Current Events > Digital Eclipse announces Gold Master Series (Making of Karateka)

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Get a behind-the-scenes look at The Making of Karateka in this trailer for the martial arts action game from developer Jordan Mechner. Karateka is a 1984 martial arts action game created for the Apple II, and inspired by Japanese culture (Ukiyo-e art, Akira Kurosawa films, and manga comics) and by early Disney animated films and silent pictures. The Making of Karateka, which will feature four playable versions, including an all-new remaster, is coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, as well as on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC (Steam, GOG, and Epic Store). A simultaneous release on all platforms is expected later this summer.

Digital Eclipse announced today that its kicking off a new Gold Master Series, and the first entry will be The Making of Karateka. A release is confirmed on Switch for 2023.
Karateka is a 1984 martial arts action game. It was made by Jordan Mechner, the original creator behind Prince of Persia.
Heres whats been shared about the new Switch title thus far:

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner was a college student when he created one of the biggest-selling games of 1984: Karateka. Now, in a new interactive documentary, Digital Eclipse tells the story of how a teenager with an Apple II created one of the most groundbreaking, influential games of all time.
Discover how Karateka was made through an exhaustive archive of design documents, playable prototypes, and all-new video features. Like walking through a museum, you can explore the interactive timelines at your own pace. The timelines reveal how Karateka became one of the first games to include cinematic scenes, a moving original soundtrack, rotoscoped animation, and a Hollywood-style love story, influencing the decades of games that followed.
At any time, play pixel-perfect versions of the original Karateka games and a variety of never-before-seen early prototypes, with rich quality-of-life features like save anywhere, rewind, chapter select, and directors commentary. Then, enjoy two new games exclusive to The Making of Karateka. Karateka Remastered is an all-new version of the original game featuring cutting-room-floor content, commentary, achievements, and more. Deathbounce: Rebounded is a fast and frantic twin-stick shooter based on Jordans unpublished prototype.
The Making of Karateka is the first entry in Digital Eclipses Gold Master Series, which presents iconic games in an innovative interactive documentary format, putting the shared history of games and their creators into one comprehensive package.
Digital Eclipse editorial director Chris Kohler explained the Gold Master Series in a blog post today, writing: Our mission [with the Gold Master Series] is to elevate these games, presenting them in their best possible light while putting them in their proper historical context, an approach weve dubbed the interactive documentary. If you played last years Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, you got a taste of this approach. In the Gold Master Series, were going to take deep dives into many more fascinating stories from video game history.

Should of been a Tiny Toon Adventures game collection...

They still could be making it.