opponents. Note that, when stamina decreases, your moves slow down, making it more and more difficult to perform and fight. The difficulty increases in a gradual manner, with each opponent demonstrating increasing prowess when compared to the previous you knocked out.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The Amiga version offers nice visuals, though they have less colors when compared to the MS DOS (PC) versions that runs only in VGA mode with more color-shadings. But, overall the differences are not too obvious. The Amiga version has colorful Japanese-style backdrops in all fighting and practicing screens while the sprites move relatively smooth with nice animations (replicating nicely all the featured techniques). The game's sound is good too, with a nice introductory tune and a variety of nicely composed Japanese-style tunes between the loading screens. The sound effects are also great (all sampled), replicating actual fighting movie-style sounds.